Presentation on Creative Commons at Linux Audio Conference online

Update: The presentation was recorded and can be found here: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/recordings/day2_1645_Open_Media_Creative_Commons.ogv

I’ve just came home from my presentation at the Linux Audio Conference in Utrecht. I got the impression it went pretty good. The audience participated and people asked me some pretty interesting and hard questions. All the presentations were also streamed and I presume the video will be made available online later on.

My presentation on Creative Commons can be downloaded here: 2010-05-02-Bjorn-Wijers-Burobjorn-Linux-Audio-Conference (PDF file)

Ps: The Linux Audio Conference continues until the 4th of May. I will give another talk/workshop on Tuesday morning (4th of May) from 10:30 AM untill 12:00, in which I will look into more depth at openness (media, hardware etc) in general and not just Creative Commons.

Howto create a testfile of a given size?

I needed files of certain size so I could test an upload threshold. I used the dd command on Ubuntu Linux to create a file of 25MB.


dd if=/dev/zero of=test-size25M.bin bs=25000000 count=1


Public Domain Manifesto

Copyright protection should last only as long as necessary to achieve a reasonable compromise between protecting and rewarding the author for his intellectual labour and safeguarding the public interest in the dissemination of culture and knowledge. From neither the perspective of the author nor the general public do any valid arguments exist (whether historical, economic, social or otherwise) in support of an exceedingly long term of copyright protection. While the author should be able to reap the fruits of his intellectual labour, the general public should not be deprived for an overly long period of time of the benefits of freely using those works.

Source: http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/node/8

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