[cc-community] Multinational Profit Day

Kevin Phillips (home) tacet at qmpublishing.com
Sun Apr 29 11:50:10 EDT 2007


As much as I'm always wary of the Sony marketing spin machine, I have to agree this could be positive for CC.  

However, there's still something odd about some of their comments in the press, it appears they are using CC as a clarification tool to distance themselves from copyright issues associated with YT.  The CC license is default, and there's a clear warning not to upload (c) materials.

For instance here's a post I noticed the other day on a PS3 news site : 
http://www.pspsps.tv/2007/04/sony_hops_on_youtube_bandwagon_1.html

This isn't a direct crit, like everyone else I'm just curious as to where this goes and intrigued as to the possible cc-goals of one of the big-4 content corporations.  It could be they have a real interest and wish to encourage artists to switch to CC licenses.  It could be just a marriage of convenience and a mechanism to justify tight content control. 

Kev

----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Berry 
To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org ; UK FreeCulture Discuss List 
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: [cc-community] Multinational Profit Day







  Sony’s 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. 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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