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Archive for November, 2005

Ouch! “Intellectual property everywhere, all the time”

Monday, November 28th, 2005

‘Imagine a world where absolutely everything is owned - and sold to those who can afford it. Every person would be a market. There would be nothing freely available in the public domain. Knowledge and culture could only be learnt if you paid for it.’
Guy Berger has written a great article on a session at […]

A first for Creative Commons

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Ever been in a space shuttle or hung out at an internet café?
Well, now’s your chance. Buckle your seatbelts, because the learningcommons team, in partnership with the Shuttleworth Foundation, has created a vivid, exciting multimedia curriculum pilot project for grade 9 technology learners!
Entitled Copyright and left: A multimedia curriculum on copy rights and […]

The South African educational sector opens the way

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

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These statements are reflective of the geography of our lives, where places, things and cultural products are divided between what we are allowed to have and do and what we are not allowed to experience or share.
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African e-Index shares alike

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Research ICT Africa! has recently launched the book entitled Towards an African e-Index which documents a reseach initiative investigating both individual and household ICT access and usage in sub-Sahara Africa.
ICT Africa! encourages others to freely use the publication in their teachings and research by licensing the book under the Creative Commons South Africa […]

An IP report from deep within the US

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Christiaan Bester, one of our greatest volunteers, is currently studying towards a postgraduate intellectual property law degree at the University of Texas and has written two great pieces to report back on what he has observed in the US since his arrival in late August.
“I attended a panel discussion today filmed by Court TV at […]