1. Making Money is Important!
Open Business Models
as an Integrated Part of
Creative Commons Movement
By Dr. Haggen So
Original content in this slide is released under CC-BY 4.0

2. Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong
Wikimania 2013 Group Photograph, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
title=File:Wikimania_2013_Group_Photograph.JPG CC-BY-SA 3.0

3. Free knowledge based on Creative
Commons licenses: Consequences,
risks and side-effects of the license
module "non-commercial use only –
NC"
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free
_knowledge_based_on_Creative_C
ommons_licenses/en CC-BY-SA
3.0
https://openglam.org/files/2013/01/i
Rights_CC-NC_Guide_English.pdf
CC-BY-SA 3.0

4. Non-Commercial Questions
Can NC-licensed content be used in the
Wikipedia project? – No
How does NC affect mashups? – Not all CC
licenses can be combined with each other
Can a CC license with the NC module prevent my
content from being used by radicals or
extremists? – No

5. Does the NC module prevent
commercial usage?
Many companies see breaches of copyright
law as a mere financial risk
and may intentionally defy its restrictions

6. Made with Creative Commons
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativecommons/made-with-creative-
commons-a-book-on-open-business

7. Open Business Models
Making Money with
LESS CONTROL
on Copyright

8. Market-based

Customised Service

Charge Physical Copy

Charge In-Person Version

Sell Merchandise

Charging Advertisers or Sponsors

Charging Content Creators

Charging Transaction Fee

Providing a Service to your Creators

Licensing a Trademark

9. Reciprocity-based

Memberships and Individual Donations

The Pay-what-you-want Model

Crowdfunding

10. Business Model Chooser

Charge Physical Copy → Card against
humanity, Cory Doctorow

Open Hardware → Arduino, SparkFun

Memberships and Individual Donations →
Wikimedia Foundation

CrowdFunding → Made with CC

11. Addition to Made with CC

More Details on Execution, e.g. Open
Hardware – Trademark and Patent

Mistakes Made or even Failure, e.g. Tinyboy

12. Tinyboy 3D Printer
http://www.tinyboy.net/

13. Addition to Made with CC

Existing Tools e.g. Patreon

New Cases e.g. LikeCoin

14. Business Model Chooser

Easier to Find Information

More Depth

More Frequently Updated

15. Partners in Open Business Models

FOSS (Free & Open Source Software)

Organisations e.g. Linux Foundation

Community and Individuals

16. Linux Foundation
https://www.openchainproject.org/

17. https://www.openchainproject.org/

18. OpenChain Specification
Goal 1: Know Your FOSS Responsibilities
1.1 A written FOSS policy exists that governs
FOSS license compliance of the Supplied
Software distribution.
1.2 Mandatory FOSS training for all Software Staff
1.3 A process exists for reviewing the Identified
Licenses to determine the obligations,
restrictions and rights granted by each license.
https://www.openchainproject.org/spec CC-BY 4.0

19. Lemonade Stand
A handy guide to financial support for
open source.
"I do open source work, how do I find funding?"
This document aims to provide an exhaustive list
of all the ways that people get paid for open
source work.
Nadia Eghbal https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand CC0 1.0

20. Action Items

Engage Businesses in CC

Form a Business Model Advocacy Group

Create an Open Business Model Chooser

Discuss Failures and Pitfalls

Build Alliances

21. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-github-we-are-
all-in-on-open-source.html

22. Open Source has already WON
So will CC