[cc-community] to build the commons
elliott bledsoe
elliott at creativecommons.org.au
Thu Oct 23 19:34:29 EDT 2008
hey brianna the idea sounds interesting. would do you envisage these
pages on tobuildthecommons.cc as doing? explaining how allowing
derivative work and commercial use build the commons? would this be
restricted to just cc? i think that there is scope for including other
"copyleft" licences that just the cc by-sa licence.
i guess the issue is that a project like this is quite obviously
making a decision about what the commons is (ie stuff that allows
derivatives and commercial use) which i think is a bit limiting. i
personally think that content that is available for reuse on any terms
that is more permissive than all rights reserved is a good thing. of
course ideally the more open the better (by or by-sa being the best).
i try to avoid making decisions about which licences are better than
others. there are some content owners who will never release by-sa or
by, so i would rather see it available by-nc-sa or by-nc or even by-nc-
nd or by-nd than nothing at all.
if the point of the project is to simply promote the by-sa licence and/
or similar licences then its a good idea. but there could be wider
scope for it as well.
elliott bledsoe
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On 22/10/2008, at 1. 23pm, Brianna Laugher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A thought came into my head last night as I drifted off to sleep. it
> was a button... a url... a small campaign to encourage people to use
> CC licenses that further free culture.
>
> Coming at it from a community perspective (as opposed to CC's usual
> creator perspective), it is obvious that works that allow deriv works
> and commercial use are more useful than those that do not. Widespread
> use of licenses with the ShareAlike clause also create a body of works
> that starts life free and remains free -- the commons.
>
> So I was imagining something like
>
> allowderivativeworks.tobuildthecommons.cc
> allowcommercialuse.tobuildthecommons.cc
> usesharealike.tobuildthecommons.cc
> (culminating in useccbysa.tobuildthecommons.cc)
>
> This is kind of wordy. Alternate wordings welcome.
>
> Anyway I would like to do this - just pretty simple pages for each,
> with image buttons/badges for people to put on their blogs etc, and
> maybe a short FAQ.
>
> I can register the domain, host it etc, but my graphic design skills
> are not much chop. I can tweak, but not design from scratch. Would
> anyone be interested in partnering up to help me out with this?
>
> thanks,
> Brianna
>
> --
> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
> http://modernthings.org/
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