Archive for November, 2008

James Boyles’ Latest Book is Out

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

I've heard or seen my own role models point to James Boyle and his research and writing. Professor Lawrence Lessig posted about Boyles's new book this morning, mentioning that Boyle's first book served as a strong initial inspiration for Lessig's own copyright work. "The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of ...

Digital Tipping Point Documentary Project Releases Footage for Sharing, Remixing

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Digital Tipping Point is a collaborative documentary built using open source principles and methods and covering the free software and open source phenomena and how these are expanding to culture more generally. The project is attempting to use video submitted to the Internet Archive to build the film. ...

Help with Creative Commons Fund Raising

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

The Creative Commons just recently launched their annual fund raising campaign. The organization is not for profit and relies on these donations to help share information and build tools to foster a thriving and vibrant commons online. They just successfully met a matching grant but still have a ways to ...