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October 2009

Reports | Global reports | HDR 2009 | Human Development Reports (HDR) | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

by karlcow

Human development is about putting people at the centre of development. It is about people realizing their potential, increasing their choices and enjoying the freedom to lead lives they value. Since 1990, annual Human Development Reports have explored challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change.

September 2009

Care2

by rwatuny & 3 others
Largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare.

August 2009

FT.com / UK - French minister calls for full ban on burka

by paulantoinem
"The vast majority of Muslims are against the burka. It is obvious why. Those who have struggled for women's rights back home in their own countries - I'm thinking particularly of Algeria - we k ...

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July 2009

Amazon recalls (and embodies) Orwell's '1984' | Beyond Binary - CNET News

by karlcow

The publisher is certainly within its rights to stop selling the e-book and certainly Amazon needs to honor those wishes. But its hard to understand by what rights the retailer can remove the book from those who have already purchased one of the titles.

GeoBase - Home

by karlcow

All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the GeoBase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement. With this licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative Products. The Licensee shall identify GeoBase as a data source.

OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward - Articles

by karlcow

GeoREL is now an ISO standard. The most visible efforts of the working group involved a pilot for ORCHESTRA, an effort to outline some possible licenses. The group extended the existing Creative Commons licenses with a few extra licenses to cover non-disclosure, commercial use and emergency use.

June 2009

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March 2009

just hear it | playable music search

by garret & 5 others
"Similiar to Seeqpod and Songza, Just Hear It offers registered and unregistered users alike a seamless interface for song search and playlist creation, all from within the browser. Just Hear It claims to be completely legal, following DMCA guidelines, and paying royalties to all of the major performing-rights organizations, like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. In the future, Just Hear It aims to negotiate licenses to share revenue with labels. Currently, much of the music actually seems to come from YouTubeYouTube reviewsYouTube reviews - much like another site we recently reviewed, StreamDrag." - Mashable

home | Tactical Technology Collective

by karlcow & 2 others

Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. We provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning.

February 2009

What Is Copyright? — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefreedom.org.nz)

by karlcow

What Is Copyright?

Copyright is a legal concept giving the creator of an original artistic work rights over their work for a limited time.

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world's poor | Business | The Guardian

by karlcow & 1 other

Put any chemicals or processes over which it has intellectual property rights that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a "patent pool", so they can be explored by other researchers.

January 2009

3rd DATA PROTECTION DAY 28 JANUARY 2009

by karlcow

The aim of the Data Protection Day is to give European citizens the chance to understand what personal data is collected and processed about them and why, and what their rights are with respect to this processing.

Amnesty International : Human rights

by hapatchan & 1 other
Amnesty International est un mouvement mondial qui s’engage pour les droits humains.

December 2008

microsoft Trademarks

by julie

Microsoft Trademarks The absence of a name or logo in this list does not constitute a waiver of any and all intellectual property rights that Microsoft Corporation or its subsidiaries have established in any of their product, feature, or service names or logos. The status column refers to the status of the trademark in the United States and/or other countries.

YouTube - "Some Rights Reserved"

by CharlesNepote (via)
Présentation de Lawrence Lessig sur le Copyright. Il présente le Copyright comme une guerre semblable à celle de la prohibition, les terroristes étant des enfants. Il montre comment tout le monde y perd dans cette guerre et notamment la société puisqu'elle conduit à transformer ses enfants en criminels. La présentation est également exemplaire dans sa forme : dias nombreuses avec très très peu de texte.

American Mustache Institute

by moustache
Enter the American Mustache Institute (AMI) - based in St. Louis as the city is home to the world's largest mustache - the St. Louis Arch. AMI is an advocacy organization protecting the rights of, and fighting discrimination against, mustached Americans by promoting the growth, care, and culture of the mustache. AMI continues to battle negative stereotyping that has accompanied the mustache since those glory years of the 1970s - the peak of mustache acceptance - fighting to create a climate of acceptance, understanding, flavor saving, and upper lip warmth for all mustached Americans alike.

Why Don't We Hang Pirates Anymore? - WSJ.com

by karlcow (via)

Then there is the problem of what to do with captured pirates. No international body similar to the old Admiralty Courts is currently empowered to try pirates and imprison them. The British foreign office recently produced a legal opinion warning Royal Navy ships not to take pirates captive, lest they seek asylum in the U.K. or otherwise face repatriation in jurisdictions where they might be dealt with harshly, in violation of the British Human Rights Act.

September 2008

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Vimeo

by Wiltur & 1 other
La déclaration des droits de l'homme ré-interprétée dans ce superbe motion conçu par Seth Brau. Un formidable mélange d'illustrations et de typographie, produit par Amy Poncher sur une musique de Rumspringa.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Vimeo

by gregg & 1 other (via)
La déclaration des droits de l'homme ré-interprétée dans ce superbe motion conçu par Seth Brau. Un formidable mélange d'illustrations et de typographie, produit par Amy Poncher sur une musique de Rumspringa.

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