Creative Commons & Free Culture

Brian RoweFreedom for IP2L Seattle University Law

October 28th 2008

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infringement nationJohn Tehranian

 

$4.544 billion in potential damages each year

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Human Readable Deeds

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over $1.6 million in sales in the first week

Part II Free Culture

 

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Carl Malamud from Public.Resources.org

The Wheeler Declaration

An open university is one in which:1. the research the university produces is open access2. the course materials are open educational resources3. the university embraces free software and open standards4. if the university holds patents, it readily licenses them for free software, essential medicines, and the public good5. the university network reflects the open nature of the internet

Creative Commons LinksCreative Commons icommonsFlickr (Millions of CC licensed photos)Witness Human Rights Videos

BlogsCC Molly Kleinman (Multi-Purpose Librarian)Freedom for IPFreedom to Tinker - Tim Lee / Ed FeltonLessig.orgBoing Boing - Cory DoctorowUS Bureau Fabulous Bitches Tim Hwang

Get Involved

5 mins – Read blogs and stay up to date

20 mins - Free your own work with CC and help build an open commons

1 hour – Use Fair Use to create a parody or Transformative work

Off the Deep End – become a local activist

Credits

Sarah Davies - Slides 4-8 and 22Jishnu Menon - Slides Ideas from SIGGAPH 2008

EFF, CC, FSF, Duke Center for the study of the Public Domain & Internet Archive – Donating Swag