[cc-community] to build the commons

Delphine Ménard notafishz at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 02:26:47 EDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:23, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher at gmail.com> 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?

I'm game. I'm not a great designer, but i know how to search for
cc-by-sa pretty pics on commons and flickr ;-)


You know where to contact me!

Delphine

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