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 …
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