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New and notable today on the Internet Archive.

Toronto of to-day : to commemorate the Twelfth International Geological Congress, Toronto (Public Domain with lots of photos of Toronto in 1913!)
Lloyd’s boyhood : a story from Nova Scotia (Public Domain, 1892, with some nice illustrations at the front.)

All courtesy John M Kelly Library University of Toronto.

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The UK band Steadman has released several of their albums under a Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.5 license. Look for the Freeloads section. As a bonus they even include downloadable lyrics.
(via This Week in Tech)

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The UK government seeks the public’s views on the changing relationship of digital media, copyright, DRM, open licenses etc..
The House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee today announced a new inquiry into the challenges and opportunities for the creative industries arising from the development of new media platforms.
For the purposes of the [...]

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Research ICT Africa! has recently published a book entitled Towards an African e-Index (available as PDF download.)
[the book..] …documents a research initiative investigating both individual and household ICT access and usage in sub-Sahara Africa.
ICT Africa! encourages others to freely use the publication in their teachings and research by licensing the book under the [...]

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Creative Commons is circulating a discussion draft. The point of discussion is interoperability between CC licenses and other open licenses like the GFDL.
…Wikipedia is licensed under the Free Software Foundation’s GFDL. That license essentially enables the same freedoms as the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license; but you can’t take content from Wikipedia and mix it with [...]

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These links come from OurMedia or the Internet Archive. I’m hoping to do this daily. At worst, every few days
Here’s a few notable pieces of content added in the past 24hours.

Festival del amor espiritual, Santiago, Chile (video, by-nc-sa 2.5)
Learn Excel from Mr Excel (series of 20+ videos, by-nc-2.5)

A whole bunch of public domain [...]

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A wonderful audio presentation by Larry Lessig on open source and the right to innovate, from the 2005 Open Source Business Conference. There’s also the PDF of the presentation in the characteristic Lessig style. Lots of fun! (The audio portion courtesy fob IT Conversations is licensed Creative Commons Sampling 1.0.)

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The latest in Lawrence Lessig’s Creative Commons newsletter series has been released. This week’s topic is the iCommons.
Previous editions include continuing the movement, fair use, interoperability, how it all began, and the ongoing Creative Commons fundraising campaign. (The fair use installment is offers a particularly good explanation of the issues surrounding fair use in [...]

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