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On Warranties: Part II

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In response to the ongoing discussion of our licences’ warranty provision, I’ve decided to raise the issue at our upcoming board meeting. Meantime, please keep fleshing out what you think our approach to warranties should be. The how is as important as the why. Is there any disadvantage to making a quitclaim-style warranty optional (as…

Color Blender

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Web Developers and designers looking for that perfect color might want to check out Eric Meyer’s Color Blender, recently released under a Creative Commons license. You input two colors and specify how many midtones you’ll need, and it does the rest. Since it’s written entirely in javascript, you can download it and use it yourself.

Featured Commoner: Wiley Wiggins

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Check out a new interview with actor, animator, author, and Austinite Wiley Wiggins, by our own Matt Haughey. You may remember Wiggins’ star turns in Richard Linklater’s films Dazed and Confused and Waking Life. But if you’re really in, you recognize him as a friendly blogger and all-around web dude.

Project Gutenberg CD

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The people at Project Gutenberg, long known for creating and hosting public domain works, are releasing a “Best Of” CD under a Creative Commons license.

On Warranties

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Dan Bricklin of Satn.org recently posted some thoughtful concerns about the Creative Commons licenses, in particular their common warranty clause. Dan’s concerns take two forms: (1) Creative Commons should do more to alert licensors to the details of our warranty provision; (2) the warranty provision is too strong for the average copyright holder — that…

Creative Commons Releases Hundreds of Titles Under its Founders Copyright

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Stanford-based nonprofit also opens doors of Founders’ Copyright submission process Santa Clara, California, USA – April 23, 2003 — Creative Commons announced today the release of several hundred titles under its Founders’ Copyright. The Silicon Valley nonprofit also opened the Founders’ Copyright submission process to the public via its website. With the Founders’ Copyright, Creative…

Syndic8's news feeds

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Syndic8, a central repository for syndicated news feeds, has recently started tracking the use of Creative Commons licenses in feeds. They’ve got a growing list here.