Good news! Fixing your car isn't illegal anymore! Great post by iFixit
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A post from Institute for Open Leadership fellow Jane Frances Agbu on how she came to appreciate Open Educational Resources in Nigeria
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How have you been Keeping up with the Commons? Enjoy this week's link roundup, with posts about Open Access, Mozfest 2016, and more!
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Do you �� unicode and the commons? Check out our proposal to get the CC logo and icons into unicode and give your feedback. (next up? Emojis!)
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Creative Commons updated their cover photo.
Happy Halloween, by JLS Photography -- Alaska.
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We're at #mozfest! Come make some CC crafts in Fuel the Movement, fourth floor! #throwpillows #wehaveswag
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Open access is not just about working to flip the default from closed to open. The OA movement should cooperate and collaborate with related communities of action, including the important work to rebalance the underlying systems of copyright to benefit creativity, innovation, and access to knowledge. #OAweek
Guest post by CC Uruguay team member Jorge Gemetto on the news that 14 people were convicted by an Uruguayan judge for the crime of making copies of educational resources. The defendants are owners of copy shops located near the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. The case began in 2013, when a major police operation shuttered copy shops in the area, confiscated photocopy machines, and detained 32 people.
New America Ed has published a new report that argues that open use policies should be the default for managing publicly funded information, including the adoption of open licensing policies for the digital outputs of public grant programs.
Via Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):
"Open access has the potential to promote trade in high tech products and services, by assisting in the free flow of ideas and knowledge across borders and thereby stimulating innovation and business development around the world. In many ways, if we accept that intellectual property policy has a place in trade agreements at all, then open access rules should be a natural fit for inclusion amongst these rules." #OAweek
Authors! Get your rights back! Introducing a public beta of our Termination of Transfer tool (US only for now)
Check out the demo and try it out!
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"We believe that the full research and economic benefit of published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and re-use of, this information."
What does open access look like in practice? A perspective from Robert Kiley of Wellcome Trust https://goo.gl/TLsmZX #OAWeek2016 #oaweek
"Now we are living in a world where I can give you a copy at no expense to myself and retain all of my collection. So, suddenly, a thing that was of value to me can be of value to six billion people instead. It feels morally wrong, given the capacity we have to do that, not to do it." #OAweek
In Uruguay, 14 people have been convicted of the criminal offense of making copies of educational resources. This must stop. #FixCopyright
We're putting "Open in Action" for Open Access Week this week. https://goo.gl/BvBstG #OAweek
Bob Darnton calls for the new Librarian of Congress to champion open access to publicly-funded research, and work to democratize access to culture in the U.S.
Remember, Open Access Week 2016 kicks off on Monday. Lots of great education and events. #OAweek
U.S. taxpayers spend $100 million a year on policy research that's only accessible to members of Congress. Now a group of activists are making those reports available online for everyone. #OpenPolicy
Friends in the San Francisco bay area, next week the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a cool copyright conversation with tech policy journalist Mike Masnick of Techdirt. Free to attend. RSVP now!
Note: the event will also be streamed online. Good on ya, internet.
- For all creative, personal and commercial use. I would like my name ...attributed in some way... This is a little rap I wrote about racial injustice (from some white kid who doesn't really know #@$@ about what African-Americans go through)... I title it as 'Bargain Plea' southern trees, bear strange fruit american lives, are prone to shoot others living, with the same goals in mind trying ta provide for their families we’re all intertwined, it’s designed because we want everything cheap and now we never ask who the man is behind the plow we allow, this kind of ignorance and all the hate it’s been going on since we told them back then to wait for their chance to drink the water they brought to light its a fight, to get what they said are ‘god given’ rights to every man woman and child, brought to this earth all the while doubting what you are, your self worth being torn ‘cause they said three strikes your out stuck in a cell ‘cause you can’t afford a bailout while you paid one to corporations, without consent its all bent, by lingering racial dissent dating back to when your ancestors were filled with torment you’re pissed off, and myself I can see why they defy, deny, hang you high, until you die it’s always been there, oh, but now they care they say we need reform, and on their platform they swear to revamp the system, make it all right truth is the only crime you have is not being white it’s not right, and I don’t gotta tell you twice there’s a price, that’s payed to ALEC donors who seek to make every dollar that they can, tongue in cheek you’re not a person, you’re a number, that pays the bills for the vacation home in Malibu and all the frills that you will never know, never be that high drugs were made to rob and make YOU, the bad guy while they walk free, in three piece suits you support the kind of movements only the grassroots could deliver, ‘cause only radicals change the systems made, if it weren’t for them you might still be on the slave trade, but forget about that for just a minute if you can, I don’t know shit about what you’ve been through, not a clue whether you’re black, latino or North Dakotan Sioux I don’t know shit about your life because I watched a flick there’s no book, no song, there’s only a nightstick used to hit you in the back, while you’re down and out that’s what they don’t tell you ‘law and order’ is all about you can’t be made to to be portrayed as a slave in this day so be afraid, displayed, surveyed and unpaid ‘cause you can’t find a job when they say you did crime don’t you know that you’re living now in a wartime there’s a war on drugs, and violent acts what they forget is to only listen to the facts there’s no cracks and no cocaine in your car ‘cept for the ones they planted, isn’t that bazaar there’s so much more to say, and it will be ‘cuz you can’t give truth a bargain plea See More
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ce in Space , The question is whether there is ny intelligen ce left on Ea...rth after silly politician s and trolls have finished dealing with the Earth. Lets make careful, proper and adequate use of water on earth, after that we can spend Millions to search for water on Moon and Mars. Why are Humans always so willing to abort Earth and eject to Mars , the Moon or the Space. Has not the Mother Earth taken care of us for Eons now? How ungrateful can we be to Mother earth - though these words are not said from emotional paradigm ? :) See More - 4starThe Question is not whether there is intelligen
ce in Space , The question is whether there is ny intelligen ce left on Ea...rth after silly politician s and trolls have finished dealing with the Earth. Lets make careful, proper and adequate use of water on earth, after that we can spend Millions to search for water on Moon and Mars. Why are Humans always so willing to abort Earth and eject to Mars , the Moon or the Space. Has not the Mother Earth taken care of us for Eons now? How ungrateful can we be to Mother earth - though these words are not said from emotional paradigm ? See More
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