[cc-community] Multinational Profit Day
Greg London
email at greglondon.com
Sun Apr 29 09:28:44 EDT 2007
>> Sonys YouTube competitor - CC licensed
>>
>> Sony has launched its YouTube competitor - eyeVio. By default,
>> uploads are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
>> license. You can read about it here. We in the CC community will be
>> celebrating about it around the world tonight. Yesterday was IP Day
>> (really, no joke). Today is Sony Day!
>> posted by Lessig on http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003756.shtml
>>
>
> I would like to ask everyone on the list to raise a cheer for yet
> another multinational capitalist corporation's co-option of the free
> culture movement. Truly the valorization of the hard-earned work of
> millions of unpaid, free creators across the world should be
> celebrated for contributing yet again to the profit margins of the
> world largest, richest and most powerful corporations.
Well, if all the works are CC-BY, then anyone and everyone can
do pretty much anything they want with the content, as long as
they maintain attribution. If the website was some
altruistic, non-profit, volunteer organization, then nothing
would prevent Sony from doing something with the content if
they wanted to (as long as they maintain attribution, of course).
That the website is Sony doesn't give Sony an advantage to the
work (unless their user agreement says they get full rights
and everyone else gets CC-BY or something). So, if some altruistic,
non-profit, volunteer organization wants to screen scrape all the
content and host it on their own URL, they would be free to do so.
The fact that Sony has adopted CC-BY for this website is probably
a reason to give them a smile and a thank you. I don't know if
it's worth a celebration yet, though, because they set up the
website to apply CC-BY to other people's works, not their own.
So, I won't be hosting a Sony party just yet.
Maybe when they start releasing some of their own content, I will.
But I won't knock them either. As long as they have to use all
works CC-BY like everyone else, which website pays the bandwidth
is irrelevant to me. Anyone who has the bandwidth and doesn't
like Sony could copy all the CC-BY content to their own website
and do what they want with it, (as long as they attribute).
Hm, I wonder if they have contributers designate their website
for attribution. That would be a little hinky.
Greg
Today should
> be recognised as a breakthough for creative commons moving from a
> grass-roots organisation committed to the creativity of everyone, to
> becoming the trusted advisor and advocate to capital for implementing
> a new form of IP policy that encourages 'sharing' --- well, sharing
> as long as it is the output of *us*, rather than anything that the
> multinational might produce (then clearly it is criminal and it is
> piracy).
>
> Hurrah for SONY DAY!
>
> (One can only hope that one day, in the future, everyday will be
> named after a giant multinational corporation!)
>
>
>
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