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28.04.2006 Copyright means, above all, the right of the author to define the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, while the license is a legal document used by the author to express those terms and conditions in a legally acceptable form. Therefore, each author can, in principle, decide that his/her work can be freely distributed or even used as public domain good. On the other hand, the contemporary practice is such that, unless the author explicitly defines the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, it is assumed that the terms would be: “All unauthorized copying, reproduction and public performance is strictly forbidden. All rights reserved”.

Creative Commons is an all-encompassing solution for licensing of works as publicly accessible and open contents. It simplifies the procedure for the author to legally define greater freedoms for the users, different from those restrictive invoked authomatically if the author doesnÂ’t explicitly declare his will, having in mind taht such expression of will by the author, if done on oneÂ’s own, would demand a legally complicated procedure. The website creativecommons.org offers the authors possibility to chose which rights he/she wants to transfer and get a legally valid license that expresses the chosen terms and conditions in legally appropriate manner. It is also possible to enter the work into a registry or store it in a public archive on the internet, which makes it more accessible to users searching for free contents.

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25.04.2006 To complement our team, we expect to recruit an enthusiastic and team-orientated colleague. IICDÂ’s mission is to assist developing countries in the use of ICT as a strategic tool for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. IICD does this through empowering local organisations and stakeholders to make effective use of ICTs on their own terms, and through catalysing lessons learned and knowledge sharing on ICTs by local organisations and the international community.

24.04.2006 China's Ministry of Science and Technology announced Friday the start of on-line applications for national research and development programs and an end to paper applications by 2010.

21.04.2006 Esta nueva orquesta reunirá a experimentados músicos y músicas suramericanos para retomar y renovar la música surgida en las misiones de jesuitas en varios puntos de Sudamérica. La aparición de estas misiones provocó una fusión entre la música barroca y renacentista con la música de las poblaciones nativas de cada región.

17.04.2006 Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies contains lessons from both developed and developing countries. It examines the roles of the public and private sectors, identifying the challenges and the benefits of adopting and expanding ICT use. The report assesses topics essential to building an information society, including investment, access, diffusion, and country policies and strategies.

09.04.2006 With their share of seats in elite institutions under threat, students have become a restive lot and the academic community is in turmoil over the controversial move to reserve seats in Central Universities, IITs and IIMs which has revived the 'merit vs quota' debate in the country.

07.04.2006 Të udhëhequr nga ideja se informacioni dhe njohuria duhet të janë të qasshme në formë universale, shoqata e qytetarëve Open the Windows (Hapi Dritaret) ofron qasje të re dhe origjinale në teknologjinë informuese për qytetarët me nevoja të veçanta.