[cc-community] Creative Commons Q.A/Workshop for Interactive Arts community

vade doktorp at mac.com
Tue Jun 28 22:08:13 EDT 2005


Hello List (and share folk)

I have a question regarding the possibility of setting up a workshop/ 
Q.A. session for an interactive/performance art collective in New  
York City.

I am one of the longtime members of Share (http://share.dj), "a  
weekly open multimedia jam and community for portable performers",  
and wed like to learn about Copyright/left, and the creative commons  
licensing (and how best to use it) in our context.

Basically, every sunday we host a free event that is open to the  
public for live audio and video jamming. People bring laptops,  
homemade electronics, sensors, custom software, etc, and join a  
collaborative realtime improved performance. We occasionally host  
workshops for audio and video, programming languages, etc, and would  
love for a Creative Commons representative, or anyone qualified in  
copyright law to possibly give a small workshop on Copyright (and  
left!). Basically, we are curious what we as a community need to be  
aware of in our environment (an open to the public, live,and  
importantly recorded jam session type environment), and what the  
public joining the jam should be made aware of. We would want to  
record this workshop, and share it with the world as well. Wed like  
to begin posting our extensive audio archive online, and would want  
to document and record parts of our upcoming nights. Obviously, since  
this is an open to the public event, we have to worry about  
disclaimers, people playing their (and others) copyrighted material.  
Im sure you can see where this gets complicated!

Our website has creative commons licensed material (and the content  
management system that drives it will soon be an open source-creative  
commons powered project..), We love what Creative Commons is doing  
and most of us feel its right in line with what we are all about, but  
none of us are fully qualified to speak about any of these issues to  
our community in a knowledgeable way. Our project is growing (there  
is now a Share event in Montreal), and we have received non-profit  
status/coverage from NYFA and would like to start fund raising,  
larger event planning, etc. So I woudl imagine we have to prepare for  
some sort of legal foundation to protect ourselves. Ive tried to  
arrange for a member of the EFF to possibly speak, but unfortunately  
that has fallen though. Since the Creative Commons are arts oriented,  
I'd imagine you all would have a good foundation for helping us.

If anyone has any suggestions, would like to help out, or has any  
pointers in general, please let me or the share administrators know  
( admin at share.dj ).

Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you all.

-vade /// 
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