"Baris clapped the Supervisor on its large, muscular back."
Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap, Simon Messingham
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* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
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* Write this sentence – either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don’t look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.
I just want to officially state how happy I am that the content of Change.gov has been officially licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. I also have a response and a concern.
The response is to those that ask "but aren’t creations of the federal government automatically in the public domain?" Well, yes, but the content of Change.gov is coming out of the "office of the president-elect" which isn’t officially part of the federal government. Additionally, Obama has given up his Senate seat so he’s no longer part of the federal government either. That is, not until January 20th. Then, he gets control of Whitehouse.gov and that’s in the public domain.
The concern is about the page on Change.gov that has the license: http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy. The CC license is listed under the heading of "Copyright Notice". Trouble is, CC isn’t Copyright. Copyright is a law, Creative Commons is a license. A picky detail I’m sure, but an important one.
An e-mail from Pownce:
We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15, 2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can save your content. You can find the export tool at Settings > Export.
Please export your content by December 15, 2008, as the site will not be accessible after this date.Please visit our new home to find out more:
http://www.sixapart.com/pownceOur thanks go out to everyone who contributed to the Pownce community,
The Pownce Crew
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