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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 doesn’t explicitly declare his will, having in mind taht such expression of will by the author, if done on one’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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28.04.2006 The Metamorphosis Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions signed, on April 26, 2006, a Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons Corporation, for legal porting of CC licenses in Macedonia.

28.04.2006 Fondacijata za odrzlivi informaticki resenija Metamorphosis potpisa, na 26 April, 2006 godina, memorandum za razbiranje so Creative Commons Corporation, za pravno ureduvanje na CC licencite (legal porting).

27.04.2006 Macedonia won the 2005 WITSA Global IT Excellence award for computerization and wireless internet in its schools, informs Minister of Science and Education, Azis Polozani.

27.04.2006 Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities.

25.04.2006 The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) has joined forces with The Indian Express Group to honor local journalists that demonstrate excellence in HIV/AIDS reporting.

25.04.2006 The democracy of the Web may soon be a relic of the past, a change that may have costly implications for doing business on the Net.

18.04.2006 Fundjavën e kaluar, 15-16 prill, 2006, u organizua Festivali i Instalimit nga Softueri i Lirë Maqedonia, në objektet e “Narodna Tehnika-s” në Shkup. Edicioni i sivjetmë, pos instalimit të softuerit të lirë për vizitorë, përfshiu edhe disa aktivitete tjera: punëtori, ligjërata, debate...

18.04.2006 On the recommendation of an international jury of media professionals, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura designated Lebanese journalist May Chidiac, winner of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2006.

18.04.2006 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair on Monday indicated that ISRO, which recently signed a commercial contract with the European firm EADS Astrium to build a communications satellite, was likely to get orders for two more satellites.

17.04.2006 The debate over the limits of freedom speech and religious dictums has re-ignited among a new demographic--viewers of the irreverent comedy South Park.

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.

17.04.2006 Video Volunteers is a media for empowerment organization based in New York, with Drishti Media Collective in Ahmedabad as its partner in India. We set up Community Video Units, in which 4-8 community members produce Monthly Video News Magazines to screen in their communities to accelerate social change.

17.04.2006 MySpace, US’s most popular social network site for teenagers, will soon have an Indian American online safety czar to deal with a growing menace of porn and sexual predators that has alarmed parents and law enforcement officials.

17.04.2006 Fifteen months after their heroic exploits in the aftermath of the tsunami that claimed several hundred lives and wreaked unprecedented havoc in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a team of amateur radio operators is back in Port Blair.

13.04.2006 Stating that the freedom of the press was more than just the freedom of publishers and editors, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed the hope that the debate on trends would help strengthen the hands of journalists.

12.04.2006 In what would be a major boost to the viability of private FM radio stations across the country, the I&B ministry is likely to allow news and current affairs programming on private FM radio. This could be implemented before September when new stations under phase-II go on air, industry sources told FE.

12.04.2006 Union Ministry of Urban Development Jaipal Reddy, on 30 December, inaugurated the website of the Global Network on Local Governance (GNLG) at a function organized by the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.