Archive for December, 2008

Massive Media Donation to Wikipedia from German Federal Archive

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Wikipedia just announced a massive contribution to their Commons. Starting on Thursday Dec 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100,000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the ...

Creative Commons Questionnaire on the Meaning of Non-Commercial

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

The Creative Commons opened a survey a few weeks back to help them investigate how people understand the non-commercial condition of their licenses. This aspect has been one of the more difficult to define and explain. Attribution, no derivatives and share alike are relatively easy to follow by ...

New Site Offering Open Case Law

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Kevin sent in a link to Open Jurist, a site offering court opinions free of charge. The site itself is licensed under an attribution only CC license though I also found a traditional copyright notice. I am also not sure what the limitations on the original source material ...