So an earlier post led to quite a discussion about the use of licences within Flickr (thanks Abi and David) . I’ve been considering the issue a bit further, and as there were several searches in my logs for ‘are flickr photos in the public domain’ (ranked 4th in my Google results), I thought I’d [...]

The Creative Commons: An Introduction March 14, 2007 4:30pm – 6:30pm Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ahc/ Full details after the fold.

As mentioned earlier, SB446 is a bill introduced by Senator Hinjosa of the Texas Senate requiring the use of open document formats for electronic state documents. The bill has been read and sent to the State Affairs committee. For a bit of background, Massachusetts has had a similar requirement in place for some time (2005). [...]

This post over at House of Commons caught my eye because of its use of an image that appears to be something one would expect to be in the public domain, but is licensed under a Creative Commons licence.  It is just the type of image that one can find in the US Library of [...]

State Senator Hinojsa has filed SB 446, available here, which would amend the Texas Government Code by adding a requirement that state use open document formats. I think that this is an excellent move –  a similar requirement was added at my request to the Open Government Online amendment for the City of Austin (which [...]

Microsoft has apparently paid an independent expert to correct Wikipedia entries about some of its technology Not sure how I feel about this, though I’m begining to think that there is a big need for smaller wikis to get people motivated in order to generate accurate, up-to-date information. Paying some people to contribute regularly is [...]

Two new wikis based on areas of law came across my attention today: ukpatents and eppatents These two site, both hosted on wikispaces, look like they concentrate on collecting the statutes themselves, rather than being a place for discussion and articles on the law of patents in the UK and EPC. Though useful, and certainly [...]