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The Free Music Archive Launches
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| On Saturday WFMU celebrated the launch of its new website, The Free Music
| Archive.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13829
Free Mathematics Books
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| Here is an alphabetical list of online mathematics books, textbooks,
| monographs, lecture notes, and other mathematics related documents freely
| available on the web. I tried to select only the works in book
| formats, "real" books that are mainly in PDF format, so many well-known
| html-based mathematics web pages and online tutorials are left out. Click
| here if you prefer a categorized directory of mathematics books. The list is
| updated almost on a daily basis, so, if you want to bookmark this page, use
| the button in the upper right corner. Here are the books:
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http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php
Obama Chooses Open Textbook Supporter
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| SFGate is reporting that Obama has nominated Martha Kanter to be
| Undersecretary of Education. Kanter is the Chancellor of Foothill-De Anza
| Community College District.
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http://openeducationnews.org/2009/04/07/obama-chooses-open-textbook-supporter/
Gone are the days of artificial scarcity.
Recent:
Open Source Mathematics
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| Maths is a famously lonely discipline - I should know, having spent three
| years of my life grappling with a single equation (the equation won).
| Mathematicians meet, and collaborate, it's true; but what would a truly open
| source approach to the process of solving mathematical problems look like?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-source-mathematics.html
250,000 Images Donated to the Commons
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| Not wanting April Fool’s Day to overshadow this announcement, we’re posting
| today about the 250,000 images recently donated to Wikimedia Commons, a
| sister project of Wikipedia.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787
Fred Benenson, March 20th, 2009
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| Gawker MediaGawker Media, the blog conglomerate that includes Gizmodo,
| Gawker, and Lifehacker among others has adopted our Attribution-NonCommercial
| license for all of their original content.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13446
Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License
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| Al Jazeera Network today announced the world's first repository of broadcast
| quality video footage released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’
| license.
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http://cc.aljazeera.net/content/launch-press-release
A Derivative of Open Source: What is Crowdsourcing?
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| In many ways, you can consider Crowdsourcing as a derivative of Open Source,
| which relies on a community of developers to freely contribute, alter, and
| use software under a general public license. (This is different from
| Microsoft who doesn't allow anyone but their own employees to alter the
| software). Drupal is one example, which is an Open Source CMS platform that
| enables people to build social publishing websites. [Disclosure: I work for
| Acquia, a startup that is commercializing the software.]
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http://collegemogul.com/12/25/08/A-Derivative-of-Open-Source-What-is-Crowdsourcing
3 Tips For Getting More Out Of Creative Commons
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| Creative Commons is becoming a web force to be reckoned with. I recently
| switched to a Firefox browser from Internet Explorer (a revelation in many
| ways, but that’s another article) and didn’t even have to modify my toolbar
| to create a Creative Commons search shortcut. CC is one of the default
| directories; it was already there, alongside big names Yahoo, Google, Amazon,
| Answers.com, eBay and Wikipedia.
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-tips-for-getting-more-out-of-creative-commons/
Social Contracts, Social Justice, and the Creative Commons
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| For some time now, I've found the Creative Commons philosophy morally
| troubling in a way that the free software philosophy isn't, without being
| able to satisfactorily articulate precisely why. (I want to stress that I am
| criticising the project, not the people involved in it or people who use CC
| licenses, many of whom recognise that it is an imperfect but useful tool for
| achieving goals which I would consider quite compatible with my own.) Last
| week Science Commons, a subproject of the Creative Commons, released a short
| video summarising their mission.
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http://coffs.free.net.au/node/56
Wikia Statement on GNU Free Document License 1.3
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| Wikia today announced that it is excited the Free Software Foundation has
| agreed to allow wiki content available under the GNU Free Documentation
| License (FDL) to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Share Alike
| License.
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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1756154.htm
Richard Stallman supports Creative Commons. Do you?
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| Sounds like a strong endorsement from someone with demanding standards.
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http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/12/04/richard-stallman-supports-creative-commons-do-you/
More Musicians Recognizing The Power Of Free
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| Every time I think we're finally reaching the point where these types of
| stories aren't necessary any more, because we've shown so many different
| musicians give away their music for free and make more money because of the
| additional business models they put in place, we see someone making a
| statement like: "but, if they give music away for free, they don't make any
| money and won't keep producing music." So, apparently, the message still
| isn't getting through. Just because you give away your music for free, it
| doesn't mean that you don't make money. You just need to put in place a
| business model where the free music increases the value of some other
| scarcity.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/0240563005.shtml
Creative Commons Asks How You Define "Non-Commercial"
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| Joi Ito and the Creative Commons need help getting the word out -- and
| defined. Creative Commons licenses allow (to varying degrees) the content
| they apply to to be freely used, distributed, and altered, with varying
| levels of attribution or certain restrictions on commercial use. One of the
| gray areas Creative Commons has been grappling with is how exactly one
| defines "non-commercial."
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http://ostatic.com/blog/creative-commons-asks-how-you-define-non-commercial
Award-winning Open Source Doc Looks at Digital Copyright
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| Digital technology opens up an unprecedented global economy of ideas. RiP
| explores the robber barons and revolutionaries squaring off across this new
| frontier as the film journeys from the control rooms of Washington to the
| favelas of Brazil.
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| Along the way, Gaylor interviews key figures about the complexities of
| intellectual property in the digital era, among them Creative Commons founder
| Lawrence Lessig, culture critic Cory Doctorow, Brazilian musician and former
| Minister of Cultural Affairs Gilberto Gil, and Jammie Thomas, the single mom
| successfully sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for
| illegal downloading.
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http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=93048&issue=12032008
Introduction to Copyleft Movement
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| When a car breaks down on a high way, the driver opens the bonnet and checks
| if he can fix the problem. Often, experienced drivers do so. If he does not
| know, he will take the car to the garage or call a mechanic if he cannot tow
| it to the garage. The mechanic in the garage fixes the problem, and the car
| is back on the road. This is what happens with every other technology. Does
| this happen with software?
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| [...]
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| I did not spend time explaining giving technical or economic reasons for
| using FS. This is not because FS is not a superior technology. FS is already
| a success story. From small industries to big one, everyone is using it. The
| list of success stories is very big. You will possibly hear about them from
| other sources. Most people who use FS often talk only about the technical
| features, and much often about the economical aspect of it. Since there is
| little awareness about the social, ethical and political reasons mentioned
| above, I chose to talk about them instead of the technical and economical
| arguments.
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http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/12/introduction-to-copyleft-movement.html
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