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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.
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May 28, 2009
So, I was supposed to go up to Montreal and Ottawa the past couple of days, but a series of miserable luck in terms of planes made it unworkable (it's complicated). Instead, I tried to record a presentation and get...
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May 27, 2009
As noted on the Creative Commons blog, the folks at Digg have converted to CC0 (replacing a multiyear use of a different public domain legal tool). This is very cool on lots of levels. But Daniel Burka of Digg said...
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May 20, 2009
This was in the comments from my blog post on Pfizer's semi-open innovation. I don't normally highlight comments like this, but sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due. Why deal with Pfizer in the first place? Anything...
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May 19, 2009
I ran into Virginia Acha last week at the NESTA event in London, but she didn't tell me about this! Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline notes that Pfizer is apparently allowing external companies to screen against their internal library....
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Open Knowledge Foundation have released a short guide to open data as part of the open data commons project. I have my philosophical disagreements with OKF on some issues - and they with me! - but they're the kind of...
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May 18, 2009
(note - I have edited this post to add in Rufus Pollock, who I left out primarily because I wasn't sure he would endorse the ideas in this post - Peter notes that he was not only at the meeting...
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May 16, 2009
Lately I've been spending a fair amount of time talking to the folks at NESTA in the UK. There's a lot of interest in how the kinds of legal and technical infrastructures we're building at Creative Commons might work at...
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May 12, 2009
I was invited to join a meeting last week in New York to kick off something called the "Concept Web Alliance." It's an emerging non profit hoping to stimulate the emergence of lots and lots of marked-up content from the...
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May 1, 2009
Quick hit at the end of the week. I've got a couple of posts I'm trying to finish up and post next week. But it's worth noting that the new H1N1 is sequenced and available under the same open access...
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