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Can copyright extend to the human body?
My slides from my presentation last week exploring this question, up on the Gikii 2 website, got boing boinged. So here is a post about some of the issues that come up, including those that came up in the BoingBoing forum.
Tattoos and “works for hire”
US copyright law divides […]

[cross posted at opencontentlawyer.com]
One of the areas that I will be posting on in the next couple of weeks is open data. My latest project is to re-draft an existing open data licence into a format for worldwide use, much in the same vein of Creative Commons.
If you have an interest in open data, please […]

(Via electronic museum.)
Smithsonian copyright revisited: “

Back in May 2007, there was a sudden spike in interest around the ‘outing’ of over 6,000 images from Smithsonian Images by a body calling itself public.resource.org. Essentially, they consider the images to be largely public domain, and therefore did something about it, scraping them from the Smithsonian Images site, […]

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 New […]

In part of my research for the Eduserv study on the use of open content licences, such as Creative Commons, by cultural heritage organisations, I ran into Spoken Word Services.  This site is an audio archive of BBC material held for access by educational institutions.
It has an extremely informal End User Licence Agreement (EULA). I […]

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 a Non Commercial option.  This […]

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.
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