- open culture movement
- ideas of community- collaboration- choice
- copywrite, how law and technology come together
- Lawrence Lessig (2004) wrote about free culture and was the founder of "creative commons"
Our current culture is one in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past...
- copywrite and legal rights... you as the creator have complete rights to what you create, and it is your property.
- you have the right to say who can use your material and can give those rights to another person.
- in the past, if you wanted to create something new from building on another's work, you might be sued.
- L. Lessig says that 'culture is not a crime', and asks 'why is it illegal to share information with eachother?'
- Creative Commons started in December 2002.
- non for profit organisation, dedicated to promoting reasonable copyright. Copyright that makes more sense to us than standard copyright.
- It is more flexible in its terms, and employs 'some rights, rather than all rights, reserved'.
- stems from copyright, variations on copyright, and public domain (PD).
- PD material is available for anyone to use, and takes place after a person's lifetime + 75 years.
- Core licencing Suite: where the creators/lincensor chooses their license options.
- they can choose commercial use/non commercial use, no derivatives, or share alike options.
- BY: remains constant however, as credit is always given to the creator or licensor when others copy or distribute their work.
- You as the creator have the choice to mix and match these options.
- the philosophy of creative commons came from the free software movement.
- Free/Libre/ Open Source Software (FLOSS).
- How software Works: Source Code: instructions written in the programming language that tell a computer to do certain things. Instructions get transformed into a working program . This is what makes the software work.
- Source Code = Recipe
- Historically, software was free.
- Anyone could contribute, Share and re-use Source Codes. Like an "Open Air Market" (Raymond, 2001).
- R. Stallman started the free software foundation in 1981. His goal was to create completely free Unix-like operating system made totally from free software (before proprietary software).
- Free OS called GNU
- 'Free' was meant as 'Freedom'
- There were free software principals such as 0- run the purpose for any purpose, and 1- study how the program works and adapt it as you wish.
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