Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 26 May 2005, at 15:07, Greg London wrote:

> imagine projects for music, scripts, stories,
> special effects models, sound effects, etc,
> all having different source requirements
> being put together to form a movie.

Hopefully the Blender movie will be a good test case for this.

There are differences between requiring a transparant copy (an OGG  
file), an editable copy (a tracker file), and full source  
(preparatory work). CC currently only requires the first.

The example I use for how providing source could look is is a Disney  
DVD - look at all that preparatory art, the rough animation, deleted  
scenes, 3D models, scripts, storyboards. Add the score and you're there.

There will always be difficulties in identifying what has gone into  
making a cultural work, but the advantages (for learning about,  
understanding, remaking, extending and reworking a work) could be  
massive.

http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2004/11/30/providing-sources-for- 
paintings-via-cc-license/
http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2004/11/30/requiring-modifiable- 
sources-via-cc-license/
http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2005/04/21/joy-garnett-open-source-art/

- Rob.