[cc-community] to build the commons

Bogdan Bivolaru bogdan.bivolaru at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 13:10:05 EDT 2008


Hello,

Unfortunately, I cannot access freedomdefined.org: Firefox can't establish a
connection to the server at freedomdefined.org. I have to write from what I
remember about the campaign.

My opinion is that the community should first establish what is the target
reader of these symbols or who do we inform using them? Do we target people
that already know about Creative Commons and free culture philosophy? What
does a reader of these symbols need to know already?
I'm asking these questions because I don't think the readers here, myself
included, are very representative for the target readers we have too much
background information about creative commons and licenses. If we design our
campaign in such a way that this much background information is needed to
understand the message then we will fail and probably we will annoy our
targets.
If we target artists, we should go to artistic groups and ask them nicely
what do they think about our campaign, symbols, texts every step of the way.

We should take our feedback re -quests to the streets, post blogs, make
surveys, post to forums.

For the record, my opinion is that the symbols proposed by Terry are more
intuitive than the buttons made by Amybuild: if we target artists who do not
know already about Creative Commons, what use would it be to use symbols
with acronyms such as CC-BY/CC-BY-SA?

Also, I hope not to upset anyone, but I think the scope of this campaign is
just too broad. You can't promote all the licenses in the same campaign - it
would spread the effort thin. Besides, whats' the license button for, then?
Couldn't we include acknowledgements from the artists in the license page
itself (or link to such acknowledgements)? Artists who would use CC-BY
already know much about the commons. And as said above - NC and ND seem to
be self promoted enough for the value they provide to the community.
In my opinion, what really needs promotion is Share Alike as it seems to
strike the right balance in spreading the commons as a community effort. In
fact if an artist is interested in building commons, but thinks SA is too
restrictive or too liberal s/he can allways drop off to some other license.

So why not concentrate the campaign on Share Alike?


-- 
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", 1971, Alan Kay:
http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html
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