Check out the coverage of the ongoing iSummit 2007 on the relaunched icommons page!
Live coverage is provided.
Sylvain did a keynote on the first day about Jamendo, Laurent and Patrick, who are also in Dubrovnik, were well impressed.
Offre de stages à Londres
La liste cc-fr annonce des stages cet été pour des étudiants en économie, journalisme, informatique, droit… sur les thèmes : p2p, CC, web 2.0…
OpenBusiness OpenMute Internships:
http://www.openbusiness.cc/2007/05/31/openbusiness-openmute-internships/
cc-lux launch moved to september/october
just a reminder for those who we were unable to reach with the announcement in april: the launch of cc-luxembourg which was supposed to be on the 6th June has been moved to a date in late september or october.
Arte Metropolis über CC
“Im Namen des Schöpfers”
Verhindert das Urheberrecht Kreativität und Kultur?
Das neue Urheberrecht sollte die „Verfassung des digitalen Zeitalters“ werden, doch Kritiker meinen, dass es weder Künstlern noch der Allgemeinheit nutzt – im Gegenteil gefährdet es vielmehr den kreativen Umgang mit dem kulturellen Erbe.
Link zur Sendung (Reportage von Susan Loehr, Metropolis-Sendung vom 2. Juni 2007, RealVideo 10’20)
Metropolis bietet die TV-Reportage “Im Namen des Schöpfers” (von Susan Loehr) als Video zum Download an – und zwar unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz vom Typ BY-NC-SA 2.0 de”. Wir haben diese Reportage aus der Sendung für Sie aufbereitet und stellen Sie Ihnen hiermit zur Verfügung. Sie dürfen den Inhalt vervielfältigen, verbreiten und öffentlich aufführen.
“Frankfurter Mahnung” des PEN: Hintergründe
“Mit einer entweder bewusst irreführenden oder von fachlicher Inkompetenz geprägten »Frankfurter Mahnung« haben sich die beiden großen deutschen Schriftstellerverbände P.E.N. und VS reichlich in die Nesseln gesetzt. In einem Dokument, das offenbar maßgeblich der Justitiar des Börsenvereins, Dr. Christian Sprang, erarbeitet hat, “…
Weiterlesen bei literaturcafe.de
Auch zum Thema : iRights.de
Und schliesslich: Die Proceedings der EU Konferenz zu Open Access in Februar 2007 sind jetzt alle online.
The iCommons Lab Report: April/May 2007
The iCommons Lab Report: April/May 2007
“Your window on the Commons”
DOWNLOAD the PDF magazine-style version of the newsletter from the iCommons site at: http://icommons.org/newsletters/lab-report-april-2007/
News hot off the press: the Summit proceedings will be streamed through Second Life! Find out more and see pictures of the preparations!
Art Intercom: An Interview Series with the iCommons Artists in Residence. Featuring Art collective MTAA and Joy Garnett. Artists in Residence blogger, Paddy Johnson interviews two of the artists who will be part of the residency in Dubrovnik. Find out about their work, their plans for the Summit and how CC plays a role in their creative production. Joy Garnett: Riding Hobby Horses and Scratching Itches
Get Wikifying! 10 of the Best, Most Interesting Wiki Communities
Daniela Faris studies wiki communities that have collected useful resources, have used wiki software in an innovative way, or have been motivated to contribute information on niche topics and popular cultures. There’s something for everyone!
Why A Fair Use Exception is Probably Not Such a Good Idea
This month Tobias Schonwetter discusses the little-known facts about the fair use doctrine.
AND MUCH MORE INSIDE THE PDF MAGAZINE!
ABOUT ICOMMONS
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CC Salon Luxembourg – 12th may
The first CC Luxembourg Salon will take place in Luxembourg-Hollerich at the LX5 homebase on May 12th from 18h to 19h30. A report on progress of porting will be made by the CC Lux team and Jamendo’s services for CC music will be presented. Fell free to join us in what should be a relaxed evening with cheap drinks, music and a musical performance later. Directions: 1, rue de l’Acierie, the building behind the Fondation pour l’architecture. Directions from LX5 site.
Flyer CC LX5 (pdf, 420k)
Meeting of Minds, Antwerp
Patrick will be participating in the “Meeting of Minds” in Antwerp tomorrow the 26th and 26th. The basis of the meeting is this discussion paper, titled “the user is the content”. Looking forward to learning more about cyberspace 2020 with John Buckmann of bookmooch and cc, Bob Young of Lulu.com and many others!
Progress of the luxembourg porting
Being the first to go from scratch to version 3.0 is quite a ride! We are expecting a final draft in late april/early may, which will be submitted to the legal team of Creative Commons International in Berlin. Unfortunately, our planned timing for a launch event on the 6th June is too risky: There is not enough time for a serious public discussion, very little time to resolve any open questions in the final draft and on top of that, key people may not be available due to preparation for the iSummit Dubrovnik in early June.
So, we decided to keep the licence porting process going, still expecting a Luxembourg 3.0 licence in July, but moved the launch event to the 2007 “rentrée” (sept/oct) in Luxembourg city. See you in Dubrovnik and in autumn in Luxembourg!
For updates, please feel free to join the cc-lux list.
Du Bon Usage De La Piraterie
DU BON USAGE DE LA PIRATERIE (Culture libre, sciences ouvertes) ressort aujourd’hui 29 mars 2007 en version poche à la Découverte.
Le site de l’ouvrage, avec la version intégrale sous licence Creative Commons by-nc-sa
http://www.freescape.eu.org/piraterie
De Mozart le pirate aux médicaments brevetés à prix stratosphériques.
Des logiciels libres à l’innovation lyonnaise dans les métiers à tisser au XVIIIème siècle.
De la chasse aux téléchargeurs de MP3 au lobbying des industries culturelles à l’OMC.
Le livre /Du bon usage de la piraterie/ décrypte les enjeux des violentes batailles autour de la propriété intellectuelle, met en lumière les mensonges des pourfendeurs de la « gratuité » et propose de nombreuses pistes pour établir un régime équilibré de l’immatériel.
Publié en octobre 2004 aux Editions Exils, /Du bon usage de la piraterie/ ressort aujourd’hui en version poche à la Découverte, avec une préface du professeur de droit américain promoteur des cultures libres Lawrence Lessig, et assorti d’une postface de l’auteur.
L’intégralité de l’ouvrage est aussi disponible sur le Web en accès libre, sous une licence Creative Commons by-nc-sa, qui permet au public de se réapproprier le texte et de le diffuser. Comme l’ont fait plusieurs lecteurs bénévoles coordonnés par le blogueur Incipitblog afin d’en proposer une version audio, à emporter sur son baladeur numérique et destinée aux aveugles et malvoyants.
Un livre à offrir, télécharger, écouter et, toujours, à faire circuler le plus largement possible.
Le site de l’ouvrage:
http://www.freescape.eu.org/piraterie
Les « remix » du livre, dont la version audio
Le communiqué, Le communiqué en PDF
(Via la mailing liste de cc-france)
Commission conference on Open Access: Presentations now available
Presentations from the European Commission’s February conference on Open Access are now online:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3460.
The conference – “Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area – Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age“ brought together members of the international community concerned with issues involving access and distribution of scientific publication and data. The two-day conference was held in Brussels.
Conference website:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459
Read more on the Science Commons blog.
Royalty flows, globally
If a picture tells a thousand words, this chart, which graphically demonstrates global royalty flows, instantly demonstrates why the development agenda deserves our support and why Canada – alongside virtually every other country – will continue to face enormous pressure from the U.S. on IP policy.
Note in particular the shrinking of Canada, South America, Africa, most of Asia, and Australia, all of which represents significant outflows of royalty fees.
Link to PDF chart with explanations, Luxembourg is top royalty earner (relative to population).
Link to Raw data.
Thanks to Michael Geist’s Blog:
Why the WIPO Development Agenda Matters
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Canada
“PR-pitbull” hired to discredit Open Access
Nature – a for-profit publisher – has learned that a group of big scientific publishers has hired Eric Dezenhall – known as the “pit bull of public relations” – to take on the open-access movement. …
… Dezenhall, author of Nail ‘Em! Confronting High-Profile Celebrities and Businesses, is more widely known for his work protecting and un-tarnishing companies and celebrities’ reputations. As reported in Business Week, Dezenhall used money from ExxonMobile to fight the environmental group Greenpeace, as well as worked for former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling, who is now serving a 24-year sentence for fraud. …
Link to full article at Nature.
Online petiton – Open Access to publicly funded research
La Euroscience workgroup on scientific publishing annonce une pétition en ligne, sponsorisée par la DFG, JISC, SPARC-Europe, SURF, et DEff.
Petition:
http://www.ec-petition.eu/index.php?p=petition
Sujet: La Recommandation A1 de la Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets of Europe , étude exhaustive (>100 pages) publié en 2006, commissioné par la DG-Recherche, Commission Européenne.
RECOMMENDATION A1.
GUARANTEE PUBLIC ACCESS TO PUBLICLY-FUNDED RESEARCH RESULTS SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION
Research funding agencies have a central role in determining researchers’ publishing practices. Following the lead of the NIH and other institutions, they should promote and support the archiving of publications in open repositories, after a (possibly domain-specific) time period to be discussed with publishers. This archiving could become a condition for funding.
The following actions could be taken at the European level:
(i) Establish a European policy mandating published articles arising from EC-funded research to be available after a given time period in open access archives, and
(ii) Explore with Member States and with European research and academic associations whether and how such policies and open repositories could be implemented.
Lien vers l’Etude complète.
Jamendo at MIDEM, announcing revenue sharing
The Jamendo team is going ahead full steam in 2007!
Laurent will be at this years MIDEM (Riviera Hall – Luxemburg Pavillon – Booth R31.35) at Cannes from 20th au 24th January.
Luxembourg, 15th January : Announcing revenue sharing with artists
Since the end of 2006, Jamendo allows users to download for free more than 2000 albums under Creative Commons licenses. Now Jamendo is bringing its concept up to the next level : half of the advertising revenue will be shared with the artists.
Every month, the artists who registered to this Revenue Sharing program will share 50% of the advertising revenue of Jamendo. Shares will be proportional to the number of visits on the artists’ pages on Jamendo. The artists registering now to the program will share the advertising revenue from the period beginning on the 1st January 2007. This program will be in beta stage for the first term and might be improved after on.
This new system is currently one of the most innovative ways to permit both the diffusion of music under Creative Commons licenses and a revenue for the artists. This new revenue stream will be a complement to the donation system that allows the listeners to give money to an artist via jamendo and PayPal.
For more information on this program :
www.jamendo.com/static/help_revenueshare/
Press release in French
Jamendo widgets
Now you can put your favourite Jamendo tracks right on your blog or homepage, using the new Jamendo widgets:
And don’t forget the other 2000 Creative Commons albums!
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