Category Archives: Creative Commons

Share 2 Conference: Delete Your Facebook Account Now

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Katarina Lovrečić

The Share 2 Conference took place in Belgrade through April 26 – 28, inviting speakers such as Isak Gerson, Aubrey de Grey, George Hotz, Eben Moglen, Khannea Suntzu, Andrew Keen, Bruce Sterling, Smari McCarthy and many others, discussing social media, … Continue reading →

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World Book and Copyright Day: Book, Do You Take Copyright to Be Your “Awfully” Wedded Wife?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Katarina Lovrečić

‘Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.’ (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote) UNESCO organizes World Book and Copyright Day around the world to promote reading, … Continue reading →

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SHOW Art Exhibition: Stuck With Copyright? Not.

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

For the SHOW event that was to celebrate Open Access Week in Croatia, we have invited Art Academy students to show us the meaning of liberating information in a form of a painting, sculpture, photography or digital animation. The whole … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons Annual Campaign Launched

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Do you like Creative Commons? Want it to continue growing? Many people donate as much or as little as they can every year to help keep it up and running so the Creative Commons can continue to provide their tools … Continue reading →

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InTech at the Hartera Festival – A T-Shirt for Your Thought!

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Hartera music festival uses an old paper factory set in Rijeka, Croatia, to turn it into a three-day-mecca for musicians, students, young sculptors, photographers and painters and, this weekend exclusively, for our open access advocates. We have set up a … Continue reading →

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Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim, With Illustrations from the Public Domain

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Mark Pilgrim, Google’s software developer and an advocate of free software, author of books such as Dive Into Python and Dive Into Accessibility, for programmers and web designers, has recently finished his research into HTML5. His new book, Dive Into … Continue reading →

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Hargreaves Report on Copyright: The Answer to the Machine is In the Machine

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

How much has the world changed in the last three hundred years? And how much has the copyright changed if we do not count the slight modification for worse, when the 80’s renewed law left nothing of our collected work … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Lessig Discusses Open Access Movement at CERN

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor, and a leader of the free culture movement, held a lecture at CERN recently, discussing the architecture of access to scientific knowledge on the internet. While explaining “how badly we have messed things up” by … Continue reading →

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Sparky Awards 2011 Student Video Contest – Call For Entries

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

2011 call for entries for the 4th annual Sparky Awards has been announced on SPARC media pages. The “Open Up!” video contest is aimed at students who are to present in an imaginative way and in a two-minutes time frame, … Continue reading →

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A Christmas List of Open Access Gifts – Part Two

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

Immediately upon publishing my previous post, ideas just kept swarming in my head of more and more free gifts that I have forgotten, for this Christmas. 1. Music, for one. There is plenty of music made freely available on Jamendo, … Continue reading →

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