[cc-community] Sharing creatively with ABC Pool

Kevin Phillips (home) tacet at qmpublishing.com
Wed Aug 27 17:37:20 EDT 2008


Fantastic! :)

Those bird call recordings are really quite something.  I'm tempted to compose something around a couple of them.  Is there any stipulation as to the region of the subscribers/remixers, I did check and couldn't find anything on the site.  I'm based in the UK.  I notice the licenses were all AU based, so I'm curious as to what that would mean if I submitted work as a UK resident.  Maybe there's a facility to allow me to contribute as an outsider under an unported license?

FAB idea though.  Maybe I'll just have to move to Aus?

:)

Kevin


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jessica Coates 
  To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org ; icommons at lists.ibiblio.org ; asia-commons at googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:24 AM
  Subject: [cc-community] Sharing creatively with ABC Pool


  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, has just launched a new CC-friendly social media space, Pool, 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) offers the full suite of the Creative Commons core licences (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 with Radio National's The Media Report, 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, 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. Or the film theory essay, 
  Text: Transcendental Style and the Poetics of Tsai Ming-liang by Tim Dodds, which has been remixed into a poem, Text: the moment of absurd transcendental mundanity by 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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