Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Open content, open research, open societies - all of which sounds wonderfully idealistic - are the possibilities and promises that information and comunication technologies can bring about. Who'd ever have thought that blogs would take off the way they did? But it seems that there's an information producer in every consumer... Open Knowledge Foundation notes that openness has three meanings: legally open, socially open, and technologically open. Their forthcoming public event in the UK has a starting list of questions that can be asked about open content: What exactly does 'open' mean? Does it mean 'full' freedom to access, redistribute and re-use or are restrictions such as those in CC non-commercial licenses allowed? How should we promote the creation and distribution of open content? Who will be producing open content and how will it be funded? To what extent do monopoly rights such as copyright hinder, or help, the development of open content? Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing - supposedly the most popular blog and don't get misled by the spoof - Boring Boring :) - is one of the speakers as is Paula LeDieu (icommons, Creative Commons International, and BBC's Creative Archive) among others. comment []9:23:53 AM

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