We’re happy to announce that as of today all our online collection documentation is available under a mix of Creative Commons licenses. We’ve been considering this for a long time but the most recent driver was the Wikipedia Backstage tour. Collection records are now split into two main blocks of text. The first section is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Copyright/OCL'
Picnic08 – Open Museum part two
September 29th, 2008 1 Comment
Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’. Here is the next set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness) which were taken during the Open Museum sessions on Day Two. (More notes [...]
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A new collection in the Commons – Clyde Engineering
September 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
We’ve just added the start of a new collection of photographs to the Commons on Flickr. The Clyde Engineering Photograph collection is full of photographs of heavy machinery. We’ve uploaded the first 50 to give you a feeling for what will be coming in future weeks. The glass plate negatives in the Clyde photograph collection [...]
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50 new images on the Commons on Flickr
April 16th, 2008 2 Comments
As promised we’ve just added another 50 historical images from our Tyrrell Collection to the Commons on Flickr. In the first week we had nearly 20,000 views and an enormous amount of tagging and ‘favouriting’ activity combined with many congratulatory messages and support for the Museum’s release of these images into the Commons. The new [...]
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Amazon and rare books on demand
June 26th, 2007 1 Comment
A very interesting new development in the digitisation space as reported in The Chronicle (via Siva Vaidhyanathan). Amazon, which made its name selling books online, is now entering the book-digitizing business. Like Google and, more recently, Microsoft, Amazon will be making hundreds of thousands of digital copies of books available online through a deal with [...]
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Good Copy, Bad Copy – the developing world and Copyright
June 24th, 2007 1 Comment
Good Copy, Bad Copy is a rather splendid hour long documentary exploring Copyight law as it applies to remix culture. Unlike a lot of similar projects Good Copy, Bad Copy is truly internationalist and the most fascinating voices come from the developing world – a Nigerian ‘Nollywood‘ film company that has been producing ‘straight to [...]
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Potential of social networking / Peer to Patent
June 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
How do we re-build our patent system in light of the technology that enables the crowd-sourcing of scientific information? A very interesting and wordy post from Beth Noveck on Peer to Patent, a pilot project that aims to examine how social networking may offer new possibilities for analysing the enormous backlog of US Patent Office [...]
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Real world rights in Second Life
May 24th, 2007 Comments Off
Simon Canning in the Australian writes Uluru row rocks Telstra in which the issues of real world rights and their interaction with representations of landmarks in Second Life is discussed. Legislation has been in place to limit photography, filming and commercial painting at Uluru for 20 years, with tight restrictions on what is and is [...]
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M&W07 – Day two: Brewster Kahle
April 13th, 2007 4 Comments
Museums & the Web is very big this year. There must be nearly 1000 people here and there is a good buzz in between sessions. Today opened with an entertaining and motivational opening plenary from Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. Kahle talked about the Internet Archive disucssing the various types of media it [...]
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