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

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 ... Some CC jurisdiction projects have funding, other committed resources, rich CC experience Many do not Gaps: Africa, Middle East, former Soviet Union

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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http://planet.creativecommons.org

Presentation License and Attribution

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Author: Mike Linksvayer

Link: http://creativecommons.org