(via Colin Miller) As part of my growing interest in virtual economies, here is an eye-opening look at the gold of Chinese gold farmers from Julian Dibbell, including some video footage of their virtual sweat shops (you can sort of Read more…
The amazing Peer to Patent system is now live. The system is the creation of New York Law School Professor Beth Noveck, and it is an extremely interesting system of involving the online community on the review of patent claims Read more…
Here’s my iSummit in pictures (check out the iCommons Flickr stream): Not a bad place to hold a conference Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!(courtesy CreativeCommoners) So, THAT is how he does it!(courtesy Joi Ito) Snowclones are the new Read more…
(photo courtesy of Becky Hogge) One of the coolest activities I managed to do during the summit (besides annoying random people with rants about contract law) was to participate in the Free Radio broadcast. As you can see, it is Read more…
A common theme running through the summit has been the question of the nature of the Creative Commons organisation. Is it a movement? And if so, what is its philosophy? Ideology? Is it political? I think that these are important Read more…
Venerable (I sort of hate that word, but I don’t know how else to describe him) Harvard Professot Charlie Nesson gave an excellent talk on poker and democracy. I’m sure this will be one of those events which will be Read more…
Last night Larry Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain presented what I’m sure will become a legendary session on the future of content and the future of the Commons. Jonathan Zittrain gave a thoroughly enjoyable presentation related to his work on the Read more…
On the same day that friend and colleague Claudio Ruiz has given me an excellent t-shirt and stickers from the Creative Commons enforcement case in Chile (pictured), I have read some F.U.D. from that same country. It’s amazing how some Read more…
We’ve had some excellent discussion on the first day of the conference, which has been an unofficial start before the summit fully begins tomorrow (in other words, licence geeks get together and throw around ideas). The first session was an Read more…
And the summit begins with the legal day, there will be plenty of discussion on all licensing legal topics, so today is lawyer’s day. The great thing about annual conferences is that you get to see again your friends from Read more…