Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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Open Source - what's the point?

If you think that Open Source is about it being "free" in the sense of not paying for it, you're missing the point. It's about being "free" in the sense of freedom of speech and freedom to create and re-mix intellectual property, unfettered. Informati… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 03/24/2006 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Content copyright, copyright law, creative_commons, intellectual property, larry lessig, open source, open source software            

Embrace and extend, courtesy of Yahoo's Creative Commons Search

Yahoo's just released a very cool new search engine called Yahoo! Creative Commons Search. With it you can search all the Creative Commons licenced content on the web. For those not familiar with Creative Commons, I've blogged about it before. In summary… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 04/07/2005 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Content bittorrent, copyright law, creative commons, creative commons license, larry lessig, yahoo, yahoo creative commons search            

Move over Copyright, here comes Creative Commons

We've all seen websites that say "(c) 2004, All Rights Reserved" at the bottom. Now you'll hopefully start seeing the (cc) symbol, which stands for Creative Commons, and means that only SOME rights are reserved. Creative Commons is a legal concept cha… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/28/2004 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Legal copyright, copyright_law, creative_commons, creative_commons_license, google_guide, larry lessig