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BoCon: Creative Commons

Mike Linksvayer, <ml@creativecommons.org>


Licensed under CC Attribution 2.5

Creative Commons

Free Culture and Open Source

Business

Your Part

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Creative Commons ORG

Get Creative

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Six Licenses + Public Domain

Three Layers

"Legal code"

33 jurisdictions

Upheld

"Human readable code"

~20 languages

"Machine readable code"

CC Search

Yahoo!

Google

Flickr

Blip.tv

November: Audio

Quantity

140 million

23 million photos on Flickr alone

280 thousand mp3s on Soundclick; plus Archive.org, Jamendo, Magnatune, Freesound...

Quality; e.g.,

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Bob Ostertag

Pat Chilla/lonelygirl15

Cory Doctorow

Ways to think about CC

Innovation and [Re]creativity

Free Speech

Lowering Transaction Costs

Cultural Environmentalism

Legacy Insurance

Peer Production

Open Source

No discrimination based on field of use

Users can modify and share modifications

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Media 20 years behind software?

Free Software and Free Culture Need Each Other

DRM

Open formats

Lower barriers to access

Mutually reinforcing success

Learnings

Collaboration and community

Business

Hinging on rights reserved

Commercial licensing

Escape from other restrictions/requirements

Like GPL/private license split (e.g., MySQL)

Irrespective of rights

Taken for granted

Salary and grants

Advertising

Sponsorship

Get Hired

Paid Performance

Like "support" open source strategy

Democratic Patronage?

Street Performer Protocol

Distributed Patronage Protocol

Dominant Assurance Contracts

"FairShare"

Business Business

Acquisition (e.g., Wikitravel)

Community as the new IP

People will pay to create

Why give up some rights?

Create opportunities to be paid

Obscurity is the biggest enemy

Almost all people who haven't paid you don't know who you are

NB: Wrong Policy Question

Maximize consumer surplus

Your Part

Create and share!

~Art

Code

http://developer
.creativecommons.org

Recreate and share!

http://ccmixter.org

Become an expert

Become a tastemaker

Get educated

Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

Science Commons

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