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Monday, December 16

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A landmark day today for the world of intellectual property protection and the Creative Commons with the launch of their new DIY license selector and of "Founder's Copyright", a scheme to reduce copyright periods voluntarily to 14 years which I would love to see widely used in the IT industry where publications are typically discardable after 14 months. Once again we see Tim O'Reilly giving a lead (although admittedly his risk is probably small considering most of his books fall into the '14 months' category). The huge stride many of us are really waiting for, though is their "intellectual works conservancy", hopefully a protective home for key software assets as well as for learned tomes.

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