For Creative Commons Workshop in Music Bridges Vanuatu Oct 2013

1. Creative Commons
Oct 2013
Music Bridges in Vanuatu
Soohyun Pae

2. Wanna work together?

3. Copyright = All rights reserved

4. ☞ Creative Commons
● Aims to make creative material more useable by
providing a simple, standardized legal tool that
creators can use to give certain permissions in
advance without giving up their copyright
● Gives creators a choice about which freedoms to
grant and which rights to keep:
All rights reserved → Some rights reserved

5. How does it work?

6. 4 Conditions: “You can use only if…”
● Attribution ● ShareAlike
● NoDerivatives● NonCommercial

7. Six CC Licenses

8. CC0 (CC Zero)
Public Domain Dedication
Universal wavier, permanently surrenders
copyright and related rights, placing the
work as nearly as possible into the public
domain worldwide

9. Creativecommons.org/choose

10. Each license has…
Legal code Deed Metadata

11. 74 jurisdictions around the world

13. Wikipedia
● Over 77,000
contributors working
on over 22 million
articles in 285
languages
● CC BY-SA

14. Flickr

15. Jamendo

16. Nine Inch Nails
● Released ‘Ghosts I-IV’ under CC BY-
NC-SA
● 9 tracks for free, entire album for
$US5
● Sold $US300 ‘ultra-deluxe limited
edition’ & Netted $US1.6 million
● “We began improvising and let the
music decide the direction...the end
result is a wildly varied body of music
that we're able to present to the
world in ways the confines of a major
record label would never have
allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high-
quality download, to the most
luxurious physical package we've
ever created.” — Trent Reznor

17. Jonathan Coulton
● Has become a professional
musician by releasing all his
work under CC license
● Makes half a million a year with
no record label
● Through donation from fans &
live performances
● “Sure, I’m niche. But there are
a lot of niches out there for
others to find, with more
forming all the time. After all,
he says, that's what the
Internet is.”

18. Yeizon
● Korean hip-hop group
with successful
commercial career
● Works with a record label
● Releases some tracks
under CC license as a side
project

19. Thank you very much!
Questions? soohyun@creativecommons.org
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