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Intellectual Property vs. Public Domain: Mentions in the Google Books Corpus
Google Books Ngram Viewer is a fantastic tool showing how certain phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over a selected period of time. Recently, fellow bloggers over at orgtheory have played...
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CC Global Summit 2011: The End of the Porting Experiment?
This post has been written “live” at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, taking place from September 16-18 in Warsaw, Poland. In the field of open content licensing, Creative Commons licenses...
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CC Global Summit 2011, Pt. II: Making the Case for Global Licenses
This post has been written “live” at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, taking place from September 16-18 in Warsaw, Poland. Continuing the debate on license porting in the realm of Creative...
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CC Global Summit 2011, Pt. III: Discussing the Non-commercial Module
This post has been written “live” at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2011, taking place from September 16-18 in Warsaw, Poland. Among the seemingly neverending issues connected with Creative...
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10 Years of Creative Commons: Useless (historical) Facts [Update]
The organization Creative Commons, which is responsible for the set of alternative copyright licenses of the same name, was officially founded exactly 10 years ago. Historic documents of meetings in...
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10 Years of Creative Commons: Changing the name of the NonCommercial Module?
Creative Commons’ birthday party week is hardly over and the organization responsible for the most common open content licenses is back to its core business: acting as a license steward. As reported...
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10 Years of Creative Commons: An Interview with Co-Founder Lawrence Lessig
The interview with Lawrence Lessig featured below was conducted by Markus Beckedahl and John Weitzmann, leaders of the German Creative Common affiliate organizations in late September and transcribed...
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Bordercrossing Award: The Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper...
Currently I am attending the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AoM), which is located at Disney World Resort in Orlando this year and taking place at the same time as the Annual Meeting of the...
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‘Team Open’: Creative Commons finally finding its role?
Creative Commons licenses are essential to virtually all of the different “open movements”, which have emerged over the past two decades beyond open source software. In the realm of open education,...
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Infographic: Creative Commons in Numbers
About half a year ago, the German Internet association D64 – Center for Digital Progress had launched an initiative to promote the use of Creative Commons licenses. I was one of the co-organizers. Last...
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Copyright, Creative Commons and other Calamities in Scientific Publishing
When publishing a scientific work or a textbook in a reputable publishing house, the final steps before publication usually involve signing over exclusive copyrights in a standardized manner. A...
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Copyright, Creative Commons and Continued Calamities: the Publisher’s Response
About a week ago I blogged about misleading information on Creative Commons licenses provided by one of the leading scientific publishing houses in the course of a textbook project I am involved in. In...
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Strategy Blogging at Creative Commons: Focus on Discovery, Collaboration and...
Blogging about organizational strategy and even using blogs as a strategy-making device is an increasingly common practice among (not only) young firms. For instance, in a paper* co-authored with...
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Wise Cartoons (7): Cartoon on Creative Commons Cartoons
I like recursivity in acronyms such as GNU, which stands for “GNU’s Not Unix”, and also in cartoons. A recent example for a recursive cartoon is featured below, addressing a great number of issues...
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Re-Organizing Creative Commons: A Global Organization for Global Licenses
When Creative Commons published version 4.0 of its set of alternative copyright licenses in 2013, this represented a sea change. While previously a generic set of licenses had been legally adapted to...
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Bordercrossing Article: “Open to Feedback? Formal and Informal Recursivity in...
Sigrid, Markus and I have finally been able to publish another paper on the case of Creative Commons. In a longitudinal analysis we compare three embedded cases of transnational standard-setting: (1)...
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Copyright Forms, Creative Commons and (Not So) Open Access
The increasing number of collective open access deals either on the national level (e.g., Dutch open access deals) or between publishers and research institutions (e.g., agreement of the Max Planck...
View ArticleFrom Transnationality to Territoriality and Back: The Case of Creative Commons
At a workshop on “Intellectual Property Ordering Beyond Borders” hosted by the newly founded Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin I was invited to give a talk on issues of transnationality and territoriality...
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Breakthrough for Creative Commons at German Public Broadcaster ZDF
In theory, publishing content financed by public and tax-like television licence fees under open content licenses should be a no-brainer. As with publicly funded research, open licenses improve...
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