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An anonymous reader writes “Founding editor of Boing Boing Cory Doctorow has written a report about ‘do-it-yourself’ digital licensing, which he’s touting as the panacea for piracy. Doctorow’s solution for content creators is two-fold: Get a Creative Commons license, and append some basic text requiring those who re-use your work to pay you a percentage of their gross income. Doctorow refers to this as the middle ground between simply acquiring a Creative Commons license and hiring expensive lawyers for negotiations. He calls do-it yourself licensing ‘cheap and easy licensing that would turn yesterday’s pirates into tomorrow’s partners.'”

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QuantumG writes “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a 0,000 grant to the University of Queensland, Australia to develop a vaccine against dengue fever, a disease spread by mosquitoes. Unlike other vaccines, the ‘altruistic vaccine’ doesn’t specifically protect the individual being bitten, but instead protects the community by stopping the transmission of the pathogen from one susceptible individual to another. The hope is to do this by effectively making their blood poisonous to mosquitoes, either killing them or at least preventing them from feeding on other individuals. Professor Paul Young explained how his work fell outside current scientific traditions and might lead to significant advances in global health — he said he could envision the vaccine being used around the world within 10 years, and would be designed to be cheap and easy to implement.”

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Kids always seem to be ahead of trends, and marketers realize the importance of new products and services taking off with the younger set. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research helps identify which children might be the trendsetters of their generation.

The companies are pairing Cisco’s mobile WiMax infrastructure with Clearwire’s ecosystem of partners to deploy mobile broadband.