Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is working on his keynote for the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. Ross Mayfield at Many2Many posted a preview and gives some background. What should we expect? Wales’ speech touches on ten things necessary for Free Culture:
Free the Encyclopedia!
Free the Dictionary!
Free the Curriculum!
Free the [...]
Posted August 8, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: free, free culture, jimmy wales, wikimania, wikimedia, wikimedia foundation, wikipedia. 2 Comments.
Alan Wexelblat at Copyfight pointed out this story that talks about increasing limits on public photography.
If you’re standing on public property, you can shoot anything the naked eye can see, explains Ken Kobre, professor of photojournalism at San Francisco State University and author of one of the seminal textbooks on the subject.
…But that apparently doesn’t [...]
Posted June 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: consumer photography, copyright issues, ebooks, free culture, history of photography, ibiblio, judicial decisions, lawrence lessig, naked eye, photojournalism. One Comment.
