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A Overview Copyright Legal Solution Structural Solution Audience Democratization Projects Adoption

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 Interactive Screen

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 Interactive Screen

Creative Commons Highlights: A standard way to share content on the Net A way to make remixing and distributing content, easy and legal 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) 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

Creative Commons Highlights Continued: Integrated into MacBand.com, DMusic.com, Soundshelf.com, Archive.org, Garageband.com, Opsound.org, and MacJams.com, Soundclick.com, Movable Type, Openphoto.net, etc. Wired Magazine will release a Creative Commons sampling friendly CD in October 2004, including tracks from Chuck D, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Spoon, Thievery Corporation, Paul Westerberg, Cornelieus, and others. All tracks will be available for the public to remix (using software like GarageBand) and post to the Web for commercial or noncommercial use

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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

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

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commercial noncommercial

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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

There are eleven total combinations. A

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Answer three simple questions to choose a license. A

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

The logo links to the Commons Deed. A

The Commons Deed links to the Legal Code. A

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

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

Prelinger Archives

The Corporation

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A Interactive Screen Business Art Education/Research

Magnatune

Plum TV (localized content)

Opsound

PLOS

OCW

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Digital Junkyard

Youth Media

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rdf search engine: the web use google to find CC licensed content A

RDF Search Engine

Mozilla Plug-in

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

Mixter

4th Wall Films

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

* File Embedding

Pulls info out of MP3 ID3 tag Search Embedded Files

iRATE Radio Reads MP3 ID3 Tags

Tagging Tools

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A According to Yahoo!, one out of every 1,200 web pages has a CC license on it Google “creative” and we’re #2 Google “commons” and we’re #1

DMusic

Garageband

MacBand

CC Music Labels forming the IMCA (International Music Commons Association)

Telltale Weekly

Buzznet Photoblog

Indymedia Content Management Systems

Winksite Moblogging

Biomed Central

Price of Loyalty Government Documents

Adobe XMP

License Innovations: Recombo/Sampling Remix Ready Sampling Compulsory Developing Nations

iCommons Science Commons

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Creative Experiments

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 or content production and distribution A Interactive Screen

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 Interactive Screen

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