[sc-announce] Where's the CC in Science Commons? -- Science Commons blog

Donna Wentworth dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Thu Jul 10 13:09:21 EDT 2008


Where's the CC in Science Commons?

July 10th, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/07/10/wheres-the-cc-in-science-commons/>by
dwentworth

When I joined Science Commons last year, that was the question at the core
of the queries I got from curious friends. In most cases, they "got"
Creative Commons — it was about freeing culture with licenses for the legal
sharing and remixing of creative works. Science Commons, they reasoned, must
be about freeing science by creating special licenses for sharing and
remixing scientific research.

We do work to "free" science — that is, to make it easier to legally share,
integrate and remix research and data, with the goal of accelerating
discovery. But you won't find any specialized licenses at Science Commons.
Indeed, when the goal is integration of open scientific
databases<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/07/10/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/>published
under different jurisdictions, we advise against using licenses of
any kind, including the CC-BY
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>license.

So what exactly is Science Commons doing, and where's the CC in it? Glad you
asked. Last month, Creative Commons held its first
TechSummit<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/TechSummit>,
which was graciously hosted by Google. John
Wilbanks<http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#34>,
who leads Science Commons, gave a short talk on our work, showing what the
CC methodology "looks like" in the world of science rather than culture. You
can watch the presentation by clicking on part
1<http://youtube.com/watch?v=I7ku6r3lW2A>(
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I7ku6r3lW2A), which begins with the keynote
address by Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito (the Science Commons talk is at
1:05/1:21.53).

Of course, there were lots of other interesting presentations at the
TechSummit, which brought together folks from every corner of CC. You can
check out the details at the Creative Commons
blog<http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8461>,
and watch parts 2 <http://youtube.com/watch?v=2YodLbZUDdE>,
3<http://youtube.com/watch?v=7RrnYD6Jlvg>and
4 <http://youtube.com/watch?v=QspHexLngJA> on YouTube.

If you watch the Science Commons presentation and have questions about our
mission, methodology or any of our projects, feel free to send us an
email<science at creativecommons.org>.
We're happy to provide more detailed information.

................
 Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
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