A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK’s legal landscape will be formally launched in London on Wednesday evening.
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Iran jails blogger for 14 years
An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries.
Arash Sigarchi was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists.
Legal Protection for Bloggers?
Do bloggers, the self-described citizen journalists, deserve the same
protections under the law that mainstream reporters do?
Science intends to tag all life
Scientists are to establish a giant catalogue of life – to, in effect, “barcode” every species on Earth, from tiny plankton to the mighty blue whale.
Initial projects will focus on birds and fish, recording details in their genetic make-up that can be used to tell one life form from another.
The initiative was launched in London at the International Conference for the Barcoding of Life.
The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. | Creative Commons
Older news but I wanted it here!
These musicians are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive. When it comes to copyright, they are pro-choice. Here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them.
WIRED magazine, November 2004 issue (get the CD free with your copy)
Open source leaders slam patents
The war of words between Microsoft and the open source movement heated
up this week as Linux founder Linus Torvalds led an attack on software
patents.
In a panel discussion at a Linux summit in California Mr Torvalds said
software patents were a problem for the open source movement.
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4229689.stm
Norway upholds "Napster" ruling
A Norwegian student who ran a website which linked to downloadable MP3 files has been ordered to pay compensation by the country’s Supreme Court.
Activists urge free open-source software
“Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration says the open-source policy makes sense for a developing country where a mere 10 percent of the 182 million people have computers at home, and where the debt-laden government is the nation’s biggest computer buyer. ”
Boston Herald
Monday, January 31, 2005
http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=66105