1 Sun: Human Interface Technologies A

2 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

3 Creative Commons Highlights: Written about in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, among many other publications 4,000,000 web pages with Creative Commons licenses (text, audio, video, images, interactive) that can be shared or remixed by anyone, legally Content growth rate of 50% a quarter ~$3.5 million in funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the High Q Foundation, and the Center for the Public Domain, to fulfill our mission Recently awarded the ARS Electronica Golden Nica Award A

4 Broad Goals: To keep ideas free (12-bar blues) To facilitate collaboration across space and time by eliminating transaction costs To further facilitate the democratization of content production and distribution A

5 Specific Goals: To enable people to build a pool of content they can draw from in return To make that content searchable in a distributed way A

6 Creative Commons Highlights: A standard way to share content on the Net A way to make remixing and distributing content easy and legal A A Creative Commons license allows you to say “some rights reserved.”

7 Creative Commons Highlights: Some integrations: Adobe XMP Garageband.com Soundclick.com MacBand.com DMusic.com Soundshelf.com Archive.org Mozilla Faircopy MediaWiki Public Library of Science Buzznet Photoblog Winksite Moblogging A Opsound.org MacJams.com Movable Type Squarespace IndyMedia iRATE Radio FLickr Moveon.org’s Bush in 30 seconds Open Media Streaming mobloguk Serendipity Pixagogo Biomed Central

8 Creative Commons Highlights: A Along with a cover story, Wired Magazine will release a Creative Commons CD with its November issue. There will be a coinciding event in NYC in September, and the CD will include artists such as: Beastie Boys Chuck D Gilberto Gil David Byrne Spoon Thievery Corporation Paul Westerberg among others... All tracks will be made available for legal sampling under the Creative Commons Recombo Plus license.

9 explode licensed content The Machine: to promote collaboration across space and time improve searchability promote re-use

10 Get Creative (show movie) copyright: a complicated concept

11 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

12 C

13 Challenges to the current copyright system: Works are naturally copyrighted Copyright is a bundle of rights There is no easy way to give some, or all of those rights away Current climate hurts innovation A

14 More challenges given new technologies: Internet gives worldwide distribution New software makes it easy to build on culture (GarageBand, iMovie) Current online distribution leaves terms-of-use vague Current climate hurts innovation A

15 C

16 C

17 C

18 C

19 commercial noncommercial

20 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

21 Every Creative Commons licenses allows the world to distribute, display, perform, or webcast a work. In addition one may apply the following conditions: Attribution No Commercial Use No Derivative Works Share Alike A

22 There are eleven total combinations. A

23 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

24 Answer three simple questions to choose a license. A

25 Slide 13 Then, you’ll get a logo to put on your web page. A

26 The logo links to the Commons Deed. A

27 The Commons Deed links to the Legal Code. A

28 In total, the license is a three Layer Interface: A

29 Examples: TO SHARE: Prelinger Archives TO TRANSFORM: Justin Cone A

30 Prelinger Archives

31 Justin Cone Building on the Past (show video) Creative Commons Moving Image Contest

32 The Corporation

33 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

34 Business Art Education/Research A

35 Magnatune

36 Plum TV (localized content)

37 Opsound

38 PLOS

39 OCW

40 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

41 Digital Junkyard

42 Youth Media

43 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

44 A

45 RDF search engine: the Web use All The Web to find CC licensed content A

46 RDF Search Engine

47 Mozilla Plug-in

48 tomjoe “alien dog” remix “alien dog”“volcano” jane “volcano” remix “have not” remix MIXTER: exposes connections between music and people. A

49 Mixter

50 Mixter

51 Mixter

52 Mixter

53 Mixter

54 4th Wall Films

55 Get Music: GarageBand users take Creative Commons licensed sound from the pool to remix Benefits to the user: More sounds to play with Put Music: GarageBand users use Creative Commons licenses to put music in the pool for others to share and remix Benefits to the user: Increased exposure unmixed tracks Supreme Court Audio Apple Loops mp3s Wired CD tracks Creative Commons Open Sound Pool Application Integration

56 Application Integration

57 Application Integration

58 * File Embedding

59 Search Embedded Files Pulls info out of MP3 ID3 tag

60 iRATE Radio Reads MP3 ID3 Tags

61 iRATE Radio Reads MP3 ID3 Tags

62 Tagging Tools Demo

63 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

64 4,000,000

65 A According to Yahoo!, one out of every 1,200 web pages has a CC license on it Google “commons” and we’re #1

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68 Distribution of various license attributes.

69 Telltale Weekly

70 Indymedia Content Management Systems

71 Indymedia Content Management Systems

72 Soundclick

73 Soundclick

74 Sun Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Markets Democratization Projects Adoption Interface A

75 history

76 Old front page

77 New front page

78 Old license engine

79 New license engine

80 Get Content

81 Sampling iCommons Education Developing Nations Translation Licenses Metadata Community Commonwealth Discussion lists and community innovation

82 Messaging

83 Artist Corners

84 Music Sharing License

85 Tech Challenges