This is tag line for Global Voices online, a global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Their mission and work that covers whole world regions and topics, is:

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

With tens of millions of people blogging all over the planet, how do you avoid being overwhelmed by the information overload? How do you figure out who are the most influential or respected and credible bloggers or podcasters in any given country, especially those outside your own?

Global voices service include international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators that guides through global blogosphere. The one of them wrote the story on my issue that happened a month ago, and this morning I found out the same one in Portugese, from Brasilian colaborator. Good to hear what they think and talk.

Professor Lessig from Stanford Law School gave a speech at iCommons Summit on burning issues of open source, licences, sharing economy,  open education, software  in order to build free culture, freedom to chose so that every author,  scientist or teacher can be free to choose and to make their work available to others. He also had interesting talk on respect movement ( can copyright owners get any r.e.s.p.e.c.t?) and also announced that he decided  “to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism, away from the issues that have consumed me for the last 10 years, towards a new set of issues.”, explained here.

As iSummit is on its way, alive or in Second life,  nothing new is happening in blogosphere considering plagiarism or violation of copyrights (where they exist), that I didn’t see before. New two primers: the usage of bad blogging technique and the recent one of misusing RSS feeds, copying and mixing content where it doesnot belong to. Sounds familiar to me, seems like nothing can’t stop those sites/people to aggregate content from different blogs. Or can? Blogetiquette? Licences?

Every year leaders of Creative commons, people interested in free culture, open access in different area of their expertize, gather to celebrate and strategise internet issues, open education and access to knowledge communities. This is final program and beside the place of the summit, there will be a chance to run the Summit parallel in Second Life. You can find out more about this year’s Summit here, but here it is in a nutshell:

Who: 300 of the world’s leading intellectuals, authors, lawyers, artists and technologists on the cutting edge of Internet policy.

What: A three-day Summit to discuss the importance of a free Internet for free culture, new rules to keep the internet free, how to build free culture communities and the lessons we can learn from pirates.

Where: Dubrovnik, Croatia on the banks of the Adriatic Sea

When: 15-17 June, 2007
Go here to register and make sure you subscribe to the mailing list to stay in touch.

Interesting post on blog Of Zen and Computing, if you are pro photographer, suggest the ways how you can protect your photos from ‘being stolen’. Those who use Creative Commons licences - may skip reading this article, and for the others there are some tips on technical roadblocks (e.g. disable right-clicking), aesthetic roadblocks (watermarks, some visual elements), or simply keep them offline: ) For Flickr users, there are many options, in additional of CC licences using, as you may protect your photo material just for your friends or family, or option that only your friends can download your photos. Or just use Picasa.

You may feel sorry that the whole wikipedia mirror is gone, as the guy who did the same with my blog was also circumventing Chinese content restrictions, as earlier said that citizens of China are not allowed to read Wikipedia. His web site was shut down by his ISP due to supposed threats from government. This is English translation of farewell message.

Apart from this open acces or limitations issue, all my thanks and gratitude for help, comments, reactions and suggestions go to: to Stephen Brown, tonynovak, vlidi, to Bora Zivkovic, snapo, Yan, bernarda, Marc McCrohon, ref, greensmile, raincoaster,
zizek primoz, Mirko, as well as all legal experts and people involved in Creative commons at iCommons listserv:
Aleksandar Balalovski, Milos, Giorgos, Hempal Shrestha, Antonio Bonanno, Joy Garnett, Tim, Andy Kaplan-Myrth, Neda, Danijel, Jon Lebkowsky, Marcell, Katitza, John Hendrik Weitzmann, Fred, Jimmy Wales and especially to Tobias Schonwetter, CC lead @University of Cape Town, and to others I didn’t mention here for the great constructive ideas.

What happens when someone steals entire content of your blog, actually steals unauthorized mirror of the blog, and the thief injected Google ads on it, breaking intellectual property, copyrights, etc, plus profiting from this noncommercial blog?

This is something that happened to me and let this be loud shame for such an act. It is detected where the stealer comes from, as well as I reported abuse email on their host, and to the Google removals. Thanks to Mirko and to Darren, and here is what you should do if something similar happens to you :

First find out on WHOIS the stealer, report directly to their host, if they abused and/or add ad-sense and making profit of your intellectual property. Report to Google ad-sense support as well as to Google removals. Do not forget, in the case of web infringement to report and send by email or fax to Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Also, report to your friend, colleagues and readers on this, as I realise that my RSS is changed and many of readers decreased. By the way, in my case, when entire blog is copied (not article, but total plagiarism and legal infringement) the Copyscape tool is not working for me. This is direct exposing the thieves URL and you should know this, on today’s day (if it comes to removals).Do not click on their ad-sense.

Below is the photo I copied from their URL and blog plagiarism with ad-senses on the header. If any legal expert can help in my case, every comment, suggestion and direct help is welcomed.