Practical Free Culture

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 5 15:50:40 EDT 2004


Evan Prodromou wrote:
> For example: providing editable versions of Works, or versions in some
> kind of "source" format. Some file formats are easier to modify than
> others, and some formats are damn near impossible. If you want to
> contribute to Remix Culture, you should provide your Work in a format
> that's easy to edit and remix.

That's the idea behind <http://fourthwall.creativecommons.org>.

> An example would be music. Yes, you can and should distribute music in
> MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format, but you should also make available WAV files
> or whatever track sources are needed.

We're going to be working with archive.org and some other projects to 
encourage making WAV files available.

> Anyways, I'm wondering if there's a good way to make these
> suggestions. 

This is a good way.

> P.S. Whatever happened to the Creative Commons wiki idea? This might
> be a good example for something to go on there. I'd definitely
> volunteer to help get it started.

It's coming.  I had already planned to try to volunteer you for some 
wikimedia advice, so thanks for the offer.  Feel free to keep bugging me 
if you don't hear anything soon.

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   Mike Linksvayer
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