Archive for December, 2005

Commercial Commons License

Below you can find a Model Agency Agreement, which was drafted by the South African partner of OpenBusiness. It is designed to assist creators, who release work under a Creative Commons license and want to engage with a publisher or gallery (for More »

FAQs for the Commercial Commons License

Here you can find a FAQ for the Model Agency Agreement, Commercial Commons License, which was drafted by the South African partners of OpenBusiness. The FAQ explains the purpose and scope of the Model Agency Agreement. We welcome comments on structure and More »

File Sharing 'Good For Music Biz'

A new study by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and research firm Gartner Inc. suggests that consumer-to-consumer music recommendations -- a growing feature of online music stores and Web sites -- will benefit the industry, artists and fans alike. The More »

The Power of Us

Robert D. Hof has written this really comprehensive article for Business Week, called "The Power of Us". It summrises the influence of the web's people power on big business, outlining the ways that businesses are forced to adapt to respond to user More »

Top of Web 2.0 Software in 2005

Dion Hinchcliffe, whose analysis blog is part of the Web 2.0 Workgroup circle, has compiled a list of the top Web 2.0 Software of 2005. It is an astonishing list of activity of companies hoping to prove themselves with business models More »

Fighting high costs with open content

Read the interesting article here about economist, Preston MacAfee, who is fighting the good fight against the rising costs of for-profit publishers that are milking the university system for all its worth. As MacAfee states, "The large for-profit publishers are gouging More »

Line up for 'proprietary' content

Linup Front, the "Source in Open Source training", is a German-based training company that offers licensed (not the open-content kind of licence), high quality courseware products for Linux training courses. The LPI-approved training materials are available for purchase in both English and More »

Are we ready to throw decades of TV Economics away?

Some say "no way we are not giving anything away for free", others say lets give them some free stuff and once they have bought in, we cash in. Producing interesting TV which brings in money has always been a challenge, but video-on-demand seemed More »

Cory Doctorow and Creative Distribution

I voluntarily throw out some of the copyright that I get automatically just by writing stuff down. I do that for political and economic reasons: I think that the increased scope and duration of copyright are strangling free expression, privacy and innovation, and I More »

When A Film Goes Digital

Sonderbergh has been an astonishing film director for years. Now he is innovating the way movies are made and distributed. His new movie 'Bubble' will be in the theatres, on DVD and going to the networks at the same time. And it has been More »

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