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Delicious does the public domain
Delicious has a setting for what license you’d like for your RSS feeds of the links you’ve tagged. They use CC licenses, but even better, they have a public domain option: Incidentally, what rights...
View ArticleCC’s new Public Domain Mark
CC announced their new Public Domain Mark this last week: CREATIVE COMMONS LAUNCHES PUBLIC DOMAIN MARK; EUROPEANA AND CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS LEAD EARLY ADOPTION San Francisco, California, USA;...
View ArticlePublic Domain Assertions versus Dedications
Now that CC has announced it’s Public Domain Mark, it’s worth going back through the difference between an assertion and a dedication. First, just so everyone is on the same page. The public domain...
View ArticleCC’s Public Domain Mark versus the Open Access Data Mark
In an earlier post I mentioned that it’s not immediately clear how the new PD Mark relates to the proposed Open Access Data Mark in the Science Commons protocol. Creative Commons recently announced the...
View ArticleUS sound recordings and federal copyright protection
A wee reminder that not all US copyright law is federal law appeared in my inbox this week. The US Copyright Office, a part of the Library of Congress, has announced a study about bringing pre-1972...
View ArticlePublic domain dedications: The sqlite3 blessing
At the most basic level, it doesn’t take much to do a public domain dedication or ultra-permissive license for copyright. Some people certainly have a lot of fun with it, while others, such as the...
View ArticlePublic domain dedications: MD5
Another in my series of highlighting various public domain dedications. This time, MD5: MD5 (md5.cpp and md5.h) This code implements the MD5 message-digest algorithm. The algorithm is due to Ron...
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