Business 2.0 makes the case for Creative Commons
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Business 2.0 feature on Creative Commons
Business 2.0 feature on Creative Commons
04/22/2004 12:03 PMAndy Raskin has turned in a very good, long feature on Creative
Commons -- including some quotes from me -- that does a terrrific job
of explaining the project and why it's important.
The "sharing economy" is built on a supply-and-demand equation wholly
alien to traditional media companies -- the record labels, Hollywood
studios, and publishing houses that support strict copyright
enforcement. It's powered instead by the Allan Vilhans of the world,
digital artists who promote sharing as a means to obtain everything
from 15 minutes of Internet fame to licensing deals, job offers, and
mainstream publishing contracts. For these artists, rampant Internet
file swapping isn't a threat, but a blessing: the cheapest way to move
from unknown to known.
The sharing economy is already worth billions of dollars, but its
direct beneficiaries aren't mainstream entertainment companies.
Instead, they're the likes of Apple (AAPL), Adobe (ADBE), and
EarthLink (ELNK) -- firms that sell the hardware, software, and
bandwidth required to produce and distribute, say, a Howard Dean howl
remix. But for the sharing economy to expand its scope and realize its
full potential, it needs a signpost: a branded icon participants can
use to tell each other, "Download my work. Modify it. Send it to a
friend. Please." Creative Commons aims to play that role.
Link
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Thanks, Todd!)
Business 2.0 article on Creative Commons
Business 2.0 article on Creative Commons
04/24/2004 06:23 AMGiving It Away (for Fun and Profit) - By Andy Raskin, May 2004
Issue, Business 2.0
Good article about Creative Commons and the business case.
"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info"
"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info"
05/27/2004 09:08 PMBBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons
BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons
05/26/2004 04:39 PMScience Commons | Creative Commons
Science Commons | Creative Commons
12/31/2004 05:09 PMCreative Commons announces the Science Commons project .. patents and
scientific publishing .. scientific CC
license
science.creativecommons.org
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Creative Commons at the W3C
Creative Commons at the W3C
03/06/2004 01:53 AMBen
Adida, one of our tech advisors, will attend the
Semantic
Web portion of the
World Wide Web
Consortium Plenary Session this Thursday and Friday in Cannes,
France.
RDF,
the technology we chose 18 months ago to build our machine-readable
licenses,
recently became a
finalized W3C recommendation.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
06/12/2004 06:10 AMSparked by the copyright discussion raging
elsewhere in this blog, I decided to license the content of
this weblog under a
Creative Commons
Attribution - Share Alike license. In essence, what this means:
You are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works
- to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
- Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work,
you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical
to this one.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the
license terms of this work.
For the full text of the license, click here
for the English version, or in Finnish - the Finnish version being the legally valid one,
since this blog is physically located in Finland and written by a
Finnish citizen.
Note that this license does not affect whatever rights you have under
the law - it's still completely okay to quote this blog without
relicensing under CC, for example.
Creative Commons 2.0
Creative Commons 2.0
05/26/2004 04:43 PMAfter considering a lot of the feedback and statistics from the
original Creative Commons licenses, we (I personally was only a small
part of this) have launched the 2.0 licenses which I think make them
easier to use and easier to understand. Congratulations and thanks to
the team for all the work and an excellent step forward.
The details
are on the Creative Commons page.
UK take on Creative Commons
UK take on Creative Commons
09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Becky sez, "My piece on Larry Lessig and the BBC Creative Archive was
published in the New Media Guardian today. The in-depth article
discusses copyright in the digital age and the Creative Commons
project.
"Unfortunately, to read the article you need to register."
Reg Req'd Link, use
"feeshfeeshfeesh@hotmail.com/feeshfeesh"
(Thanks, Becky!)
Creative Commons search
Creative Commons search
09/05/2004 01:21 PMConnecting two projects together - teh Creative Commons has put
into beta a servcie which uses the open source spider/search engine -
named Nutch. I believe Gordon Mohr works on that.
Here's the
post from John Batelle.....
Doug Cutting reminds me that his Nutch open
source engine is powering a beta
version of Creative Commons search. This is a great example of a
domain specific search application, in this case, the engine crawls
and indexes all CC licensed sites and lets you find stuff by how you
might want to use it. As Doug points out, there's no way the Creative
Commons could have built an engine like this had it not been for open
source. Cool....
[http://battellemedia.com/archives/000864.php
]
"Creative Commons License"
"Creative Commons License"
12/19/2003 11:55 AMSGAE y Creative Commons
SGAE y Creative Commons
04/16/2005 03:17 PMSomebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons
Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons
08/27/2004 02:01 PMHere's
why. Another reason: she's cool. It's ok to give her our phone
number. Thanks.
(Via Xeni @ BoingBoing.)
honoring Creative Commons
honoring Creative Commons
05/11/2004 09:11 AMCreative Commons has won a
Prix Ars Electronica
Award.
Creative Commons in Sweden
Creative Commons in Sweden
08/19/2004 11:03 PMIt just keeps growing:
the International Commons (iCommons) expands
to Sweden, under the leadership of the premier law firm Lindahl and man-about-the-Net Mikael
Pawlo. Public
discussion of the Swedish drafts of the Creative Commons licenses
has begun.
BBC to use Creative Commons licenses
BBC to use Creative Commons licenses
05/26/2004 06:16 PMDigital Lifestyles is reporting that Larry Lessig has been named to a
BBC advisory board and that the BBC's Creative Archive project (which
aims to put the BBC's archives online for non-commercial re-use) will
use Creative Commons licenses:
Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project was
clearly excited: "The announcement by the BBC of its intent to develop
a Creative Archive has been the single most important event in getting
people to understand the potential for digital creativity, and to see
how such potential actually supports artists and artistic creativity."
He went to enthuse "If the vision proves a reality, Britain will
become a centre for digital creativity, and will drive the many
markets – in broadband deployment and technology – that
digital creativity will support."
Link
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Thanks, Simon!)
Creative Commons Deed
Creative Commons Deed
04/25/2004 04:49 PMexcellent use of the Creative Commons License .. Condiciones de copia
y distribucin .. Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial .. most
restrictive license .. Rights Reserved .. CC 2000-2003 .. Good Rule II
.. cc
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0
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Creative Commons Europe
Creative Commons Europe
03/22/2005 04:43 PMI had the good fortune to attend the Creative Commons
Europe summit in Amsterdam this week. The meeting, part of the Creative Capital
conference, was organized by the Waag Society's Paul Keller, the
public project lead of CC-Netherlands. It was one of
those great happenings, more and more frequent these days, that snap
your eyes open to Creative Commons' long-term potential, and to how
far we've come already: over 40 European Creative Commons project
leads and volunteers from Spain, the Ukraine, and everywhere in
between, brainstorming for two days about organizational structures,
promotion strategy, and tough legal issues, like a free-culture EU. I
thoroughly enjoyed seeing everyone -- many for the first time -- after
so many email exchanges, and having the chance to listen to their
stories about all their work. Paul deserves a medal (if we had those
to give out) for pulling the event together, and there aren't words to
describe Creative Commons' indebtedness to Christiane Asschenfeldt and
Roland Honekamp for coordinating, over only the last year and a half
no less, the development of such a great network of people. It was one
of those events that feels both like a milestone and yet a beginning.
Indeed, watch this space as we try to develop similar meetings around
the world. (Photos will soon follow, too.)
Creative Commons in Europe
Creative Commons in Europe
02/11/2004 07:13 PMNeeru Paharia, our assistant director, will be in Holland over the
next few days to attend the Third Zwolle
Conference, entitled "Optimal management of copyright: Making it
happen," on February 13 and 14. Neeru will also be checking in with
friends of CC in Holland.
Meanwhile, iCommons coordinator Christiane Asschenfeldt will be
visiting Switzerland over the next couple of days to speak about
Creative Commons at the CERN Workshop
Series on Innovation in Scholarly Communication.
If you're at either event or nearby and would like to meet up with
Neeru or Christiane, let us
know.
Creative Commons For Science
Creative Commons For Science
12/29/2004 11:48 AMCreative Commons and The Plains
Creative Commons and The Plains
08/06/2004 05:00 PMThere's a been good discussion about music and Creative Commons
licenses happening on the pho
list the last day or so. The most novel post comes from Jim Griffin:
Here's an example from my new reality: In our neighborhood (The
Plains, VA,
population 266) and in our region there are many people who adopt for
their
land a conservation easement, essentially signing away (sometimes with
certain modifications) their right and any future owner's right to
develop
the land outside some fairly restrictive parameters.
On a strictly financial basis, it makes little sense. The dramatic
reduction
in the land's value does bring lower property taxes, but this pales by
comparison to the lost right to develop the land. And make no mistake
about
it: The Washington area sprawls, especially so with the restriction on
the
height of buildings in the city. Northern Virginia is a hotbed of real
estate development, and plots of land of 30 or more acres go for a
massive
premium to builders ready to sell about 40 houses per acre. It is the
OBS,
the One Big Score, rivaling a hit album, or a string of them, in the
financial payday it delivers.
Put simply, you'd be an irresponsible fiduciary to adopt a
conservation
easement on your land.
On the other hand, it is not uncommon for an owner to choose to do
so.
Why?
They have a long-term perspective on their role in the community.
They know
they at most use the land during their lifetime, and they want to
preserve
its place in the "commons" that surround us.
The move to The Plains has been a journey from ME to WE, from the
ego-sphere
of Hollywood to the community grain silo, the volunteer fire
department and
a wave of the hand to and from the neighbors who share this valley. I
can't
remember my neighbors in Los Angeles; already I cannot forget those
who
share this place between the mountains.
So I guess I get the Creative Commons. Or I hope to. Or there is
hope that I
might, and that some of it may rub off on our son. And as I write
this, as
the fading twilight of The Plains reflects off the pond, Creative
Commons
makes sense. These songs, like this land, are ours for a time, and
there
comes a time we should pass them on to the community.
The Creative Commons story has many altruistic and pragmatic
readings. Jim's story above adds one of the former. In the same
thread Lucas Gonze adds an insightful
rendition of the latter:
My own perspective on CC is that it doesn't matter whether licenses
declare that files are redistributable or anything else in particular.
What matters is that there is legal metadata.
A big part of the current impasse is caused by the need to automate
clearances. We need to be able to write programs which look up
rights, or at the least have a computer assisted method for looking
them up by hand.
About the plains, conservationism and altruism, I personally don't
see open media (or code) that way. Making your media more open gives
you certain practical benefits, and if it isn't the selfish thing to
do then you shouldn't do it.
Either, or, neither? Make up your own story. Keep those ideas
around for the next contest. (None planned at the moment!)
Text by Jim Griffin and Lucas Gonze above copied from
pho-list postings with permission.
Support Creative Commons
Support Creative Commons
12/19/2004 02:55 PMFriends of Creative Commons,
As 2004 draws to a close, Creative Commons is strong. In the past
two
years since Creative Commons licenses have been available, we've taken
our first large first steps with you--building some of the essential
tools, adding critical pieces of infrastructure and assembling a
vibrant
community.
In 2004, Glenn, Larry, and the legal team made huge improvements
and
released version 2.0 of the main Creative Commons licenses. These new
versions added many needed features while at the same time they
reduced
the complexity of the licenses for our users. Christine, Roland and
all
of the iCommons volunteers worldwide took that work, and have ported
Creative Commons licenses to 12 countries. We expect to add another
dozen countries early next year, and we're in conversation with more
than 70.
We've found more than 5,000,000 pages with content and links back
to our
licenses. But the commons is about more than simply putting the work
out
there. So, Mike, Neeru, Matt, and Nutch.org have collaborated to
develop
and debut a metadata search engine that makes it easy to find content
marked with Creative Commons licenses. As if that were not enough,
that
search functionality now ships with the amazing Firefox browser from
mozilla.org.
Neeru and the tech team have also worked with other software
developers
to make it easy to integrate Creative Commons licenses. The list is
long, and includes Flickr, Moveable Type, Squarespace, Manila,
Archive.org, WinkSite, plus DMusic, Soundclick, Garageband.com, and
others I'm sure I've forgotten.
We're nearer to making worry-free sampling and re-creativity
mainstream.
What better place to start than the cover of WIRED magazine? The WIRED
CD contains sixteen sampling-friendly tunes -- and includes the
Beastie
Boys, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Chuck D and more.
In 2005 we will continue to build our worldwide community of
contributors to free culture. We will continue to enable more images,
music, films and text, and we'll start to work on the Science Commons.
We'll have much more to tell you about it at the start of the
year.
ou can help make Creative Commons and "some rights reserved"
household
phrases. Visit http://creativecommons.org/
support/ and you'll find out
how you can make your contribution via PayPal, Amazon's Honor
System, or by sending a check to Creative Commons at 543 Howard
Street,
5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Thank you for your support. It's not the commons without you.
Mark Resch, CEO
Creative Commons
Creative Commons a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Contributions
are tax-deductible in the U.S. to the extent allowed by law.
Creative Commons UK: will it flower?
Creative Commons UK: will it flower?
04/06/2005 07:37 AMCory Doctorow:
Edward sez, "Becky Hogge has written an excellent article about the
launch of Creative Commons in the UK. She discusses the problems faced
by CC in the UK, the institutions supporting it like the BBC, and how
Creative Commons will become a household name in the UK."
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the most influential
public service content provider in the world, has been behind the
project from the start and is using the Creative Commons ideology as a
lynchpin for its core digital project, the Creative Archive. Beyond
this, institutions such as OfCom, Research Councils U.K., JISC, the
Museums Libraries and Archives Council, The National Health Service,
and the British Library are all making mention of CC in policy
documents mapping the future dissemination of knowledge and culture.
It may just represent good timing, but Lawrence Lessig's thinking has
emerged as a framework for a country looking to maintain its lead role
as a global content provider in the digital age.
By contrast, the commercial creative industries have raised the kind
of misinformed objections to Creative Commons that will be tiresomely
familiar to those engaged in the IP debate in the States. Although,
during his research, Tsiavos received a warm welcome from many of the
U.K.'s copyright revenue collecting societies, themselves keen to
modernise practice for the digital age, the music business press in
particular have been incredibly skeptical about the value of Creative
Commons. Key concerns voiced have been that Creative Commons somehow
undermines traditional copyright protection, that through taking part
in what is in the U.K. a novel "registration process," creators may
unwittingly give away their rights irrevocably, and also, in a
wonderfully pitched recursive argument, that signing a CC licence
could result in musicians being discounted by a music business hostile
to CC. For the time being at least, the idea that, as Tsiavos puts it,
"commons are not against markets; they only create new ones" appears
to be falling on deaf ears.
LinkWyman on DRM and Creative Commons
Wyman on DRM and Creative Commons
03/25/2005 03:47 PMFrom the Atom Working Group mailing list, some
remarks from Bob Wyman that are
both educational and sobering on what Creative Commons licenses do and
don’t do; and yet more gloom and doom about the whole DRM
train-wreck.
Creative Commons Audiobooks
Creative Commons Audiobooks
04/12/2004 07:33 AMSearching Creative Commons
Searching Creative Commons
03/24/2005 08:16 PMEnforcing the Creative Commons
Enforcing the Creative Commons
05/26/2004 12:11 PMThe Creative Commons is a good thing. It allows people near and far to
share creative work. It's easy to... (596 words)
Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons
Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons
06/05/2005 11:29 PMGreat defense of CC
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Creative Commons Milestone
Creative Commons Milestone
12/15/2003 10:33 PMIt's a 7 meg flash file .. great new stuff .. 7MB Flash Link ..
flash
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Searching for Creative Commons on Yahoo!
Searching for Creative Commons on Yahoo!
09/17/2004 01:52 PMIn addition to using our new search engine to find
great content to build upon and share, you can also do interesting
searches using Yahoo!, who
currently indexes ~ 4.7 million Creative Commons licensed pages.
Yahoo! allows you to constrain searches to pages that link to specific
Creative Commons licenses using the "link:URL" function. For example,
these are all the Yahoo! results for pages that link to
the Attribution-N
onCommercial-ShareAlike license. The linkback feature, coupled
with a regular text search, can yeild some interesting results:
Here
are all the Yahoo! indexed pages that have the word "sunset" on
them, and link to the Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license.
Versus the Creative Commons search: Here are all the
Creative Commons indexed pages that have images on them, the word
"sunset," and I can modify and alter.
The Creative Commons search engine works differently, in that it's
able to add another layer of granularity to the search, by reading
code embedded into the web page. By reading this code (that comes with every Creative
Commons license) it understands what kind of content it's finding
(image, video, audio, text, etc.) and searches across different
license attributes. It's almost like a huge distributed database
across the Web.
Our search engine is one of the first of its kind to demonstrate the
Semantic Web, a vision led by
Tim Berners-Lee,
the founder of the World Wide Web.
Creative Commons at UC Davis School of
Law
Creative Commons at UC Davis School of
Law
03/06/2004 01:53 AMCreative Commons' Assistant Director, Neeru Paharia will be on a panel
titled
Music in the
Digital Era this Thursday at the
UC Davis School of Law. The
panel, cosponsored by the
Entertainment and Sports Law
Society and
California Lawyers for the
Arts, will focus on the effects of digital mediums and internet
downloading on the music industry.
Educar adopts Creative Commons
Educar adopts Creative Commons
06/17/2005 05:02 PMEducar, one of the largest
Spanish-language online communities, has recently adopted a Creative
Commons license. Educar hosts education-related content and
communities around it.
Using Creative Commons in the Real World
Using Creative Commons in the Real World
03/24/2005 02:23 PMMagnatune founder John Buckman has
posted an
interview he did with Five Eight Magazine, about the use of
Creative Commons licenses in Magnatunes song catalog. He covers the
whys and hows of licensing, and how it helped at Magnatune.
Creative Commons up for a Webby Award
Creative Commons up for a Webby Award
04/12/2005 05:22 PMWe were quite happy to hear that today the
Webby Award nominations came
out, and Creative Commons is up for "
Be
st Home/Welcome Page."
We couldn't have done it without the crew at
Adaptive Path leading the user
research, prototyping, and testing, while
Doug Bowman helped with the
illustrations, and
Ryan Junell
with the logos. I completed the design and build out and we've gotten
a lot of good feedback as a result. I look forward to seeing the
results in June, but my money's on one of the wiz-bang flash sites
winning the webby. :)
Washington Post on Creative Commons
Washington Post on Creative Commons
03/17/2005 03:47 AMGreat and particularly well researched article on Creative Commons
in the Washington Post today.
Announcing (and Explaining) Creative
Commons 2.0
Announcing (and Explaining) Creative
Commons 2.0
05/26/2004 07:38 PM?Last night, after many months of gathering and processing great
feedback from all of you, we turned on version 2.0 of the main
Creative Commons licenses. The 2.0 licenses are very similar to the
1.0 licenses ? in aim, in structure, and, by and large, in the text
itself. We?ve included, however, a few key improvements, thanks to
your input. A quick list of new features follows.?
Creative Commons Yahoo Search
Creative Commons Yahoo Search
04/04/2005 06:51 AMCreative Commons Yahoo Searchhttp://search.yahoo.com/ccThis Yahoo! Search service finds content across the Web that
has a
Creative Commons
license. While most stuff you find on the web has a full copyright,
this search helps you find content published by authors that want you
to share or reuse it, under certain conditions. This has been added to
the tools section of
Research Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Real World Creative Commons
Real World Creative Commons
03/14/2005 06:06 PMLondon-based music business magazine Five Eight has published an
article by Magnatune founder John
Buckman titled Using the Creative Commons in the Real World in which Buckman
explains how he chose to use a CC license for his record label.
Also, Buckman in response to a question on his blog regarding source material:
I'm in the process of consolidating all the various
individual tracks we've received, to make a "remix sources" page at
Magnatune, so you can easily find them all, and create new,
interesting works.
Keep up the good work John!
Creative Commons, a wedding beneficiary
Creative Commons, a wedding beneficiary
06/18/2004 08:41 PMWe were honored to get this letter, and a check, from the recently
married Joanna and Jaroslaw, of Warsaw, Poland:
We (Joanna and Jaroslaw) had decided, that during our wedding we want
people to donate for charity instead of buying flowers, and as people
somehow connected with copyleft/free_content movement we have chosen
CC as a beneficiary. We hope, that this money may be spent on starting
iCommons Poland.
Our professional-looking charity box was made from one plastic pot,
parts of tea can and lots of duck-tape (see enclosed photos :-))).
Response was pretty good, and we collected 552 polish zloty (pln) and
6 Euro (e). With 1e = 4,662pln that made 579,97pln. Bank and sending
cost was 30,30pln, what made 549,67pln. With 1$=3.94pln we were able
to send you 139,52$.
BTW our wedding took place on 24th April, but i took us some (too
much) time to send a check. Finally we did it yesterday, on May 25th.
Please let us now, when (and if) money will arrive. We don't want it
to get lost somewhere over Atlantic :-)
Few words about us: Joanna Maksymiuk is a student of philosophy at Curie-Sklodowska University
(Lublin, Poland). Jaroslaw Lipszyc is an editor of Warsaw daily Zycie Warszawy, but also a poet (all
works avalaible under GNU GPL), part of the Copyleft Art project and
one of translators of
Lawrence Lessig book "Free Culture."
Thank you for all your efforts in making our world a better place.
Supporting you is a pleasure.
Joanna and Jaroslaw
from Warsaw, Poland
PS.
more photos from our wedding you will find here.
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