I am presenting on copyright and tattoos! GikII 2 programme available: “Those interested in the GikII 2 (pronounced geeky) workshop, which will take place on September 19 at UCL, London, will be delighted to know that the provisional programme is now online. Yours Truly will present a paper entitled ‘From Zero to Hero: Building a [...]

I’ve just finished reading John Willinsky‘s book The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. In it he outlines the case for open access to academic publishing, and cites several reasons for open access. I want to highlight two: Greater citation and research impact – more access means more people see [...]

Reminder about Gikii 2.0 From the site: The first GikII workshop in September 2006 established itself as the first workshop in the world where the worlds of law, technology and popular culture came together. We want to discuss whether geek law exists; by the end of the workshop we had created it. Topics covered at [...]

Session 4 and 5 Collecting societies Paul Keller of CC Netherlands updated the group on collecting socities. Key points: Two approches to Collecting Societies and their interaction with CC: A clause to allow people to opt out of the Collecting Societies (for jurisdictions that mandate their use). A hybrid approach where members (authors/owners) can do [...]

CC legal day session 3 – enforcement Key points from Lessig talk Discussed the reasons for retiring CC licences, most recently the stand alone developing nations and most of the sampling licences. Main two reasons — lack of use and the possibility of publishers using DevNations to avoid publishing under a “true” open access licence. [...]

Session 2 on trying to measure use of CC. Mike Linksvayer went through some of the problems in trying to track CC use.  Key points: Search for backlinks is very volatile because the numbers differ between search engines and can vary depending on which server (of the search engine) you happen to be on. Google’s [...]

Arrived in Dubrovnik — Many thanks to the entire iCommons team for everything! Session one – Localizing 3.0 After an introduction by Catharina and Heather, two representatives from CC-Netherlands discussed the versioning process to 3.0. CC-Scotland is in the middle of updating from 2.5 to 3.0, and this will prove helpful. For those that are [...]