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

vade doktorp at mac.com
Wed Jun 29 11:08:32 EDT 2005


Ah, the Share email should be : share-admin at share.dj

Apologies!


On Jun 28, 2005, at 10:08 PM, vade wrote:

> 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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