Post on 16-Apr-2017
American Society of Media Photographers Northern California / 2008-04-17Copyright in a Hyper Digital Age: Copyrights? Copyleft? What rights are left?
Mike Linksvayer / VP, Creative Commons
Photo by Wendy Seltzer Licensed under CC Attribution 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wseltzer/248490439/
Creative Commons .ORG
Nonprofit organization, launched to public December 2002
HQ in San Francisco (around the corner)
Science Commons division in Boston
~60 international jurisdiction projects, coordinated from Berlin
Foundation, corporate, and individual funding
Enabling Reasonable Copyright
Space between ignoring copyright and ignoring fair use & public good
Legal and technical tools enabling a Some Rights Reserved model
Like free software or open source for content/media
But with more restrictive options
Media is more diverse and at least a decade(?) behind software
Six Mainstream Licenses
Lawyer Readable
Human Readable
Machine Readable
Machine Readable (Work)
My Photoshop by
My Name
is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at
example.com.
Rights Description vs. Rights Management
Copy/use promotion vs. copy/use protection
Encourage fans vs. discourage casual pirates
Resource management vs. customer management
Web content model vs. 20th century content model
Not necessarily mutually exclusive
DRMfree
DRM Voodoby psd licensed under CC BY 2.0http://flickr.com/photos/psd/1806247462/
Digital Asset Management
License-aware desktop search
Content creation and media player integration
Everyone needs DAM, not only media houses
XMP; possible work with PLUS
CC created liblicense enabling integration on Linux; Mac and Windows forthcoming; CC metadata panel for Adobe CS
Sites: Flickr
60+ million CC licensed photos
Reuse galore; exposure via other apps
Sites: Wikimedia Commons
Definition of Free Cultural Works
Media repository for Wikipedia(s)
Only accepts images licensed according to http://freedomdefined.org (including CC BY and CC BY-SA)
Sites: Others
Piqs.de
Ipernity
Zoomr
OpenPhoto
Many others, including self-hosting photographers, educational institutions, open access publications...
Sharing Variations.
Share low resolution images
Share selected images
Licensing commercially AND sharing
"My Problem Isnt Piracy, Its Obscurity" Cory Doctorow
Demand
Huge demand for photography equipment and services, which get better and cheaper all the time
Huge demand for photography
Great time for photography; pro photographers need to get creative
Expansion of copyright not creative, harmful secondary impacts
Thanks!
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/3.0/
Attribution
Author: Mike Linksvayer
Link: http://creativecommons.org
Questions?
ml@creativecommons.org
Original photo by Brooke NovakLicensed under CC Attribution 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookenovak/544607362/