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Cornell University Library Removes All Restrictions on Use of Public Domain
Reproductions
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| In a dramatic change of practice, Cornell University Library has announced it
| will no longer require its users to seek permission to publish public domain
| items duplicated from its collections. Instead, users may now use
| reproductions of public domain works made for them by the Library or
| available via Web sites, without seeking any further permission.
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http://news.library.cornell.edu/com/news/PressReleases/Cornell-University-Library-Removes-All-Restrictions-on-Use-of-Public-Domain-Reproductions.cfm
http://tinyurl.com/pp2gws
European Open Data Summit
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| Last week was the first European Open Data Summit in Brussels (which we
| blogged about here) organised by EU Transparency, who created
| farmsubsidy.org. The event brought together journalists, researchers, civic
| hackers, and representatives from European institutions for two days of
| documenting and building on documents and datasets from European institutions
| and member states.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2009/05/11/european-open-data-summit/
A rare victory for public sector data reuse in Europe
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| From Jeff Thurston at the Vector One blog, news that the Dutch operation of
| Landmark Information Group have won a case at the Dutch High Courts asserting
| that they should be able to access environment information from the City of
| Amsterdam without high license costs or limitations to its reuse.
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http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/a-rare-victory-of-public-sector-data-reuse-in-europe/
Recent:
Ubuntu Enrolls At Cornell College
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| No doubt, Ubuntu will spill over from college IT departments out to student
| populations as more and more Netbooks (preloaded with Ubuntu) arrive on
| college campuses.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/12/22/ubuntu-enrolls-at-cornell-college/
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