Creative Commons @ CopyCamp 2006

CopyCamp 2006-09 TO Mike Linksvayer, CTO

Four Different Projects
Creative “Culture” Commons
HQ in SF
Main project since 2002
Creative Commons International
Based in Berlin
Started in 2003

Four Different Projects (cont.)
Science Commons
Based in Mass.
Started late 2004/early 2005
iCommons
Based in Johannesburg
Started early 2005

About Creative Commons
Non-profit started in December 2002
http://www.creativecommons.org
Dedicated to promoting reasonable copyright
Makes available standard licenses and tools that enable creators to make their works available on more flexible terms
Enables “some rights reserved”, rather than “all rights reserved”
Uses private, voluntary tools to create a public good - more freely* available content

About Science Commons
Started late 2004/2005
http://www.sciencecommons.org
Dedicated to promoting the sharing of knowledge and learning in academics and the sciences
Three project areas: publishing, data, socially responsible licensing
Similar model to Creative Commons - standard licenses and tools to promote more humane, efficient & equitable access to scientific research

About CCi
Dedicated to the legal porting of Creative Commons standard licenses
http://creativecommons.org/worldwide/
Legal porting involves the literal and legal translation of the licenses suitable for the jurisdiction in question
18 jurisdictions have already ported our licenses
In total, in talks with 70 jurisdictions about porting
http://iteamspace.creativecommons.org/wiki/Contact_info

About iCommons
Separate legal entity, different Board
Designed to develop the international community around our licenses
Translate and port our tools such as ccMixter, ccPublisher
Support and generate ‘events’ such as Wired Remix contest etc.

What is Creative Commons about?
Copyright
Reasonable copyright
ready-made legal and technical toolkits to enable creators to get their works ‘out there’ on more flexible terms
To enable ‘clearly signaling’ of permitted uses so that users know what use they make may of that work

Copyright?
Law designed to govern creative and expressive works
To encourage creation
To promote dissemination
Applies to certain categories of works
Applies automatically upon fixation of a creative work to tangible form
Grants copyright owner a bundle of exclusive rights

applies to:

What is the problem Creative Commons is trying to solve?
Copyright automatically applies to creative, expressive works upon fixation
Some people don’t know this = unwitting infringer
Some people do = too scared to use a work interpretatively
Digital technologies revolutionized how creative works are made, made available and used
Everything a computer can see, a computer can copy
The very essence of copy right is implicated by digital technologies
Individuals can produce and reuse works in entirely new ways
Reaction to this phenomenon has been polarized

How?
Nonprofit organization
Based in San Francisco, offices in Berlin & Johannesburg
Ported to 23 jurisdictions by volunteers (and growing)
Offering legal and technical toolkits
CC Licenses : staple or customized licenses
Publish : for creators and their licensors to publish content under CC licenses & others to reuse it
Find: for the general public to search for CC licensed content that they can use, copy and build on

Core Licensing Suite: Creator/Licensor chooses license options NonCommercial No Derivatives ShareAlike Every Creative Commons licenses allows the world to copy and distribute a work provided that the licensee credits the creator/licensor In addition creator/licensor may apply the following conditions:

Simple License Generator Answer ~two simple questions to choose a license.

License is produced in three different formats

Logo is Placed on the Content

Logo Links to the Commons Deed

Commons Deed Links to the Legal Code

Important aspects of the Creative Commons Licenses
Expressly drafted not to limit fair use rights
A non-exclusive, irrevocable public license
CC licensor enters into a separate license agreement with each user
License runs with the work, recipient may not apply technological measures or conditions that limit another recipients rights under the license
No warranties
License terminates immediately upon breach
Licensor may withdraw the work at any time

Current State of Creative Commons international
… in talks with volunteers in 70 countries

ccPublisher for publishing audio and video http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Tools

Internet Archive Free Hosting for CC works http://www.archive.org/

ccPublisher: free and easy publishing of audio and video

Choose a license

Upload your file

Get a download URL

Your work is online at the Internet Archive

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Searchability Relies on Metadata

Beastie Boys / Now Get Busy

Trifonic / Bored on Your Backside

T he A E xperience to date
Who are the CC-license adopters?
The idealist who agrees with the principle
The educator for whom sharing ideas & building on knowledge is their objective
The pragmatist who is starting out
The artist for whom sampling & recontextualization is their artform
The citizen journalist

M yth-busting
Myth: Creative Commons licenses prevent creators earning $$ from their work
Experience:
CC-licenses are about what others do with your work, not you
CC-licenses do not contain a royalty provision
CC licensed work can get you noticed
CC-license a work in a different format
CC-license a work to get it noticed to sign a commercial deal for that work
CC-license a work to get it noticed to sign a commercial deal for future deals

Small fish, big pond
~53,000,000 web pages link to a license
1 out of 295 pages indexed by Yahoo’s
One third increase in past 3mths

adoption across all creative spheres

A … changing culture one copyright license at a time …

Useful pages
Our sites
http://creativecommons.org/
http://www.sciencecommons.org/
Set up an RSS feed for both blogs
Best way to navigate our site:
http://creativecommons.org/sitemap
Cool graphics & movies that explain us
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/how1
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/

Other Useful Resources
Legal concepts
http://creativecommons.org/about/legal/
Meet the licenses page
http://creativecommons.org/license/meet-the-licenses
Developers’ page
http://creativecommons.org/technology/
US Copyright Office - Copyright Basics
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.int

Creative Commons @ CopyCamp 2006

by Mike Linksvayer

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