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Tag: UK: England and Wales

Our Work in Policy at CC: Data

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Detail of a data visualization showing numerical dates and gold and burnt umber bars of different lengths representing values emanating from the center of a radial graph that ends up looking like a starburst. NYTimes: Regulation and Innovation since 1981 (Radial)” by Jer Thorp is licensed via CC BY 2.0; here modified by cropping.

As the year comes to a close, we’re spotlighting Creative Commons’ public policy work, recapping what we’ve done and looking ahead to the new year. In this edition, we turn to our work on better sharing of data. The sharing of open data can be incredibly beneficial to society: facilitating enhanced scientific collaboration and reproducibility,…

UK moves towards opening government data

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In a step towards openness, the UK has opened up its data to be interoperable with the Attribution Only license (CC BY). The National Archives, a department responsible for “setting standards and supporting innovation in information and records management across the UK,” has realigned the terms and conditions of data.gov.uk to accommodate this shift. Data.gov.uk…

Public (UK) perception of copyright, public sector information, and CC

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The UK Office of Public Sector Information has published a report on public understanding of copyright, in particular Crown Copyright, the default status of UK government works … and Creative Commons. It contains interesting findings, though I really wish it had included two additional questions. Among the general (UK) public, 71% agree that government should…

UK Events: Jamie Boyle speaking on the Public Domain

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Jamie Boyle, Chair of the CC Board, will be speaking at a couple great events next week in both London and Cambridge, giving British CC-ers a great opportunity to learn more about the public domain, both as a legal status and as Jamie’s new book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Details…

Onemedia Unconference

Events

If you can’t attend the Standford Open Source (Un)Conference this Friday because you are in London, you are in luck! There is another unconference option right in your city! The Onemedia Unconference, which is being held in London today and tomorrow, is hoping to provide a venue for all who are interested in how new…