[cc-community] Sharing creatively with ABC Pool

Jessica Coates j2.coates at qut.edu.au
Fri Aug 22 04:24:56 EDT 2008


>From the CCau website - Australia's largest public broadcaster, the ABC, has launched a CC-friendly social media site. The ABC is a big deal in Australia (our friends from across Asia are probably familiar with their news services) - so we're very excited about this.

There's also been a great radio interview (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2342255.htm) with Executive Producer Sherre Delys where she discusses the decision to go with CC licensing, how the system works, and the importance of collaboration in the modern era. She also talks about Pool's intention to start releasing material from the ABC archives for remix (we're helping them with this) - so watch this space for more announcements.


Australia's iconic public broadcaster, the ABC<http://www.abc.net.au/>, has just launched a new CC-friendly social media space, Pool<http://www.pool.org.au/>, designed to provide a "place for creative content makers to upload their work, publish and collaborate."

Pool lets creators working in all mediums - from animation, to music, to video, to text - share and broadcast their work to others. Like most participatory media sites, users can create profiles, upload and download material, and search tags for related material. But unlike other popular sites, the focus at Pool is very clearly on quality and experimentation.

Most exciting from our end, Pool has been designed to be a completely open project. The site (which has been developed using the open source content management tool, Drupal<http://drupal.org/>) offers the full suite of the Creative Commons core licences<http://creativecommons.org/about/license/> (as well as All Rights Reserved), and actively encourages those uploading material to use the licences to "declare a relationship between your content and other content".

As Pool's Executive Producer, Sherre Delys, puts it in this interview<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2342255.htm> with Radio National's The Media Report<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/>, the CC licensing means that "POOL starts to be a place where you can connect with others, and so for some that will take the form of online mentoring and skill-sharing; for others it's a collaborative work space, they can download each other's work, re-mix and re-use, and it also includes collaboration between ABC producers and audiences, and I think that's really critical." And in a first for the national broadcaster, Sherre also talks about Pool's intention to release ABC archival footage for remix by it's audience, sometime in the near future.

Pool's focus on sharing and remix means that a lot of great material is going up under CC. Check out Red Thread<http://www.pool.org.au/video/huni_bolliger/the_red_thread>, Huni Bolliger<http://www.pool.org.au/users/huni_bolliger>'s moving animation for her father who is suffering from dementia. Or the fabulous series of bird call recordings uploaded for remixing by Jane Ulman<http://www.pool.org.au/users/jane_ulman>. Or the film theory essay,
Text: Transcendental Style and the Poetics of Tsai Ming-liang<http://www.pool.org.au/text/tim_dodds/transcendental_style_and_the_poetics_of_tsai_ming_liang> by Tim Dodds<http://www.pool.org.au/users/tim_dodds>, which has been remixed into a poem, Text: the moment of absurd transcendental mundanity<http://www.pool.org.au/text/don_cameron/the_moment_of_absurd_transcendental_mundanity> by Don Cameron<http://www.pool.org.au/users/don_cameron>. The list goes on and on.


Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Clinic
Queensland University of Technology

ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9598
email: j2.coates at qut.edu.au

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