Thoughts are built on the shoulders of other thoughts. It’s that simple ‚àö¬± and our words civilization and culture both refer in large degree to the centuries-long conversation of one idea with another which has given us Dante and Bach and Feynman, pasteurized cheese and better mouse-traps and the mouse.
When Picasso looked over Braque’s shoulder and borrowed what he saw, that conversation was a commons: more recently and shortsightedly, we have been grooming it as a market-place.
Creative Commons licenses offer other kinds of creative thinkers the kind of freedom in licensing their works that software designers enjoy through GNU licenses. They blog, they rock. Let there be choice.
Via Lawrence Lessig’s Lessig Blog.
You’ve made a work you’re proud of. Now it’s time to get creative with how you make it available.
Creative Commons licenses help you share your work but while keeping your copyright. Other people can copy and distribute your work, but only on certain conditions. This page helps you choose those conditions.
Comments
@ 17:54
A creative commons often arises using a different form of currency, namely that of credit (recognition) for ideas or contributions, rather than cash. But credit and cash are often interchangeable (e.g. a better known person can certainly earn money by giving talks where a speaker’s fee is charged, for example, or the recognition may lead to job offers, etc), to the extent that fame and fortune are fungible, so in many ways, the credit of scholarly recognition (citations) is not much different than the credit of a credit card (money).
So if we want a true deconomy, what we really need is the ability to produce attribution-free works. Attribution-free content production is explored in an article I wrote in http://eyetap.org/ouiki/index.htm, that presents collective stream of (de)consciousness capture for producing attribution-free informatic content.
I would welcome any comments folks might have on such deconomic structures as are outlined in the article.
Here is the ABSTRACT of the paper (the complete article is on the site):
ABSTRACT
Various forms of apparatus for a new kind of wiki or blog (weblog) are described. In particular, ways of for bringing together a collective deconsciousness are presented. The systems works with CyborgLogs (cyborglogs or “glogs”) from a community of portable computer users, or it can also be used with a mixture of portable (handheld or wearable), mobile (automotive, boat, van, or utility vehicle), or base-station (home, office, public space, etc.) systems. The system enables a community to exist without conscious thought or effort on the part of the individual participants. Because of the participants’ ability to constantly experience the world through the apparatus, the apparatus can behave as a true extension of the participants’ mind and body, giving rise to a new kind of collective experience. In other embodiments, the system may operate without the need for participants to bear any kind of technological prosthesis.
@ 18:31
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What? No, No. I make copies when I want for whatever purposes I want. I am not sure what conditions CC is talking about nor do I care. If it is technically possible, it will copies regardless of whatever license scheme is made up.
@ 18:31
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What? No, No. I make copies when I want for whatever purposes I want. I am not sure what conditions CC is talking about nor do I care. If it is technically possible, it will copies regardless of whatever license scheme is made up.