Mohamed Nanabhay's Blog

I was interviewed in the The New York Times about Al Jazeera, our coverage of Gaza and new media. Noam Cohen who authored the article happened to lunch with Larry Lessig on Thursday before we did the interview and consequently scooped the news on our soon to be launched Creative Commons project

For example, Mohamed Nanabhay, the 29-year-old executive who established Al Jazeera’s new-media group, beginning in late 2006, said that Al Jazeera planned to announce this week that all its video material of the war in Gaza would become available under the most lenient Creative Commons license, which basically means it can be used by anyone — rival broadcaster, documentary maker or individual blogger, for example — as long as Al Jazeera is credited.

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A slightly longer piece also ran in the International Herald Tribune.