Copyright vs Creative Commons – what’s the difference and why does it matter?

These days everyone who spends time online is a producer of content. This content could be the blog posts you write, photographs you take, research articles you publish, videos you upload – the list goes! As the producer of the content, you get to decide how to license it. You can retain copyright (current standard and in most cases automatically assigned); you can decide to use a Creative Commons license and retain some rights; or you can release the content into the public domain, relinquishing all rights. 

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CUP South Africa partners with NGO Worldreader

Interviewed for an article in The Bookseller magazine about a mobile learning project I initiated with Cambridge University Press and the NGO Worldreader.

Article below and source here http://www.thebookseller.com/news/cup-south-africa-partners-ngo-worldreader

CUP South Africa (CUP SA) has partnered with NGO Worldreader to make content for schoolchildren freely available across sub-Saharan Africa. Worldreader has developed an e-reading app, hosted on cloud-based mobile application platform BiNu, which enables “feature phones”—those without Android or iOS operating systems, typically Nokias, which are widely used across the continent—to be used as e-reading devices.

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The Anthology as Patchwork Quilt

Bettina Weiss (ed). 2004. The End of Unheard Narratives: Contemporary Perspectives on Southern African Literatures. Heidelberg: Kalliope Paperbacks.

Robert Muponde and Ranka Primorac (eds). 2005. Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture. Harare: Weaver Press.

Review article published in Current Writing.