Join the gang at linuxcaffe for Mayday - A Celebration of Open Source Culture & select CC ambient music. Featuring DJ Mezmerize spinning tracks from free / CC netlabels and orgs.

Date: Sunday May 4, 2008
Time: 12pm-5pm
Where: linuxcaffe - 326 Harbord Street, Toronto ON

Be there or be square!

The CC Canada team has been surreptitiously burning the midnight oil in our underground lab over the past couple years on an initiative unprecedented in its scope and mandate to increase access to Canada’s cultural commons {sound of trumpets trumpeting}: The Canadian Public Domain Registry. This ground-breaking project – the most comprehensive of its kind in the world – will create an online, searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian public domain.

The registry will allow users to determine the copyright status of published works and make free use of all those marvelous treasures previously unknown to be part of the public domain. But first thing, first - we need to perfect our formula for making this determination. We have put our finest mind on the job (thanks Andy!) and produced a flowchart of the highest-quality. Now we need your help. Please take the time to download the Canadian Public Domain Flowchart and provide corrections / commendations. The flowchart does not cover every case and there is room for it to grow with the addition of other media. The Canadian Public Domain Flowchart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.5 Canada licence.

The Canadian Public Domain Registry is developed in partnership by Access Copyright (The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), Creative Commons Canada, Creative Commons Corp. and the Wikimedia Foundation.

See Canadian Public Domain Registry Press Release and Backgrounder here.

COPYCAMP Returns April 29th - 30th!

AN UNCONFERENCE FOR ARTISTS ABOUT THE INTERNET AND THE CHALLENGES TO COPYRIGHT

COPYCAMP 2008, an “unconference” for artists about the Internet and the challenges to copyright is now open for registration at www.copycamp.ca.

Organized by the Creators’ Rights Alliance and held in Toronto at OISE (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), CopyCamp will bring 100 artists, geeks, lawmakers, and copyright activists together to explore issues surrounding new models for making art and making a living on the Internet. It continues the discussion initiated at the first CopyCamp held in September 2006.

The event kicks off on Tuesday, April 29th at 5pm with a welcome reception including a structured “World Café” conversation, to get participants talking and meeting each other. On Wednesday, April 30, the event will run all day (9-5). The day will start with a “Speed Geek” session- lightning-fast presentations on a dizzying array of related topics. The rest of the day will be spent in small self-organized sessions. Participants will collectively create the agenda for the day, and talk about the topics they are most passionate about.

When: April 29 (5-8pm) and April 30 (9am-5pm)

Where: OISE is at 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Registration required.

Contact: info@copycamp.ca