Harlan Ellison is a screen writer, born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1934. According to the Washington Post he is “one of the great living American short story writers”; and the Los Angeles Times said, “It’s long past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title: 20th Century Lewis Carroll” (from Harlan’s website at http://harlanellison.com/). He’s […]

How on earth could one possibly give content away for free and still earn money?
Frances Pinter is a publisher who worked in Africa making educational material available under alternative licenses. Together with David Percy, a professional film maker, he produced a documentary on the use of Creative Commons licenses to actually earn money.
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[ 29 June 2008 to 2 July 2008. ] authors and translators from across the globe will meet up in Stockholm with the aim of manifesting the power of words and defining the author’s role in our time. The ultimate goal is to draft a global action plan in defence of copyright and the right of authors to create literature in any language.

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