Creative Commons
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Mashups changing the face of copyright laws
News Copyright laws have to evolve to catch up with the rise of user-generated content and mashups from the digital generation, says law professor.
Tags: Copyright, Creative Commons, Asia, Singapore, intellectual property, printing, copyright law, mashup, professor, broadcaster
Debunking top 3 Creative Commons myths
News With the rise of user-generated content online on blogs and photo sharing sites, two lawyers help demystify commonly-held myths surrounding user copyrights.
Tags: Copyright, Web 2.0, Business, Creative Commons, India, Philippines, Open Source, Work, Japan, intellectual property
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
Insight perspective To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point; it is neither Gates nor Microsoft that really matter, says the Free Software Foundation's founder.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Software licensing, Leadership, Creative Commons, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, India, Computer, software
Google co-founder, wife give US$500K to Creative Commons
News Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki donate half a million to copyright reform group, to help build out its science initiative.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Creative Commons, Sergey Brin, co-founder, financial, founder, blog
Sun steps into cloud computing fray
News Company launches its own cloud platform and services, in a move designed to challenge market leaders such as Amazon.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software engineering/development, Creative Commons, Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., Cloud computing, Cloud Application Programming Interface Specification, Compute Service, Sun Cloud Storage, Sun Cloud Storage Service
Microsoft shuns Open Cloud Manifesto
News Microsoft will not sign up for the 'Open Cloud Manifesto', and Amazon, a major cloud player, is not enthusiastic.
Tags: Cloud computing, Creative Commons, Wiki, Microsoft Corp., Toronto, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., ZDNet, editor-in-chief, blog
Academics to get a glimpse of Microsoft's Sphere
News Those attending this week's Faculty Summit in Redmond will have a chance to see the spherical surface computer that Microsoft has been cooking up in its labs.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Creative Commons, Microsoft Corp., Photo-sharing, software company, projector, Redmond, retail company
Open source license victory in model-railway case
News A federal judge in the United States has ruled that an open source license should have the same legal enforceability as traditional copyright.
Tags: Copyright, Open source, Creative Commons, GPL, software, theory, professor, case law, SourceForge, U.S.
Google image search gets usage rights filtering
News Google updates its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.
Tags: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search
Open source stands up for its rights
Insight commentary Open source developers need to guard their intellectual property rights if they want to compete with the big boys, says consultant.
Tags: Open source, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open-source Developer, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, software, financial, software-as-a-service, U.S.
Sun: We're not late in cloud game
News Dismissing industry comments that it's late in announcing strategy for the platform, Sun Microsystems says cloud movement is only just starting.
Tags: Cloud computing, Database management, Data centers, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Asia-Pacific, Service, Sun Microsystems Inc.
What should be in Singapore's localized Creative Commons?
Blogs A while back, the government was all for nurturing creativity in Singapore--so the news of the Creative Commons must hav...
Creative Commons license upheld by European court
News In what legal experts call a "significant development" in copyright law, European court rules a Creative Commons license is binding.
Tags: Software licensing, Copyright
Copyright-sharing group delves into science
News Creative Commons, a nonprofit group aimed at carving out ways to share creative works, is expanding from the realm of copyright into patents and scientific publishing.
Tags: Software engineering/development
Is Creative Commons necessary?
Blogs Creative Commons is an interesting concept that very few people understand. Here's a very bullish write up on CC tha...
