CC case studies book draft available
View Comments Published by elliott bledsoe on Thursday, 31 July 2008 at 11:53 AM
There is a draft version of Volume 1 of the Creative Commons Case Studies Book is available for perusal. The book is sectioned into clusters, drawing together examples of people and projects using Creative Commons around the Asia-Pacific.
Creative Commons licences have had a significant impact world-wide, with millions of creators opting to share their content with their peers. Since its inception in 2002, the Creative Commons initiative has shown stellar growth. Numerous communities have emerged, inspired and founded on the CC licensing scheme, and the recognition, collaboration, and commercialisation opportunities it provides.
This book is the first attempt to chronicle the tales of the Australasian commons.
Featuring over 60 case studies, it maps the current state of play surrounding free culture in the region. From private individuals to large corporations, the studies clearly show the mechanisms and motivations to share and experiment without the restrictions of the pre-digital era. Across the domains of democratic change, filmmaking, music, visual arts, libraries, museums, government, education and research, Australasian creators are making their mark. We encourage you to contribute your stories at the Creative Commons case studies wiki: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/casestudies.
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iSummit 2008 :: Gamble 005, 006 & 007
View Comments Published by elliott bledsoe on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 5:58 PMMorning tea called for sugar and there was plenty to masticate.
This was great! A little biscuit like a milk arrowroot with a thick chocolate base. *salivates*
This biscuit was nothing to special really, but you have to love that it is called Crunky!
Think Subway cookie: floppy, soft and doughy. Not so good.
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iSummit 2008 :: day 1 summary - morning session
View Comments Published by elliott bledsoe on at 11:03 AMHeather Ford's introductory keynote was a much needed 'let's step back' and reflect on what it is that the collective 'we' of the commons want to do. To help us think through this she posed two questions:
- Are we really developing global solutions to global problems?
- Is focusing on access rather than participation really the best outreach for the commons?
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iSummit 2008 :: CC international legal day overview - morning session
View Comments Published by elliott bledsoe on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 at 4:13 PMBut of course, the underlying concept of (little L) liberalism (as it exists in practice) is to limit exercising of one's rights where it affects the rights of another individual to do the same. One way to understand intellectual property is that it affects others' rights to reuse content because the owner can exclusively regulated the content. The pangs of copyright's "can't touch this" attitude.
Another important difference is that the intangibility of intellectual property means that the property can be used without excluding others which separates IP from real property which includes in the bundle of property rights the right to exclude others from enjoying/using that property. Of course that access by others is reflected in the balance between exclusive copyright right and public access (eg fair dealing exceptions). Locke himself requires that "there is enough, and as good left in common for others."
- Creative Commons is now in 47 jurisdictions. Since iSummit 2007 there has been more regional collaborations occurring. For example International Workshop on Asia in the Commons in the Information Age - Paul Keller.
- Creative Commons is moving towards Semantic Web as part of Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL). ccREL will express norms in metadata. CC+ and CC0 will rely on ccREL - Mike Linksvayer
- CC0 is currently in second BETA format. There is an internal working draft. There is more clarification of the issues around CC0 waiver issues - Dianne Peters
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Random ideas for iSummit
View Comments Published by elliott bledsoe on Monday, 28 July 2008 at 8:34 PMI'm over in Sapporo, Japan for the iSummit and a number of thoughts are going through my head. One I often have wondered about is why the Creative Commons sampling licences are not included as part of the standard licence generator. Surly you could have a system that incorporated the sampling options within the existing questions. Something like this:
Allow commercial uses of your work?
Yes
No
Allow modifications of your work?
Yes
Yes, as long as others share alike
Yes, but only sampling of the work
No
That way if someone answered yes to commercial and yes to sampling they would generate the sampling plus licence. If someone answered no to commercial and yes to sampling they would generate the noncommercial sampling plus.
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Today a bunch of us went to the Sapporo Beer Museum. Naturally, there were many things (mainly beer) to sample. We also tried some beer nibblies:
Gamble 003
Rachel tried the Sapporo Beer Crackers. Her thoughts? "Need more beer." That doesn't mean they aren't good, just that they are definitely an accompaniment.
Gamble 004
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iSummit 2008 :: Gamble 001 & 002
View Comments Published by elliott bledsoe on Sunday, 27 July 2008 at 11:35 PM
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Japan is a funny place. There are so many "interesting" things to see, touch and taste. Jessica Coates, Rachel Cobcroft and I are documenting our gambles with trying some of these things. Keep up with the gamble register using the 'gamble register' tag.
Gamble Scale
Here is the scale on a 1 - 5 scale (1 being the worst and 5 being the best)
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