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Dear All,
Welcome to the inaugural Creative Commons Newsletter. Every other month we'll
inform you of some of the most interesting news from the CC ecosystem in bite size
pieces. If you want to drink from the firehose, subscribe to the CC weblog with one
of the links at the end of this email.
We are working to strengthen our relationship with you - our community of users
and supporters. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or suggestions
about how we can continue to grow this relationship. CC and the broader movement Above: Ito, Joi. “Melissa Reeder.”
for a global digital commons would not be nearly as significant as it is today - only CC BY 2.0 http://flickr.com/photos/
5 years later -without your continuous support. joi/463728506/
Melissa Reeder
Development Coordinator
Creative Commons
This PDF version of the ccNewsletter was remixed by Creative
Commons Philippines. The repackaged newsletter is licensed
under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
CONTENTS
INSIDE CC CC USE CASES AND SHOUTOUTS
3 Retiring standalone DevNations and one Sampling 9 -Open Content Licensing - Cultivating the Creative
license Commons (book)
4 Livephotoblogging the CC Board -Overmundo and PCF win awards and support
10 -Another great Steve Jurvetson photo reused under
CC IN SCIENCE: FROM THE SCIENCE COMMONS BLOG a CC license
5 -Sparc Announce New Tools for Scholarly -A Story of Healing becomes First Academy Award
Publishing Winning Film Released under Creative Commons
-EU Commission calls for emphasis on knowledge License
11 CC Australia and the CC Video Slam!
CC IN BUSINESS 13 -CC licensed podcast wins Nebula Award
6 Creative Commons in Newspapers, Scientists, Film -blip.tv, Flickr, and WikiTravel win Webby Awards
Students, and Wikipedia SEOers (!?)
7 Sun CEO: free media = free software, innovation
!= litigation
8 -Sony launches CC-enabled video site
-O’Reilly on free downloads vs sales
We rely on our supporters to continue our work enabling stories Creative Commons is sustained by the generous support of
like those listed above. Check it out: various organizations including the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the
DONATE Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public.
http://support.creativecommons.org/donate
CC STORE
http://support.creativecommons.org/store Backgrounds: Guerrero, Berne. “Grafitti.” CC BY 3.0. Includes
images from quatro.sinko. "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" CC BY
2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/93932066@N00/1293620650/
and deeners/Dino Laurel. "Tattoo Outline" CC BY 2.0 http://
www.flickr.com/photos/dinolaurel/160580125/
Inside CC
RETIRING STANDALONE DEVNATIONS AND ONE SAMPLING
LICENSE
by Lawrence Lessig Nations.) Because such an option would be attached to a
4 June 2007 standard CC license, it would not conflict with the principle
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7520 we are announcing here. Based upon the feedback we
get to that idea, we will decide whether to implement it.
Today we are retiring two of the Creative Commons The Sampling License presents a similar concern. Until
licenses — the stand alone Developing Nations license, today, we have offered three versions of the Sampling
as well as one of the three Sampling licenses we offer. license. Two of those versions permit noncommercial
The reasons for these retirements are both practical and sharing of the licensed work (SamplingPlus, and
principled. Noncommercial SamplingPlus). One (the Sampling
License) only permits the remix of the licensed work, not
The practical reason is simple lack of interest: From the the freedom to share it. There is a strong movement to
start, Creative Commons has promised to keep our family convince Creative Commons that our core licenses at
of licenses as simple as possible. Actual demand has been least permit the freedom to share a work
one of the key indicators of how simple things can be. We noncommercially.
estimate just 0.01% of our existing licenses are Developing
Nations licenses, and 0.01% are the version of the Creative Commons supports that movement. We will not
Sampling license that we are retiring. Those numbers adopt as a Creative Commons license any license that
say that these licenses are not in demand. does not assure at least this minimal freedom — at least
not without substantial public discussion. We are grateful
The principled reasons are different with each license. for the feedback, and for the understanding of those who
The Developing Nations license is in conflict with the helped us craft the sampling licenses, both of which got
growing “Open Access Publishing” movement. While the us here.
license frees creative work in the developing nations, it
does not free work in any way elsewhere. This means This change does not affect any existing licensed work.
these licenses do not meet the minimum standards of the The links to these licenses, and every Creative Commons
Open Access Movement. Because this movement is so license, will always remain valid. The only change we’re
important to the spread of science and knowledge, we no making today is that we will no longer offer these licenses
longer believe it correct to promote a stand alone version on our licensing page.
of this license. Later this month, we will begin a discussion
about adding the terms of the Developing Nations license To read more about these retirements, please visit our
to 5 of the other CC licenses, and giving users the option retired licenses page. [1]
to include those terms in their license. (So, for example,
you could select a BY-NC license for the developed world, Endnotes
but offer a BY license for creators within Developing
1 http://creativecommons.org/retiredlicenses
Cover: Guerrero, Berne
Berne. “Mainstream?” CC BY 3.0. Includes images from deeners/Dino
Laurel. "Tattoo Outline" CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinolaurel/160580125/;
Fractal Artist/Cheryl "011 Inside of Pottery Bowl Close-up" CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/
photos/8720628@N04/2188745824/; Katmere/Kate Mereand "Grafitti/Art/Mural" CC
BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/katmere/89080470/ and "Dentist Safari" CC BY 2.0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katmere/89072187/; eva101/eva "Brooklyn grafitti" CC BY
2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/evapro/347812641/
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LIVEPHOTOBLOGGING THE CC BOARD
by Mike Linksvayer
17 May 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7458
Creative Commons Board Chair Joi Ito took some great
pictures at a recent CC board[1] meeting. Here’s the Flickr
set,[2] all under CC Attribution.[3]
Eric Saltzman, Jamie Boyle, Eric Eldred
[4]
Michael Carroll (check out his blog)
Joi Ito on Leicaism. [5]
Laurie Racine, Lawrence Lessig
Endnotes
1 http://creativecommons.org/about/people
2 http://flickr.com/photos/joi/sets/72157600226435761
3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
4 http://carrollogos.org/
5 http://joi.ito.com/archives/2007/03/24/
leica_otaku_bliss.html
CC in Science CC in Science
S CIENCE C OMMONS , SPARC EU C OMMISSIONER CALLS FOR
A NNOUNCE N EW T OOLS FOR EMPHASIS ON KNOWLEDGE
SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
by Kaitlin Thaney by Kaitlin Thaney
17 May 2007 10 April 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7457 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7381
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/04/
10/eu-commissioner-gree/
From the Science Commons blog …[1]
From the Science Commons blog …[1]
“Together with SPARC[2] and MIT,[3] we are proud to
announce the release of a set of online tools designed to A commissioner of Science and Research for the European
help authors retain rights over their scholarly works, Union has called for “knowledge” to be added as the fifth
including the right to self-archive their material. community freedom. The four other freedoms recognized
from the EU Treaty are goods, services, capital and labor.
The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine[4] is one of
these tools, making it easier for authors to select and Janez Potocnik proposed this idea at the launch of his
attach an addendum to the standard copyright transfer green paper, “The European Research Area: New
form, allowing them to amend the traditional terms of Perspectives”, last week. The paper outlines the
agreement with publishers. The Addendum Engine makes components necessary to maximize the potential in the
this as simple as point-and-click. European Research Area (ERA) with a new emphasis -
the movement of knowledge.
The tool can be found on the Science Commons,[5] SPARC[6]
and MIT[7] Web sites, and can also be readily implemented From the paper, he writes:
on university sites, such as our first adopter - Carnegie
Mellon University. By providing the means to easily plug “Generation, diffusion and exploitation of
in the addendum generator on sites such as Carnegie knowledge are at the core of the research system.
Mellons, the tool takes on a new role, serving as a In particular, access to knowledge generated by
university toolkit. the public research base and its use by business
and policymakers lie at the heart of the European
Through the Addendum Engine,[8] authors can choose Research Area, where knowledge must circulate
from an array of provided addenda, some of which have without barriers throughout the whole society.
been consolidated in order to address the problem of
addenda proliferation. This is true of the Science State-of-the-art knowledge is crucial for
Commons and SPARC addenda, named “Access-Reuse”, successful research in any scientific discipline.
a combination of the SPARC Author Addendum and the Reliable, affordable and permanent access to,
Science Commons Publish-Creative Commons and widespread dissemination of, scientific
Addendum. research results should therefore become defining
principles for Europe’s research landscape. The
For details on specifying a default agreement and to digital era has opened up numerous possibilities
integrate the addendum generator onto your Web site in this respect.”
like Carnegie Mellon, see http://
w i k i . c r e a t i v e c o m m o n s . o r g / Sharing knowledge, as Potocnik discusses, is critical in
Scholars_Copyright_Integration. science. But there is little open, public infrastructure for
knowledge management in the sciences. Knowledge is
We invite you to take a look at the other addenda and more than just data or papers. Knowledge is also implicit
materials part of this release. For more information about in the tools and knowhow of science - the “tacit”
knowledge that is hard to codify and share using the
Tools for Scholarly Publishing > 12 Emphasis on Knowledge > 12
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CREATIVE COMMONS FOR NEWSPAPERS, SCIENTISTS, FILM
STUDENTS AND WIKIPEDIA SEOERS(!?)
by Mike Linksvayer Scientists: [5]
3 May 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7419 Scientists do not need, and indeed should not have,
exclusive (or any) control over who can copy their
papers, and who can make derivative works of their
Four articles turned up yesterday all advocating use of papers.
different Creative Commons licenses in different contexts,
nicely demonstrating the not-really-niche-anymore scope The very progress of science is based on derivative
covered by Creative Commons. works! It is absolutely essential that somebody else
who attempts to reproduce your experiment be able
Newspapers:[1] to publish results that you don’t like if those are the
results they have. Standard copyright, however, gives
In GateHouse’s case, they’ve reserved the right to the copyright holders of a paper at least a plausible
commercialize, the right to preserve the content’s legal basis on which to challenge the publication of a
integrity, and the right of attribution. [Attribution- paper that attempts to reproduce the results— clearly
NonCommercial-NoDerivs] [2] a derivative work!
It’s all “part of being a good partner on the web,” …
says Howard Owens, GateHouse Media’s Director
of Digital Publishing. After GateHouse publications The sort of copyright that we need is something like
kept on receiving requests from local non-profit and an “Attribution-Share Alike” Creative Commons
community groups to republish GateHouse articles license.[6] We absolutely should not have, nor should
in their own newsletters, he pushed to license journals have, any sort of exclusive right to prevent
everything under Creative Commons, effectively reuse of our papers. But we do need credit and
stripping out the cumbersome request procedure and citation.
streamlining the whole process.
Film Students[7] (PDF):[8]
There was simply no downside to licensing content
under Creative Commons, adds Owens, who believes 2) The issue of auteur theory is easily solved through
it would work just as well for a large newspaper the use of CC licenses.
publisher as for a small one. a. As USC doesn’t believe in auteur theory, CC
licenses would allow all students who worked
… on a given film the same rights towards free
distribution.
The “web is a network economy,” says Owens, 3) CC licenses allow for commercial restriction
“Everybody online should use Creative Commons.” while allowing for free distribution and the ability
Sharing content through hyperlinks and other means to allow others to freely build upon work.
is built into the architecture of the web. As ad dollars a. It can be assumed that commercial viability
continue to migrate online, and content becomes is of utmost concern to SCA (in comparison
more and more open, it will be difficult to facilitate between SCA’s IP policy and that of LMU) in
the sharing content unless newspaper publishers continuing to allow special agreements with
loosen their belts and use a license like Creative SAG and local insurance companies
Commons that clearly defines what is and isn’t i. CC licenses can specifically allow for
allowed. that commercial restriction [Attribution-
NonCommercial][9]
We blogged[3] about GateHouse Media[4] a few months
ago.
CC in Business
S UN CEO: FREE MEDIA = FREE
SOFTWARE , INNOVATION !=
LITIGATION
Wikipedia SEOers:[10] by Mike Linksvayer
15 May 2007
Don’t add photos to entries that are not Creative http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7541
Commons licensed because those will get removed
because of copyright infringement. Not just any
Creative Commons license will do. It should allow Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has a fine blog post in which
for commercial use. [Attribution[11] or Attribution- he describes the Sun’s decision[1] to pursue an “open”
ShareAlike][12] strategy rather than prosecute the “open” world and its
results:
Apart from the CC recommendation, this last article really
points to the benefits of the Wikipedia community. In essence, we decided to innovate, not litigate.
Normally ’search engine optimization’[13] is associated with
people basically attempting to scam the search engines’ Further down:
anti-spam defenses, but most of the article’s tips on
participating in Wikipedia are for the good — it’s hard to
get any value out of Wikipedia without adding value for All of which is to say - no amount of fear can
others, i.e., it’s hard to scam the Wikipedia community. stop the rise of free media, or free software (they
are the same, after all). The community is vastly
Endnotes more innovative and powerful than a single
company. And you will never turn back the clock
1 http://www.adotas.com/2007/05/share-and-share-
on elementary school students and developing
alike-traversing-the-world-of-newspapers-online-content-
and-creative-commons-licensing/ economies and aid agencies and fledgling
2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ universities - or the Fortune 500 - that have found
3 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7179 value in the wisdom of the open source
4 http://www.gatehousemedia.com/ community. Open standards and open source
5 http://scienceblogs.com/interactions/2007/05/ software are literally changing the face of the
copyright_and_scientific_paper_1.php planet - creating opportunity wherever the
6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ network can reach.
7 http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/freeculture/?p=34
8 http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/freeculture/
Nice to see this nod to open media. What company will
SCA_IP_Policy_White_Paper.pdf
9 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ be the Sun equivalent in the media space? Creative
10 http://searchengineland.com/070503-065513.php Commons will be a key part of that company’s strategy,
11 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ as open standards and more recently open source have
12 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ been key for Sun. The rest of the industry will follow.
13 h t t p : / / e n . w i k i p e d i a . o r g / w i k i /
Search_engine_optimization Endnotes
1 http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/what_we_did
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S ONY L AUNCHES CC- ENABLED O’REILLY ON FREE DOWNLOADS VS
VIDEO SITE SALES
by Mike Linksvayer by Mike Linksvayer
29 April 2007 2 June 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7419 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7518
Sony has launched eyeVio,[1] a CC-enabled video sharing Book publisher Tim O’Reilly writes:[1]
site, which looks like a very slick (massive use of DHTML,
AJAX, rounded corners, and other Web 2.0 techniques) As part of our continued effort to understand
and Japanese language only YouTube. the impact on book sales of the availability of
free downloads, I wanted to share some data
on downloads versus sales of the book Asterisk:
The Future of Telephony,[2] by Leif Madsen, Jared
Smith, and Jim Van Meggelen, which was
released for free download[3] under a Creative
Commons license. [4]
Jeremy McNamara of nufone.net,[5] which
operates one of the mirrors, provided us with
download stats, which we were then able to
compare with book sales. Our goal of course, is
to help publishers understand whether free
eyeVio enables choosing any of the six main CC licenses
downloads help or hurt sales. The quick answer
when uploading a video.
from this experiment is that we saw no definitive
correlation, but there is little sign that the free
The John Perry Barlow/Jack Valenti[2] video played at the
downloads hurt sales. More than 180,000
Creative Commons launch on December 16, 2002, is
copies were downloaded from Jeremy’s mirror
embedded in http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/
(which is one of five!), yet the book has still been
7419, courtesy of eyeVio.
quite successful, selling almost 19,000 copies
in a year and a half. This is quite good for a
technical book these days — the book comes in
at #23 on our lifetime-to-date sales list for the
“class of 2005? (books published in 2005)
despite being released at the end of September.
You might argue that the book would have done
even better without the downloads, especially
given the success of asterisk and the importance
of VoIP. But it’s also the case that the book is far
and away the bestseller in the category, far
outperforming books on the same subject from
Jack Valenti[3] died last week. Creative Commons founder
other publishers.
and CEO Lawrence Lessig paid respects on his blog. [4]
Read the whole post with graphs at http://radar.oreilly.com/
Endnotes
archives/2007/06/free_downloads.html.
1 http://eyevio.jp/
2 http://eyevio.jp/movie/4538
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti
4 http://lessig.org/blog/archives/003757.shtml O’Reilley > 12
CC Use Cases & Shoutouts CC Use Cases & Shoutouts
O PEN C ONTENT L ICENSING - C ONGRATULATIONS TO
C ULTIVATING THE C REATIVE O VERMUNDO AND M IRO /
COMMONS DEMOCRACY/PARTICIPATORY
CULTURE FOUNDATION
by Eva by Mike Linksvayer
2 April 2007 2 June 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7305 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7519
“What if Rupert Murdoch’s Fox … bought the rights to Two important CC friendly organizations have received
Socrates’ dinner parties?” - Richard Neville major kudos and support recently.
“Never in our history have fewer exercised more power Brazilian free culture site Overmundo [1] won the
over our culture than now.” - Professor Lawrence Lessig prestigious Prix Ars Electronica[2] 2007 Golden Nica for
Best Digital Community. CC won the 2004 Golden Nica
It is a great pleasure to announce the release of Open for Net Vision[3] and we’ve highlighted Overmundo
Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a before, including at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
new publication of Sydney University Press[1] in conjunction entry/6155.
with the Queensland University of Technology[2] and the
ARC Centre for Excellence for Creative Industries and The Democracy media player (soon to be known as
Innovation.[3] Edited by the Creative Commons Australia Miro),[4] a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation,
project lead, Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Open Content won second prize at Netsquared[5] out of 21 participants
Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons brings and hundreds of submissions, as recommended at http:/
together papers from some of the most prominent thinkers /creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7377.
of our time on the internet, law and the importance of
open content licensing in the digital age. PCF also recently received[6] a $100,000 grant from the
Mozilla Foundation. The announcement[7] also has some
Drawing on material presented at the Queensland nice words about a previous recipient…
University of Technology conference of the same name
in January 2005, the text provides a snapshot of the [W]e have been able to provide resources to
thoughts of over 30 Australian and international experts both individuals and projects whose efforts
– including Professor Lawrence Lessig, Futurist Richard represent what we’re hoping to support. For
Neville and the Hon Justice Ronald Sackville – on topics example, we gave a grant to Creative Commons
surrounding the international Creative Commons, from last quarter because CC is an organization that
the landmark Eldred v Ashcroft copyright term decision very much pursues the same ideas and principles
to the legalities of digital sampling in a remix world. set forth in Mozilla’s mission[8] and the Mozilla
Manifesto.[9] (Just to restate it, the Mozilla mission
A PDF version of the book is available under a Creative is to provide choice and innovation on the
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives Internet.)
licence from the QUT e-Prints Archive.[4] Hardcopies (also
under a BY-NC-ND licence) can be ordered from the In our last board meeting, it was decided that
Sydney University Press.[5] Individual chapters are available Mozilla would give a $100,000 grant to the
for free electronic downloaded at http:// Participatory Culture Foundation, the makers of
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1559. the Democracy Player. PCF, like CC, aligns well
with Mozilla and its manifesto. Additionally, PCF
For more information on the book and its contents, see has projects that are built partly on Mozilla’s
http://creativecommons.org.au/ocl. technology.
Open Content Licensing > 12 Congratulations > 12
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ANOTHER GREAT STEVE JURVETSON “A STORY OF HEALING” BECOMES
PHOTO REUSED UNDER A CC FIRST ACADEMY AWARD WINNING
LICENSE FILM RELEASED UNDER A CREATIVE
COMMONS LICENSE
by Eric Steuer by Mike Linksvayer
27 April 2007 18 April 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7415 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7402
Steve Jurvetson[1] let us know about a very cool recent Interplast announced today[1] the release of its 1997
reuse of one of his CC-licensed photos. This[2] incredible Academy Award winning documentary A Story of
macro shot of an ant was used to accompany an article[3] Healing[2] under a Creative Commons Attribution-
on UCSF’s website about chitin and allergic inflammation. NonCommercial-NoDerivatives[3] license.
Ten years later, this is the first time an Academy Award
winning film has been released under a CC license. Kudos
to Interplast for realizing that this film, which makes a
compelling case for Interplast’s work, will become more
valuable to the organization as more people have the
opportunity to view it.
To view A Story of Healing visit the Interplast website.[4]
The film is also downloadable from blip.tv,[5] and wherever
you share it!
Digg it! at http://digg.com/movies/
Academy_Award_winning_documentary_released_under_
Creative_Commons_license
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/) Update: Press release at http://creativecommons.org/
licensed under CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
2.0/)
press-releases/2007/04/“a-story-of-healing”-becomes-
first-academy-award®-winning-film-released-under-a-
Jurvetson’s photography has been used under CC licenses creative-commons-license/
many times in print and on TV. As he says in this discussion[4]
about Creative Commons on Flickr: Endnotes
I use a simple attribution license which for me is 1 http://interplast.blogs.com/interplast/2007/04/
just perfect. It maximizes the freedom for reuse a_story_of_heal.html
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Story_of_Healing
while maintaining a channel for attention back
3 http://creativecommons.org/lienses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
to this photoblog. 4 http://interplast.org/astoryofhealing.php
5 http://interplast.blip.tv/file/196797/
And it really works. I never imagined that my
photos would be used by anyone, and certainly
not in the unusual places that they have so far…
including: Maxim Magazine, Science magazine, Endnotes
on TV with the Charlie Rose Show, the cover of a
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jurvetson
board game, and numerous textbooks, even one 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/70704300
for the blind (go figure!)… Some examples may 3 http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/
be found in http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 200704205.html
jurvetson/sets/72157594313529657. 4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/470406451/
CC Use Cases & Shoutouts
CC AUSTRALIA AND THE CC VIDEO SLAM!
by Jon Phillips www.horsebazaar.com.au/) a great digital-arts
16 May 2007 bar in the heart of Melbourne that hosts the Digital
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7455 Fringe Festival each year. Elliott Bledsoe and I
from CCau were both there to help with training
and addressing tricky issues (eg licence
Someone has to pick up the slack on reporting on all of compatibility, searching etc).
CC Australia’s great work. I guess that will be me. Check
out what Jessica Coates said[1] on the cc-community mailing What we ended up with was a 10 minute film
list. [2] that incorporates 110 CC-licensed works –
photos, video, sound, music. This final product
Just wanted to drop you a quick line to point out was screened in Horse Bazaar and on the big
a great collaborative film project CCau took part screen in Melbourne’s cultural hub, Federation
in over the weekend – the Open Channel Video Square, at 7pm Monday 14 May. It’s also
Slam (http://www.openchannel.org.au/artslaw/ available for download under a BY-NC-SA licence
index.html). Apologies for cross posts. at http://openchannel.org.au/blogs/videoslam/.
Basically the idea was to produce one 10 minute It was a truly amazing experience, and a great
film, made entirely out of CC and original content, learning curve for both us and the participants.
by locking 22 filmmakers in a bar for 33 hours Elliott and Andrew both documented the
a whole lot of equipment, wireless internet access, experience on their blogs (http://
and coffee, alcohol and pizza. The event was openchannel.org.au/blogs/videoslam/ and http:/
organised by Andrew Garton of the Open /elliottsawitfirst.blogspot.com/). We’re also
Channel Screen Resource Centre (http:// hoping to write up some of the lessons learned
www.openchannel.org.au) a government funded in an article, and maybe even an academic
film production and training centre, and was paper.
hosted by Horse Bazaar (http://
Jessica Coates
CCau
The question I have, is can this model spread? Who might
be interested in doing this type of event? Hop onto our
discussion list[3] (cc-community) and/or blog about how
you might do this type of event and link here for permalink
trackback fun.
Endnotes
1 http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2007-
May/001806.html
2 http://creativecommons.org/discuss
3 http://ceativecommons.org/discuss
flash photography and screams/elliott bledsoe. "Video
Slam" CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/
flashphotographyandscreams/495705409/
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BLIP.TV,
FLICKR, AND WIKITRAVEL the launch, please read the official press release.[9] You
can also learn more about this project on our Web site,[10]
WIN WEBBY AWARDS or by visiting SPARC[11] and MIT. [12]“
Endnotes
1 http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/05/
by Eric Steuer 17/scae-launch/
1 May 2007 2 http://www.arl.org/sparc
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7424 3 http://www.mit.edu/
4 http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
5 http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
6 http://www.arl.com/sparc
The winners of this year’s Webby Awards [1] were
7 http://www.mit.edu/
announced[2] today, and prominent CC license users 8 http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
blip.tv,[3] Flickr,[4] and Wikitravel[5] were among them. 9 http://creativecommons.org/resources/press/press-
Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners! releases/scae-launch/
10 http://creativecommons.org/projects/publishing/scae/
Endnotes 11 http://www.arl.org/sparc
12 http://www.mit.edu/
1 http://www.webbyawards.com/
2 http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php
3 http://blip.tv/
4 http://www.flickr.com/ 8 < O’Reilley
5 http://wikitravel.org/
Also see one O’Reilly author’s perspective blogged here
5 < Emphasis on Knowledge in January: Linux Kernel in a Nutshell: The Secret Goal.[6]
traditional systems. It’s important to focus on how new Endnotes
technologies like Semantic Web can codify knowledge
and how transaction systems can move physical knowledge 1 h t t p : / / r a d a r. o r e i l l y. c o m / a r c h i v e s / 2 0 0 7 / 0 6 /
(think biological materials) between scientists, just as it’s free_downloads.html
important to work on moving papers and data around. 2 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/
3 http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/
index.php?id=11
The initiatives proposed in Potocnik’s green paper call for
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similar solutions, stressing that the ERA needs an “internal 5 http://www.nufone.net/
market” for research, where researchers, technology and 6 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7201
knowledge can move “freely”.
To read more about the Green Paper launch and
Potocnik’s thoughts, see their press release.[2] You can 9 < Congratulations
also read this paper in its entirety on the ERA’s Web site.[3]
Congratulations to Overmundo and PCF and thanks to
Endnotes Prix Ars Electronica and Mozilla!
1 http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/ Endnotes
2 h t t p : / / c o r d i s . e u r o p a . e u /
fetch?CALLER=NEWS_ERA&ACTION=D&RCN=27454 1 http://www.overmundo.com.br/
&DOC=1&CAT=NEWS&QUERY=4 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Ars_Electronica
3 http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/index_en.html 3 h t t p : / / w w w. a e c . a t / d e / a r c h i v e s / p r i x _ a r c h i v e /
prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=12866
9 < Open Content Licensing 4 http://www.getmiro.com/
5 http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo/maplight-
Endnotes org-miro-and-freecycle-network-receive-most-votes-n2y2
6 http://www.getdemocracy.com/news/2007/05/a-grant-
1 http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/ from-mozilla/
2 http://www.qut.edu.au/ 7 http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/05/29/mozilla-
3 http://www.cci.edu.au/ grant-to-pcf/
4 http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00006677/ 8 http://www.mozilla.org/about/
5 http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781920898519 9 http://www.mozilla.org/about/mozilla-manifesto.html
CC Use Cases & Shoutouts CC Use Cases & Shoutouts
CC LICENSED PODC AST WINS CC SEARCH ARCHIVE . ORG AND
NEBULA AWARD MORE WITH SPINXPRESS
by Mike Linksvayer by Mike Linksvayer
13 May 2007 16 April 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7451 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7392
Last night the podcast edition of James Patrick Kelly’s As recently promised[1] we’ve added an exciting new CC-
Hugo-nominated novella Burn[1] won the Nebula Award enabled search service to search.creativecommons.org.
for best science fiction/fantasy novella published in the
U.S. during the two previous years. Cory Doctorow writes SpinXpress Get Media[2] searches the Internet Archive’s
on Boing Boing:[2] massive audio and video collections as well as media at
several other sites, including Magnatune, Flickr, and blip.tv
As far as I know, that makes it the first Creative and allows filtering searches by desired source, media
Commons licensed work and the first podcast to type, and license.
win an Nebula.
We’re extremely pleased that the Internet Archive’s[3]
That’s one small step for James Patrick Kelly, one giant collections are now easily searchable via
leap for podcasting and Creative Commons (sorry, groan search.creativecommons.org, as archive.org has been
if you must). an important supporter of Creative Commons works from
the beginning (check out ccPublisher[4] for a cross plaform
Other recent CC-licensed award winners: desktop application that helps you license and take
advantage of archive.org hosting for your media).
* “A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award
Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons Jay Dedman of SpinXpress will be at Wednesday’s CC
License [3] Salon San Francisco[5] to present about CC integration
* Wikitravel Wins Webby Award [4] with Get Media and other SpinXpress applications.
Endnotes Endnotes
1 http://www.jimkelly.net/index.php?option=com_content 1 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7310
&task=view&id=84&Itemid=45 2 http://spinxpress.com/getmedia
2 h t t p : / / w w w. b o i n g b o i n g . n e t / 2 0 0 7 / 0 5 / 1 3 / 3 http://archive.org/
kellys_burn_a_creati.html 4 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher
3 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7402 5 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7388
4 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7427
About Creative Commons
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and artistic works—whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible range of
protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of
traditional copyright to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. It is sustained by the generous support of
various organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett
Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public.
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