One of the most exciting things that came out of the APC’s Tuesday ccSA workshop in Cape Town was a discussion around derivative works. Philipp Schmidt from Bridges.org explained that his organisation used a cc licence that didn’t allow derivatives, but that they still wanted to encourage derivatives like translations and transporting into formats for […]

Laugh It Off’s ‘culture-jamming’ ideals reached full circle last week when they released their latest annual under a licence that permits the same kind of copying and re-mixing that has made the small company famous.
The Creative Commons copyright licence allows people to copy, distribute, display, perform and re-mix the annual for non-commercial purposes. Creative Commons […]

An APC Creative Commons Cape Town Workshop is being held on Tuesday 15 March from 9.30 to 1pm at Bridges.org.
The Creative Commons South Africa Johannesburg workshop was so successful that the APC has decided to conduct a similar workshop in Cape Town.
When? Tuesday, 15 March 2005: 9.30am - 1pm
Where? Bridges.org, 1 Plein Street, Cape Town
Who? […]

Friday’s workshop was an enormous success in gathering together leading figures in South Africa’s intellectual property sphere to help draft the local Creative Commons licence.
Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) welcomed participants to the event, noting the centrality of intellectual property rights to international ICT policy debates, such as […]

One thing that you will have noticed is that there is no place on the licence that parties can sign to show their acceptance.
In the absence of signatures how can we know that the parties have agreed to the licence? If the use of a licenced work is ever in dispute in court one of […]