The potential for Creative Commons licences in the public sector

the Common Information Environment Group (CIE) have just released a study on the potential for Creative Commons Licences to simplify access to digital resources. The CIE fund ways of making digital work more widely available for reuse and so the CC licence is a big issue for them. The group was motivated...

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Biggest Ever UK Con - How Dumb do You Have to be to Fall for This?

Harry Metcalf writes to Geeklawyer with an astounding story of a man who persuaded banks to send him bundles of cash (£3.5 million) on a ludicrous pretext: "I’m a spy investigating terrorism/money laundering so send me all your money".wow!!Geeklawyer is tempted to say "how dumb were these people?" but...

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The little bits

Several nights ago, I saw a local skunk. I haven't seen them up until then -- it was dusk but still quite light. Stephen saw a couple of little ones on the deck the other night, he sees them more frequently than I do. When he came home that evening, I told him about it and told him how they remind me...

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Business support for ID cards collapses

ElReg is saying what those active in the NO2ID campaign grooup knew for a while: business support for ID cards is collapsing. Blair’s pet scheme to fundamentally undermine civil liberties in the UK is going to morph into a new revenue generation scheme for government that imposes a stealth tax on business.Under...

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