[cc-community] to build the commons
Bogdan Bivolaru
bogdan.bivolaru at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 03:17:03 EDT 2008
Hello Terry,
Ref.
http://freedomdefined.org/Logos_and_buttons#License_Classification_Icons_by_Terry_Hancock
You propose using acronyms with "No DRM/TPM required", wouldn't it be better
to directly say "No software/hardware enforcing of rights is required" or
"No rights lockdown required"?
Some other thing: I may be wrong, but my opinion is that you should remove
your name from the link (http...Classification_Icons_by_Terry_Hancock)
modify the page so that it includes your name in a different way. Or that it
should contain "Proposal made by Terry Hancock". Maybe you had other reasons
to put it that way, but I had to say this as it was the first thought that
came to my mind when I saw that page. The subtitle "AMYMADE's buttons" does
not contain anything linked to the FSF, in stark contrast with the last
subtitle. So I think it needs some other form of attribution.
Offtopic: Terry's name remembered me about a great article he wrote for
FreeSoftwareMagazine.com and I came over the idea to make a magazine
dedicated for CC. I hope to write some more on this idea in a separate
thread.
Have fun,
Bogdan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com
> wrote:
> Brianna Laugher wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > So I was imagining something like
> >
> > allowderivativeworks.tobuildthecommons.cc
> > allowcommercialuse.tobuildthecommons.cc
> > usesharealike.tobuildthecommons.cc
> > (culminating in useccbysa.tobuildthecommons.cc)
>
> So you are basically looking at a button/badge advertising campaign to
> use on many websites to promote uses of "commons-friendly" licenses for
> works?
>
> To do this, you want standardized badge artwork and web pages that
> expand on the point. The idea being that the person browsing, sees the
> button, wants to learn more, so they click, and _voila_ they see a short
> essay on the benefits of these practices?
>
> > 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?
>
> So to spell this out:
>
> 4 graphic button designs (possibly at different sizes)
>
> 4 short web pages with brief copy and links (I'm thinking of the CC
> "deed" pages here, in terms of size)
>
> The "Use By-SA" page probably should link to each of the others to
> expand on each point. So it's really just 3 pieces of ad copy.
>
> This is certainly within my scope of ability. I might need a little
> inspiration for badge designs (where are you trying to go stylistically?).
>
> For a starting point, I created "license classification icons" for the
> Freedom Defined site (so far, I've received ZERO feedback on these):
>
>
> http://freedomdefined.org/Logos_and_buttons#License_Classification_Icons_by_Terry_Hancock
>
> These are all purely-graphic/international designs, intended to convey
> the various common requirements of various licenses, and also the "four
> freedoms".
>
> A simple version of the buttons would be to simply combine these
> graphics with the text and a bit of color.
>
> Attachments:
>
> A simple button graphic and page layout sketch for "Allow derivative
> works". Both are meant as rough sketches, not final work (this is maybe
> 20 min of work), so criticisms are welcomed. The design could go in a
> lot of directions from here.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
> --
> Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
> Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
>
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