You were born to be a star.

Filed under: Featured Content — Heather Ford @ 6:20 pm

gilYou sing like an angel and you’ve got more charisma than Angelina Jolie’s lips. Here’s your chance to shine. In a bid to find South Africa’s most talented cubicle superstar – its most vocally adept pen pusher – M-Net is enabling corporations to enter teams in Office Idols. And South Africa’s Go Open Source, in association with Creative Commons South Africa, is rising to the challenge. From geeks to global alliances, we will unite as one, and put our best… voice forward!

We will get our chance to shine on DStv’s channel 37 and an opportunity to appear on a specially packaged show on M-Net’s Series Channels. The winners from each company will compete against other winners in their category, with the aim of pin-pointing a single winner in our company field. All the category winners will then compete against each other in a final on the actual Idols set for the chance to be crowned first Office Idol. Other than the dollops of fame, if we win, Go Open Source will receive *R500 000.00* of free exposure on DSTV. Oh, and the individual winner will receive something “very special”.

The Office Idols concept is linked to a charity so bug your colleagues, accost your associates and enter now.

Email Tjipo or Heather for an entry form, but remember, deadline is this Friday and you have to be able to get to the auditions in Johannesburg on Saturday, 30 July to enter the auditions! Bring your support team!

National Arts Fest gets a re-mixing by 99% Live

Filed under: Featured Content — Heather Ford @ 4:08 pm

gilAnother awesome project from the Rhodes New Media Lab, check out the ‘State of the Arts‘ this week at the second largest festival of its kind in the world: the South African National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Vincent Maher and the ‘99% Live’ crew are redefining South African interactive journalism as they produce news, reviews and interviews using video, moblogging and multimedia to bring this year’s Festival alive to those of us (sniff!) who aren’t able to make it to the event. Best thing of all is that Rhodes NML is steadily building a pool of re-mixable content through its use of cc licences. The use of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence means that the video, pics and multimedia on http://fest.ru.ac.za can, in the future, be re-mixed, re-jigged and re-purposed to generate even more exciting arts and culture on the Net, paving the way for a brighter future in South African digital creativity. Congrats dudes. We wish we were there!

UCT Copyright Workgroup established!

Filed under: Announcements — Heather Ford @ 12:08 pm

Creative Commons South Africa wishes the recently-established Copyright Working Group at the University of Cape Town all the best for what looks to be an exciting future! The Copyright Working Group, of which ccSA is a partner, grew out of a conference on Access to Learning Materials held in January 2005 in Johannesburg. The Group will focus on copyright and access to information and strives to become a recognised body for substantial legal expertise on copyright related matters both on the domestic and international front. The Workgroup will be supported by a number of intellectual property experts in South Africa, with research by LLB students, cooperation with the Yale Law School and coordination by Tobias Schonwetter. If you know of any legal cases that might be of interest to the Copyright Working Group, please contact Tobias (tschonwe at law.uct.ac.za).