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Four short links: 2 November 2009 - Inside Botnets, Creating Choropleths, Privacy Simplified, Massively Machiavellian Online Social Gaming

By Nat Torkington
November 2, 2009

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell (TechCrunch) -- Many of those games on Facebook that your friends play are evil. To get in-game money or objects, they'll let you take a survey but at the end you're signed up for crap you never wanted. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Microsoft and Science Commons Team Up To Add Semantic Content to Online Science

By James Turner
March 11, 2009

John Wilbanks, VP of Science for Creative Commons, gave O'Reilly Media an exclusive sneak preview of a joint announcement that they will be making with Microsoft later today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. According to John, who talked to us shortly after getting off a plane from Brazil, Microsoft will be releasing, under an open source license, Word plugins that will allow scientists to mark up their papers with scientific entities directly.

ETech Preview: Science Commons Wants Data to Be Free

By James Turner
February 20, 2009

John Wilbanks has a passion for lowering the barrier between scientists who want to share information. A graduate of Tulane University, Mr. Wilbanks started his career working as a legislative aide, before moving on to pursue work in bioinformatics, which included the founding of Incellico, a company which built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. Mr. Wilbanks now serves as the Vice President of Science at Creative Commons, and runs the Science Commons project. He will be speaking at The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in March, on the challenges and accomplishments of Science Commons, and he's joining us today to talk a bit about it.

Creative Commons needs your donations

By Andy Oram
December 15, 2008

Creative Commons is more dependent than ever before on the funds of individuals. More and more people these days are grabbing pictures, text, and other random goods they find online and using them in their own presentations or creative efforts; some of us even build businesses on open contributions. All of us should be promoting the Creative Commons, which has provided licenses to support such sharing in 50 countries and is working with people in many more.

Lawrence Lessig Leaving Stanford; Returning To Harvard; Safra Center

By M. David Peterson
December 13, 2008

In a recent post to his blog, Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School announced a change in focus, and therefore a change in his location on this planet: It's back to Harvard and the Safra Center.

Lawrence Lessig REMIXED: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

By M. David Peterson
October 17, 2008

From REMIX: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Lawrence Lessig's *HOT* off the presses new title: For more than a decade, we've been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century's model of "copyright law." In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19th century, and to the promise of the 21st. Our past teaches us about the value in "remix." We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new "hybrid economy" -- one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate.

How copyright got to its current state (Patry blog ending)

By Andy Oram
August 14, 2008

William Patry, one of the most respected online commentators on copyright, has shut down his weblog. It so happens that copyright is a major subject covered in a book recently released by O'Reilly, Van Lindberg's Intellectual Property and Open Source A Practical Guide to Protecting Code. This blog continues with a brief statement by Van about Patry's decision, then a brief statement of my own, and finally an excerpt from Van's book about how copyright got to the state it's in, an excerpt I hope you'll enjoy and learn from.

How copyright got to its current state (Paltry blog ending)

By Andy Oram
August 7, 2008

William Patry, one of the most respected online commentators on copyright, has shut down his weblog. It so happens that copyright is a major subject covered in a book recently released by O'Reilly, Van Lindberg's Intellectual Property and Open Source A Practical Guide to Protecting Code. This blog continues with a brief statement by Van about Patry's decision, then a brief statement of my own, and finally an excerpt from Van's book about how copyright got to the state it's in, an excerpt I hope you'll enjoy and learn from.

Regarding "Offending Maggie"

By Piers Hollott
August 5, 2008

On June 3rd, 2008, "Fresh Born", the first single from San Francisco's Deerhoof's upcoming album, Offend Maggie, was posted as sheet music, under a Creative Commons license. In a few months, a full twenty versions of "Fresh Born", recorded by all and sundry, have been recorded and contributed back to the CASH Music website.

Open Source Entertainment

By Chris Josephes
June 27, 2008

Big Buck Bunny is 3d animated movie created entirely with open source software.

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