During a campaign a lot of material is produced. From artwork, to videos, to research papers and publications, intellectual property is everywhere online and in every day life. Copyleft activists have advocated for less (or zero) regulations on this property. One way to ensure that the fruit of your labour is used only how you intend is to obtain a creative commons license.

Open data is the philosophy that certain data should be free from legal restrictions -- copyright, patents, etc. Proponents of the open data movement believe that particular data should be universally available for sharing, remixing, and reuse.

Open data abides by principles similar to other 'Open' movements -- open access, open content, open source, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data

On March 22, filmmaker Ali Kazimi was surprised to see a copyrighted image from one of his films opening a Conservative Party television commercial, Tim -- South Asian, targeting Canada's South Asian community -- without Mr. Kazimi's permission. The party continues to run the ad notwithstanding the filmmaker's repeated requests for the image to be withdrawn.

The image in question is a unique photo-montage based on two archival photographs documenting the infamous Komagata Maru incident of 1914, in which racial discrimination was explicitly used to bar South Asians from entering Canada. This photo-montage was designed by Mr. Kazimi as the publicity still for his 2004 award-winning feature documentary about the Komagata Maru, entitled Continuous Journey.

Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens is a conference addressing the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This conference aims to explore this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour.