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The economics of openDemocracy
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| In the language of my discipline, economics,
| openDemocracy produces a public good. Why?
| First, because information, analysis,
| commentary and active engagement with the
| unfolding story of democracy everywhere
| across the globe is an essential part of the
| progress of democracy. Democracy is about
| self-government, and where can that be
| without self-understanding about government?
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/openeconomy/tony-curzon-price/economics-of-opendemocracy
Why Share-Alike Licenses are Open but Non-Commercial Ones Arenât
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| It is sometimes suggested that there isnât a
| real difference in terms of âopennessâ
| between share-alike (SA) and non-commercial
| (NC) clauses â both being some restriction
| on what the user of that material can do,
| and, as such, a step away from openness.
|
| This is not true. A meaningful distinction
| can be drawn between share-alike and non-
| commercial clauses (or any other clause that
| discriminates against a particular type of
| person or field of endeavour), with the
| former being âopenâ and the latter being not
| âopenâ.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/06/24/why-share-alike-licenses-are-open-but-non-commercial-ones-arent/
The Sharing Industry Keeps Growing with Weeels, Closest Closet
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| We at Shareable.net harbor the belief that
| the growth of the Internet and mobile
| technology has made sharing more practical--
| and that this trend has the potential to
| minimize consumption, by redefining wealth
| as access to stuff instead of the
| accumulation of stuff. We're working on
| testing this hypothesis, by launching a
| series of studies with the research
| consultancy Latitude.
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http://shareable.net/blog/the-sharing-industry-keeps-growing-with-weeels-closest-closet
Open Clip Art Library Launches Logo Design Contest!
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| The âFree Cultureâ Movement, instantiated in
| a 2004 publication by Creative Commons
| founding member Lawrence Lessig, is a
| reaction to content ownership in a digital
| age. Because The Open Clip Art Library is,
| at itâs core, a platform to freely share and
| collaborate created content, it will be
| forever intertwined with the Movement.
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http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/open-clip-art-library-launches-logo-design-contest.html
Recent:
Drafting Definitions for Cultural Liberty
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| Although Iâm still focussed on 1p2U.com,
| some time later this year I hope to set up
| the website culturalliberty.org â a site
| dedicated to the restoration of everyoneâs
| cultural liberty, especially from its
| constraint by anachronistic privileges such
| as copyright and patent (which should have
| been abolished along with slavery).
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http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=246
A lesson in how to profit from the free for the film industry
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| The winners in the new Digital Economy will
| be those who master the free by offering
| enough to make you want to pay for more,
| like the open source software company who
| got me to pay $80 for some extra binary
| that I didn't need really need (and
| certainly could have avoided paying for).
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http://www.netribution.co.uk/blogs/171/1867-a-lesson-in-how-to-profit-from-the-free-for-the-film-industry
Grant will help UI fund open-source textbook initiative
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| The Office of the Vice President for
| Academic Affairs has been awarded a
| $150,000 grant to establish an initiative
| that provides open-source textbook access
| for Illinois students.
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http://www.news-gazette.com/news/politics-and-government/2010-06-21/grant-will-help-ui-fund-open-source-textbook-initiative.html
NatureWorks provides open-source access for injection molding bioresin
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| To spur innovation and drive biopolymers
| more widely into injection molding
| applications, NatureWorks LLC is borrowing
| a page from the computer industry and
| making details for its new, high-heat,
| high-impact bioresin, Ingeoâ 3801X
| available by providing open source access
| to both formulation and compounding
| procedure.
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http://www.greenerpackage.com/resins/natureworks_provides_open-source_access_injection_molding_bioresin
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