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The Copyright Office is also bringing forward new ideas that haven't gotten much circulation, but could have major impact. One of the highlights is the redesigning of its website, and one of...
Majority of top crowdsourcing sites state in their terms and conditions that the winner of the logo will get exclusive rights to the logo design even after the contest holder uses it. But what...
Ottawa-based Geolytica, Inc., says it “crowdsourced” information in its Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Database, which allows users to locate an address on an online map, a service offered for...
GeoCoder is putting forth a huge array of defenses. They point out that postal codes, as facts, should not be copyrightable, that Canada Post's copyright claim over the database itself is...
The crowdsource project is being undertaken by the independent TDs Stephen Donnelly and Catherine Murphy along with Antoin O Lachtnain of Digital Rights Ireland, Tom Murphy of Boards.ie and...
The group Common Sense in Copyright, organizing a crowdsourcing campaign for the bill, says its aim "is simple and reasonable: We want a fair and just copyright law in Finland." And...
DesignContest.com’s experienced team of administrators and moderators monitor design entries around the clock to ensure that no pre-made graphics are used in a design that may need to be...
Sharie Voss, a vastly experienced member the Design Contest team, put a great deal of work into developing the new rules and is delighted they have finally been launched: “The new copyright...
Zoe Lofgren, Chair of the House Ethics Committee, has published a thought-provoking article about the legal tactic of seizing of domain names when the owners are accused of copyright...
The crowdsourced document that has emerged is so weak in protecting copyright that it would likely revert the Internet back to a Wild West-type situation where more or less anything goes....
As Kickstarter has already proven, crowdfunding brings huge potential for original revenue streams for authors of all levels and genres. Ungluing previous works, either those now out of print, or...
A pair of independent TDs are enlisting the public as part of a crowdsourcing exercise to get feedback on their submission to the Copyright Review Commission in the aftermath of the signing of...
An interesting fact based article that highlights the potential risks of open crowdsourcing competitions. You pay your $600 for your logo and you are in breach of someones copyright if you use it!
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I am interested in creating a news website that is similar to linkedin.com/today and wanted to know if the articles on this site are all user submitted or are they posted by Linkedin. In...
Further issues will undoubtedly arise as crowdsourcing develops, moves into new areas, and impacts a greater number of people. Future work in this area may look to the open source industry for...
Some argue that Wikipedia, with its open, free, crowdsourced content, "did in" the EB. Tim Carmody over at Wired purports that Windows, not Wikipedia, caused EB's demise:...
Canada Post has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Geolytica, which operates GeoCoder.ca, a website that provides several geocoding services including free access to a crowdsourced...
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has thrown himself into the campaign to block the extradition. He gives his reasons why in today's paper; a petition at change.org/saverichard was...
The best course of action at crowdfunding sites is to resist oversharing. Present an accurate and highly detailed description of a project at crowdfunding sites, without disclosing trade secrets or...
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