By James Burke on
10 March 2009
This evening I listened in to the RSA Event - The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind delivered by Professor James Boyle. In his new book The Public Domain, Professor James Boyle describes how our culture, science and economic welfare all depend on the delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain —the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee.
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By James Burke on
08 November 2008
Business models around Open Source Software have matured over the last 10 years generating significant revenues for those organisations that open up their intellectual property. This open source approach is now spreading into other areas where collaboration, peering, openness and sharing can bring tangible benefits to all participants.
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By James Burke on
23 February 2008
This 20 minute video from TED delivered by Jimmy Wales describes how a ragtag band of volunteers created Wikipedia
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By James Burke on
07 February 2008
Open Source and Creative Commons licensing supports new ways to share ideas that can accelerate your company’s rate of innovation and growth, how could this work and what are the potential benefits?
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By James Burke on
05 February 2008
The DataPortability group is gathering pace with membership to the group recently attracting people from Google, Facebook, Plaxo and Microsoft to but name a few, but what is Data Portability?
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By James Burke on
01 January 2008
Today is Public Domain Day in most countries of the world, where copyright runs from the death of the author of a work until the end of the 50th, 70th, or some other year thereafter depending on the country. Today is the first day where works which have passed out of copyright first enter the public domain.
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By James Burke on
28 December 2007
The University of Edinburgh School of Law has started to publish a journal under a Creative Commons licence.
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By James Burke on
27 November 2007
Zoho has beaten Google to implementing Google Gears into their online word processer - Zoho Writer
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By James Burke on
24 June 2007
A short video on how to use an Open Source licence recorded at a Channel 4 event in Inverness in 2006.
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By James Burke on
03 June 2007
There is no “one” business model for a business that totally or partially derives its main income from Open Source, here are a few thoughts on business models in use.
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By James Burke on
09 March 2007
George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the government over its apparent lack of support for open-source software.
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By James Burke on
19 February 2007
Open Source Software is often touted as free as in free speech rather than free as in free beer, but now the Open Source philosophy has spread out of the software development field into more mainstream activities resulting in “free beer”!
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By James Burke on
17 February 2007
This video clip is an intro to Creative Commons licensed media that can be legally shared and reused for free!
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By James Burke on
04 November 2006
Microsoft and Novell have released a letter to the Open Source community announcing a collaboration deal that is being put forward as a watershed moment for Linux.
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By James Burke on
21 October 2006
Creative Commons content offers a valuable resource base for eLearning content collation. The creative commons website contains a search facility that current provides results from Google, Yahoo, Flickr and Blip.tv
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