[cc-community] CC licensing

Justin Morgan feedback at corfizz.com
Fri Dec 15 14:33:46 EST 2006


Can you not already take a roll of film or negatives to a photo  
development place, where they put your photos onto a CD or DVD?

Well, even if you can, I can't tell you how much I have, as a  
consumer, wished for an affordable way to digitize old stuff.  
Families have entire bookshelves of old photo albums, cupboards full  
of old VHS tapes, analogue camcorder cassettes, old LPs in their  
attic, tape cassettes in untold numbers of drawers and documents they  
can't find time to sort through, but presumably you would have to  
insist that they only submit their own, original content. Not much of  
this content is going to be worth keeping on the web longer than it  
takes the owner to download it to their own computer, I suspect.

So presumably people would mail in their tangible stuff, and the  
stuff would be digitized and made available to download. There are  
already other services that take your digital content and put it back  
onto physical media, after all. Having said that, in the case of  
video content, it would make more sense to mail a DVD back to the  
customer wouldn't it?

On 15 Dec 2006, at 18:49, Jon Phillips wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 12:15 -0500, Fred Benenson wrote:
>> It has been a  while since I've been in San Francisco, but I'm pretty
>> sure there's a place that does this on Mission around 13th or 14th?
>> They might just do DVD / VHS conversion, and they didn't seem to be
>> particularly enlightened with respect to technology / the larger
>> trends here.
>>
>> Another thing to think about offerring : maybe a service to  
>> distribute
>> the work, or at least get it online? I'd be curious if there is a
>> demand for helping people get their stuff on Archive.org, as it is
>> kind of a difficult process if you're trying to do an entire  
>> movie. Of
>> course, this extends to YouTube, etc..
>>
>>
>> F
>>
> Yah, could you imagine having some flat fee like $50-100 to digitize a
> photo album...I couldn't imagine families and others not wanting
> this...anyone on this list good at market research?
>
> Jon
>
>> On 12/15/06, Jon Phillips <jon at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>>         On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 19:46 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
>>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 03:27 pm, Jon Phillips wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:19 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 30 November 2006 02:53 pm, rob at robmyers.org
>>         wrote:
>>>>>> Quoting Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:
>>>>>>> I'm cc'ing the cc-community list to get more
>>         opinions. What do you
>>>>>>> all think about this? Russell is hoping to release
>>         500 labels with
>>>>>>> more customized designs that consist of "royalty
>>         free" clip art, his
>>>>>>> companies labels (public domain), and he paid
>>         designers to lay them
>>>>>>> out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the images are governed by a non-CC license then
>>         the CC license
>>>>>> cannot be the
>>>>>> entire agreement so it cannot be applied. I think
>>         you're right that the
>>>>>> work cannot be CC licensed if the work is not clearly
>>         pure PD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I recommend that he uses clip art from Open Clip Art
>>         Library and/or
>>>>>>> spend time to document what is needed and try to
>>         pull from public
>>>>>>> domain and other licensed compatible works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tell us more about this "Open Clip Art Library",
>>         Jon. ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh, he wants to cc-license this 500 label
>>         collection...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The licensing of "royalty free", often actually PD
>>         work, in clipart is
>>>>>> an area that really needs clearing up. I get quite
>>         annoyed at
>>>>>> publishers who claim collective copyright on PD
>>         collections then try to
>>>>>> license individual works in the collection to you. I
>>         won't touch
>>>>>> anything from "Dover" with a copyright in it for this
>>         reason.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think song publishers do this too.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can get PD songs, claiming to be the best attempt at
>>         the original
>>>>> works and also claiming a copyright on the individual
>>         songs in a book of
>>>>> collected folk songs for example.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, so I guess the proper thing to do would be to go
>>         back to the
>>>> originals, digitize them and make them available on-line
>>         to remove this
>>>> problem from the situation.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone wanna help the Open Clip Art Library
>>         (www.openclipart.org) by
>>>> going to the originals, scanning them and making this
>>         available as a
>>>> resource for the world?
>>>>
>>>> The same should be done for music/scores and other content
>>         in the public
>>>> domain...which brings me back to the a great business idea
>>         I have for
>>>> digitization (of the analog world)...like kinkos but for
>>         digitization of
>>>> your non-digital world. Is anyone interested in this?
>>>
>>> If the business idea results in more Free, preferably
>>         copyleft works, I would
>>> like to hear it.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>
>>> all the best,
>>>
>>> drew
>>
>>         Ok, I added my notes on this idea to my wiki page. Basically,
>>         the idea
>>         is to create a business like FedexKinkos, but for converting
>>         your analog
>>         bits (photos, original works, old documents) into digital  
>> bits
>>         of
>>         varying quality for a fee...I think this would be a really
>>         solid
>>         business...anyone want to help start it?
>>
>>         Ok, please add your thoughts and expand on the wiki...I'll
>>         then blog it
>>         to get more involvement...
>>
>>         http://rejon.org/wiki/Digitization_Organization
>>
>>
>>         Jon
>>
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