The (Un)limited Design Talk took place on Friday, the 11th of June, during the DMY Maker Lab at the International Design Festival DMY in Berlin. The topic was Open Design and its potential, host was Jeanne Tan, editor at design.nl. This is part 1.
Participants were: Roel Klaassen from Premsela, the Dutch platform for design and [...]

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The (Un)limited Design Talk took place on Friday, the 11th of June, during the DMY Maker Lab at the International Design Festival DMY in Berlin. The topic was Open Design and its potential, host was Jeanne Tan, editor at design.nl. This is part 2.
Participants were: Roel Klaassen from Premsela, the Dutch platform for design and [...]

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As the World of Open is expanding beyond the borders of pure content designers in the Netherlands have gathered for the (Un)limited Design Contest. Numerous designs have been developed and published under a Creative Commons license*. On Friday, 23 October 2009, the lucky winners of the contest were announced at the Dutch Design Week in [...]

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Los OXCARS, held on 28 october 2008 in Barcelona, is the major international event of free culture of all times — a not-for-profit gala open to everybody. Over 100 artists … a total of 16 activities … 7 hours non-stop of free culture.
With Simona Levi, Guillermo Zapata, Wu Ming One and Francesco Cusa, Platoniq, Jamendo, Orxata sound system, Leo Bassi, Brent Simon, Maquina de Touring and Filastine.

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The discussion about what stimulates innovation in the creative industries quickly touches on the topic of intellectual property rights. Yet there is a growing number of repositories of user-generated content; and Creative Commons Licensing has become a popular extension to traditional copyright terms. I spoke to a number of people who are all active in New Media. Using the example of Creative Commons Licensing, I discussed the potential of open content and its possible pitfalls.

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