[cc-community] Rhizome Launches Creative Commons Licenses

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Sat Jul 28 15:11:58 EDT 2007


Big congrats Fred! This is super amazing for the new media heads here :)

Hope Cam'ron's blog post helped boost up traffic...

jon


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 23:38 -0400, Fred Benenson wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 
>  +   +   + 
> 
> http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=26665&page=1
> 
> 
> Rhizome 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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