Category Archives: CC

An eventful week

By Greg | December 15, 2008

I am now safely back from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View after a long week of planning the next 6 months for Ubuntu.
As I said in an identi.ca message: “I am just now realizing how crazy this past week was. You don’t notice it when you are in the middle.”
But now that I [...]

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Oh Noes, they’re taking your bits!

By Greg | September 10, 2008

With the recent slashdot article decrying the Terms of Service which were touted as disrespectable (implied) just as the TOS for Chrome which were changed I wanted to talk about something I find important.
The Problem
While the idea of granting Google a license to use in whatever way they choose all the pictures you upload to [...]

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Preservation Entities Should Ignore Copyright

By Greg | July 18, 2008

That isn’t me talking, that is the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress along with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, and the SURFfoundation released a report (pdf) on Monday that basically states just that.
The stated purpose of the report is:

to review the current state of copyright [...]

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It’s Launched! Now use it!

By Greg | June 24, 2008

The first project which I have been working on at Creative Commons is now launched.  It is one of those projects which will help everyone in the Free Culture/Open Source movement in some way.  Here it is:
Creative Commons, as a ‘movement’ (more correctly, as a part of the Open Society Movement), has many users, both [...]

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And now, things begin to get busy

By Greg | June 11, 2008

As some of you know, I am now working with Creative Commons as a Community Development Intern for the summer under the lead of Jon Phillips (of Open Clip Art, Inkscape, ccHost, etc).  Because of that, you might hear much less of me for the next 2.5 months (not that I was constantly blogging before).  [...]

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