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iCommons Summit 2005 Pictures

My pictures from the iCommons Summit. There are only nine of them. I did not remember to take that many and some were no good. But there are more pictures on flickr.

iCommons Summit

I’m at the Creative Commons Global iCommons Summit at Harvard Law School. Pictures here.

Upphovsrätt och CC i CS

Oscar Swartz har skrivit en bra artikel i Computer Sweden om upphovsrätt.

I artikeln sägs dock om Creative Commons att “detta i dagsläget verkar inkompatibelt med svensk lag”. Jag hävdar att han har fel på denna punkt. De amerikanska Creative Commons-licenserna kan, i allt väsentligt, tillämpas i Sverige. Dessutom kommer svenska versioner inom kort.

(Webbkod verkar krävas, vilket är smått ironiskt med tanke på innehållet i artikeln…)

Pirater hjältar på Liseberg?

I Lisebergs program för lilla scenen kan man läsa om minimusikalen Pirater & kaniner.

Den gröna sköna Prinsessan Sessan har blivit tillfångatagen av Draken Drulle. Piraterna bestämmer sig för att rädda henne, för de tror att hon har en stor skattkista med sig.

På sidan finns även information om en CD kallad Lisebergskaninerna – På nya äventyr och diverse citat ur texterna:

Vi vill vara pirater,
vi vill komma ombord.
Vi vill vara pirater,
ifrån syd och till nord.
Vi vill vara pirater,
vi vill finna en skatt.
Vi vill vara pirater,
varje dag varje natt.

mozCC

mozCC, the Mozilla/Firefox extension that reads Creative Commons license meta data and displays the appropriate CC icons right in your browser, has been updated.

mozCC is not new, I remember installing an early version ages ago, but I have not used it since some browser upgrade broke it. Now I have rediscovered it and it is still cool.

openDemocracy Goes Creative Commons

Creative Commons: Making copyright work for democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan - openDemocracy

openDemocracy.net has taken a major step toward enriching global democratic discussion by adopting Creative Commons licences for its articles.

Practically, the use of these licences grant participating openDemocracy authors (including myself) more control over how their works will echo through the world of digital text. They will encourage free republication and dissemination of their articles in non-commercial media across the globe.

Ideologically, the fact that this respected publication has opted in to the Creative Commons message makes a profound statement about the importance of openness and the dangers of a culture of excessive ownership.

The articles on openDemocracy deserve to be circulated and used in more than one context. They can be rich resources and raw materials for further scholarship, criticism, and journalism. Their authors often inspire new ways of doing politics. By joining openDemocracy in the Creative Commons, they inspire new ways of sharing and developing knowledge too. Democracy, like culture itself, must be a collaborative project.

Creative Commons & Webcomics

Traditional copyright faces webcomics with an uncomfortable choice. Its restrictions, properly enforced, would mean a virtual end to crossovers and homages, fan art, fan fiction, and many other staples that make the webcomic a more entertaining creation and foster artistic growth. A total lack of copyright, however, leaves unscrupulous readers free to “bootleg” subscription sites, program tools to deprive comics of advertising revenue, and even profit from others’ labor without permission. The Creative Commons license presents a possible solution.

Slashdot on Creative Commons and Webcomics, and article on the subject with comments from Lawrence Lessig, Neeru Paharia, Mia Garlick, JD Frazer and Cory Doctorow

Ny svensk Creative Commons-licens

Nu ligger en ny version av den svenska licenstexten ute på Creative Commons Sveriges webbsida. Läs och kommentera!

IP-adresser är personuppgifter

Datainspektionen kungjorde sitt beslut efter inspektion och omfattande utredning av [Antipiratbyråns] verksamheten. Där sägs klart och tydligt att registreringen av uppgifter om IP-nummer som misstänks för brott mot upphovsrättslagen utgör ett brott mot personuppgiftslagen. - Piratbyrån

Greatest Swede Ever?

The Local - Who is the greatest ever Swede?
For its small population, Sweden has churned out an awful lot of highly influential people over the last few centuries, covering science, literature, music, politics and commerce. But of all the Swedes who have sprung from this fair land, who is “the greatest”?

Hm, Yngwie Malmsteen perhaps? Or maybe Jonas Hellborg? Seriously, once you leave the mainstream, there’s plenty of cool Swedish music.