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The Internet's Infinite Exploitation
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| What a wonderful phrase: "infinite exploitation on the Internet" - a perfect
| description of *precisely* what humanity needs. The inability to provide
| that "infinite exploitation" is precisely why the current system ought to be
| superseded. And finally, the fact that this glorious possibility is meant to
| be a *criticism* of the Internet shows that poor Mr. Lynton is indeed an
| analogue guy in a digital world - worse, one whose mind keeps bumping up
| against his own, internal guardrails.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/internets-infinite-exploitation.html
Freedom Of Expression Vs. DRM: The First Empirical Assessment
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| Copyright incentives and rewards to producers of works have been able to
| exist alongside other values, such as freedom of expression. However, changes
| in the way information products are being disseminated raise questions as to
| whether those values remain compatible with the new modes of dissemination.
|
| So far, studies devoted to digital rights management (DRM) and copyright
| exceptions have noted, theoretically, its legal implications. This research
| filled an existing gap by looking at the impact of DRM on the ability of
| users to take advantage of certain exceptions to copyright through empirical
| lines of enquiry.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/25/freedom-of-expression-versus-drm-the-first-empirical-assessment/
Recent:
Wikipedia to Adopt Creative Commons License
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| The Wikimedia Foundation, after a community vote and approval by the Board of
| Trustees, announced that Wikipedia will primarily be licensed under the
| Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA). The license is
| likely to be applied to the sites sometime during the next month. The
| decision came after the results of a community wide vote on the proposed the
| licensing change were released: 88% of voters with an opinion were for the
| change. The currently used license, GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL),
| will not be removed, just made secondary.
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http://www.blogpirate.org/2009/05/22/wikipedia-to-adopt-creative-commons-license/
Wikipedia offers print-on-demand
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| German Wikipedia users now have several print options. They can print pages
| via the print version option on the Wikipedia page, or they can order a
| complied document through a new print-on-demand option. The print-on-demand
| feature is the result of work that started in 2007 between the Wikimedia
| Foundation and PediaPress. While the print-on-demand (POD) service is
| currently only available on the German language Wikipedia, English language
| Wikipedia and other Wikimedia project support is coming in spring 2009.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Wikipedia-offers-print-on-demand--/news/112572
Wikipedia Raises 6.2 Million Dollars
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| Thanks to contributions of $6.2 million, the financial future of the free
| encyclopedia Wikipedia in 2009 is secured.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/wikipedia_raises_6_2_million_dollars
An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
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| Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We
| have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is
| free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six
| million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
| which I founded in 2003.
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_letter_r&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=fundraiser2008#appeal
What happened to Free and Open Knowledge?
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| People have been bullied through laws and propaganda into “helping” those
| corporations (and supposedly society as well) by treating abstract
| computer-readable files as physical objects. This information could be
| shared freely and benefit all. Advocates of this technique say that it is
| the only way to promote progress, but in reality, it does nothing but
| diminish its importance. I suppose I can see how some could
| confuse “progress” and “private inside information”, as they look the same
| from the outside. What is the purpose, however, of useful information if it
| cannot be built upon and actually used? Think about if your grandma had
| a “secret recipe” for the greatest cookies in the world. If she kept this
| recipe to herself, nobody but the people in your close family could enjoy
| these cookies. Master chefs could, no doubt, fiddle with this recipe for
| years trying to find an improvement or inventing ways to adopt these cookies
| for other cultures. If they were unable to improve perfection, they could
| still learn new techniques from your grandma and apply those to other
| recipes.
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http://trombonechamp.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-happened-to-free-and-open-knowledge/
Wikipedia launches ‘academy’
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| Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.com launched the ‘Wikipedia Academy’ here
| today in a bid to increase its popularity and to reach out to large number of
| rural masses in the country.
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| “This is the first in Asia after the launch of the first Academy last month
| in Germany” Wikipedia.com Founder Jimmy Wales told reporters in Chennai.
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http://www.expeditemall.com/wikipedia-launches-academy.php
Wiki-community strives to extend eastward
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| There are many reasons for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, to take
| interest in India. One of them is the need for balance in socio-geographic
| perspective in Wiki articles. "Being a global encyclopedia, we need an
| east-west balance in our content, quantitatively as well as perceptively,"
| said Wikimedia foundation founder Jimmy Wales, who was in Chennai on Friday
| for the formal inauguration of Asia's first Wikipedia academy.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Wiki-community_looking_eastward/articleshow/3830044.cms
British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations
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| Wikinews has learned that at least six of the United Kingdom's main Internet
| Service Providers (ISPs) have implemented monitoring and filtering mechanisms
| that are causing major problems for UK contributors on websites operated by
| the Wikimedia Foundation, amongst up to 1200 other websites.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_Wikipedia_amid_child_pornography_allegations?curid=117771
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