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I'm John Wilbanks. I run the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. I travel too much, cook too little, and spend way too much time thinking about copyrights. For more regular updates, follow me on twitter.
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January 27, 2009
Science Commons got picked up on reddit this week. It was surreal - we hit the top of the charts for about 24 hours, got way more web traffic than usual, and the SC/Dylan video got almost 4000 views. Wacky....
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January 26, 2009
In the first post, I talked about how factual data aren't creative works, and how compiling them into collections doesn't make them creative - at least in the US. This aspect of data rips away the core "incentive" provided by...
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January 24, 2009
I got drawn into a debate about copyrights and factual data this week that felt like it merited its own blog post. It was kind of surreal new media debating - I was going back and forth with a smart...
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January 15, 2009
Gerry Bayne of Educause interviewed me in December as part of the Coalition for Networked Information annual meeting. It's available in excerpts as part of the Educause Now monthly podcast and in full as a standalone cast. It's always a...
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January 5, 2009
I've been working on some text for a series of papers lately. I'm writing the core of a book proposal and working through the ideas around the knowledge web and the knowledge economy, and thought I'd post some interim thoughts...
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