[cc-community] Creative Commons citizen journalism
Jon Phillips
jon at creativecommons.org
Mon Aug 13 17:54:41 EDT 2007
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:45 -0400, Rachel Sterne wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out Brianna. Evan also brought up this
> point-- Wikinews is certainly citizen journalism with CC. The
> distinction is that there is no personal attribution for complete
> documents (not just pieces) on wikinews-- so a more accurate statement
> would be that GR is the only citj platform that exclusively offers
> individuals a range of cc licenses to protect their complete, original
> reports.
>
> This structure also makes it simpler to compensate contributors for
> their work. However, we are adding a wiki-like layer of editorial
> controls soon-- these will be voluntary positions.
You guys are also offering revenue sharing too, which is a distinction.
Yes, I think good to always be careful about trying to say *only* of
anything, but good to get others to help flesh out who else exists in a
space ;)
Great that we can even have this discussion, right? Man, the landscape
is changing!
Jon
> Brianna Laugher wrote:
> > Is Wikinews ( http://www.wikinews.org/ ) a "citizen journalism
> > platform"? They're CC-BY-2.5.
> >
> > Just wondering how Groundreport compares to Indymedia and Wikinews, in
> > terms of the space for user-generated news.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Brianna
> >
> > On 13/08/07, Rachel Sterne <rachel at groundreport.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Wanted to let everyone know that we just relaunched GroundReport, the
> > > only citizen journalism platform that exclusively uses Creative Commons
> > > licenses. You're invited to come rate content and submit your own news.
> > > You can choose from a range of licenses based on your interests. We also
> > > share our revenues with all contributors, based on traffic.
> > >
> > > http://groundreport.com
> > >
> > > Here's the kind of content we're interested in:
> > > -- news articles
> > > -- photography & images
> > > -- video
> > > -- audio
> > >
> > > Plus we are officially launching our live citizen news channel,
> > > GroundReport TV. If you want to be a citizen reporter or get involved,
> > > please get in touch.
> > >
> > > http://groundreport.tv
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rachel
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