http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog Creative Business in the Digital Era Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:07:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Slowly but surely, we're gathering up all the interesting bits and pieces left over from the Creative Business seminars in March. I have finally put up some of the printed materials that we used during the full-day seminar in PDF form, including the workbook, the cards for the Radiohead exercise, ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/04/14/seminar-materials-now-available/ Well, it's a week after the last Creative Business seminar, and here at ORG Towers we're still reeling - quite happily - from how successful it all was. Monday was the full day seminar, which ran from 9am until 5.30pm, and carried on at the pub well into the evening! We ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/03/26/cbde-seminars-a-huge-success/ Update: David Bausola of Imagination (www.imagination.com) and Rob Myers - the conceptual engineers behind the commercial media production  model that uses Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike as in Ford of Europe's Where are the Joneses? - will both be joining Tom and John (see below) for our panel Q&A at the Monday ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/02/05/announcing-our-special-guests/ Wondering what's going to be included in the Creative Business in the Digial Era Course? Well, we're working on the wiki to pull together the relevant materials. It's been difficult to narrow it down to the essentials, as there's a lot of really interesting topics we can cover, but so ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/29/curriculum-is-coming-together/ There's so much to think about when preparing this course, so much interesting material that we could add in, that we're really having to focus our minds on what's essential. To help us do that, and give you an idea of what you'll be getting on the day long course, ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/24/timetable-for-the-seminar-on-monday-17th-march/ We've had several people email us since we announced the Application Pack for the Creative Business seminars last week. Many of them have asked us if we will be recording the seminars so that they can follow along at home. We've thought hard about how best to do this, because ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/22/capturing-the-seminar/ We're very excited to be able to announce that the application process for the Creative Business in the Digital Era seminars has now begun! If you'd like to attend, please download our application form, (about which there is more information on our Application Pack page), print it out, and send ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/17/cbde-seminar-applications-now-open/ With the release of The Future of Ideas under Creative Commons licence, that makes it a full house for Lawrence Lessig: This means all four of my books are now CC licensed. Code (v1) was licensed under a BY-SA license; so too, Code (v2). And Free Culture and now The ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/16/random-house-frees-the-future-of-ideas/ I've recently started using the video conversation site, Seesmic, which is currently in alpha (if you want an invitation code, email me). It's a lot of fun, with a nice community of people chatting asynchronously by video. The other day, I discovered that one Seesmic-er, Nik Butler, is an ORG ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/08/cbde-on-seesmic/ As noted by Chris Anderson, author Charles Sheehan-Miles is starting the New Year as he means to go on by giving away electronic versions of his new novel, Republic: A Novel of America's Future. So far, it's available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF, a Mobipocket/Amazon Kindle version, in HTML, and ... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/2008/01/03/starting-as-you-mean-to-go-on/