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Explain CC licenses & their effects on artists
Jamison · Oslo (Norway) · 26/7/2007 17:45
The objective of this project is to give balanced advice to artists on the advantages, disadvantages, risks and rewards that their use of Creative Commons licenses may involve.
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Category: Culture
Project end date: 19/7/2008 (41 days ago)
Creation date: 26/7/2007 17:45
Development stage: planning
city: Oslo
country: Norway
Other countries: International
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 19
The objective of this project is to give balanced advice to artists on the advantages, disadvantages, risks and rewards that their use of Creative Commons licenses may involve. This advice should ultimately cover different licenses (CC-BY-SA, CC-Sampling+, CC-NC-ND), media (painting, music, plays, novels), genres (documentary, satire, fiction), contexts (live performance, magazine reproduction, internet distribution) and jurisdictions (Australia, Japan, America, Germany, The USA, England & Wales, Scotland…).
Project Plan.
*Decide how to organize the site and create pages.
*Find questions and answers from e.g. the cc-licenses list and add them to the site.
*Gather FAQs for answering.
*Get funding and pay for expert advice (with the proviso that this cannot be presented as legal advice, see below).
*Right now the best resource available to the artists are the mailing lists for specific information on the CC licenses.
*The mailing lists may have to answer the same questions again and again.
*A lot of artists have never used a mailing list and might be confused by the language.
*Some CC organization are attached to universities and not in a position to give advice that might conflict with other organizations.
A website that tied all the loose ends together that was independent of creative commons would really help the artist.
This node was inspired mainly through communication with Dominick Chen, Jessica Coates, Jonathan Blake, Rob Myers, Kiruba Shankar, David Berry, Markus Beckedahl, Buro Bjorn, Cory Doctrow, John Buckman and Mike Linksvayer ; as well as reading through the many questions and answers on the mailing lists. Rob Myers has offered his support and assistance with the project. Kiruba wants to help spread the word to artists in India. Please participate in this project.
Rob Myers: Hi yes I'm definitely up for helping with this. Copyright and licenses often don't work how people expect them to so it's important to help people understand how to use them. Rob created this wiki page to go with the project http://ccexplained.wikidot.com
Kiruba Shankar: I'd love to spread the learnings learnt from this node to the artists here in India. Look forward to being part of this node
David Duarte: Keen to help spread the knowledge from the wiki to the students on the Business Acumen for Artists programme here.
This is the link to the project for Business Acumen for Artists.
http://daveduarte.co.za/business-acumen-for-artists/2007/07/26/
This is the WIKI site that Rob Myers has set up for the project.
http://ccexplained.wikidot.com/
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