[sc-announce] "Supporting the Commons: Jesse Dylan and Richard Bookman" - Science Commons blog

Kaitlin Thaney kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Mon Dec 8 09:40:09 EST 2008


Supporting the Commons: Jesse Dylan and Richard Bookman

December 8th, 2008 <http://sciencecommons.org/?p=824> by Kaitlin Thaney

Today, we are proud to announce the release of Science Commons' first
informational video<http://sciencecommons.org/about/science-commons-dylan-video>.
The video was directed by renowned director Jesse Dylan, the director of the
Emmy- award winning "Yes We
Can"<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk>Barack Obama campaign
video with musical artist
will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas. The video can also be seen on the front
of sciencecommons.org.

"I believe Science Commons represents the true aspiration of the web, and I
wanted to tell their story," Dylan said. "They've changed the way we think
about exploration and discovery; the important and innovative ideas need to
be shared.  I believe it's vital to revolutionizing science in the future.
 I hope this is just the beginning of our collaboration."

This video is launched in conjunction with a letter of support from Richard
Bookman <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11317>, the Vice Provost
for Research and Executive Dean for Research and Research Training at the
University of Miami. Bookman joins a group of esteemed Commons supporters
featured in this year's "Commoner Letter" series, including this year:  Eben
Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center and Columbia University, Renata
Avila - CC Guatemala Project Lead, and singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton.
More information and an archive of past letters can be found at
http://support.creativecommons.org/letters.

In his letter <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11317>, Bookman
writes:

"We need to find ways to make sharing research results and tools easy,
trackable, and useable by scientists on a day-to-day basis. Science Commons
is working on these problems in a way that few other projects contemplate:
they don't write papers, they release "running code" like contracts for
sharing biological materials and open contracts for biological tools like
stem cells and  genetically modified mice. [...]

I support SC/CC because I think it's the right approach at the right  time.
It's vital that we as a community support the organization - the
interstitial nature of what gets done at CC makes it harder than many  might
think to raise money, which can leave the most important work  dying for
lack of funds.

I hope everyone in the community can dig deep and support CC during this
campaign. When you support CC, whether because of the cultural work, or the
education work, or the science work, you're supporting an  organization that
is much more than contracts and websites and videos.  You're supporting an
umbrella organization working around the world that lives and breathes the
"some rights reserved" philosophy."

Our thanks to Jesse Dylan, Professor Bookman, and the broader CC community
for their ongoing support. For more information about the campaign, or to
show your support, visit http://support.creativecommons.org. Every little
bit counts. Help support the Commons.

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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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