A Spanish court in Pontevedra has ruled in favour of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) against a café named Direccion000. SGAE initiated action against the cafe to claim royalties for de public performance of music in the locale, while the owners claimed that they did not have Read more
Erick Iriarte from Alfa-Redi has forwarded a link to the Spanish book called “Manual del Copyleft”. I have oly browsed its contents, but it looks quite impressive. It can be downloaded directly and it’s released under a CC BY-SA licence (Reconocimiento-CompartirIgual 2.5 España). Excellent online resource, particularly because there has Read more
Some further news about the Zune and Creative Commons DRM discussion, which has caused quite a stir in the circles that get stirred by this sort of tune. Just a brief recap. The Zune Insider blog broke the news that Zune would have a new interesting feature to transfer files Read more
The place and dates for the 2007 edition of the iCommons summit has been announced. This edition of the summit will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, between 15-17 June 2007.
(Thanks to Paul Keller for picture) Is this the shape of things to come in Spain? In case you do not read Spanish, the image says: “The music that you are listening to is free for public difusion.” By the way, you can also smoke in this bar.
This is a very interesting read from Tom Chance of Remix Reading. I can see that there are going to be a growing number of concerns about how events like the summit are run, organised and handled. He makes some very valid points about the venue and governance. In my Read more
All the pictures I took from the iCommons summit were from my trusty mobile phone, as my camera was stolen in another conference. Here are some of my favourites: ¿Cerveza gratis o cerveza libre? grumble….grumble…collecting societies…Australia…Bloody Italians! Is that picture on an open format? I’m going to finish in the Read more
The iCommons summit was an incredible event, but I wanted to point out something that kept bothering me in a couple of sessions, particularly the panel about the international role of Creative Commons. I am perfectly aware that the lack of specialised knowledge of intellectual property from representatives of developing Read more
We are almost done, the last session is upon us. There are three declarations that will be distributed (and hopefully signed on). I will read them in detail and blog about them later on. All I have to say is that this has been ana amazing meeting, full of energy Read more
International role of Creative Commons with Cory Doctorow, Jimmy Wales, James Love, Glen Otis Brown and Nhlanhla Mabaso. Cory Doctorow: WIPO development agenda, the experience of EFF at WIPO. There should be a stronger institutional representation of Creative Commons at WIPO level, as at the moment it has been silent. Read more