[cc-community] Rhizome Launches Creative Commons Licenses
Fred Benenson
fred.benenson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 26 23:38:29 EDT 2007
Creative Commons Community,
It gives me great pleasure to forward news of the launch of a project I've
been working on. Basically, I've helped Rhizome.org implement CC licenses. I
think the importance of getting sites, applications, and user tools to
properly tag media as CC licensed is not lost on this list, so I'm very
happy to be part of this small step.
Read on for the press release...
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http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=26665&page=1
Rhizome <http://www.rhizome.org> is proud to announce its integration of
Creative Commons licenses into its online archive of art, the Artbase. As of
today, artists have the option to license their work under Creative Commons
Licenses. This suite of licenses allows creators to shift the terms of
copyright from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved," therefore
enabling authors, scientists, educators and artists, amongst others, to mark
their creative works with the cultural freedoms they abide by. Rhizome's
hope is that through the use of these licenses, artists will have greater
access to each others' work in furtherance of their goals.
Rhizome would like to thank Wendy Seltzer, Fellow at the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, for her guidance and Fred
Benenson, Creative Commons Cultural Fellow and student at New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, for his coordination of
the project. "By implementing Creative Commons, Rhizome aligns itself with
sites like Blip.tv, Flickr and Digg, who nurture not only a community of
free creativity, but of free culture," says Benenson. Lauren Cornell,
Executive Director of Rhizome, adds that "It's in the spirit of Rhizome to
foster collaboration amongst artists. I'm happy that Rhizome is able to make
these licenses available, and to support the practice of sharing cultural
material within the arts."
About Rhizome
Rhizome is an online platform for the global new media art community. Our
programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of
contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.
http://www.rhizome.org
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that
promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works—whether
owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible
range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that
build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to
offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
http://creativecommons.org/
I'm thinking about pulling together a meeting in the next week or two (some
interesting new developments, news from our Columbia bretheren, and stuff to
talk about with respect to the FreeCulture.org official ByLaws and so on),
so keep an eye out for an announcement.
Best,
Fred Benenson
President, Free Culture @ NYU
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