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Cameron Parkins, Creative Commons, highlights the release of a short film on CC Business Models entitled “Publishing Open Content”. Publishing Open Content is a short documentary by Frances Pinter and David Percy that looks at how Creative Commons licenses can be utilized in a commercial setting.

As reported on Ars Technica, a recent United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision has given some legal teeth to open licenses: The lower court had found that redistributing software in violation of the terms of a free software license could constitute a breach of contract, but was not copyright infringement.

Image by skyfaller via Flickr Traditional approaches to solving global problems:   Treaties and conventions (Kyoto) Intergovernmental conferences (World Summit on the Information Society) Global multilateral institutions (World bank)   At the moment, traditional approaches to solving complex world problems, are incapable.

Since the discussion last week throughout the media generated so much interest (especially the story from Ben - who I respect a great deal - on Slashdot), some words on the FWK licensing model seem appropriate. The short version: FWK textbooks will be licensed CC By-NC-SA Plus.

At a conference I attended last month on social media law (I have some interesting notes I’ll post soon), I was struck by how lawyers for social media giants such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, find speedy ways to accommodate powerful copyright holders on infringement issues.

The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever.