The Maiming of Copyright (and Rise of the Creative Commons)
Ours is Less and Less a Free Society
- Free Culture
- Lawrence Lessig
The Creative Commons. Revitalizing the “commons.”
“Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. We’re a nonprofit. All of our tools are free.”
“Creative Commons wants to help define the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright— All Rights Reserved— and the Public Domain— No Rights Reserved. Our licenses help you retain your copyright while allowing certain uses of your work. They help you offer your creative work with Some Rights Reserved.”
Brad Vice and “Tuscaloosa Knights”
The Creative Commons + Remix Culture is a potent combination, calling into question our ideas and understanding of:
- Plagiarism, Originality, Ownership
- Authoring and Authority
- Collaboration and Cooperation
- Bricolage(Derrida was right!)
- Creativity and Individuality
Links and Resources
MIT OpenCourseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Creative Commons
http://www.creativecommons.org
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