Creative Commons Open Source Lessons From Fashions Free

Lessons From Fashion's Free Culture • Johanna Blakely • Only ® • Why no

Blakely Cont'd • Fashion industry is “open source, ” top down and bottom up

CC Basics • CC, like traditional IP, is a mentality/ideology as much as a

CC Basics Cont'd • Creative Commons allows you, as rights holder, to stipulate or

Creative Commons licensing • Lawrence Lessig helped create it • Helps you publish your

CC BY 3. 0 • Most liberal license • “BY”= attribution • BY is

CC BY-SA 3. 0 • BY • SA=Share Alike • Any use of SA

CC BY-ND 3. 0 • Moral right of “alteration” • ND= No Derivatives (no

CC BY-NC 3. 0 • NC=Non-commercial • You CAN distribute, tweak, build upon, CANNOT

CC BY-NC-SA 3. 0 • BY=Attribution • NC=Cannot use for commercial purpose • SA=You

CC BY-NC-ND 3. 0 • The MOST RESTRICTIVE CC license • You cannot use

CC 0 No rights reserved Complete public domain designation User makes work available to

PDM • No known copyright • Applied to works that have fallen into PD

Best Practices for Attribution • GIVE CREDIT!!! • Give credit at beginning/end of video,

Sources for CC Licensed Media • CC Search • Google Search • Let's CC

Open Source Media • Neo Office / Open Office: same as Microsoft Office •

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Creative Commons & Open Source

Lessons From Fashion's Free Culture • Johanna Blakely • Only ® • Why no copyright on fashion/clothing? • Imagine owning the tee shirt and then licensing? • Incentive to innovate? • Japan and EU allow for copyright

Blakely Cont'd • Fashion industry is “open source, ” top down and bottom up • Fashion designers can sample and transform! • Big clothing companies can copy fashion designs. . . knock-offs don't create market harm • Thin protection=more innovation. Designers cannot just sit on their creations and license/profit for • Fashion is democratized • This culture of copying leads to innovation,

A SHARED CULTURE

CC Basics • CC, like traditional IP, is a mentality/ideology as much as a body of law • Creative networks vs. Individual genius • Supports “thin” rights that stimulate creativity • “Open source” ideology balance between society and authors • Creative Commons / GNU GPL are copyright!!! • Traditional Licensing is a pain in the ASS! • Permission / licensing culture vs. Free culture

CC Basics Cont'd • Creative Commons allows you, as rights holder, to stipulate or give up any of your RP 3 D's. . replaces licensor/licensee relationship • CC/Open Source reflect our technology / culture better than laws framed by a early 18 th century notion of creativity/technology • CC is based in attribution (credit), and you decide the alteration. • Creating is incentive enough; Can be a forprofit model in the future!

VS.

Creative Commons licensing • Lawrence Lessig helped create it • Helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can’t do with your work • IT IS COPYRIGHT • Fair use STILL applies • With permission from CC license holder you CAN do things not permitted in CC license

CC BY-SA 3. 0 • BY • SA=Share Alike • Any use of SA media means that the new media must use the same license (share alike!) • You CAN distribute, tweak, build upon, use for commercial purposes, and you CANNOT use in © all rights reserved • What most open source software and Wikipedia use

CC BY-ND 3. 0 • Moral right of “alteration” • ND= No Derivatives (no sampling, remixing, transforming) • You CAN distribute and use for commercial purposes • Work must be shared in its whole, unchanged • Distribution license

CC BY-NC 3. 0 • NC=Non-commercial • You CAN distribute, tweak, build upon, CANNOT use for commercial purposes, and you can use in © all rights reserved • What are commercial uses? • Argument for allowing commercial use of your work?

CC BY-NC-SA 3. 0 • BY=Attribution • NC=Cannot use for commercial purpose • SA=You MUST share your work with the same license • You CAN remix, sample, transform!

CC BY-NC-ND 3. 0 • The MOST RESTRICTIVE CC license • You cannot use commercially and you cannot change the original work • All you can do is download and share (with credit of course)

CC 0 No rights reserved Complete public domain designation User makes work available to commons

PDM • No known copyright • Applied to works that have fallen into PD • Users apply to others' works that are PD

Best Practices for Attribution • GIVE CREDIT!!! • Give credit at beginning/end of video, and list the license for their content (i. e. BY CC-SA 3. 0) • Link to the artist's page in info section • Go to website and past/share link w/ your new media for anybody whose content you use • License your video using You. Tube or similar CC license • If NC, don't sell Google Ads (You. Tube is still a

Sources for CC Licensed Media • CC Search • Google Search • Let's CC • Creative Commons Music, but I like CCmixter • Beachfront B-Roll • Free Sound. org: Sound effects • CC Content directory

Open Source Media • Neo Office / Open Office: same as Microsoft Office • VLC Media Player: will play all proprietary formats and can convert (they have encoder / editor) • – Ogg: free and open container format, not bound by patents (Quicktime) – Theora: open video compression (MPEG-4) – Vorbis: audio compression (MP 3 / AAC) Audacity: open source audio multitrack (like Pro Tools)