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Tag: license proliferation

Joi Ito on License Proliferation

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Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito has a great post on his blog today about license proliferation. Drawing from his experience as a board member at both ICANN and the Open Source Initiative, Ito outlines the problems created by license proliferation: As sharing and the adoption of new, free licenses begins to accelerate, I believe we…

Peer 2 Peer University's Philipp Schmidt on paying for (CC) infrastructure

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Peer 2 Peer University co-founder and director Philipp Schmidt (see our posts on P2PU, a cutting-edge open education project) has written an excellent post on his Sharing Nicely blog about supporting our Catalyst Campaign: Today Creative Commons launches their catalyst campaign – brother to the recently announced catalyst grant programme. I like how they connect…

PlagarismToday on Why You Shouldn't Write Your Own License

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Jonathan Bailey at PlagiarismToday has a great post dissecting the various issues raised by the bizarre “WE ARE COPYRIGHTED BLOGS” license he recently came across. Jonathan correctly recommends that you leave it to the professionals (Creative Commons is a good example 🙂 to draft your copyright licenses: This license displays some of the many hazards…