Gaja Niemkiewicz

On April 20 – 22, 2005, in Cracow, an international conference on contemporary copyright law will take place. The title of the conference is „Where is the copyright law heading in the contemporary world?“ and it will touch on Creative Commons concept, the nature of intellectual property, information society, as well as discussion over software […]

Prof Lawrence Lessig, author of „Free Culture“, „Code and other laws of Cyberspace“, and „The Future of Ideas“has just released the wiki framework of „Code“, first published in 1999, for online collaborative update. „Code v.2“ works under the same principle as Wikipedia, and is the first of this kind book update. In addition to that, […]

The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego ends today. Among many prominent speakers, designers, and specialists who came to share ideas, technology solutions, and worries were Lawrence Lessing, Cory Doctorow, Tim O’Reilly, Jimmy Wales, Peter Norvig, Neil Gershenfeld, Chris Anderson, and Mike Shaver. During such an outstanding conference it would be unthinkable not to […]

LTC has announced a 100 Second Film Festival call for entries. All 100 or less seconds films, on the condition they are licenced under Creative Commons will be accepted. This is a new festival and we are looking for all kinds of submissions – personal stories, travelogues, mini movies, music videos, experimental, animation, snapshots of […]

CC Mixter has announced the Freestyle Mix Contest and the Militia Mix Contest winners. The top eleven entries in Freestyle Mix will appear on The Wired CD –Ripped. Mixed. Sampled. Mashed. Shared., published by Creative Commons, and go to M3 Music Summit in Miami. The best Militia Mix Contest entry will be released on the […]

The British Broadcasting Corporation, which has been recently digitalising its documental features archive, decide to licence it under Creative Commons. Christian Ahlert, a professor at Oxford Internet Institute and one of the major suporters of the change, admitts that it might be the first step in opening up all the BBC archive to public, and […]

Time Warner is legal owner of the copyright to „Happy Birthday to you“ music and lyrics. In fact singing it in public without previous clarifying will be illegal at least until 2030.

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