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[Copyrighteous] BY-SA has become the GPL of the free culture world and Wikimedia wikis were basically locked out from sharing with a larger community, and vice-versa; projects will no longer have to choose between sharing with Wikipedia and sharing .

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[OUT-LAW News] Wikipedia content will be set free for collaboration if licence ...: "The Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation Licensebe modified in the fashion proposed by the [Free SoftwareFoundation] to allow migration by mass collaborative projects tothe Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license," said its resolution.

[Open Access News] Peter Suber, Open Access News: But some have argued since then that the CC licenses are a better fit for Wikipedia: for instance, the GFDL has a number of specialized facets related to its history as a license designed for software manuals, which can be confusing in other contexts; the GFDL is only officially maintained in English, and was crafted primarily with an eye to American law, whereas CC has an expansive internationalization effort;

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[Movie Pals Watch Free Movies Online, Movie Reviews, Independent Filmmaking] Rewriting Wikipedia with Multiple Release Versions and Movie ...: PS.  May I publish this conversation on my blog?  I think it’s very interesting and incredibly relevant to the ongoing discussion around open source movies.

[Edu Blog] Wikipedia can be re-licensed CC: Wikipedia adopted an existing license, the GFDL, for its content. But some have argued since then that the CC licenses are a better fit for Wikipedia: for instance, the GFDL has a number of specialized facets related to its history as a license designed for software manuals, which can be confusing in other contexts;

[Movie Pals Watch Free Movies Online, Movie Reviews, Independent Filmmaking] Wikipedia Definition and endorsement by other filmmakers ...: We should also write to the Blender guys (big buck bunny) AND Matt Hanson from aswarmofangels. hence we can reference just open source filmmakers and I do not think that we have to add that this is a wikipedia definition.

[Technocrat] understand GFDL 1.3: I disagree with your statement that Creative Commons is a soapbox for Larry Lessig's ideals. It is a licence which attempts to provide a balance between copyright as it stands today restricting an end user's rights to media, and digital media in particular and copyleft, which removes almost all restrictions.

[moot!] Flickr + Creative Commons + Wikipedia = Good!: Unfortunately this project didn't pan out but it turns out that the same photo has been used in Wikipedia in the article about Sidoine Benoît, a Benedictine monk of the 14th Century. Had I not licensed this photo under the cc-by-sa .

[The Open Rights Group] The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » From bad to worse: MEPs to ...: Contributors to the Open Rights Group wiki and blog should note their input forms part of a collaborative resource that is Creative Commons (by-sa 2.5) licensed. We hope these resources will be reused and remixed in the public interest.

[The MTTLR Blog] Will Co-location Kill the Stock Exchange* or, Is Too Much Tech Bad ...: According to Ivy Schmerken of Advanced Trading, about 85% of all trading on U.S. exchanges is automated.2 Computer algorithms (algorithmic trading) are entering trading orders for over 30% of trades on traditional stock exchanges and possibly as high as 80% on American and equity markets.3 Trading algorithms are “a series of calculated steps strung together to ”¦ buy and sell large blocks of stock”¦ [which] can be tuned to execute almost any strategy” in order to take advantageof momentary opportunities.4

[Fred Benenson's Blog] Moving on from Copyleft: Besides having to explain copyleft, this forces me to punish the reuser with more work, something I’m not comfortable with doing when I should be the one that is thankful that someone else is reusing my photos.

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