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[cc-info] Creative Commons News: Update from Joi Ito, CEO
- From: Melissa Reeder <melissa AT creativecommons.org>
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- Subject: [cc-info] Creative Commons News: Update from Joi Ito, CEO
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:37:34 -0700
ccNewsletter September 2009
"Through the
podcast and our online music library, we’ve reached hundreds of thousands more
people than can attend our concerts live each year in our intimately-sized
concert hall. To date the podcast and music library have been accessed by
listeners in 116 countries across the globe, from Azerbaijan to Croatia. I’m
thrilled that we’ve been able to use the power of the internet to spread
classical music, in a way that fits how people live and listen to music
today." - Scott Nickrenz, Curator of Music,
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in an interview about The Concert, a classical
music podcast that features unreleased live performances by master musicians
and talented young artists, distributed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license (Music Sharing) and
downloaded over one million times. Read the full interview:
<http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229>
A note from our CEO, Joi Ito:
Over the last
year, we have added a broad spectrum of new users such as the US White House,
Wikipedia, Ridley Scott, Merck, Nike, YouTube and Al Jazeera. While the vast
majority of people still don’t know about Creative Commons licenses, the
community of supporters and users has reached a threshold of adoption where we
can now legitimately call CC a global standard.
As custodians of a global standard that continues to add new users in broader
geographies, fields, size and numbers, our responsibility to make sure that
everything works properly and that we are providing sufficient support to the
users becomes our central role. We need to shift the balance of our
organization from being mostly focused on promoting the idea of sharing to
becoming custodians of a global standard which many organizations depend on
every day.
In order to properly work with the new range of constituents, we have decided
to flatten the organization. This will serve to increase bandwidth and allow
the global community to be more directly involved in projects as well as
participate in the management of Creative Commons. This flattening will fold
the international process, formally a separate effort spearheaded by
International Director Catharina Maracke, into each project and initiative of
Creative Commons, so that jurisdiction porting, communication, and outreach
will now be a central focus of CC's work in the realms of science, education,
and culture. I have asked every staff member and project within Creative
Commons to become international, rather than relying on an international
spearhead to intermediate every contact.
With the growing responsibility and complexity of our job, I am very happy to
have such a thoughtful and active community of supporters. We need your help
more than ever and hope that you can share in our successes as well as our
challenges.
Sincerely,
Joi Ito
Chief Executive Officer
Creative Commons
Check out our quarterly PDF version of the newsletter, which includes
news from the past three months:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCNewsletter
In this Newsletter:
* Anne Wojcicki and
Sergey Brin Support CC with $500,000 Gift
* Creative Commons Network "A Truly Inspirational Approach"
* Google Books Adds Creative Commons License Options
* How Can IP Help Spread Green Technology?
Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin Support CC with $500,000 Gift
Creative Commons is honored to have received an incredibly generous gift of
$500,000 from 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki and Google co-founder Sergey
Brin. We are delighted that the couple recognizes the importance of Creative
Commons and has decided to invest in our work to support sharing,
collaboration, and the spread of knowledge and creativity. This gift – made in
addition to the financial support that Google offers CC annually – will be used
to support Creative Commons generally, with a focus on developing our Science
Commons project, which Wojcicki and Brin are particularly excited about.
Full story: <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17209>
Creative Commons Network "A
Truly Inspirational Approach"
Have you heard of the Creative Commons (CC) Network? It's a special service we
offer that includes an OpenID profile where you can identify your CC-licensed
works. Chris Messina recently wrote about the benefits of becoming part of the
CC Network and getting an OpenID, and we were honored by his kind and eloquent
words. From his post: "What better way to both support Creative Commons
and show off your patronage than by identifying yourself across the web with
your very own unique, secure, privacy-protecting creativecommons.net OpenID? For a mere
$50 minimum donation ($25 for students), you can own a limited edition URL and
profile from Creative Commons that identifies you to the world and provides a
compelling revenue opportunity for the non-profit foundation. While companies
like SAP become OpenID providers for pedestrian reasons like simplifying authentication
across their many different distributed web properties, Creative Commons is
redistributing the brand equity and social capital their members have accrued
over the last several years by letting people show and verify their affiliation
to the organization. With this simple example, we can start to see the
symbiosis of making an intentional choice about identity: Creative Commons
finds a new revenue opportunity and members of the community have a way to
express their affiliation and promote the brand."
We hope you will read the whole post, available at:
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/08/05/openid-the-unseen-branded-revenue-opportunity/
You can also check out Read Write Web’s take on CC Network, following up on
Messina’s post: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_launches_cc_openid_profile.
Full story from Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16609
Creative Commons Network: https://creativecommons.net/
Google Books Add Creative Commons
License Options
On August 13, Google launched a
program to enable rights holders to make their Creative Commons-licensed books
available for the public to download, use, remix, and share via Google Books.
The new initiative makes it easy for participants in Google Books’ Partner Program to mark their books with one of the six Creative Commons licenses (or the CC0 waiver). This gives authors and publishers a simple way to articulate the permissions they have granted to the public through a CC license, while giving people a clear indication of the legal rights they have to CC-licensed works found through Google Books.
Full story: <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16823>
How Can IP Help Spread Green
Technology?
A recent feature in SEED Magazine asks the question: How can intellectual
property (IP) – and more specifically the current patent system – spread green
technology? The article, “Who Owns Green Tech?” features replies from five
leading thinkers on the matter. Our own John Wilbanks, Creative Commons' VP of
Science, was one of those panelists. In his response, Wilbanks challenges the
public to not view this conversation of innovation as a black and white
situation, but to make room for new forms of innovation in the discussion (i.e.
user-driven innovation, open innovation). This idea is at the core of the
GreenXchange project, a venture by Creative Commons, Nike and Best Buy to
create a marketplace for invention.
Full story: <http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/31/how-can-ip-help-spread-green-technology/>
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