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Legal milestone for open source

Posted by michael in Copyright, Creative Commons, Intellectual Property, Open Source at August 16th, 2008

Advocates of open source software have hailed a court ruling protecting its use even though it is given away free.

The US federal appeals court move overturned a lower court decision involving free software used in model trains that a hobbyist put online.

Source: Maggie Shiel, Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

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Nine Inch Nails release free, CC licensed album

Posted by Richard in Creative Business in the Digital Era, Creative Commons at May 6th, 2008

Trent Reznor has released the latest Nine Inch Nails album as a free download under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license.

As a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

We encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc.

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