Copyright and Creative Commons in New Zealand

Local Language Limitations: Copyright and the Commons

S | 128 Local Language Limitations: Copyright and the Commons Lea Shaver Associate Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indianapolis, IN Copyright's system of financial incentives is working well to encourage publishing in some languages, such as English and French, but not in all languages. The law should recognize this reality, and adjust the rules of copyright prote...

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Creative Commons: a Convergence Model Between the Ideal of Commons and the Possibilities of Creation in Contemporary Times, Opposed to Copyright Impediments

The contemporary individual finds on the Internet and especially on the Web facilitating conditions to build a basic infrastructure based on the concept of commons. He also finds favorable conditions which allow him to collaborate and share resources for the creation, use, reuse, access and dissemination of information. However, he also faces obstacles such as Copyright (Law 9610/98 in Brazil)....

Creative Commons and Appropriation: Implicit Collaboration in Digital Works

Appropriation is a common practice in art and literature; electronic literature in particular lends itself readily to appropriation and collaboration, due to its multimodal and born-digital nature. This paper presents practice-based research examining the effects of digital appropriation on two works of digital fiction (a hyperfiction and an interactive fiction), demonstrating how it alters the...

Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases

This paper discusses the problem of lack of clear licensing and transparency of usage terms and conditions for research metadata. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We discuss how the lack of transparency hinders discovery of research data and make it disconnected from the publication and other trusted research ...