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Sistema de Internet de la Presidencia, Mexico
MAR 2005 The Sistema de Internet de la Presidencia (or Presidency Internet System) ("SIP") is the office in charge of generating and publishing all of the Mexican President Vicente Fox's content and information over the Internet. They host and maintain various websites including the Presidency's main website, "México en Línea" the Presidency's Internet radio station, and "Software Libre" Presidency's website for using the FLOSS project. León Felipe Sánchez, of our CC Mexico team, interviewed Luis Alberto Bolaños (pictured on the right) and Emiliio Saldaña (pictured on the left) to explain why Creative Commons licenses caught the Mexican Presidency's attention. A Spanish version of this interview is available here.
Groklaw's Pamela Jones
DEC 2005 Pamela Jones is the founder and editor of Groklaw, an award-winning Web site that conducts complex legal research using an approach inspired by open source. What started out as a one-woman operation in 2003 has grown to a full-fledged community with hundreds of contributors and millions of daily visitors. We recently spoke with Jones about her site's origins and how applying a Creative Commons license to her articles has helped her promote her work.
Kembrew McLeod
Aug 2005 Kembrew McLeod is currently an Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies. In addition to being an academic, Kembrew is a self-professed prankster. In 1998 he trademarked the phrase "Freedom of Expression®" as a comment on how the intellectual property law is being used to fence off culture and restrict the way in which people can express their ideas. He is the author of two books: "Owning Culture" and, most recently, "Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity".
Open Democracy
Jun 2005 openDemocracy is an online magazine that provides a forum in which global issues relating to politics and culture are debated, many of which do not receive sufficient or sufficiently careful attention by the mainstream media. Its purpose is to "publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds." Mia Garlick spoke with Solana Larsen about openDemocracy's switch to Creative Commons licensing. Solana is a Commissioning Editor at openDemocracy and also heads up openDemocracy's New York office. She is Danish-Puerto Rican, holds an MA in international journalism from City University in London and is herself a published author.
Dan Gillmor
Aug 2004 You may have read this Featured Commoner's technology columns in the San Jose Mercury Sun News or on Sillicon Valley.com. Dan Gillmor has been writing about technology, business, and policy for as long as such a beat has existed. His new book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, tells the shift of how grassroots journalism will dethrone the Big Media monopoly on news. The book is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license. The book is now in stores and available for download.
Public Library of Science
Oct 2003 The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS emerged in October 2000 through the effort of three dynamic and highly respected scientists: Nobel Laureate and former head of the National Institutes of Health Harold Varmus, molecular biologist Pat Brown of Stanford University, and biologist Michael Eisen of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley. This trio's dream, as the L.A. Times put it, is to build "a world in which the many thousands of scientific journals . . . are placed in an electronic library open to the public."
Mark Watson
Jun 2003 Mark Watson is an accomplished programmer and writer of thirteen books on various technical topics. An expert in artificial intelligence and language processing, Watson has advised the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and is currently developing KnowledgeBooks, an information management tool. Recently, Watson released two books, Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java and Loving Lisp, under the Creative Commons Attribution, No Derivatives, Non-Commercial license.
Cory Doctorow
Jan 2003 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, the first novel by blogger, cultural critic, and Electronic Frontier Foundation wonk Cory Doctorow, entered the world January 9, 2003. Wired's Mark Frauenfelder calls Down and Out "the most entertaining and exciting science fiction story I've read in the last few years," and Bruce Sterling declares, "Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow!"
Doc Searls
Oct 2002 Widely recognized as an authority on technology and marketing, Doc is co-author of the #1 sales and marketing bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto, which will be released under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.
