A great friend of Creative Commons South Africa, Derek Keats, has just published the first magazine article in South Africa released under a Creative Commons license. He published it in NetPlus Magazine but tectonic.co.za managed to distribute it online because of the license. It’s called ‘Free as in freedom: the benefits of FOSS in Africa’ […]

A sad but good thing is that more people learned about those historical treasures by reading the news of the fire than probably would have ever known in their lifetime if the building hadn’t burned down. This, a list from a Sunday Times article that wouldn’t have seen the light of day:
‘A 1915 framed, handwritten […]

WIPO has adopted the ‘development agenda’ proposed by Argentina and Brazil, and has agreed to involve NGOs and civil society more intimately in looking at free and open source software and initiatives like Creative Commons as possible solutions to challenges of intellectual property rights and development in the future. Find more here and previous posts […]