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Dear All,
The second ccNewsletter is chock full of interesting information, use cases, and
stories that illustrate the need for Creative Commons within this growing digital world.
It also highlights what is happening internally here at CC and calls attention to the
work of others that we believe is important to the vitality of the free culture movement.
Melissa Reeder This PDF version of the ccNewsletter was remixed
Development Coordinator by Creative Commons Philippines.
Creative Commons The repackaged newsletter is licensed under
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
CONTENTS
INSIDE CC C ONGRATULATIONS , SHOUTOUTS , USE CASES AND
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quatro.sinko. "Ring of Fire." CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/
Backgrounds: Guerrero, Berne. Monochrome adaptation of the image of
3 -CC at OSCON, Eric Steuer on Slideshare INTERESTING TID-BITS
-Announcing ccLearn - the education division of 11 -DIY Now! (book)
Creative Commons -Finding and Quantifying Australia's Online
4 -CC Salon SF on WED, Aug. 8th from 7-9PM: Commons
Bittorrent and Intern Presentations! -Rhizome Integrates Creative Commons licenses
-CC Canada Podcasting Legal Guide into ArtBase
5 -Creative Commons statistics at iSummit 2007 12 -Wellcome Images Launches with CC Licenses
-Lessig at iSummit on the next 10 years -RAND Europe survey on Evaluation of Internet Self
6 Spoon to Headline Creative Commons Benefit Regulation, including CC
Concert to Kick Off WIRED NextFest in LA 13 -Mozilla visits [CC-]Brazil
-Superstars on ccMixter
CC IN SCIENCE: FROM THE SCIENCE COMMONS BLOG 14 -FOSS + Creative Commons LiveContent for
6 Science Commons' John Wilbanks in Popular libraries
Science -Mainstreaming open music
7 Nature Publishing Group launches free pre-print 15 -CC licensed Film Achieves Massive Popularity on
service for the biological sciences YouTube
-GPLv3
CC IN BUSINESS 16 -More media from CC Salon Seoul and upcoming
8 -Amarok developer hired by Magnatune CC Salon info
-Community content and money -Download "Good Copy Bad Copy"
9 PodTech Pays Lan Bui for CC Licensed Photograph
10 -Jamendo attracts VC funding
-Blast Magazine Chooses CC
Cover: Guerrero, Berne
Berne. “C-Flame.” CC BY 3.0. Includes images (all CC BY 2.0) from quatro.sinko.
"Ring of Fire." http://www.flickr.com/photos/93932066@N00/718320900/; "Medieval Fortifications."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93932066@N00/557485013/; "Getting the brainstorming juices flowing."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93932066@N00/557484809; creativecommoner/Creative Commons
- SF HQ
HQ.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/556069232/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/
creativecommons/645836136/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/644972127/;
"DSC03543" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559583784/; "Lawrence Lessig, CEO,
Creative Commons." http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559982955; "Eva!" http://
www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/556070572/; "Fouad Bajwa, Creative Commons Pakistan" http:/
/www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559947441; "Karien Bezuidenhout, Shuttleworth Foundation"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559601404/; "Grete Pasch" http://www.flickr.com/
photos/creativecommons/559950765/; "Joanne Boulle, Free High School Science Texts" http://
www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559582586/; "Michelle Thorne, CCi & Mount Holyoke Collge"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/569811553/; "Fumi Yamazaki, Technorati Japan" http:/
/www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559982007/; "Mark Surman" http://www.flickr.com/photos/
creativecommons/559583334; "Neeru" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559951617/;
"Gustavo Rodriguez, Cultura Libre, Creative Commons Venezuela" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559603880/; "Yueh
Hsin Chu, Pig Head Skin, Taiwan" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559984489/; "Russel John, Creative Commons,
Bangladesh" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559983651/; "Mavzuna Abdurakhmanova, OSI Tajikistan" http://
www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559581258/; "Nathaniel Stern, Artist in Residence" http://www.flickr.com/photos/
creativecommons/559602626/; "Tommy, a fabulous host" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/569367838/; "Joichi Ito, Chair
of Creative Commons Board" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559604490/; and "Ronaldo Lemos, Fundacion Getulio
Vargas, Brazil" http://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/559582270/
Inside CC Inside CC
CC AT OSCON, ERIC STEUER ON A NNOUNCING CC L EARN - THE
SLIDESHARE EDUCATION DIVISION OF CREATIVE
COMMONS
by Cameron Parkins by Ahrash Bissell
30 July 2007 25 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7588 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7583
We had a great time at OSCON[1] last week - Nathan Creative Commons[1] is pleased to announce the launch
Yergler,[2] CTO, and Jon Phillips,[3] Business + Community of a new division focused on education: ccLearn. [2]
Developer, gave two presentations on CC and the open
source community while Mozilla and CC held a party to ccLearn is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the
the jams of the one and only Menomena.[4] Although Internet to support open learning and open educational
somewhat delayed, here is a nice digital trail of our resources (OER).[3] Our mission is to minimize barriers to
escapades: sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal
barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.
* Nathan Yergler - Integrating CC Licensing with
Applications[5] (via slideshare.net) [6] * With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of
* Jon Phillips - Refining Copyright Oscon 2007 [7] educational materials under interoperable terms, such
* Mozilla/CC Party - Photos[8] (via flickr) [9] as those provided by Creative Commons licenses,
that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and
In other CC news, Eric Steuer, Creative Director, posted redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners,
two of his most recent presentations on slideshare.net as and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues
well - check them out at http://www.slideshare.net/ericcc/ pertaining to education.
creative-commons-presentation-for-the-july-11-2007-
yahoo-creative-talk-pdf-format/ and http:// * With technical barriers, we promote interoperability
www.slideshare.net/ericcc/creative-commons - standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
presentation-for-the-2007-stanford-professional-
publishing-course-pdf-format/. * With social barriers, we encourage teachers and
learners to re-use educational materials available on
Endnotes the Web, and to build on each other’s contributions.
1 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ ccLearn will be in transition over the remainder of the
2 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/ summer, 2007, reaching full operation this Fall. ccLearn
e_sess/14608
is generously supported by The William and Flora Hewlett
3 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/
e_sess/14607 Foundation[4] and is working closely with members of the
4 http://www.menomena.com/ Foundation’s Open Educational Resources Program.[5] This
5 http://www.slideshare.net/nyergler/integrating-cc- is an international project, and we will be working with
licensing-with-applications/ open educational sites and resources from around the
6 http://www.slideshare.net/ world.
7 http://www.slideshare.net/rejon/refining-copyright-
oscon-2007/ Endnotes
8 http://www.flickr.com/photos/9345516@N06/sets/
72157601022823190/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/
9 http://flickr.com/ 2 http://learn.creativecommons.org/
3 h t t p : / / e n . w i k i p e d i a . o r g / w i k i /
Open_educational_resources
4 http://www.hewlett.org/
5 http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/OER/
openEdResources.htm
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CC SALON SF ON WED, AUG 8 CC CANADA PODCASTING LEGAL
FROM 7-9 PM: BITTORENT AND GUIDE
INTERN PRESENTATIONS!
by Cameron Parkins by Cameron Parkins
25 July 2007 27 June 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7582 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7548
On Wednesday, Aug 8th, from 7-9 PM, we will be Creative Commons Canada has just released their
returning to Shinesf.com[1] (1337 Mission St. in San version[1] of the Creative Commons Podcasting Legal
Francisco)[2] for another Creative Commons Salon![3] A Guide,[2] ported specifically for Canadian laws and
quick turn-around (last months was to make up for our practices. The guide was handed out this weekend in
absence in June while at iSummit)[4] with tons of wonderful printed form at the Podcasters Across Borders conference
things in store. Apart from the presentations, it is a great in Kingston, Ontario and is available in PDF format on
opportunity to meet-up with others interested in Creative the CC Canada website.[3] The guide is released under a
Commons’ flexible licensing, technology and standards CC Canada Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike[4]
and informally discuss how we can all work together. licence.
Joining us will be Ashwin Navin,[5] President and Co- When it was first created, the Podcasting Legal Guide
Founder of Bittorent, Inc., who will be discussing the pertained specifically to the U.S., with the hope that other
overlaps between the CC community and Bittorent and jurisdictions would translate and adapt the guide for their
what this means in the near future. Also, all of this own jurisdiction in order to assist podcasters around the
summer’s interns (of which I am one) will be presenting world. CC Canada has done just that, and you can read
on what we’ve been up to for the past two months. It is what one of the original PLG authors has to say about it at
bound to be a joyous occasion and one that will surely http://www.rulesfortherevolution.com/2007/06/26/
bring tears to the eyes of the rest of the CC staff. podcasting-legal-guide-for-canada/. We hope this is the
first of many adaptations to come and that other jurisdictions
As always, music and drinks will top everything off. Here will be able to follow in CC Canada’s footsteps.
is the link on Upcoming[6] - we’ll see you there!
Endnotes
Endnotes
1 http://www.creativecommons.ca/blog/archives/2007/
1 http://shinesf.com/ 06/26/podcasting-legal-guide-for-canada/
2 h t t p : / / m a p s . g o o g l e . c o m / 2 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
maps?q=1337+Mission+St.+San+Francisco Podcasting_Legal_Guide
&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1 3 http://www.creativecommons.ca/
3 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Salon 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/
4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcb/565027189/
5 http://www.ashwinnavin.com/
6 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/199764/
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
Inside CC
CREATIVE COMMONS STATISTICS@ISUMMIT 2007
by Mike Linksvayer While the presentation is based on a snapshot from early
28 June 2007 this year, it includes some very interesting findings,
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7551 including an experimental index based on license choices
in different jurisdictions (e.g., Sweden seems to be the
most liberal so far), while Spain is the standout in terms
It has been a long time since we’ve posted a proper update of overall Creative Commons adoption.
on Creative Commons license adoption statistics,[1] so a
presentation on this topic was eagerly awaited at this year’s I’m really eager to see the results of this research published
Creative Commons international meetings at the iSummit. and for future research taking into account time series
data and additional sources. In the meantime Giorgos’
I led off with an overview presentation (PDF;[2] Scribd;[3] presentation is the place to start if you’re interested in CC
Slideshare).[4] Here are the major points: license adoption statistics. If you’re a researcher with
interest in this topic see contact information in the
* Metrics based on search engine queries are presentation. [9]
conceptually straightforward but highly volatile and
hard to verify, but the overall growth trend looks good. Addendum: Giorgos summarizes the main findings on
his blog.
* We’re also seeing strong growth at leading CC-
enabled content repositories and strong growth of
innovative CC-enabled repositories. Endnotes
1 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_statistics
* Upcoming challenges including measuring reuse. 2 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/images/f/f0/Cc-
stats-20070614.pdf
* Big mistake: not encouraging rigorous outside analysis 3 http://www.scribd.com/doc/130275/ccstats20070614
by people who know something about statistics long 4 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/creative-commons-
ago. metrics
5 http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/faculty/visiting/giorgos.asp
With that last point in mind, I’ve been thrilled to be in 6 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/images/3/31/CC-
correspondence with Giorgos Cheliotis[5] of Singapore Monitor_Findings_-_iSummit.pdf
7 http://www.scribd.com/doc/130277/CCMonitor-
Management University. Giorgos had been doing
Findings-iSummit
independent research on open culture and digital media 8 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/cc-monitor-findings-
ecosystem topics, including Creative Commons adoption. isummit
He has academic papers on the subject in the works and 9 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/images/3/31/CC-
we were very lucky to have him give us a taste at the Monitor_Findings_-_iSummit.pdf
iSummit. View his presentation: (PDF; [6] Scribd; [7] 10 http://hoikoinoi.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/cc-stats/
Slideshare). [8]
Inside CC
Watch CC founder/CEO Lawrence Lessig’s keynote at
LESSIG@ISUMMIT ON THE NEXT 10 YouTube[1] or eyeVio[2] with required reading on the next
10 years[3] at his blog.
YEARS
Endnotes
by Mike Linksvayer 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFEbm1C0yU
19 June 2007 2 http://eyevio.jp/channel/searchword_lessig/14469
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7539 3 http://lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml
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S POON TO HEADLINE C REATIVE S CIENCE C OMMONS ’ J OHN
COMMONS BENEFIT CONCERT TO WILBANKS IN POPULAR SCIENCE
KICK OFF WIRED NEXTFEST IN
LA
by Cameron Parkins by Kaitlin Thaney
22 June 2007 19 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7541 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7574
We are very pleased to announce that Spoon,[1] the Austin, This just in from PopSci.com … [1]
TX based rock-quartet, will headline a benefit concert for
Creative Commons on September 10, 2007, at the Henry “Will John Wilbanks Launch the Next Scientific
Fonda Theater in Los Angeles! Revolution?[2]
The concert will function not only as a fundraiser for CC, Using innovative copyrights and a Web 2.0
but also as a kick off for WIRED NextFest,[2] “a unique platform, John Wilbanks may just transform how
world’s-fair-style event showcasing future technologies scientific discoveries are made
in design, entertainment, communication, healthcare,
transportation, sustainable living and more”. NextFest will by Abby Seiff
be taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center
between September 13 and 16 - you can read WIRED’s When Pasteur had his eureka moment, the
press release about the concert and NextFest at http:// processes leading up to it were barely different
www.prweb.com/releases/2007/6/prweb535345.htm. than Archimedes’s. The scientist hypothesized,
created his tools, and executed his experiments
If that wasn’t enough, the concert will also serve as a with little need for input from his colleagues. My,
reunion of sorts for Spoon and “Keepon the Robot”. If how things have changed. As science has become
you have no clue who or what Keepon is, head over to increasingly complex and interconnected, even
YouTube[3] and prepare to be mesmerized. Look at that the smallest a-ha instance demands that
thing move! researchers spend the bulk of their time on grunt
work - combing through relevant journal articles
This is incredible news - we’ve got our calendars marked that are poorly annotated, begging colleagues
and are counting down the days. Tickets go on sale this for necessary materials (a biologist may need
Saturday (June 23rd) at 10AM and are only $20! Get specific cell lines, for instance), and tracking down
yours at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/ data sets. As scientific goals grow more
09003ECCF63CC858?artistid=772074 multifaceted, the challenges for research and
&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60 through developments lie not only in the experiments
Ticketmaster. themselves, but also in the transfer of information
among peers.
Endnotes
Enter John Wilbanks, executive director of the
1 http://www.spoontheband.com/ Science Commons initiative, and the six-year-
2 http://www.wirednextfest.com/ old innovation of its parent organization, Creative
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-yrjh58ms
Commons - an intelligent, understandable
copyright that’s revolutionizing how everything
from photos to publications are shared. Wilbanks
and his team (which includes Nobel Prize winners
Joshua Lederberg and John Sulston) are focused
on three areas where roadblocks to scientific
discovery are most common: in accessing
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N ATURE P UBLISHING G ROUP LAUNCHES FREE PRE - PRINT
SERVICE FOR THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
by Kaitlin Thaney seeking new ways to achieve this,” said Annette
22 June 2007 Thomas, [7] Managing Director of Nature
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7536 Publishing Group. “Precedings is an important
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/06/ new step for us and, we hope, the research
18/nature-launches-nature-precedings/ community. We are particularly proud to have
conceived and developed the service with the
From the Science Commons[1] blog[2] … help of a group of such highly esteemed
organizations; the British Library,[8] the European
“Today Nature Publishing Group[3] launches Nature Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), [9] Science
Precedings[4] – a free document sharing service for the Commons,[10] and the Wellcome Trust. [11] “
sciences. The service further enables scientists to share
their preliminary findings and research in a free Science Commons joins the list of partner organizations
environment, while allowing authors to retain copyright in support of this initiative, and as a member of Precedings’
in their work. All accepted contributions are released under Advisory Committee.
a Creative Commons Attribution license,[5] allowing for
the material to be reused and redistributed as long as it is “Science progresses through the open exchance
attributed to the author under terms specified. and reuse of ideas and data, but within a system
that provides proper credit for their originators,”
This is the biological equivalent of the physics arXiv,[6] but said John Wilbanks,[12] Executive Director of
with a critical improvement. Placing pre-prints online Science Commons.[13] “Creative Commons
solves the problem of an individual’s ability to access an licenses can help to achieve just that, and we
article. But in the absence of an explicit copyright license, are delighted they have found yet another scientific
it’s unclear what that individual can actually do with the use in Nature Precedings.”
downloaded file. Nature’s choice to use CC-BY is a
validation of the need to grant rights in advance to users, To access Precedings, visit http://precedings.nature.com.
and of the CC-BY license in a truly Open Access service.
Endnotes
The launch of this Web service is a promising step towards
further facilitating the dissemination and open exchange 1 http://sciencecommons.org/
2 http://sciencecommons.org/weblog
of information in the biological sciences. Precedings
3 http://www.nature.com/
features submissions from biomedicine, chemistry and 4 http://precedings.nature.com/
the earth sciences. The Web service fulfills the role of a 5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
preprint server but accepts a wider array of document 6 http://www.arxiv.org/
types, including unpublished manuscripts, presentations, 7 h t t p : / / w w w. n a t u r e . c o m / n p g _ / c o m p a n y _ i n f o /
white papers and supplementary findings. Curators from exec_committee.html
Nature Publishing Group review all submissions. 8 http://www.bl.uk/
Acceptance is determined by the document’s relevancy 9 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/
to the field and legitimacy. 10 http://sciencecommons.org/
11 http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
12 http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/wilbanks/
From Nature’s press release, 13 http://sciencecommons.org/
‘Helping scientists to communicate their ideas is
central to Nature’s mission, and we are constantle
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A MAROK DEVELOPER HIRED BY C OMMUNITY CONTENT AND
MAGNATUNE MONEY
by Mike Linksvayer by Mike Linksvayer
31 July 2007 17 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7590 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7572
Magnatune,[1] a record label that uses a CC BY-NC-SA[2] Evan Prodromou just published a great essay on paying
license for all releases (Magnatune founder John Buckman wiki contributors.[1] He says don’t, offering solid reasons
is also on the CC board), has just hired[3] free software and alternatives. One alternative that I won’t argue with
developer Nikolaj Hald Nielsen[4] to work on Amarok,[5] a (but probably one of the least interesting–read the essay
free software media player. for more):
While software and services companies for years have Donate. Set aside a good part of the profits from
hired many free software developers to continue to work the site (if there are any…) to donations to related
on their free software projects and employees of open charities. Donations to Creative Commons,[2] the
content companies have contributed to free software Free Software Foundation,[3] and Wikimedia
projects, this may be the first time an open content Foundation[4] are probably all good candidates.
company has hired a free software developer to work on There may also be domain-specific charities you
the developer’s free software project. can contribute to; if you have a site about pets,
say, you could contribute to the Animal Rescue
I suspect this will be the first of many such hires. Open Network.[5]
content companies are growing and often are highly
dependent on free software for infrastructure and end Relatedly, Evan’s talk at SXSW this spring on
user services. Commercialization of Wikis[6] was the best session at SXSW
(says me) and a must read for anyone building a
Congratulations to Magnatune and Nikolaj! There’s a community or user generated content site (Evan argues
placeholder article on the CC Wiki concerning Amarok/ that many such sites have “WikiNature” though they aren’t
CC integration. [6] formally wikis).
Endnotes To wrap up the self-serving nature of this post, Evan
recommends CC licensing for commercial wikis. But that
1 http://magnatune.com/ should be obvious.
2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
3 http://blogs.magnatune.com/buckman/2007/07/
Endnotes
amarok-magnatun.html
4 http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/462-Hired-by-
1 http://evan.prodromou.name/Paying_wiki_contributors
Magnatune!.html
2 http://creativecommons.org/
5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_%28audio%29
3 http://www.fsf.org/
6 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Amarok
4 http://www.wikimedia.org/
5 http://www.animalrescuenetwork.org/
6 http://evan.prodromou.name/Talks/SXSW07
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PODTECH PAYS LAN BUI FOR CC LICENSED PHOTOGRAPH
by Cameron Parkins cash. This was, for the most part, about setting a
18 July 2007 precedent so companies (and individals) think
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7573 about what they are doing and the repercussions
that can ensue when they use others’ work outside
of the copyright or Creative Commons license
Lan Bui, photographer[1] and vlogger,[2] recently found that is provided.
himself in a difficult situation in relation to a photo he
published on flickr [3] under a Creative Commons I believe in using Creative Commons, it allows
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license.[4] While at this my work to be used without someone going
years SXSW conference, Lan noticed to his surprise that through the hassle of contacting me and waiting
the photo[5] had been reproduced on a promotional poster for me to grant them permission. I am ok with
for PodTech,[6] a technology and entertainment video this as long as they follow the rules of the license,
network. There was no attribution to be found and the but just like if I had an all rights reserved copyright
use was commercial, violating the terms Lan had chosen. on a photograph, contact me before you use it
outside of what Creative Commons grants. This
What followed was a lengthly back and forth between goes for anyone using Creative Commons, you
Lan and PodTech. After going through the proper channels should expect others and companies to respect
to solve the issue, but with no results, Lan posted about your copyright. You still own the copyright on
the incident[7] on his blog. Many responded, commented, your work if you release it under Creative
and weighed in on the matter - some in support of Lan Commons; you are just granting certain use of
and others in disagreement. For the most part, there was your work through a Creative Commons license.
an overarching feeling that Lan, under his specified terms,
deserved compensation from PodTech. It is unfortunate that PodTech did not take into
account the terms of Lan’s CC licence, as it would
After a long wait, this compensation eventually came, from the get-go prevented the entire issue.
albeit in an amount much less than Lan had asked for. Perhaps PodTech misunderstood his licence to
PodTech sent him a check for less than a third of his original begin with, but this should not have stopped them
invoice and less than half of his renegotiated claim, a from working with Lan to find a mutually
frustrating response to say the least. From Lan: [8] beneficial solution. Thankfully Lan was monetarily
compensated for his work to an extent -
I didn’t want lower my offer because I didn’t want unfortunately it was not on the terms he had
to set a precedent that others can steal work and chosen.
then negotiate after the fact as though nothing
was done wrong in the first place. What incentive There has always been a commitment to
is there for companies to pay creators up front commercial viability with the licenses CC provides
for their work if they can just steal it then only - allowing or disallowing commercial use as a
pay up if they get caught, with no penalty, the creator sees fit. As CC gains momentum,
same amount they would have paid up front? knowledge of this will become more pervasive,
Negotiations are for normal business from both a content creator and content
transactions, which happen before work is used… consumer standpoint. CC licenses and
this was a different story. Although that was my commercial use fit together nicely and have the
position, I also didn’t want to drag the entire thing ability to marriage the benefits of a “sharing
on for a long time, so I decided to lower my economy” with that of “permission culture”.
invoice to $2500. They didn’t accept my offer.
Lan has decided to end pursuing the matter and instead
From the beginning of this I’ve told everyone has chosen to donate the money he received from PodTech
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by Mike Linksvayer by Cameron Parkins
17 July 2007 10 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7571 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7564
Congratulations yet again[1] to Jamendo, though this time Blast Magazine,[1] an online publication that focuses on
not for adding CC licensed music and features, but for “lifestyle issues, trends, fashion, sexuality, romance,
raising money to do even more:[2] movies, music, literature, arts, poker, technology, video
games, computers and gadgets in the 18-35
Jamendo[3] allows users to listen and download demographic”, has recently adopted a CC Attribution-
for free more than 40.000 DRM-less music tracks Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License[2] for all their
under Creative Commons license. So far, 3 content. You can read their press release at http://
million albums have been legally downloaded www.blastmagazine.com/2007/07/letter-from-the-
from the Jamendo platform, which currently editor-blast-the-open-online-magazine/.
counts 500.000 unique visitors per month. Since
January 2007, Jamendo offers to its artists a This is fantastic news - as of late, we have seen more[4]
Revenue Share program: half of the advertising and more[5] publishers adopting CC-licenses for their
revenue are shared with the registered artists. content, an inspiring trend to say the least. By choosing to
use CC-licenses, publications like Blast are able to distribute
Laurent Kratz Founder and CEO of Jamendo their content in terms that account for the dynamic
commented: “We are very proud to welcome relationship between reader and author new technologies
Mangrove as a new shareholder in our company. have helped foster. This flexibility is essential to the way
We share the same vision of the future of music. we access and consume content, be it written or otherwise.
With this funding, we plan to become the
undisputed global player of free music. More Endnotes
than a music sharing platform we are
economically supporting and promoting the long 1 http://www.blastmagazine.com/
tail of music. We have a proven business model 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
3 http://wikitravel.org/
where music is not only proposed for free to end
4 http://www.goodmagazine.com/
consumers but we are also closing an increasing 5 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
number of partnership agreements and licensing 2006/12/15/newspaper_chain.html
deals.”
Exciting stuff. But if you’re more interested in the music,
Jamendo is nearly at 4000 albums.[4] One I’ve been
enjoying recently is Devon Miles[5] - Nine Hundred,
supposedly “noisy emo math rock”, licensed under
Attribution-ShareAlike.[6] The track “Crash Into June” is
particularly catchy.
Endnotes
1 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7406
2 http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/07/17/
jamendo-closes-series-a-funding-from-mangrove-capital-
partners/
3 http://www.jamendo.com/
4 http://www.jamendo.com/en/?p=stats
5 h t t p : / / w w w. j a m e n d o . c o m / e n / a l b u m / 2 3 9 7 /
?refuid=9833
6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
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DIY NOW! (BOOK) RHIZOME INTEGRATES CREATIVE
COMMONS LICENSES INTO ARTBASE
by Mike Linksvayer by Cameron Parkins
19 September 2007 27 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7575 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7584
Michael W. Dean and Chris Caulder have made their Rhizome,[1] “an online platform for the global new media
“guide to making a living making music out of your art community”, announced yesterday that it will integrate
backpack, from anywhere, and everywhere” available Creative Commons licenses into its online art archive,
as an ebook download[1] licensed under CC Attribution- the Artbase.[2] From here onwards, artists who contribute
ShareAlike. [2] to ArtBase will have the option to license their work under
a Creative Commons License of their choosing, greatly
Even better, they’ve put up all the book’s source files up adding to ArtBase’s flexibility. From Rhizome: [3]
for download and remixing.
“By implementing Creative Commons, Rhizome
Via Boing Boing. [3] aligns itself with sites like Blip.tv, Flickr and Digg,
who nurture not only a community of free
Endnotes creativity, but of free culture,” says [Fred]
Benenson. Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of
1 http://www.diynow.org/ Rhizome, adds that “It’s in the spirit of Rhizome
2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ to foster collaboration amongst artists. I’m happy
3 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 7 / 1 9 /
that Rhizome is able to make these licenses
free_ebook_digital_m.html
available, and to support the practice of sharing
cultural material within the arts.”
F INDING AND Q UANTIFYING
It is fantastic that a leading institution in new media art
AUSTRALIA'S ONLINE COMMONS such as Rhizome has added the ability for CC-licensing in
its online publishing interface. As more online repositories,
be they artistic or otherwise, add CC-licensing options,
the stronger the commons grows. As such, license-
by Mike Linksvayer adoption from online communities is an essential part of
30 August 2007 CC’s overall goal, enabling content-creators and content-
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7562 consumers easy tools to license and remix larger and
larger bodies of work.
Finding and Quantifying Australia’s Online Commons[1] You can read more about Rhizome at http://rhizome.org/
is an in-depth look at open license use in Australia, in info/.
particular analysis of Creative Commons license adoption.
Endnotes
Thanks to both Jessica Coates of CC Australia[2] and Jordan
1 http://rhizome.org/
Hatcher[3] for pointing this excellent resource out following
2 http://rhizome.org/art/
last month’s presentations on CC statistics. [4] 3 http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=26665&page=1
Endnotes
1 http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol4-1/
bildstein.asp
2 http://creativecommons.org.au/
3 http://twitchgamer.net/
4 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7551
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W ELLCOME I MAGES L AUNCHES RAND E UROPE SURVEY ON
WITH CC LICENSES E VALUATION OF I NTERNET S ELF
REGULATION, INCLUDING CC
by Cameron Parkins by Mike Linksvayer
10 July 2007 10 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7565 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7563
Wellcome Images,[1] an online image repository “depicting A note from Chris Marsden of RAND Europe:
2,000 years of mankind and medicine”, recently
launched their enormous collection online under a I am working on a report for the European Commission
Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial Licence on the efficacy of self- and co-regulation in various online
2.0.[2] From their press release: [3] sectors, looking at organisations such as Creative
Commons, the W3C, and others.
Launched on 15 June 2007, ‘Wellcome Images’
is the world’s leading source of images on the We’d be most grateful if CC members had time to
history of medicine, modern biomedical science participate in one part of the project, a survey:
and clinical medicine. All content has been made
available under a Creative Commons License, http://web3.rand.org/resurvey/
which allows users to copy, distribute and display TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=3JK663L0368KG
the image, provided the source is fully attributed
and it is used for non-commercial purposes. Note that you do not need to fill in all the questions - you
can simply press ‘Next’ to skip pages where you need to.
Wellcome Images is constantly updated with new It would help us if you could be very specific in answering
clinical, and biomedical and historical images question 5.
from the Wellcome Library, Europe’s leading
resource for the study of history of medicine Our assessment will cover self-regulatory organisations’
which recently re-launched as part of the new efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in order to
and forthcoming Wellcome Collection. identify conditions under which such institutional
arrangements can best stimulate innovation without
This is absolutely amazing news. Projects like Wellcome compromising safety, security and fundamental rights. The
Images are phenomenal resources for those in the ultimate aim is to support EC efforts to further these
academic world, allowing students and teachers alike open objectives by initiating and/or mediating self- and co-
access to a wealth of information. By utilizing CC-licensing, regulation.
Wellcome Images is more able to fully realize the true
spirit of academia - an unblocked and open pursuit of The evaluation will be based on documentary, quantitative,
knowledge and understanding. elite interview and electronic survey evidence, analyzed
within a logical framework reflecting existing knowledge
Endnotes of the evolution of self-/co- regulation. The findings and
recommendations will be validated by means of a key
1 http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/ stakeholder workshop and reported in a form suitable for
Home.html?s=YfQYbi59MkW wide dissemination and discussion.
2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/
3 http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/
News.html
Thanks to Veni Markovski[1] of CC Bulgaria[2] for bringing
the survey to our attention.
Endnotes
1 http://blog.veni.com/
2 http://cc.isoc.bg/
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MOZILLA VISITS [CC-]BRAZIL SUPERSTARS ON CCMIXTER
by Mike Linksvayer by Victor Stone
1 July 2007 6 July 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7554 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7557
Representatives of two of our favorite organizations Salman Ahmad[1] is the founder of one of the world’s
recently got together — Mozilla[1] and CC Brazil affiliate most popular bands Junoon.[2] A household name in South
Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da Escola de Direito Asia, the band has sold over 25 million albums, played at
da Fundação Getulio Vargas no Rio de Janeiro.[2] JT Batson the United Nations by special invitation and Salman and
from the Mozilla marketing team wrote about the the band have been the subject of several BBC
meeting.[3] Excerpt: documentaries. Salman has now decided that his solo
catalog should be released under Creative Commons and
At Mozilla, we often struggle to relate our core has signed a contract with Magnatune. [3]
goal (promoting a innovation and choice on the
web) to something meaningful for daily users. In celebration Magnatune and Creative Commons are
This challenge isn’t unique to Mozilla. One of sponsoring a remix contest[4] featuring Salman’s song
the main goals of CTS is to ensure that their “Natchoongi.”[4] Submissions are currently being accepted
research and work, which if focused on through the end of July.
development, innovation and democracy, is
accessible to the average person. In addition to Meanwhile BBE Records has announced the winners of
their many blogs aimed at general consumers, the DJ Vadim remix contest[5] and will be releasing these
they also developed a real world approach to winning entries in a variety of media throughout the the
explaining the impact of copyright owners pushing year. Congratulations to grand prize winner Jr Eakee[6]
for “permanent” copyright to materials by having and all the other winners. Read more and listen to the
20 different musicians record different tracks winners at http://ccmixter.org/media/thread/1087. This
from a high profile Brazilian classical musician contest went so well that BBE and ccMixter have agreed
whose family is fighting to extend the copyright to work together to release a lot more material into the
on his work indefinitely. If the copyright expires Commons so keep an eye out for that.
on January 1, for example, the 20 new tracks
will be released on the 2nd and then on the 3rd, Endnotes
the CTS team will promote a contest to see who
can do the best remix of the tracks, which could 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Ahmad
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junoon_%28band%29
never have been done before in mass because
3 http://magnatune.com/
of the copyright. Rather that just issuing a press 4 http://ccmixter.org/media/files/salman/10757
release bemoaning the problem, their work to 5 http://ccmixter.org/salman
make copyright expiration palatable to a broader 6 http://ccmixter.org/djvadim/files/jreakee/9735
audience is down right impressive (forgive my
butchering of the example).
That is from the first of several interesting posts about
Mozilla’s trip to Brazil.
Endnotes
1 http://mozilla.org/
2 http://www.direitorio.fgv.br/cts/
3 http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/2007/06/today-we-met-
with-management-team-from.html
4 h t t p : / / 6 0 s o x . o r g . a u /
main.aspx?page=2bobmob%20Who&mode=display
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FOSS + C REATIVE C OMMONS MAINSTREAMING OPEN MUSIC
LIVECONTENT FOR LIBRARIES
by Timothy Vollmer by Mike Linksvayer
20 June 2007 24 June 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7531 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7543
Creative Commons is developing LiveContent,[1] a project Michael Gregoire, curator of the beautiful netBloc
to connect and expand Creative Commons and open compilation series[1] (previously mentioned at http://
source communities. The first output of LiveContent will creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7385 and at http://
be ccLiveCD[2] for libraries, which will package free and creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7202; #6 now
open source software (FOSS) with CC-licensed content. available)[2] has published an essay on some of the things
ccLiveCD aims to demonstrate an example of an easy- needed to make open music a part of mainstream
to-use, viable alternative to proprietary software and culture:[3]
further explore possibilities of the FOSS and Creative
Commons movements within libraries. Once a listener realizes that net audio is as good
or better than mainstream music, they’re in.
ccLiveCD will come loaded with lots of great content, They’re part of the movement. They begin to
including a live-boot Linux OS, a combination of free explore the net audio world. The more you
and open source productivity and creativity applications explore and listen to net audio, the less you’re
(such as OpenOffice, Inkscape, Gimp and VLC), open influenced by the mainstream music-industry.
document templates, and a variety of Creative Commons- Wouldn’t it be great if it were easier for these
licensed multimedia and educational content. new listeners to find GREAT new net audio? What
can be done to make it easier to dig through the
Worldlabel.com[3] is providing the support for the immense numbers of net audio releases?
development of this project and the distribution of the
CD. Watch for ccLiveCD updates, and help further the Music to my ears. I’ve been harping on the criticality of
LiveContent vision by contributing ideas, connections to discovery services and tastemakers (and praising[4] ones
other projects, and best-of-CC content on the wiki. [4] that exist) for a few years.[5] There’s now a lot more[6]
great CC licensed music available than when I started.
Endnotes
Speaking of tastemaking, check out the music of Lee
1 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LiveContent Maddeford. [7]
2 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LiveContent#ccLiveCD
3 http://www.worldlabel.com/ Endnotes
4 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
1 http://blocsonic.com/blog/an_infrastructure_for_take-
over
2 http://blocsonic.com/release/view/6
3 http://blocsonic.com/blog/an_infrastructure_for_take-
over
4 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7225
5 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5166
6 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7389
7 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7542
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CC LICENSED F ILM A CHIEVES GPLV3
MASSIVE POPULARITY ON YOUTUBE
by Cameron Parkins by Mike Linksvayer
19 June 2007 29 June 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7537 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7553
The Spanish short film, Lo que tú Quieras Oír[1]–released Congratulations to the Free Software Foundation on the
under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike release of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.[1]
license[2]–has achieved a huge amount of popularity on The GPL is critical underpinning for free software, but it
YouTube, totaling close to 10,000,000 views! is hard to overstate its importance for all computing, or
indeed society at large.
While the film itself is quite brilliant, the CC license enables
its viewers to not only freely distribute the film, but also The FSF took this responsibility extremely seriously, putting
remix it as long as they give credit, do so with non- GPLv3 through by far the most rigorous versioning process
commercial intent, and share their new works under the of any public license to date. Creative Commons has some
same license. We can only hope that part of the short’s experience[2] in this respect, but we are mere newbies by
online success has been enhanced by this decision to utilize comparison.
CC licensing.
Note that Creative Commons has always recommended[3]
[3]
Don’t forget to check out the film’s website (Spanish; the GPL and other free software licenses for software.
English translation via Google)[4] as well! We look forward to transitioning software we create to
GPLv3.
Endnotes
Endnotes
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Z3J1uzd0Q
2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/es/ 1 http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3_launched
3 http://www.loquetuquierasoir.com/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7249
4 h t t p : / / t r a n s l a t e . g o o g l e . c o m / 3 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loquetuquierasoir.com%2F FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F
&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
9 < PodTech 6 < John Wilbanks
directly to CC to help further our mission. Lan’s belief in literature, obtaining materials and sharing data.
the ethos of CC is truly inspiring - CC licenses were created […]”
as a means to avoid these content misuses on all levels,
and Lan sees his donation as a means to further this goal. You can read the rest of this article, which includes
He is truly an exemplary member of the CC community. an interview with Wilbanks, [3] at http://
w w w. p o p s c i . c o m / p o p s c i / t e c h n o l o g y /
Endnotes f8a1780809ed3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html.
1 http://www.lanbui.com/blog/ Endnotes
2 http://www.noodlescar.com/onlocation/
3 http://flickr.com/ 1 http://www.popsci.com/
4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ 2 h t t p : / / w w w. p o p s c i . c o m / p o p s c i / t e c h n o l o g y /
5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanbui/291326125/ f8a1780809ed3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
6 http://www.podtech.net/home/ 3 http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/wilbanks/
7 http://www.lanbui.com/blog/2007/05/creative-
commons-podtechnet-doesnt.html
8 http://www.lanbui.com/blog/2007/07/podtech-pays-
lan-bui-for-cc-licensed.html
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M ORE MEDIA FROM CC S ALON D OWNLOAD “G OOD C OPY B AD
SEOUL AND UPCOMING CC SALON COPY”
INFO
by Cameron Parkins by Eric Steuer
8 June 2007 4 June 2007
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7528 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7522
Following up on our previous post (“CC Salon London
and Post-CC Salon Seoul”) [1] comes even more media
from the most recent, and wonderfully amazing, ccSalon
in Seoul.[2] The theme, “Code Can be an Art”, was
engaged through a media-jam encouraging those in
attendance to create art from code, presentations by local
artists and DJs, as well as a panel discussion focusing on
the question “Could code be widely regarded as an
artform?”. Follow the link to see video as well as an
amazing interactive piece created from media generated
at the Salon.
The success of CC Salon Seoul only further illuminates Good Copy Bad Copy[1] is a terrific new documentary
the notion that anyone can start a CC Salon wherever about copyright and culture, directed by Andreas Johnsen,
they’d like,[3] helping CC spread. In the near future, there Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It features interviews
is the upcoming London CC Salon[4] as well as both the with Danger Mouse, Girl Talk, Siva Vaidhyanathan,
July[5] and August[6] CC Salons in San Francisco. Lawrence Lessig, and many others with various
perspectives on copyright.
Involving CC in local communities is essential to CC’s
growth as a movement, but we need your help! If you Check out the film’s trailer below (via blip.tv)[2] and
want to set up a CC Salon in your area, let us know[7] and download the torrent for the XviD version of the whole
we can send some schwag your way. movie at goodcopybadcopy.net. [3]
Endnotes Endnotes
1 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7515 1 http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/
2 http://ccsalon.tistory.com/11 2 http://blip.tv/
3 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/All_Salons 3 http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/download
4 http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2007-
May/001836.html
5 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Salon
6 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
Salon_Future_Events#Wednesday.2C_August_08.2C_2007
7 mailto:info@creativecommons.org
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.
For more information about Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.