Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 14 Jun 2005, at 21:01, kebunhouse wrote:

>  i basically want to have my patterns available for non-commercial
> derivative work. i understand the way the license work now.

Cool. Yes, that would be Attribution-NonCommercial I think. The  
attribution would most likely be on the prints of the design, not on  
the finished pieces; I don't know how a pattern and a finished  
garment are related for the purposes of Intellectual Property law  
(I'm not a lawyer).

Bear in mind that noncommercial would only allow individuals to make  
clothes for themselves, they couldn't make them for other people and  
charge for that service.

> Yes, savvyseams is similar to what I want to do. thanks! is there a
> way to find a community of CC licensed clothing designers? I know most
> of you out there may not be in the fashion/clothing industry but if
> you have any leads let me know.

I don't know of any direct links. Possibly you could start  
something? :-)

You could email savvyseams and ask them, they may have made some  
contacts through their web presence.

There was a conference on open fashion culture:

    http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5261

And there's a weblog on 'pro-am' craft:

    http://ullamaaria.typepad.com/hobbyprincess/

which might possibly be of interest.

I'm sure that someone asked about some kind of patterns on one of  
these lists before but I can't find the link right now. :-(

And a magazine did some CC knitting patterns:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/24/knitting_patterns_un.html

> In my opinion, the fashion industry is still slow to adopt new
> technologies and ways to spread information. It is still very much, at
> least on the manufacturing side, old world.

People have always "hacked" clothes but I think we're in a very  
conservative age for clothes at the moment. Even the Goths get their  
clothes from catalogues now. :-) A "fashion commons" would be great  
for both producers and consumers.

- Rob.