By Dr. Till Kreutzer [8]

As a practical guide, the new Handbook Open Content: Navigating Creative Commons Licenses [9] provides people working in science, education, culture and public institutions with information about what Open Content licenses are and how they can be used to make content freely accessible. The publication by Dr. Till Kreutzer was published by Wikimedia Deutschland and the German UNESCO Commission. It is a major upgrade of the first edition [10] which was translated into various languages, including Indonesian, German and Finnish. Read More... [7]

by Florian Idelberger [20]
 
Cyber Resilience Act finalized
 
On 1st of December the negotiators between the Commission, Council and the parliament reached an agreement in the trilogues on the final text (not currently publicly available) of the Cyber Resilience Act that was originally proposed by the EU commission on 15th September 2022 and which we reported on previously here [21].
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by Florian Idelberger [20]

The Fedora Project announced that it changed its classification of CC0 for use in program source code. Free- and Open-Source software developers are not always fond of software licenses but see them more as a necessary evil. When they want to grant almost all rights away, within the limits of the law, they might choose a license such as CC0.

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Florian Idelberger [20]

Just this past Wednesday, the European Court of Justice handed down a judgement in the case C-13/20 Top System [37] on the right to decompilation by a purchaser of software to fix errors, which was discussed here previously [38] in the context of the right to repair. Read More... [36]