Written by Andrew Rens on September 28th, 2015
Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network are holding the 2nd ever Institute for Open Leadership in Cape Town.
What is the Institute for Open Leadership?
“The IOL is a training and support program to empower new leaders interested in crafting and implementing an open licensing policy within their discipline.”
If you are a scientist, an entrepreneur, work in a museum or just have a really great idea about how open licensing can change the place where you work, but need tools, this is for you.
You can read more about it here. You can apply here.
For good measure I’ll add the great CC By ND licensed picture of Bo Kaap and Lion’s Head used in CC’s blogpost. Thanks Kemal.
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Tags: Cape Town, Creative Commons, Creative Commons South Africa, Open Education, Open Everything, Open Licence
Written by Andrew Rens on July 29th, 2015
A draft Copyright Amendment Bill has been published for comment by the Department of Trade and Industry. Interested parties have until 27 August to submit comments to the Department of Trade and Industry.
The proposal is not yet a Bill, instead submissions will be considered by the same department that created the draft. The re-drafted proposal will then be submitted to Parliament and become a Bill, the parliamentary process should allow a second opportunity to comment.
Intellectual Property Watch quotes as some initial reactions while Jeremy Speres outlines some of the features of the draft.
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