Posts Tagged ‘ Creative Commons ’

Revised Captions for the White House Flickr Page

May 10, 2009
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Revised Captions for the White House Flickr Page

By now, I hope that you’ve browsed through The Official White House flickr page. Perhaps, you’ve even sorted out a legal response to the (legitimate) question posed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation as to why the photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license instead of released as part of the public domain....
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Cultural Creators vs. Cultural Consumers

November 24, 2008
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Cultural Creators vs. Cultural Consumers

I just saw Lawrence Lessig on Charlie Rose. He’s a law professor and author with close connections to Obama. And he’s a lot smarter than me. His new book is called Remix (available soon under a Creative Commons license). He proposes a dramatic revision of copyright law worldwide to fit how information is used...
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