Comments for Creative Commons South Africa

Comment on ICDL in Africa on board with Creative Commons by Cosmic Seriosity Balance

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:06:17 +0000

Creative Commons SA news
The South African chapter of Creative Commons has been busy. Today they announced that they have launched ccMixterSA in conjunction with the Go Open Source campaign, which equips contestants with samples that they can remix to form their own works. (6…

Comment on Bookbox plan wins Stanford award by Carina Fredriksson

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:15:21 +0000

Bookbox plan wins Stanford award
Bookbox plan wins Stan…

Comment on Commons-sense conference: 25-27 May by Lessig Blog

Sun, 22 May 2005 17:35:26 +0000

Priorities
My son has an imagination. At 20 months, he spent an hour playing a game in which his stuffed boxer (as in the dog) played with his plastic spider. The spider would ride the dog. The dog would sniff the spider. And all the time my son was split with la…

Comment on Legal Code: Heading and Disclaimer by Andrew Garratt

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:42:04 +0000

On question of identification of Creative Commons South Africa. I would suggest taht you include a clause along the lines of
“Wheresoever the term “Creative Commons” or “Creative Commons Corporation” appears in the Universal Licence and Legal Code, such shall be inclusive of Creative Commons South Africa”

Also I would suggest on the disclaimer the insertion of “(”Creative Commons”)” afte rthe words Creative Commons Corporation.

Cheers
Andrew

Comment on AIDS museum project thinks about copyright by Jayendren Anand Maduray

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:24:29 +0000

Hi!
Think the Multimedia part of the museum is a good idea.
Open source software will help this cause, reducing costing.
watch this space….

Comment on Happy holidays by Rich...!

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:06:36 +0000

Hey Anon, I think, and I stand under correction, that it could be because ours is completely dedicated to the public domain i.e. no rights reserved at all…!

Comment on Happy holidays by Anonymous

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:53:54 +0000

Hi Heather,

This is great but Jo’bloggers certainly aren’t amoung the first in SA to dedicate their work to the public domain using the Creative Commons public domain licence. A number of sites (such as http://fodder.blogs.com/fodder/) have been using the Creative Commons public domain licence since the beginning of the year and earlier.

Comment on Who owns Madiba’s name? by ZAINAB MWATAWALA

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:03:59 +0000

Just like what he said when he was here last ( in 1994 the day when he visited Morogoro, Tanzania
East Africa to thank the people for hosting the first ANC OFFICE outside South
Africa; he said “I L O V E Y O U ALL”. Our response is the same, “WE LOVE HIM TOO”. sO WE DO NOT EXPECT ANY LAW TO KEEP US AWAY FROM LOVING HIM FOREVER.

Comment on Who owns Madiba’s name? by Heather Ford

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:31:08 +0000

Over the past few days, I’ve noticed the use of Madiba’s name in association with such a large number of products and services, that I can imagine how important it was for the Foundation to excercise some degree of control. I still believe that there needs to be more balance in the way that we excercise the rights to protect our ‘brand’. Creative Commons still hasn’t found the best way to do this - the only uses that we currently specify are for ‘non-commercial’ or ‘commercial’ use, but perhaps we need to go further in specifying what purpose people are able to use the materials for. Sure, there would be debates (such as those in the LIO case about ‘why’ LIO decided to embark on their anti-logo campaign) but this would hopefully rule out someone’s image being used in a Nazi website, for example.

Comment on Who owns Madiba’s name? by Andrew Rens

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:04:22 +0000

Is this the whole story? Is it just about money? Or is there a concern,
a legitimate concern about the appropriation of Madiba image not for the
purposes of creativity, but to lend legitimacy to organisations and people
who have not been endorsed by Madiba, but want people to think that they have?