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CommonPlaces
A periodical about art and the public domain, via Rhizome :Public space and public information are common concerns, and both are under threat.
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OurMedia
Like Sourceforge for Open Content:Via the ever-reliable Boing Boing.
OurMedia doesn’t handle project management, but it handles more media than archive.org and is dedicated to Free licensed work.
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The Road To Hell Is Paved With Incompatible Niche Licenses
CC are working on a CC-Wiki license:
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002782.shtml
http://creativecommons.org/drafts/wiki_0.5I admire the community spirit that this license is proposed in, and an inter-wiki license seems like a good idea, but it’s called the FDL. And a “credit the organisation not the individual” license is a dangerous thing to create (and probably breaks the Right Of Paternity). It’s going to get used for many non-wiki megalomaniac’s projects, and it breaks the social contract of wiki contribution anyway.
This is niche license proliferation. License proliferation is bad. A wiki-specific license is such a bad idea that Britannica should sponsor it (suggest it to them and watch their faces light up like a TV company executive told that CC licenses don’t effect moral rights). Wikis face quite a challenge in non-“fair use” jurisdictions, ghettoising their content will just add to their problems.
An authorship assignment or licensing toolkit would be more constructive.
(Incidentally, I’m against the Creative Archive license as well, it’s basically CC-BY-SA with a definition of NonCommercial that, taken literally, wouldn’t allow schools to use CA content).
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A Mash-up From 1993
“Gelvis”, 1993. A Warhol Elvis gunslinger/ Gilbert & George photo-work mash-up. I like the Pierrot-like figure that emerges from the collision of gay iconographies. I also like the glitch halo and what happens to the perfect grid of Gilbert & George’s work. This was made with morphing software on either Amiga or 286/386, I don’t remember.What I’ve been reading about mash-ups sounds like the sort of cultural tweening I’ve always been interested in, maybe its time to get back to my roots and take this further. I don’t know whether morphing software is appropriate, but it seems to be a good fit to the software used to shift and stretch sound for aural mash-ups.
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CC-UK (EnW) Launch
It’s the launch party for the first of the CC-UK licenses for England and Wales tonight:http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/15/creative_commons_uk_.html
Moblog of the event:
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Lawrence Liang Essays
Guide To Open Content Licenses:http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/opencontent/
Copyright, Cultural Production and Open Content Licensing:
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/pubsfolder/liangessay/
Shows why Lessig’s “asian pirate” as the other of the creative western remixer is problematic.
Both highly recommended. Liang was a high-point of the excellent “Ways of Working 2”.
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Shizuka 02 and 03
Kazushi Mukaiyama has placed the documentation for the next two versions of his drawing program Shizuka online:http://www.kazushi.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=394
Recommended reading, and a good example of why taking an idea and running with it can be better than producing a series of demos.