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MS Office integrates CC licensing
Talk about the clash of cultures… License your office (documents) Microsoft has released a tool for copyright licensing that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft Office applications. The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million [PC-based] users of…
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Crowdsourcing as Free Labour
I love Wired, it is just so blatant: For the last decade or so, companies have been looking overseas, to India or China, for cheap labor. But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to…
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Bits
Birthday greetings to Herman Hesse, wherever he is. From my favourite agent provocateur and radical hacker, David Berry, come the libre commons licenses: This is a project to develop non-legal licenses that will operate in the shared space that can non-bureaucratically and non-instrumentally be formed resisting law, the intellectual property regime and state violence. These…
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The BBC and technodemocracy
One of the things I learned at Wednesday night’s talk by Paula le Dieu was that among the rash of early 80s microcomputers was something called the BBC micro (an Acorn). It came out of the BBC Education “BBC computer literacy project” – apparently, the Beeb wanted to build a microcomputer that could do everything…
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Creative Commons Loot and Conference Schmoozing
The first day of the OCL conference (see previous entry) went not too badly, so here’s some extremely random highlights. In our conference packs we got copies of the Creative Commons copy me/remix me CD (but I really wanted the Wired one), CC buttons and stickers, and a v. nice QUT pen…Larry Lessig gave his…
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Cultivating Intercreativity…
…that’s the title of a short paper I’m giving tomorrow at Open Content Licensing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons (pdf) at QUT, with guest star Larry Lessig. I’ll be appearing as a proxy for the Youth Internet Radio Network (YIRN), which I’ve been involved with as a researcher, but which isn’t really “my” project. YIRN…
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OurMedia
Look at this: an idea whose time has come, to my mind. There’s a graphic depiction of how it will work here. It’s been a long time since I stumbled across some cool new web project that spoke to a niggling question raised by my research – and there are always a lot of niggling…
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Remix-a-licious
At Horizon 0, my new favourite online journal (at least for the next five minutes) is an evocative piece on the forms and future of remix culture. Samples from the Heap: Notes on Recycling the Detritus of a Remixed Culture by Bernard Schutze: Mix, mix again, remix: copyleft, cut ‘n’ paste, digital jumble, cross-fade, dub,…
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Remix Fight
Remix Fight: download cool remixes and read about ’em too. Thanks Jonathan.
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Creative Commons Launched in Australia
We all felt a sense of occasion in the air yesterday at the launch of the Australian bit of the International Creative Commons Project. The Faculty of Law at QUT has had a big hand in translating the creative commons licenses into Australian legal-speak, and there are some exciting cultural applications and initiatives happening around…