Creative Commons Around The World 2008-07-31

Introduction to the Commons 2 2008-07-31 Sapporo Creative Commons Around the World Mike Linksvayer VP, Creative Commons Photo by BotheredByBees · Licensed under CC Attribution 2.0 · http://flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/2102349206/

Creative Commons Around the World 2008

Global adoption and infrastructure
CC licenses ported to 47 jurisdictions
CC licenses used worldwide
Lower bound estimate of CC licensed works: 130 million
Witness global nature of CC at this conference
Example global content projects: OpenCourseWare and Wikimedia Commons

Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ocw-tt1128.html

Uneven global infrastructure
Huge variation in general population ability to participate
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Some CC jurisdiction projects have funding, other committed resources, rich CC experience
Many do not
Gaps: Africa, Middle East, former Soviet Union

Uneven global adoption

Google Trends: visitors to creativecommons.org

Google Trends: searches for “creative commons”

2008 status
Large, global movement
Still an “alternative” in most fields
Not central to copyright debate
Beginning to influence norms and expectations more broadly – and to be influenced by expectations of related movements
Use case for some policy debates

Creative Commons Around the World 2013

CC infrastructure 2013
Truly global
Projects in many jurisdictions have substantial funding, other resources, experience
No geographic or cultural gaps
The network knows and exploits itself
Very successful and influential long-term collaborations with related movements and institutions worldwide

CC in context 2013
Norms and expectations for openness predominate
CC a high profile case in copyright debate in every jurisdiction and internationally
Policymakers find success of commons’ impossible to ignore
Full promise of the global digital network much closer to realization due to thriving commons and beginning of resulting policy rationalization
It should be expected that in 2018 we will have ...

2018?
Global, universal access to and participation in creation of open educational resources
Rapid, globally produced innovation in drug development and more equitable access to medical technology
Sense that people’s relationship to culture has fundamentally flipped to the participatory
Commons innovations have produced many new categories of works the way Wikipedia blew up the encyclopedia category

http://planet.creativecommons.org
Presentation License and Attribution
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Author: Mike Linksvayer
Link: http://creativecommons.org

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