Philippine Commons

• 22 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Library Open Information R/evolution”
  • Thaney, Kaitlin. “Science Commons News: Nguyen on our Materials Transfer work”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Featured Commoner: Beatpick”
  • Parkins, Cameron. Artabase
• 23 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “BloodSpell: first full length machinima feature released”
  • Yip, Jennifer. “Opportunies to work at Creative Commons’ San Francisco office”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA”
• 24 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Help develop a course on Creative Business in the Digital Era”
• 26 October 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “New Zealand Successfully Ports Creative Commons Licenses”
• 28 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Music business futures: classical and services”
  • Phillips, Jon. “Source for Creative Commons Licensed (Live)Content”

Creative Commons Philippines’ Deputy Project Lead Atty. Michael Vernon Guerrero spoke about “Copyright: Issues and Concerns” at the 6th National Conference on eLearning: “Learning about Technology, eLearning with Technology for the Academe and Industry”, at the University of Santo Tomas, St. Martin de Porres Auditorium (Medicine Auditorium).

This event was organized by the Philippine e-Learning Society.

The one-hour talk (which aimed to provide a legal orientation to seminar participants) compressed the following concepts:

• Part 1: Basics of Copyright (For those who intend to create works)
  • What is copyright?
  • The intangible nature of intellectual property (e.g. copyright).
  • Understanding Works.
  • Who creates works?
  • Who owns works?
  • Which works are protected by law?
  • When are works protected by law?
  • Term of protection.
  • What are owner’s rights under copyright?
  • What the law does not protect, even if expressed.
  • Works of the government vis-a-vis public domain.
• Part 2: Legal utilization of Works Protected by Copyright (within the context of strict Copyright regime)
  • Limitations to Copyright
  • Fair Use
  • Reproduction of published work
  • Reprographic Reproduction by Libraries
  • Reproduction of Computer Program
  • Importation for Personal Purposes
  • Penalties to Illegal acts
• Part 3: Issues and Concerns in the digital age
  • Electronic documents
  • Rights over images
  • Legal Software
  • Public (repository) vs. Public domain
  • Licensing

• 15 October 2007
  • Vollmer, Timothy. “MIT Library Releases Scholarly Publishing Rights Tutorial”
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Commoner Letter #1 - Evan Prodromou”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Featured Commoner: Strayform”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Bob Ostertag: w00t (!)”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. ” “creative commons” percentage by top level domain”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Thanks and congratulations to Wikimedia Commons”
• 17 October 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “CC at the Frankfurt Book Fair”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Luxembourg launch presentations”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Happy birthday Public Library of Science”
• 18 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Freedom of Expression®, the World Premier”
  • Thorne, Michelle. “Wake Up and Save the Music!”

• 8 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Spread the word: Support Creative Commons 2007″
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Stick This In Your Memory Hole: CC Licensed Essay Collection”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “TempoStand: CC Music Platform”
• 10 October 2007
  • Rojer, Rebecca. “CC Salon SF Tonight”
• 11 October 2007
  • Laroia, Asheesh. “GNOME in Boston, 2007″
  • Lessig, Lawrence. “Version 3.01 - Public Discussion Launched”
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Thank You Six Apart and Live Journal”
• 12 October 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “Creative Commons Licenses Launch in Greece”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Fair Use Salon at LA Art Crawl X This Sunday (10/14)”
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Support CC by Choosing Good”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Screening of Good Copy Bad Copy in NYC (w/ Co-Director + MPAA Q&A Session)”
  • Reeder, Melissa. “5 Ways to Grow the Commons”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “WIRED NextFest/Spoon/CC Benefit Concert”
  • Vollmer, Timothy. “Students for Free Culture in the news”
• 14 October 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “Luxembourg 40th Jurisdiction to Offer Ported Creative Commons Licenses”

• 1 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Creative Commons Announces New Vice President and General Counsel”
  • Thorne, Michelle. “CC in Thailand: a debut at ComWorld”
  • Thaney, Kaitlin. “Neurocommons in the news”
  • Lessig, Lawrence. “Creative Commons @ 5 years”
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Creative Commons 3rd Annual Fundraising Campaign”
• 2 October 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Firefox Knowledge Base”
  • Rojer, Rebecca. “wikiHow Reaches 25,000 Articles”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Taking Stock of the Creative Commons Experiment”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Boing Boing tv”
• 4 October 2007
  • Rojer, Rebecca. “CC Salon SF next Wednesday”
• 5 October 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “COMMUNIA: public domain & alternative licensing experts convene in Europe”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Featured Commoner: GiftTRAP”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Chess Tactics: CC-Licensed Chess Guide”
  • Phillips, John. “CC @ EFF Bootcamp Next Wednesday”