If you’ve ever had any questions about copyright or Creative Commons, now is your chance to ask them. The APC is running a 2-week forum for southern Africans who want to find out more about Creative Commons and how it applies to them. Join up here and fire away!

Make sure you download the Wired CD mp3 here. One of my favorite bands, Spoon, is on there with a great track called, ‘Revenge!’ What’s your favorite?

Denise Nicholson sent me this News24 article about our Madiba’s impending trademark registration of “Nelson Mandela”, his clan name “Madiba”, his Xhosa name “Rolihlahla” as well as his prison number 46664.
I can understand how the man wants to control who uses his name, but this remark from Madiba’s lawyer, Don MacRobert, I do not understand. […]

Our cc-er of the week is Roy Blumenthal - ‘artist, filmmaker, radio personality, performance poet, trouble-shooter, and ex-advertising copywriter’. Roy lives in Johannesburg and has a wonderful blog called ‘Coffeeshop Shmuck’ consisting of ‘totally subjective coffee-shop and restaurant reviews’ - a little more unusual (you’ll find great gossip on Roy’s latest hot dates) than what […]

I went to talk about Creative Commons at a South African Licensing Executives Society meeting in Pretoria last week. I made the trip and spent the time because I was hoping that this would be a great opportunity to get IP lawyers involved in Creative Commons locally - especially when we haven’t had much input […]

Check out this new site if you want to track global intellectual property debates from Geneva. Things should be hotting up at WIPO over the next few months - especially over the proposed ‘Broadcasting Treaty‘ which would give broadcasters, cable casters, and, under the U.S. proposal, web casters a range of new rights, and at […]

The Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa has announced that they will be funding a proposal from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) for awareness-raising in southern Africa until February next year. We’re wanting to build a working group of people in southern African countries for future Creative Commons projects - if you know of […]