CC:me Why Creative Common rocks Christian Heilmann Minibar London, 31.08.07

Things I’ve done Published 4 books (1 in full, 3 as part of) Wrote lots of online and print articles. Conducted workshops in the UK, US, India, Singapore and Hongkong

Published 4 books (1 in full, 3 as part of)

Wrote lots of online and print articles.

Conducted workshops in the UK, US, India, Singapore and Hongkong

Things I’ve done Released a lot of scripts and products for free. Bagged a job at a cool big company that pays me to do things I love doing.

Released a lot of scripts and products for free.

Bagged a job at a cool big company that pays me to do things I love doing.

Things I am rubbish at: Invoicing Paperwork Legalese

Invoicing

Paperwork

Legalese

Things that annoyed me People take on my free stuff Then they change and re-distribute it Who gets the bug reports of the changed and buggy code?

People take on my free stuff

Then they change and re-distribute it

Who gets the bug reports of the changed and buggy code?

Things that annoyed me People commission me to write articles for money. People then ask me to re-write it over and over again to make it what they’d have liked to write. And I have to adhere to annoying size restrictions and text formats.

People commission me to write articles for money.

People then ask me to re-write it over and over again to make it what they’d have liked to write.

And I have to adhere to annoying size restrictions and text formats.

My decision http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Which means… People can use my stuff People can make changes People MUST add their name to the changes when they distribute it. Bugs are not my problem any longer.

People can use my stuff

People can make changes

People MUST add their name to the changes when they distribute it.

Bugs are not my problem any

longer.

Example

Example This was commissioned but did not please the editors. After three re-writes I told them to forget about it. I put the article online. I’ve added some Ads.

This was commissioned but did not please the editors.

After three re-writes I told them to forget about it.

I put the article online.

I’ve added some Ads.

Example I made the same money they’d have paid me in the first 5 days with clicks. It doesn’t end there…

I made the same money they’d have paid me in the first 5 days with clicks.

It doesn’t end there…

Surprise, Surprise

Don’t hold back! Use Yahoo! CC search to find information to build upon. Use CC imagery from Flickr instead of browsing and buying from huge photo catalogues with shiny happy office people.

Use Yahoo! CC search to find information to build upon.

Use CC imagery from Flickr instead of browsing and buying from huge photo catalogues with shiny happy office people.

Don’t hold back Find and remix CC video online with jumpcut.

Find and remix CC video online with jumpcut.

Hippie time! Give out free and good, and good things will come back to you. It worked for me.

Give out free and good, and good things will come back to you.

It worked for me.

Thanks! Christian Heilmann [email_address] http://wait-till-i.com http://icant.co.uk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Christian Heilmann

[email_address]

http://wait-till-i.com

http://icant.co.uk