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60 years of Colombian Professional Football

Rafa XII — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:56:37 +0000

On 7 July 1948, the assembly of the recently founded Major Division of Colombian Football, Dimayor, determined that since August, they would hold an annual football championship of first division in Colombia, with the participation of teams coming from the most important cities in the country.

Colombian movie uses Creative Commons licence for a soundtrack

carobotero — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:28:07 +0000

Last April a movie, Perro come perro (dog eat dog), premiered in Colombian cinema halls to raving reviews that promised great success. One of the songs in the soundtrack for Perro come perro, Las reglas (The Rules) by Malalma, is available on the website for free downloading and for sharing under a Creative Commons licence byncnd 2.5 Colombia. Yes, it is the most restrictive licence, but this is still a milestone!

Colombian landmark ruling on copyrights: “without profit there is no criminal offence”

Johnny Pabón and Carolina Botero — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:57:36 +0000

The Supreme Court of Colombia, the highest criminal judicial tribunal and Cassation Court (deals with the Cassation procedures also known in other juridical traditions as right of appeal on points of law), determined that in order to establish a criminal violation of copyright, it is necessary to find if the criminal conduct is for profit-making, if it causes effective injury and if the intention is to cause harm on the right holder.

Captain Copyright reappears in Colombia

carobotero — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:38:17 +0000

Recently, the Colombian National Planning Department (DNP) will submit for approval to the National Council for Social and Economic Politics (CONPES) a paper on intellectual property that turns around Canada's Captain Copyright's idea of protection and enforcement of copyright, completely focusing on the possibilities of Colombian competition and development in that side of the equation without considering all the other issues that influence the maintenance of a balanced system of creativity and development.

Sports and politics: an unwanted marriage

Rafa XII — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:27:57 +0000

It should not be this way, but it is like this. Along the history politics' interference in sports, besides of being inevitable, has brought more negative than positive elements for an activity that, by definition, is peaceful and looks for the harmony among human beings

“MP3 music downloads from the Internet, an act that violates intellectual property rights, and it is illegal”: Guillermo Santos, El Tiempo

carobotero — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:00:09 +0000

Cultural industry prefers to blame on illegal downloads for its crisis, without even considering the impact of the wide possibilities of choice on the internet. Mr Santos, a technology columnist in Colombia's leading newspaper, endorses that logic, with a "clarification" that is not correct, it is vague and it even seems misplaced.

Carimagua and agrofuels

Germán A. Quimbayo — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:25:03 +0000

Este artículo está disponible en ESPAÑOL A pine plantation in Carimagua (Meta Department, Colombia), 2005 I attended the relevant presentation of the book: “Agrofuels filling tanks, emptying territories” (Agrocombustibles: Llenando tanques, Vaciando territorios) embodied in the campaign of the same name spearheaded by Censat - Agua Viva and the Process of Black Communities (PCN). [...]

Pambelé

Rafa XII — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:18:09 +0000

A small tribute to the man who obtained, more than 35 years ago, Colombia's first boxing world championship.

Is the CIA behind the 4 February march against FARC?

Marsares — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:12:04 +0000

The neighbourhood is nervous. The 4 February demonstration spoils their plans. With what face will they continue their efforts to sell the world the altruist spirit of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), if the same people which they claim to represent rejects them publicly, pointing them as what they are, a group that violates the Geneva Conventions sistematically and whose degradation transformed a social revolution into a latrine with the most basic instincts?

The beginnings of football in Colombia

Rafa XII — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:10:39 +0000

For years, Colombians thought football first entered their country through the Caribbean in 1903. But several documents, often forgotten even after they were found in 1987, give the credit of introducing that sport to American colonel Henry Round Lemly in 1880.