I gave a talk yesterday on Creative Commons at Social Media Art Camp (SMartCAMP) which also ustreamed live at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5261313. It is ideal for those who are artist creators and/or part of arts organizations/projects/institutions.
10. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered in
San Francisco with 30 employees around the
world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
11. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered in
San Francisco with 30 employees around the
world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
• We do not offer legal services.
12. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered in
San Francisco with 30 employees around the
world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
• We do not offer legal services.
We offer free legal and technology tools that
allow creators to publish their works on more
flexible terms than standard copyright.
13. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered in
San Francisco with 30 employees around the
world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
• We do not offer legal services.
We offer free legal and technology tools that
allow creators to publish their works on more
flexible terms than standard copyright.
Terms that allow public sharing, reuse, and
remix.
14. C
Before 1976
• Default was free
• U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Any work fixed in a tangible
medium
15. C
Copyright
• Law designed to govern creative
and expressive works
• Encourage creation and promote
dissemination
16. C
Before the Internet
• Creation and dissemination were
via the printing press or film reels
• When it wasnʼt so easy to make
copies
27. C Fair use, or Copyrights Exceptions &
Limitations (CEL)
• No blanket protection for one kind of
use (ie. educational uses)
• Rather relies on a host of factors
• Can only be determined on a case
by case basis, usually in a court of law
• Varies drastically by jurisdiction
(country to country)
28. A lot of creators want to share,
especially
globally.
=
Musicians, ryancr
http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
artists, and educators participate
in a sharing and remix culture.
29. A lot of creators want to share,
especially
globally.
=
Musicians, ryancr
http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
artists, and educators participate
in a sharing and remix culture.
31. C
2003 - Eldred v. Ashcroft
• Challenged Constitutionality of the
1998 Copyright Extension Act
• constantly expanding the term
undermines the original intent of
copyright
32. “To promote the Progress of Science
and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries.”
42. ✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”
43. ✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”
44. ✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”
✓ CC improves copyright by giving creators
a choice about which freedoms to grant and
which rights to keep
45. ✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”
✓ CC improves copyright by giving creators
a choice about which freedoms to grant and
which rights to keep
✓ CC minimizes transaction costs by granting
the public certain permissions beforehand
49. CC licenses are expressed in three
different ways:
human-readable lawyer-readable legal machine-readable
commons deed code metadata
<a rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons
License" style="border-width:0"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/
l/by/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a><br /
>This work is licensed under a <a
rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
3.0/us/">Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 United States
License</a>.
82. “CC allows us to change as we grow and
thatʼs very valuable – it means we can
take small steps toward larger goals and
do so as the institution feels comfortable.”
84. The Sharing Landscape in Culture before CC
Permission Culture
Copyright Exceptions and
Limitations, ie. Fair use
Underground or “Guerrilla”
sharing
85. The Sharing Landscape in Culture after CC
Permission Culture
Pre-cleared permissions via CC
Copyright Exceptions and
Limitations, ie. Fair use
Visible sharing
Remix culture: a community of
creators/organizations/institutions
not only sharing, but improving
adapting, remixing, innovating
86. Attribute to c with a link to
creativecommons.org
Creative Commons, ccLearn, the double C in a circle and the open Book in a circle are
registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other countries.
Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.
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So &#x2013; looking at how the CC licences are being used
According to the latest statistics from the CC website, there are currently about 140million webpages that use a CC licence
As you can see, almost all of them contain the BY element &#x2013; that&#x2019;s because it was made compulsory for all the licences except the public domain licences after the first year, because pretty much everybody was using it anyway
The majority also, unsurprisingly, choose the non-commercial element
Interestingly, next most popular is ShareAlike, not noderivatives &#x2013; this shows that there is still a strong focus on fostering creativity among CC community, and that, rather than trying to lock their material up, people are happy for it to be remixed, as long as the new work is also sharedEven more interesting is how these statistics are changing over time
Even more interestingly &#x2013; if you look at how the licences is being used over time, people are gradually moving towards more liberal licences with less restrictions on them
This movement seems to indicate that as people become more familiar with the licences, they are more comfortable allowing greater use
This is supported by anecdotal evidence from CC users who, after initially publishing their material under restrictive licences that don&#x2019;t allow derivatives, often &#x2018;re-release&#x2019; their material to allow new works
