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Creative Commons licensed works available on Google Books
26 August, 2009
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Deutsch: Unter Creative Commons lizenzierte Werke auf Google Books erhältlich
Google Books announced on 13 August 2009 the launching of an initiative allowing writers, artists and publishers to specify their works as Creative Commons (CC) works, being able to choose between the six CC version 3 licenses, a public domain license or the CC "no rights reserved" license. This gives right holders a simple way to give clear indications on the legal rights they have to CC-licensed works found through Google Books and tell readers whether and how they can use the copyrighted books.
A few authors have already made their CC books available on Google Books and these books have been marked by
Windows 7 is launched without IE, but the Commission is not pleased
17 June, 2009
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Deutsch: Windows 7 wird ohne IE eingeführt, die Kommission zeigt sich nicht zu...
Although until recently Microsoft was claiming that Internet Explorer (IE) browser was an integrant part of Windows operating system, on 11 June 2009 the company stated it would launch its new version of operating system for the European market, Windows 7, without Internet Explorer. The decision comes as a result of a Statement of Objections sent to Microsoft in January 2009 by the European Commission regarding competition concerns related to the bundling of the browser to the operating system.
Open source supporters criticize European govts for favouring MS
3 June, 2009
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Deutsch: Open Source-Verfechter kritisieren Europäische Regierungen für die B...
Macedonian: [Поборниците за слободен софтвер ги..
WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property: Third meeting
6 May, 2009
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Deutsch: Das WIPO-Komitee für Entwicklung und Geistiges Eigentum: das dritte T...
The central issues in the third meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) seemed to be the creation of centralized databases to collect traditional cultural expressions, traditional knowledge, genetic material and public domain material - and to close the digital divide between (post-)industrialized nations and economies in transition, developing countries (DCs) and the least developed countries (LDCs).
Because Public Domain (PD) is decidedly different in different countries, it was proposed that a study on what does PD
Creative Commons licences launched in Czech Republic
22 April, 2009
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Deutsch: Creative Commons in der Tschechischen Republik eingeführt
Macedonian: Лиценците Криејтив комонс во Републик...
The localized version of the Creative Commons licences was launched on 15 April in the Czech Republic, which has become the fifty-second jurisdiction worldwide to offer localized Creative Commons licenses.
Following extensive consultation with local and international legal experts and in close collaboration with Creative Commons International, Creative Commons Czech ported the licenses and celebrated their launch at an event during the Multiplace fe
Recommended Action
25 March, 2009
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Deutsch: Zum Mitmachen empfohlen
Document Freedom Day - 25.03.2009
For the second time, in 2009, the Document Freedom Day is orgganized as a
global day for Document Liberation with the participation of
roughly 250 active teams worldwide. It is a day of grassroots effort around
the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document
Formats in particular and Open Standards in general.
http://www.documentfreedom.org/
Open Access to High Energy Physics Literature
14 January, 2009
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An interesting alternative model for open access publishing for the High Energy Physics journals has emerged in the past years in a project led by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that attempts to make the current research openly accessible in this field.
CERN was the leader since the 50s, when the first pre-print repository was established at the headquarters of the European organisation.
Launching Creative Commons Romania
10 September, 2008
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On 2 September 2008, EDRi-member Association for Technology and Internet - APTI Romania organized an event to announce the availability of the localized Creative Commons (CC) licences.
The event was organized with the help of the Center for Independent Journalism and HI-Q band and gathered users of the CC licences, journalists and bloggers that discussed the way the CC licences would fit the present Romanian copyright-related framework.
Bogdan Manolea, the CC Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Romania project started with a presentation where he explained the CC philosophy and an introduction to the CC licences.
