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Artistic Licenses
The goal is to encourage people involved in the free culture movement to read the legal text of common copyleft licenses, by presenting the text in novel and creative ways.
Category: Culture
Project end date: 30/12/2007 (282 days ago)
Creation date: 15/8/2007 15:13
Development stage: planning
city: Melbourne
country: Australia
Other countries: International
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 3
Even people who are dedicated to the free culture movement may admit, in more sheepish moments, that they haven't read the legal code of the license(s) they advocate. There is a perception that legal codes are complex and hard to interpret. This is unfortunate, because the legal codes below are both actually quite readable. Presenting the legal code in a novel and interesting way should rekindle interest in what the license actually says, and help tie together technical/legal and creative aspects of the free culture movement.
I think the print format is the best option for a first run of this project. Partly because printed documents still have great power: it's a really cool thing to hold something in your hands.
I propose to use the text of the GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 (GFDL) and the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license v3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA), because these are the most common copyleft content licenses used today.
GFDL
0. Premable
1. Applicability and definitions
2. Verbatim copying
3. Copying in quantity
4. Modifications
5. Combining of documents
6. Collections of documents
7. Aggregation with independent works
8. Translation
9.Termination
10. Future revisions of this license
(11.) How to use this license for your documents
CC-BY-SA
1. Definitions
2. Fair dealing rights
3. License Grant
4. Restrictions
5. Representations, Warranties and Disclaimer
6. Limitations on Liability
7. Termination
8. Miscellaneous
(9. Creative Commons notice)
So -
please adopt a clause, then go away and make of it what you will. The text must be reproduced verbatim - you can't delete, change or add ANY words - but apart from that, you're free to arrange it as you like.
When all the clauses have been adopted and brought to life in their new form the pdfs can be collected together and uploaded to print-on-demand services such as Lulu and Blurb. Such a document should make an interesting talking point at any gathering related to free culture.
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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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