implicit art

Well, the commons sense conference, by creative commons SA, is coming up (25-27 May), so Christo and I had a great meeting with Heather and Sylvia today, to discuss possible connections, presenters, artworks, blogs, etc. For those of you unaware, Creative Commons is a great new way of dealing with digital copyright, and share licenses…. For example, this blog is under a creative commons "non-commercial share-alike" license, which means you can copy, edit, change and use anything I publish, so long as you credit me, and don’t make money (if you make money, you gots to negotiate with me to gimme some). It’s kind of an arts and information-based open source, um, thing. And the digital copyright man, himself (larry lessig), will be hangin’ out in joburg, giving talks, and generally spreading creative commons cheer. There are also blog and artwork contests, with cash prizes – so get involved! Follow any of the many CC links for more….