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Creative Commons items added to catalogue

February 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Nebraska Library Commission has added online works released under a Creative Commons License to their catalogue.NLC tries Creative Commons . This is something to watch out for as more items are published under CC and online only.

The items added are:
  • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (OCLC 192003856)
  • Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (OCLC 192003897)
  • Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (OCLC 192003917)
  • Trigger Happy by Stephen Poole (OCLC 192003815)
  • Shike by Robert J. Shea (OCLC 192003727)
  • My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel by Steven Brust (OCLC 192003635)
  • The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig (OCLC 192004088)
  • Code version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
  • Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

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Legal aspects of Web 2.0

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

At Beyond the Hype, I went to a presentation by Elliott Bledsoe, a lawyer who works in the Creative Industries faculty at QUT, principally involved with Creative Commons. He presented about this report: Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 Activities: Management of Legal Risk Associated  with Use of YouTube, MySpace and Second Life.

Basically, if we can control whether an item is on a site or not (eg comments), we are responsible for it, thus the publisher, thus liable if there are legal implications - eg. defamation.

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