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Good news from CreativeCommons!

Here’s the text from the pressrelease:
Microsoft and Creative Commons have teamed up to release the Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office, a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licenses to works created in popular Microsoft Office applications.
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I am writing a piece on who is who in the ICANN world.

So, I’d like to ask people to send me e-mails with information, which I will put together and will publish. My idea is to write down the different relations and connections people around ICANN have:

- with each other,
- between companies they work for or with, or just consult,
- with regards to the topics discussed.

So, I’d like to hear from my readers, who are also invovled in the ICANN world – send me e-mails, or come to me during the Marrakech meeting, and just talk to me. Full confidentiality will be kept, unless otherwise desired.

That’s a fantastic news!

Goran Bregovic will play in Canada and the US this summer!

Here’s what I got from his producer:

July 9 – Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreal

July 10 and 11 – The Millennium Park, Chicago

July 13 – Lincoln Center, and it’s already listed on the web – tickets can be bought from May 1. Fisher Avery Hall, New York

Good work – and make sure you be there!

P.S. from May 1st (and some links to Goran’s music):
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There’s an interesting article at the yesterday’s Financial Times.

The headline is Computer pack top dogs lose their bite, and the major paragraph is this one:

“The reality is more subtle. The PC is far from dead – annual sales have jumped from under 50m to more than 200m a year in the past decade and are still rising steadily. The PC ecosystem, however, is starting to shift and in ways that Microsoft, Intel and Dell itself can no longer control.”

That brings me to the thought why big companies change slowly, or sometimes never change, until it’s too late?

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A few days ago the Swedish police confiscated the biggest file-sharing server in Sweden (and may be in the world) – “The Pirate Bay”.

I spotted sevreal articles on that topic, the most interesting ones are at the IHT and the Financial Times. See for yourself some parts of them.

“Robert Brannstrom, the editor of the widely read technology Web site idg.se, said that the raid “smelled a little of China” and that the “strange, confrontational route” that the movie industry had taken meant the battle against piracy was already lost.”

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You may have read my entry about the ISOC-Bulgaria’s Internet Governance project.

I decided today to try to do some fundraising for it.

There’s a button in the top right corner of this site, which says, “Donate” with the signs of Visa and MasterCard. Actually it also works with other cards, and with PayPal.

My idea is to see how many of the people reading this blog are willing to donate for something which at the end is good for all the Internet users.

Here’s more on the Internet Governance:

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As the New York times writes, the Justice Department is asking Internet companies to keep records on the Web-surfing activities of their customers to aid law enforcement, and may propose legislation to force them to do so.

You can read the article on the web site, but what’s interesting is how they are going to comply with some of the EU requirements, including the one for ensuring anonymous access to the Internet, which is a task of the ISPs themselves.

In anycase, that is not a surprising move. Under the slogan “All in fight with terrorism”, the American society seems to have peacefully agreed to get rid of some of the basic human rights, esp. the ones related to privacy.

I will ask Mark Rottenberg, executive director of EPIC to comment on that issue.