Tag Archives: Creative Commons

Open Access Year End Highlights: Coming Up Roses?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

How to look geeky on your last day at work? Pick out the year end highlights in Open Access and take much joy in it. A remarkable year, 2011, powerful both in discourse and action around the movement, with far … 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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Open Access Comments: June’s Featured News

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Open Access Comments is a new website with daily feed of news that will focus on conversations around open access, open licensing, open students, open scientists, open repositories, open libraries and similar open values. I invite you to join the … 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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Singin’ ‘Bout the Open Access Blues

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Nataly Anderson

Christmas is coming, and with the weather indulging in brittle convulsions of cold for many of us here in the northern hemisphere, it seems like a good time to write something to bring a little warmth to our hearts. As … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons Turns Eight – Happy Birthday!

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

Instead of posting a birthday card for CC’s 8th birthday, I hereby present my favorite video on the importance of sharing, made by a Sparky Award winner, Habib Yazdi. The video is, of course, CC licensed. The first set of … Continue reading →

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