1. digital media -
product or process?

most products advance
incrementally

digital media: incremental product advance?

digital media: incremental product advance?
or disruptive process innovation?

designed for use, not
control

an open information
network as
disruptive process

the users make the disruption

collaboration itself is disrupted.

traditional collaboration: negotiated, low-volume,
high-density information sharing

meeting-centric. artisanal transactions.
institutionally arranged. information control.

distributed collaboration: automated, high-volume,
low-density information sharing

network-centric. standard transactions.
individually arranged. information sharing.

content
code
physical

2. the digital commons:
management for an open
knowledge network

“the commons”

rivalrous
v.
non-rivalrous

small contributions.
snap-together licensing.
technically enabled.

“the commons”

“intellectual property”

knowledge rights

copyright

most
uses
free

most
regulated uses
commercial

couldn’t
legally control
perfectly

copyright
regulates
“copies”

in digital world

every use
=
“copy”

thus, presumption:
every use
requires
permission

law + technology = (DRM)

“code is law”

control

3. creative commons

Copyright
All Rights
Reserved
No Rights
Reserved

Copyright
All Rights
Reserved
No Rights
Reserved

free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and
educators easily mark their creative work with
the freedoms they want it to carry

user interface to copyright

licensing
step 1: choose conditions
Attribution Share Alike
Non-Commercial No Derivative Works

licensing
step 2: receive a license

Ported to 50
Jurisdictions

Photo: Dennis Stefani, (c) Mrs. Me, Inc., 2008, made available under a CC BY-NC-ND license

CC BY-NC-SA

copyright and open educational resources
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publishing of materials,
design-principles, and
localization of content.
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Intellectual property
Full courses, course licenses to promote
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modules, learning use and improvement of open learning materials, design-
objects, collections, content including searching and organization principles, and
journals of content, content and learning localization of content.
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what makes resources open?
the ability to:
• access
• share — copy, distribute, display
• adapt — perform, translate
• derive — remix
more permissions = more open.

rip?

mix?

burn?

4. digital media: not
just podcasting

content
code
physical

innovation
content
code
physical

c
>1000 journals under CC
image from the public library of science
licensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0

think beyond paper.

©
creative expression

©
ideas or facts

e=mc2

the container, not the facts.

the container, not the facts.
but © locks the container.

IGFBP-5 plays a role in the
regulation of cellular senescence
via a p53-dependent pathway
and in aging-associated vascular
diseases

IGFBP-5 plays a role in the
regulation of cellular senescence
via a p53-dependent pathway
and in aging-associated vascular
diseases

indexing: disallowed.
http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/acq/license/cdlelsevier2004.pdf

over 200
years at
one paper/day

what you want is
a list of genes.
not a list of documents.

exponential content growth

our brain capacity
5.00
3.75
2.50
1.25
0
1990 1994 1998 2002

collaboration.

conclusion?

use common licensing.

use common licensing.

use common licensing.

create new ways to measure.

be surprised by your users.

thank you
wilbanks@creativecommons.org
http://sciencecommons.org