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This is a recently launched online exhibit of 100 objects from the Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC. The collection is not open in the regards to rights (all rights reserved), but an interesting approach to opening up the physical museum collection.

This is really great, and reminds me of the Museum of Anthropology's MOACAT here at UBC: http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/ It's so important to allow access to these collections in the online environment, not only for those individuals that may not be in the same location as the museum or gallery itself, but also for those that may have financial or physical barriers to in-person access.

Este juego puede descargarse para celulares y tabletas, fue desarrollado por un matemático interesado en el desarrollo del pensamiento matemático de niños y adultos, y es totalmente gratuito. The video describes a videogame to develop matemathical thinking for children to adults, with educational purposes.

This is a list of free or nearly free stock image sites that I created. The list is housed on a website that I directed, it is an open access set of resources in family medicine and primary care.

ccMixter is a community remix site operated by ArtisTech Media, created by Creative Commons

Es una plataforma en la que colaboran distintas universidades para hacer videos de diferentes materias e incluso posee algunos videos más especializados. El acceso es totalmente gratuito y es un ejemplo de una plataforma que contribuye a que el compartir conocimiento no esté limitado económicamente.

¡Gracias por compartir, está genial!

"The current crisis, the deepest and longest in the history of capitalism, has opened a debate around the world about what appears, more clearly with each passing day, to be the simultaneous destruction of the two principal institutions of social and economic life: the State and the market. Never in living memory has the economic system been so universally questioned. On the other hand, never before have technical capacities been so powerful, and, more importantly, so accessible to people and small organizations. In fact, never before have so many small businesses taken part in the world market. Nearly free [gratis] P2P communication technologies let them create the largest commercial networks in history. The emergence of free software (which, by itself, represents the largest-ever transfer of value to the economic periphery) empowered them with unexpected independence. Millions of small businesses around the world, especially in Asia, were able to coordinate among themselves this way and hone their products just as new markets were opening up to them. It's "globalization of the small." It's not a marginal phenomenon: never before have so many people around the world gotten out of poverty."

A humorous segment on the John Oliver show that critiques the NZ government's inability to adhere to copyright laws for their own campaign

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The paper addresses the general concept of open knowledge and standards, and expounds terms and definitions related and contiguous with the liberalization of knowledge; such as open data, open access, free formulas, and free software licenses , In addition to listing some of the international experiences in many subjects covered by the paper

Gobbled up an hour here today.

Hi, there I think that we must talk about this issue, is very important to know more about it. Russian hackers have pulled off what is possibly the largest cyber security breach in history, stealing 1.2 billion usernames and passwords and more than 500 million email addresses, security experts say. More than 420,000 websites, including large, well-known sites as well as smaller companies, were targeted by a cybercrime ring dubbed Cybervor.

En esta web se explican algunas excepciones y limitaciones de los derechos de autor en países latinos, en los que, por ejemplo, cualquier discurso puede ser utilizado nuevamente una vez que el autor lo ha "liberado" a menos que especifique lo contrario, también que todo material con fines educativos puede quebrantar los derechos de autor, si quieres saber más, checa el link...

Embrace the remix ​https://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform.

This detailed historical novel takes readers into Gutenberg's 15th-century Mainz workshop to experience the frustration and exhilaration of designing, typesetting, and rolling the first printed Bible off the press.