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		<title>New Lead for Creative Commons South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are proud to announce that Dave Duarte will be taking over the role of Project Lead for Creative Commons South Africa.
Dave will be working with Legal Lead Andrew Rens to develop the awareness and use of Creative Commons licenses in South Africa, and nurture the growing CC community here.
A bit about Dave, from his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2008/05/22/new-lead-for-creative-commons-south-africa/</link>
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		<title>Making local lekker - promoting your content in South African languages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if the song you had written in your mother tongue, Zulu, could be distributed with a license written in the same language? Creative Commons South Africa and Translate.org.za recently announced the availability of licenses in Afrikaans, isiZulu and Sesotho sa Leboa.

Says, Dwayne Bailey of Translate.org.za, &#8220;For us this was a natural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2007/07/05/making-local-lekker-promoting-your-content-in-south-african-languages/</link>
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		<title>BMW SA uses Creative Commons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months we&#8217;ve seen both good and bad ways of running competitions for user-generated content in the South African Internet world.
Exhibit A: Apple South Africa&#8217;s &#8216;GetPodcasting&#8216; Competition. In March, some eagle-eyed bloggers caught sight of the draconian terms and conditions on the site which didn&#8217;t enable people to use other content (for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2007/07/05/bmw-sa-uses-creative-commons/</link>
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		<title>Bring a girl child to Creative Commons!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are Mpumi, Sibulele, and Zimi. We are visiting the iCommons offices for a day. We are here for the Cell C bring a girl child to work, which parents are allowed to bring their daughters to work for a day so they can see and learn about the work their parents do. (note from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2007/05/24/bring-a-girl-child-to-creative-commons/</link>
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		<title>A beguiling African voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Makhago Peter is a young Ugandan who writes in his spare time and has published through lulu.com.  It is possible to hear Peter&#8217;s enchantingly simple voice and others like his through the initiative artmarketonline (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence) which was started by the Open Cafe in Potchefstroom.
Artmarketonline is a cyber-market-place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2007/05/17/a-beguiling-african-voice/</link>
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		<title>SA Free Culture Tour - take part!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free your culture &#8230; come to the braai, Friday 20 April 2007

WHERE:  The Armchair Theatre, Obsevatory, Cape Town
WHEN: 8pm, Friday, 20 April 2007
BRING:  cds or dvds to braai, R40 door charge,
R100 to buy a cool SA Free Culture tee shirt.
Rip, Mix, Burn - South African style … on Friday, 20 April 2007
The SA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2007/03/20/cape-town-free-culture-tour/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a brown bag &#8230; and you&#8217;re invited!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iCommons would like to invite you to our first &#8216;brown bag&#8217; session on Friday 16 February at 12:30pm.
&#8216;Brown bags&#8217; are informal gatherings, focused on a stimulating discussion and debate. Our guest speaker for the event is Jason van Niekerk, who will be talking about the philosophy of &#8216;Ubuntu&#8217; and the commons.
Jason teaches philosophy in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2007/02/13/its-a-brown-bag-and-youre-invited/</link>
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		<title>Jo&#8217;s toolkit:  A student journalist&#8217;s recipe for success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bring together student journalists, media studies lecturers, editors of major South African magazines and online newspapers. Add their collective, yet varied experiences from practising in the field of media. Mix in a touch of good advice and helpful hints. Stir in a pinch of passion for the profession. Attach a Creative Commons (CC) licence – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/jos-toolkit-a-student-journalists-recipe-for-success/</link>
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		<title>Creative Commons 2.5 licence launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Commons SA has recently launched their 2.5 licence.  
Under this licence, the author or rightsholder can specify how they wish the work to be attributed.   An author or creator can now specifiy that attribution should include not just the name of the author but also require a user to show the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/creative-commons-25-licence-launch/</link>
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		<title>SAfro-Brazil Remix Winner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are proud to announce the Brazilian winner of the SAfro-Brazil Remix competition. Congratulations goes to LucioK, who produced the winning track for the Brazilian arm of the competition. LucioK will be arriving in SA on Sunday, 15 April and will be performing at the BringnBraai in Cape Town, on Friday 20 April.The competition was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/enter-the-safro-brazil-remix/</link>
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