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Case Studies/MoShang

2008-05-12T04:04:35Z

Bob Chao: /* Media */

{{Case Study
|Description=The CC-licensed ''Asian Variations'' album is a collection of 14 remixes produced by MoShang in his Chinese Chill style of downtempo electronica, melding deeply laid-back beats with Chinese traditional instruments.
|Quote=In the case of the Asian Variations album, [we] stood to gain much more from the exposure than we did from making it available commercially. Choosing a CC Music Sharing Licence gave the listening public a clear mandate to download and share the album,… allowed us to retain the right to possibly license the music for commercial use at a later stage. Furthermore, since I'd made use of CC licensed material in the past, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give something back to the CC community.
|Quote_Attribution=MoShang
|Image_Header=http://asianvariations.com/images/ASIANVARIATIONS.gif
|Mainurl=http://moshang.net/, http://asianvariations.com/
|Author=MoShang
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=music, remix
|License short name=CC BY-NC-ND
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
|Format=Sound
|Country=Taiwan
}}
== Overview ==

[http://moshang.net MoShang] is the Chinese moniker of Jean Marais, who relocated from South Africa to Taichung, Taiwan, in 2003. MoShang calls himself a sound jeweller. He collects rough audio diamonds from the streets of Taiwan (be they overheard conversations, street-ads blared from the ubiquitous blue-trucks, street processions or funeral chants) and fuses them with traditional Chinese instruments and laid-back beats to create a unique blend of downtempo electronica he likes to call Chinese Chill. His first album as MoShang, ''Made in Taiwan'', was released on his Onse Plate (Afrikaans for ‘Our Records’) imprint in 2004. His second, ''Chill Dynasty'', followed in 2006.

== License Usage ==

His third album, ''Asian Variations'', is a collection of remixes and is released in 2007. The entire album is made available under a Creative Commons Music Sharing Licence. Some of these remixes were solicited by the original artists, two were done for remix competitions, and in some cases MoShang approached artists directly requesting permission to remix their works. The artists represented on the album are literally from all over the globe: the USA (Fort Minor, Toao, Lovespirals, Brad Reason), Taiwan (Kou Chou Ching, Chang Jui-chuan, Viba, André van Rensburg, MoShang), South Africa (Gordon’s Suitcase), Japan (Akihiko Matsumoto & Chage), Italy (Tafubar), and Slovenia (PureH). For the most part the collaboration was via the web. With the exception of Fort Minor and J-pop star, Chage, none of the artists are signed to major labels.

== Motivations ==

Tyng-Ruey Chuang from [http://creativecommons.org/international/tw/ Creative Commons Taiwan] conducted by e-mail the following interview with MoShang on January 2, 2008, in which he expressed his views.

CC TAIWAN: ''Could you describe how you work? In particular, how do you find materials and collaborators, and how do you approach them? How is Asian Variations produced?''

MOSHANG: My current production style is based mostly on experimenting. Rather than composing in the traditional sense of the word, I'll build up a track in sections, working almost exclusively with music production software on the PC, intuitively and by ear. The musical elements I use come from a variety of sources; field recordings I make with a portable sound recorder in my environment, commercial and open-source loop and sample libraries and elements I create in the studio. When I'm looking for a particular element to use that I can't record myself, I'll search the web for it. Similarly, I've met most of my recent collaborators on the web through music upload sites like [http://www.soundclick.com SoundClick.com], social networking sites (predominantly [http://myspace.com MySpace.com]) and the Second Life online world.

Over the last three years or so, most of my collaborations have been in the form of remixes. In many cases these remixes would be requested by artists who had been exposed to my music through the online means mentioned above. At the beginning of 2007, I discovered that by doing these occasional remixes in between working on my own music, I had gathered just about enough material for a full-length remix album. I decided to just keep going and by September 2007 I had fourteen remixes which I released together as the ''Asian Variations'' album.

CC TAIWAN: ''Could you comment on the current music environment (business, creativity, tools, collaboration, etc.) from the point-of-view of independent creators/producers?''

MOSHANG: The tools for creating music have never been better, cheaper or more freely available than now. As a result there has been a huge increase in the amount of artists/producers creating music independently. Through the Internet, these producers have received new ways to meet and collaborate, but also the tools to make their music public, whether as free downloads or as commercial products.

The biggest challenge facing [artists] remains finding and cultivating their audience and finding creative ways to draw attention to their music — with so much music out there, it's all too easy to get lost in the crowd. It's no secret that artists are often terrible at marketing their own music, and have little or no business acumen. With the major labels in decline, the time is ripe for a new business model to emerge that will hopefully be more inclusive of independent artists whilst being more equitable to the artists and music-buying public alike.

CC TAIWAN: ''What is your view of public licensing (such as CC licensing) of music/sound? Is public licensing essential to your work? Could you comment on copyrights issues, for example on its effect on your work?''

MOSHANG: In the current musical landscape it is almost expected of artists to have some presence on the web. When I first started uploading music to the web about ten years ago, I did so with very little knowledge about what impact doing so had on my copyright and was hesitant to make anything more than a small sampling available for this reason. I first became aware of CC licensing when [http://www.soundclick.com SoundClick.com] started offering it as an option for music uploaded to their site; it immediately struck me as a better way to go about making my music available.

In the case of the ''Asian Variations'' album, I thought that most of the artists on the album, myself included, stood to gain much more from the exposure than we did from making it available commercially. Choosing a CC Music Sharing Licence gave the listening public a clear mandate to download and share the album, made it available to the podcasting community which is increasingly important in bringing music to a niche audience, and also allowed us to retain the right to possibly license the music for commercial use at a later stage. Furthermore, since I'd made use of CC licensed material in the past, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give something back to the CC community.

CC TAIWAN: ''Could you say a few words about your new works that are coming up?''

MOSHANG: I'm currently working on a collaborative live performance in Second Life with Australian musician, Paul Cohen, living in Tokyo, Japan. In these performances we combine music that we play together from our separate locations with generative particle art that Paul created. I'll also soon begin mixing and mastering an album for the Italian producer, Tafubar, featured on the Asian Variations album. I'm hoping to start recording local traditional instrumentalists for a new album of my own soon after that.

== Media ==

You can download the complete album on [http://asianvariations.com/download.html Asian Variations] web site, or listen on [http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/7110/ Jamendo].

Case Studies/Pig Head Skin

2008-05-12T04:01:46Z

Bob Chao: /* Media */

{{Case Study
|Description=Yueh-hsin Chu (a.k.a. Pig Head Skin) is an independent musician/producer in Taiwan, and leads the band Jesus Rocks! The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons License.
|Quote=I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.
|Quote_Attribution=Pig Head Skin (Yueh-Hsin Chu)
|Image_Header=http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/wsimages/cd.gif
|Mainurl=http://www.streetvoice.com/pigheadskin/, http://youth.pct.org.tw/music/
|Author=Pig Head Skin
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=music
|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
|Format=Sound
|Country=Taiwan
}}
== Overview ==

Yueh-hsin Chu, better known as Pig Head Skin, has been an icon in Taiwan's music scene since his ground-breaking sampling-rich album ''Funny Rap'' (1994). Many found his satirical lyrics about Taiwanese society hilarious while some found them shocking. Since 2001, Yueh-hsin Chu has led the band Jesus Rocks! with members of the Youth Ministry Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

Creative Commons Taiwan commissioned Chu to write a song as part of the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan on September 4, 2004. He wrote ''Welcome to My Song'' to illustrate the concept of Creative Commons. This song expresses the will of artists to share their works. In the song, Chu writes:

:''And he'll be rapping:''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''An acknowledging credit and I'd be so happy.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you gig'ed it and made money, grant me a due share of it.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you don't gig for the money, you just sing and feel free.''
:''Brothers, what's the worry about the word proprietary?''
:''Sisters, the more open you be, the more you feel rich.''

(Lyrics translated to English from Holo by Deng Liu)

Chu and Creative Commons Taiwan worked together to produce a CD album of the same title for distribution at the launch. ''The Welcome to My Song'' CD proved to be popular and was used after the launch for many outreach events. The entire CD album was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence, and is available from [http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/cd.html Creative Commons Taiwan].

A month after the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan, the band Jesus Rocks! released an album of the same title under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence. The album ''Jesus Rocks!'' was created by Youth Ministry Committee (Pop Music Missionary) of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, and was produced by Yue-Hsin Chu and Te-Fu Hsiao. Chu calls ''Jesus Rocks!'' ‘Contemporary Christian Music’. While CC-licensed, this album is also available for sale in many of Taiwan's record stores.

== License Usage ==

Usually [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/tw/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike]

== Motivations ==

Creative Commons Taiwan conducted the following interview with Yueh-hsin Chu on May 24, 2006, in which he expressed his views.

CC TAIWAN: ''How did you hear about Creative Commons?''

CHU: You are kidding me! You people contacted me in 2004 to write a song for the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan. Of course I agreed immediately. As a result a CC-licensed album, Welcome to My Song, was produced just before the launch.

CC TAIWAN: ''What attracted you to the idea of Creative Commons?''

CHU: I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. It is like: Here are my works and I am CC-licensing them so you can use them. But please return your goodwill by respecting my rights. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.

Creative Commons means a lot to creators. I know of many indie film makers (some of whom are just Mom-and-Pop). They are so glad that they can now use music from opsound.org for background music in their works. Before that, it would cost them a lot to get those kinds of music usage rights. The paperwork alone will kill you. CC facilitates remix culture. CC somehow is the tender light to inspire the kindness of human beings. It is a lot of fun to live by creating works. CC-licensed works are like energy for a creative life.

CC TAIWAN: ''What has been your experience using the CC licence to date? Are CC licences alone sufficient to you?''

CHU: It is difficult to tell the effect of using a CC licence for our album, ''Jesus Rocks!'' I don't know whether we get more gigs just because it is CC-licensed. I don't know either whether the tracks are ripped more often just because of it. Nowadays people are ripping everything, even from ‘copy controlled’ CDs. Besides, it is really tough to sell any album in Taiwan's music market. It may just be simpler to allow people to copy my music, as long as my goodwill is respected.

It will be worth working out more cases (of CC-licensed albums). Right now we have few cases to speak about. One thing I would like to see is a case of musicians making a living by making CC-licensed music. We are nowhere near there. At sites like http://tw.streetvoice.com/, they are already streaming CC-licensed music. Perhaps an artist-owned agency for CC-licensed music will be possible. Right now it is too early to know. I would like to see CC Taiwan doing more in this respect.

(Interview by Hui-Ju Wu. Abridged English translation by Tyng-Ruey Chuang.)

== Media ==

[http://creativecommons.org.tw/gallery/index.php?fpp=10&did=0 Welcome to my song - Theme of Creative Commons Taiwan]

Case Studies/Pig Head Skin

2008-05-12T03:59:58Z

Bob Chao: /* License Usage */

{{Case Study
|Description=Yueh-hsin Chu (a.k.a. Pig Head Skin) is an independent musician/producer in Taiwan, and leads the band Jesus Rocks! The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons License.
|Quote=I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.
|Quote_Attribution=Pig Head Skin (Yueh-Hsin Chu)
|Image_Header=http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/wsimages/cd.gif
|Mainurl=http://www.streetvoice.com/pigheadskin/, http://youth.pct.org.tw/music/
|Author=Pig Head Skin
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=music
|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
|Format=Sound
|Country=Taiwan
}}
== Overview ==

Yueh-hsin Chu, better known as Pig Head Skin, has been an icon in Taiwan's music scene since his ground-breaking sampling-rich album ''Funny Rap'' (1994). Many found his satirical lyrics about Taiwanese society hilarious while some found them shocking. Since 2001, Yueh-hsin Chu has led the band Jesus Rocks! with members of the Youth Ministry Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

Creative Commons Taiwan commissioned Chu to write a song as part of the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan on September 4, 2004. He wrote ''Welcome to My Song'' to illustrate the concept of Creative Commons. This song expresses the will of artists to share their works. In the song, Chu writes:

:''And he'll be rapping:''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''An acknowledging credit and I'd be so happy.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you gig'ed it and made money, grant me a due share of it.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you don't gig for the money, you just sing and feel free.''
:''Brothers, what's the worry about the word proprietary?''
:''Sisters, the more open you be, the more you feel rich.''

(Lyrics translated to English from Holo by Deng Liu)

Chu and Creative Commons Taiwan worked together to produce a CD album of the same title for distribution at the launch. ''The Welcome to My Song'' CD proved to be popular and was used after the launch for many outreach events. The entire CD album was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence, and is available from [http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/cd.html Creative Commons Taiwan].

A month after the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan, the band Jesus Rocks! released an album of the same title under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence. The album ''Jesus Rocks!'' was created by Youth Ministry Committee (Pop Music Missionary) of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, and was produced by Yue-Hsin Chu and Te-Fu Hsiao. Chu calls ''Jesus Rocks!'' ‘Contemporary Christian Music’. While CC-licensed, this album is also available for sale in many of Taiwan's record stores.

== License Usage ==

Usually [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/tw/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike]

== Motivations ==

Creative Commons Taiwan conducted the following interview with Yueh-hsin Chu on May 24, 2006, in which he expressed his views.

CC TAIWAN: ''How did you hear about Creative Commons?''

CHU: You are kidding me! You people contacted me in 2004 to write a song for the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan. Of course I agreed immediately. As a result a CC-licensed album, Welcome to My Song, was produced just before the launch.

CC TAIWAN: ''What attracted you to the idea of Creative Commons?''

CHU: I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. It is like: Here are my works and I am CC-licensing them so you can use them. But please return your goodwill by respecting my rights. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.

Creative Commons means a lot to creators. I know of many indie film makers (some of whom are just Mom-and-Pop). They are so glad that they can now use music from opsound.org for background music in their works. Before that, it would cost them a lot to get those kinds of music usage rights. The paperwork alone will kill you. CC facilitates remix culture. CC somehow is the tender light to inspire the kindness of human beings. It is a lot of fun to live by creating works. CC-licensed works are like energy for a creative life.

CC TAIWAN: ''What has been your experience using the CC licence to date? Are CC licences alone sufficient to you?''

CHU: It is difficult to tell the effect of using a CC licence for our album, ''Jesus Rocks!'' I don't know whether we get more gigs just because it is CC-licensed. I don't know either whether the tracks are ripped more often just because of it. Nowadays people are ripping everything, even from ‘copy controlled’ CDs. Besides, it is really tough to sell any album in Taiwan's music market. It may just be simpler to allow people to copy my music, as long as my goodwill is respected.

It will be worth working out more cases (of CC-licensed albums). Right now we have few cases to speak about. One thing I would like to see is a case of musicians making a living by making CC-licensed music. We are nowhere near there. At sites like http://tw.streetvoice.com/, they are already streaming CC-licensed music. Perhaps an artist-owned agency for CC-licensed music will be possible. Right now it is too early to know. I would like to see CC Taiwan doing more in this respect.

(Interview by Hui-Ju Wu. Abridged English translation by Tyng-Ruey Chuang.)

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Case Studies/Pig Head Skin

2008-05-12T03:53:03Z

Bob Chao:

{{Case Study
|Description=Yueh-hsin Chu (a.k.a. Pig Head Skin) is an independent musician/producer in Taiwan, and leads the band Jesus Rocks! The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons License.
|Quote=I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.
|Quote_Attribution=Pig Head Skin (Yueh-Hsin Chu)
|Image_Header=http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/wsimages/cd.gif
|Mainurl=http://www.streetvoice.com/pigheadskin/, http://youth.pct.org.tw/music/
|Author=Pig Head Skin
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=music
|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
|Format=Sound
|Country=Taiwan
}}
== Overview ==

Yueh-hsin Chu, better known as Pig Head Skin, has been an icon in Taiwan's music scene since his ground-breaking sampling-rich album ''Funny Rap'' (1994). Many found his satirical lyrics about Taiwanese society hilarious while some found them shocking. Since 2001, Yueh-hsin Chu has led the band Jesus Rocks! with members of the Youth Ministry Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

Creative Commons Taiwan commissioned Chu to write a song as part of the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan on September 4, 2004. He wrote ''Welcome to My Song'' to illustrate the concept of Creative Commons. This song expresses the will of artists to share their works. In the song, Chu writes:

:''And he'll be rapping:''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''An acknowledging credit and I'd be so happy.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you gig'ed it and made money, grant me a due share of it.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you don't gig for the money, you just sing and feel free.''
:''Brothers, what's the worry about the word proprietary?''
:''Sisters, the more open you be, the more you feel rich.''

(Lyrics translated to English from Holo by Deng Liu)

Chu and Creative Commons Taiwan worked together to produce a CD album of the same title for distribution at the launch. ''The Welcome to My Song'' CD proved to be popular and was used after the launch for many outreach events. The entire CD album was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence, and is available from [http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/cd.html Creative Commons Taiwan].

A month after the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan, the band Jesus Rocks! released an album of the same title under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence. The album ''Jesus Rocks!'' was created by Youth Ministry Committee (Pop Music Missionary) of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, and was produced by Yue-Hsin Chu and Te-Fu Hsiao. Chu calls ''Jesus Rocks!'' ‘Contemporary Christian Music’. While CC-licensed, this album is also available for sale in many of Taiwan's record stores.

== License Usage ==

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== Motivations ==

Creative Commons Taiwan conducted the following interview with Yueh-hsin Chu on May 24, 2006, in which he expressed his views.

CC TAIWAN: ''How did you hear about Creative Commons?''

CHU: You are kidding me! You people contacted me in 2004 to write a song for the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan. Of course I agreed immediately. As a result a CC-licensed album, Welcome to My Song, was produced just before the launch.

CC TAIWAN: ''What attracted you to the idea of Creative Commons?''

CHU: I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. It is like: Here are my works and I am CC-licensing them so you can use them. But please return your goodwill by respecting my rights. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.

Creative Commons means a lot to creators. I know of many indie film makers (some of whom are just Mom-and-Pop). They are so glad that they can now use music from opsound.org for background music in their works. Before that, it would cost them a lot to get those kinds of music usage rights. The paperwork alone will kill you. CC facilitates remix culture. CC somehow is the tender light to inspire the kindness of human beings. It is a lot of fun to live by creating works. CC-licensed works are like energy for a creative life.

CC TAIWAN: ''What has been your experience using the CC licence to date? Are CC licences alone sufficient to you?''

CHU: It is difficult to tell the effect of using a CC licence for our album, ''Jesus Rocks!'' I don't know whether we get more gigs just because it is CC-licensed. I don't know either whether the tracks are ripped more often just because of it. Nowadays people are ripping everything, even from ‘copy controlled’ CDs. Besides, it is really tough to sell any album in Taiwan's music market. It may just be simpler to allow people to copy my music, as long as my goodwill is respected.

It will be worth working out more cases (of CC-licensed albums). Right now we have few cases to speak about. One thing I would like to see is a case of musicians making a living by making CC-licensed music. We are nowhere near there. At sites like http://tw.streetvoice.com/, they are already streaming CC-licensed music. Perhaps an artist-owned agency for CC-licensed music will be possible. Right now it is too early to know. I would like to see CC Taiwan doing more in this respect.

(Interview by Hui-Ju Wu. Abridged English translation by Tyng-Ruey Chuang.)

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Case Studies/Pig Head Skin

2008-05-12T03:51:59Z

Bob Chao: edit the author's name to fix the link.

{{Case Study
|Description=Yueh-hsin Chu (a.k.a. Pig Head Skin) is an independent musician/producer in Taiwan, and leads the band Jesus Rocks! The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons License.
|Quote=I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.
|Quote_Attribution=Pig Head Skin
|Image_Header=http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/wsimages/cd.gif
|Mainurl=http://www.streetvoice.com/pigheadskin/, http://youth.pct.org.tw/music/
|Author=Pig Head Skin (a.k.a.Yueh-Hsin Chu)
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=music
|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
|Format=Sound
|Country=Taiwan
}}
== Overview ==

Yueh-hsin Chu, better known as Pig Head Skin, has been an icon in Taiwan's music scene since his ground-breaking sampling-rich album ''Funny Rap'' (1994). Many found his satirical lyrics about Taiwanese society hilarious while some found them shocking. Since 2001, Yueh-hsin Chu has led the band Jesus Rocks! with members of the Youth Ministry Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

Creative Commons Taiwan commissioned Chu to write a song as part of the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan on September 4, 2004. He wrote ''Welcome to My Song'' to illustrate the concept of Creative Commons. This song expresses the will of artists to share their works. In the song, Chu writes:

:''And he'll be rapping:''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''An acknowledging credit and I'd be so happy.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you gig'ed it and made money, grant me a due share of it.''
:''Sing the melody and feel free,''
:''If you don't gig for the money, you just sing and feel free.''
:''Brothers, what's the worry about the word proprietary?''
:''Sisters, the more open you be, the more you feel rich.''

(Lyrics translated to English from Holo by Deng Liu)

Chu and Creative Commons Taiwan worked together to produce a CD album of the same title for distribution at the launch. ''The Welcome to My Song'' CD proved to be popular and was used after the launch for many outreach events. The entire CD album was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence, and is available from [http://creativecommons.org.tw/files/cc-tw-dvd/cd.html Creative Commons Taiwan].

A month after the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan, the band Jesus Rocks! released an album of the same title under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan Licence. The album ''Jesus Rocks!'' was created by Youth Ministry Committee (Pop Music Missionary) of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, and was produced by Yue-Hsin Chu and Te-Fu Hsiao. Chu calls ''Jesus Rocks!'' ‘Contemporary Christian Music’. While CC-licensed, this album is also available for sale in many of Taiwan's record stores.

== License Usage ==

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== Motivations ==

Creative Commons Taiwan conducted the following interview with Yueh-hsin Chu on May 24, 2006, in which he expressed his views.

CC TAIWAN: ''How did you hear about Creative Commons?''

CHU: You are kidding me! You people contacted me in 2004 to write a song for the launch of Creative Commons Taiwan. Of course I agreed immediately. As a result a CC-licensed album, Welcome to My Song, was produced just before the launch.

CC TAIWAN: ''What attracted you to the idea of Creative Commons?''

CHU: I see CC licences as a way for one to express goodwill in exchange for goodwill from others. It is like: Here are my works and I am CC-licensing them so you can use them. But please return your goodwill by respecting my rights. Before CC licences, my works were either protected by record labels to a ridiculous extent, or I was doing it all for free, as a charity. CC is a smart charity in interesting ways.

Creative Commons means a lot to creators. I know of many indie film makers (some of whom are just Mom-and-Pop). They are so glad that they can now use music from opsound.org for background music in their works. Before that, it would cost them a lot to get those kinds of music usage rights. The paperwork alone will kill you. CC facilitates remix culture. CC somehow is the tender light to inspire the kindness of human beings. It is a lot of fun to live by creating works. CC-licensed works are like energy for a creative life.

CC TAIWAN: ''What has been your experience using the CC licence to date? Are CC licences alone sufficient to you?''

CHU: It is difficult to tell the effect of using a CC licence for our album, ''Jesus Rocks!'' I don't know whether we get more gigs just because it is CC-licensed. I don't know either whether the tracks are ripped more often just because of it. Nowadays people are ripping everything, even from ‘copy controlled’ CDs. Besides, it is really tough to sell any album in Taiwan's music market. It may just be simpler to allow people to copy my music, as long as my goodwill is respected.

It will be worth working out more cases (of CC-licensed albums). Right now we have few cases to speak about. One thing I would like to see is a case of musicians making a living by making CC-licensed music. We are nowhere near there. At sites like http://tw.streetvoice.com/, they are already streaming CC-licensed music. Perhaps an artist-owned agency for CC-licensed music will be possible. Right now it is too early to know. I would like to see CC Taiwan doing more in this respect.

(Interview by Hui-Ju Wu. Abridged English translation by Tyng-Ruey Chuang.)

== Media ==

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Sharing Creative Works

2008-04-11T08:27:07Z

Bob Chao: add zh-TW translation

{{Sharing Creative Works
|num= 01
|text= <center> ''Creative Commons presents'' <br />
<big>Sharing Creative Works</big> <br />
''An Illustrated Primer''<br />
by [[User:Alex Roberts |Alex Roberts]], [[User:Rebecca Rojer|Rebecca Rojer]], & [[User:Jon Phillips|Jon Phillips]]
</center>
}}

{{Infobox|
<big>NEW! View and download a PDF of ''[http://www.scribd.com/doc/2227656/creativecommonssharingcreativeworkseng Sharing Creative Works]''</big>
}}

''Sharing Creative Works'' is a new comic about Creative Commons. It aims to explain the basics of CC licensing as simply as possible to a general audience, including children. To make remixes and translations as easy as possible, the original artwork is in SVG format and all the assets are available for [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/comics/sharingcreativeworks/sharingcreativeworks.zip download]. Please contribute!

This comic will also serve as the foundation of the documentation for the [[OLPC| Sugar Licensing Activity]], our collaboration with [http://www.laptop.org One Laptop Per Child]. The final documentation and activity will be customized for each country's distribution, so please let us know if you have suggestions for making this document as culturally accessible as possible.

Please share your feedback on the talk page, either of this index or the pages of specific panels. Or, download the [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/comics/sharingcreativeworks/sharingcreativeworks.zip assets] to make your own changes. Please upload user remixes/translations to their own wiki page and [[#User_Remixes_.26_Translations |link ]] to them below. Thanks!

<big>[[Sharing Creative Works 1 | Read the Comic!]]</big>

<big>[http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/comics/sharingcreativeworks/sharingcreativeworks.pdf Download the PDF]</big>

===Credits===
* Art by [[User:Alex Roberts |Alex Roberts]] & [[User:Rebecca Rojer |Rebecca Rojer]]
* Text by [[User:Rebecca Rojer |Rebecca Rojer]], [[User:Jon Phillips|Jon Phillips]] & [[User:Alex Roberts |Alex Roberts]]
* Thanks to [[User:paulproteus |Asheesh Laroia]], [[User:Virginia Rutledge |Virginia Rutledge]], [[User:Ahrash Bissell |Ahrash Bissell]], [[User: Mike Linksvayer |Mike Linksvayer]], [[User: Eric Steuer |Eric Steuer]], [[User:Diane Cabell |Diane Cabell]], & [[User:Lawrence_Lessig |Lawrence Lessig]]

=== Copyright Notice ===
This comic is in the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain public domain].
However, please note that the CC logo is a registered trademark of Creative Commons. Creative Commons also claims trademarks on its license buttons. For more information, please review our [http://creativecommons.org/policies trademark policies].

===Assets===
* [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/comics/sharingcreativeworks/sharingcreativeworks.pdf PDF] of the entire comic
* [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/comics/sharingcreativeworks/sharingcreativeworks.zip ZIP] archive of:
** the original SVG images
** high quality PNG images
** the script in plain text
** the [http://www.scribus.org Scribus] document used to generate the PDF

===Index===
<gallery>
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-01.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 1 | Page 1]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-01.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-02.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 2 | Page 2]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-02.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-03.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 3 | Page 3]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-03.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-04.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 4 | Page 4]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-04.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-05.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 5 | Page 5]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-05.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-06.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 6 | Page 6]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-06.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-07.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 7 | Page 7]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-07.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-08.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 8 | Page 8]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-08.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-09.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 9 | Page 9]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-09.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-10.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 10 | Page 10]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-10.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-11.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 11 | Page 11]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-11.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-12.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 12 | Page 12]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-12.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-13.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 13 | Page 13]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-13.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-14.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 14 | Page 14]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-14.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-15.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 15 | Page 15]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-15.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-16.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 16 | Page 16]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-16.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-17.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 17 | Page 17]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-17.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-18.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 18 | Page 18]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-18.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-19.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 19 | Page 19]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-19.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-20.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 20 | Page 20]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-20.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-21.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 21 | Page 21]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-21.svg |svg]])
Image:Sharing creative works_IMG-22.png|[[Sharing Creative Works 22 | Page 22]] ([[Media:Sharing creative works_IMG-22.svg |svg]])
</gallery>

== User Remixes & Translations ==
Please link to your remixes and translations here!

* Narrated video version (English): [http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAk9H1N8beU '''YouTube''']
* Norwegian: [http://www.creativecommons.no/info/com_scw/ Å dele det man skaper].
* French: [http://framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/03/11/education-b2i-creative-commons Sharing Creative Works (par l'équipe Framalang du site Framasoft)]
* Italian: [http://nilocram.altervista.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=134 Condividere le proprie creazioni. Una guida illustrata alle Creative Commons ]
* Traditional Chinese 華語 (臺灣): [http://www.slideshare.net/bobchao/sharing-creative-works-zh-tw 分享創造力]

CcHost

2007-08-14T09:20:23Z

Bob Chao: we need ALTER in this step, at least for my situation.

[[Category:ccHost]]
[[Category:Developer]]
[[Category:Software]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:ccMixter]]
[[Category:Technology]]

'''ccHost''' is Creative Commons' open source ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/ GPL] licensed) project that powers [http://ccmixter.org ccMixter] and is the winner of the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6026 Linux Journal LinuxWorldExpo Product Excellence Award] for '''Best Open Source Solution.''' Read more about ccHost [[#Zeitgeist|here]].

= Download =

Sign up for [http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projfiles.php?group_id=80503 our RSS release feed] to make sure you don't miss important bug fixes and feature updates.

=== Current Stable Release ===

Latest stable build of [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=156675 ccHost 4.0.1] is available in several common archiving formats (.zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, etc.)

[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=156675 ccHost 4.0.1 download page]

To install: Unpack the contents of the archive on your local machine and see ccadmin/INSTALL.

For those who installed 3.0: Please upgrade to 4.0 because there is a '''data loss bug in 3.0''' Specifically: saving any user's profile will revert all menus and submit form customizations to factory defaults. Sorry for any trouble this has caused.

=== Experimental Thrice-Daily Builds ===

Currently, ccHost packages are being made three-times a day and are available here:

[http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/packages/?C=M;O=D ccHost 3x daily builds]

Our experience has been very good however these are minimally tested builds so ''download, install and use these packages at your own risk.''

Only 30 days worth of builds are saved currently.

= Install =

As stated above, all the information you need for installation is in the distribution package you downloaded. Treat these notes as addendums, hints and other possibly useful information.

=== Simple ===

The easiest way to get going is to start with a web hosting server. Common web hosting services like [http://www.dreamhost.com/ Dreamhost] and [http://www.websitesource.com WebsiteSource] provide an administration interface for setting up a mysql database. Hosting services also provide some FTP or SFTP mechanism to upload the ccHost installation files as well. 99% of all services provide support for PHP as well. If you have questions about support in this area, check the server requirements below and with your hosting service.

#Unzip the ccHost ZIP archive on your local system and copy the files to your server retaining the the directory structure.
#Browse to '''<nowiki>http://where_you_installed/ccadmin</nowiki>''' and follow all the instructions from then on.

=== Advanced ===

If you have basic knowledge of using FTP and you are comfortable at a terminal command line you can use these steps to before, during and after installation. Many of these can be filed under "you'll be glad you did" by the time you get to the browser-based installation steps later on.

==== Enabling 'Pretty URLs' ====

''As of ccHost 4.0: if you are installing ccHost into a clean directory on your web server without any previous ReWrite rules in your .htaccess file, then the installer will attempt to do what follows below automatically. ''

All ccHost commands and URLs based on query strings:

<nowiki>http://your_install_root/index.php?ccm=/media/people/victor</nowiki>

That same URL can be made 'pretty' on Apache installations so that it looks more like:

<nowiki>http://your_install_root/media/people/victor</nowiki>

Here is the block of code in your .htaccess file setting the rewrite rules to get pretty urls:

<pre>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?ccm=/$1 [L,QSA]
</pre>

If you installed to a directory below the site's root make sure to specify that in the RewriteBase directive.

For perfomance reasons (and if you are given access) you should put those directives into an Apache virtual host block in the .conf file for your server:

<pre>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ccmixter.localhost
ServerPath /ccmixter
#DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cchost
DocumentRoot /home/rejon/Documents/freelance/creativecommons/src/ccmixter

<Directory "/home/rejon/Documents/freelance/creativecommons/src/ccmixter">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?ccm=/$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
</pre>

==== getID3 ====

ccHost depends on the getID3 library for verifying uploads. Install getID3 (at least 1.7.3) here: http://www.getid3.org/#download before you install ccHost. (It's a simple download-unpack operation.)

For example (on Linux):

<pre>
tar xzf getid3.tar.gz
cp -a getid3/getid3 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/getid3/
</pre>

The ccHost installer will 'find' your getID3 installation if it's roughly in the same area of the server, however it is ''not'' required that your getID3 be visible on the web and in fact, it's probably more secure if it isn't.

==== ccHost Terminal Installtion ====

*Unzip the ccHost ZIP or tar. bz2 archive on your local system and copy the files (retaining the directory structure) to your web-server directory.
* On Linux change the group and permissions of the files so they may be written by the web server (e.g., in the following lines, the web-server account is "apache").
For example:
<pre>
cp -a cchost-1.0.3 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cchost
chgrp -R apache /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cchost
chmod g+w /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cchost/
</pre>
*Create a new database for ccHost (e.g., named "cchost") and create an administrative user to access it (e.g., "cchostadmin"). For example:
<pre>
mysql -p -u root
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cchost;
mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,ALTER ON cchost.* TO 'cchostadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE';
</pre>
Make sure to change 'YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE' (and maybe 'cchostadmin') to something unique to your site.
(Many systems provide '''phpMyAdmin''' to take care of these tasks.
*Create directory /var/log/cchost or other location to store log files. Must be writable by the web-server account (e.g., "apache"). For example:
<pre>
mkdir /var/log/cchost
chown apache:apache /var/log/cchost
</pre>

==== Finish with Install ====

Browse to <nowiki>http://where_you_installed_cchost/ccadmin</nowiki>

Everything else you need to know will be on the screen from that point on, including suggested php.ini and .htaccess settings, access permissions requirements, etc.

==== More .htaccess file settings ====

Put the following into a file named '.htaccess' in your root directory of a ccHost setup if you can't set your php.ini settings for your hosting setup. These settings should work, but should be tested first. They correct many memory problems people have with ccHost.

<pre>
# php configs http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.memory-limit
# http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.php#ini.list

php_value max_input_time 200
php_value max_execution_time 200
php_value memory_limit 20M
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
# next line fixes noncompliant & used in php
php_value arg_separator.output &
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
# turns off annoying autoquotes
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

Options +MultiViews

# Stop morons that are hammer your site
# Open Clip Art Library had someone DDoS'ing our site
<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
deny from 59.116.0.0/16
</Limit>
</pre>

=== Upgrading ===
'''Always''' make a backup of your mySQL ccHost database and the files you change (probably all of the ccfiles directory) before you start the upgrade process. Things go wrong. You have been warned.

==== Upgrading to 4.0 from 3.1 ====

Please see the document in SVN or in the 4.0 release package that, when you uncompress the archive you downloaded, resides in CCHOST_ROOT/ccadmin/INSTALL.txt

==== Upgrading to 4.0 from Releases Previous to 3.1 ====

ccHost 3.1 represents a significant change in how we handle
your customized files and paths. The main purpose of this
update is to ensure that updating in the future will be as
painless as possible. In other words, we have learned our
lessons and the hoop-jumping days of moving your custom
files around before an update will no longer be necessary...
after this update.

During this update you'll create a directory structure that
will house all your custom and temporary files and then never
have to worry about it.

NOTE: As always, the first thing you should is make a backup of
your MySQL database as well as your ccHost directory tree. See
our administor's guide on backing up if you need specific help
on how to do this:

http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/cchost/tutorial_admin.backup.pkg.html

NOTE TO SVN and 3x DAILY BUILD USERS: If you are up to date
with the current SVN code base and you have already used
Global Settings/Paths to customize your install then you can
just log in as administrator and skip down to Step 8 below.

Here are the steps for this update:

1. Make sure you logged in admin on your ccHost installation with the 'remember me' option CHECKED ON.

2. If you have a file called ccextras/cc-language.php delete that file now

3. Create a directory under your ccHost web root that looks like the figure below. Make sure these directories are writable to PHP scripts. To ease the update you should make all these globally accessable (0777) for now. After the update you can rename and move these files around but the updater will look for this specific structure just to make the transition easier.

- local_files
|
|- lib
|
|- skins
|
|- temp
|
|- viewfile

4. MOVE all custom modules (.php, .inc, etc) you installed into ccextras to local_files/lib (make sure to update any include() statements you might have to reflect the move)

5. COPY custom skins you installed in cctemplates to local_files/skins. Make sure to update any references to cctemplates, including implicit ones, (e.g. @import('skin-simple.css') becomes @import('../../cctemplates/skin-simple.css')) to reflect the move.

6. If you edited cctemplates/custom.xml COPY it to cctemplates/sidebar.xml

7. MOVE all custom files you installed or edited (e.g. home.xml) in ccfiles to local_files/viewfile. Make sure to update any references (e.g. <IMG src="" ) to reflect the move.

8. Unzip the ccHost 3.1 package on your local machine

9. Copy everything EXCEPT the ccadmin directory over your server's ccHost directory.

10. Browse to <nowiki>http://your_installation_root/?update=1</nowiki>

11. If you are using your own skin go to 'Manage Site/Settings' to tell ccHost to use the version in local_files/skins.After successfully reseting your skin settings you should remove the skin from cctemplates and never touch that directory again.

NOTE: Your skin may be 'trashed' during this process and your pages appear totally without styling. The site should continue to function however, you'll just be scrolling a lot more until you can reset the skin settings.

Again, this really is the very last time this will happen. The
new system of using admin configured paths for looking for files
means that you can scribble all you want in your directories, never
touch the cc* directories again and always have a simple install
from now on.

=== Troubleshooting ===

==== Known Issues ====

'''Bug Found in 3.0''' If you installed 3.0 then you must download a newer release immediately. Please see the [[#Download|Download]] section for details.

==== File Access ====
By far the most common issue with new installs on Unix based systems involves file access permissions. The recommended way of dealing with this is to set the entire ccHost directory structure as all-access (0777) just while you get things going. If everything else is working then you should follow the
[[CcHost_File_Access|ccHost file access guildlines]].

===== Alternative: *nix-based systems =====

From commandline and after having changed directory to your local cchost path, run bin/cc-host-fix-permissions.sh.

==== "There is an error rendering this page" ====

The most common reason you get this error message on new installations is because your 'Cache Directory' (e.g. '''local_files/temp''') is not writable by ccHost. You should make sure this is not the case by setting that directory's permission to 0777 and trying again.

The second most common reason are template errors during development of skins and other user interface testing. If you haven't already [[#Outputting Debug Messages|turn on debug messages]] login as admin and try to render the page again.

'''NOTE''': Also, delete all files inside the cache directory if the problem persists. ccHost will regenerate these files.

==== "Down for upgrade, check back soon" ====

This is actually an indication that something is wrong in the code (i.e. a bug) or your installation. [[#Outputting Debug Messages|Turn on debug messages]] and try to access your site. The very least that will do is give ccHost developers the exact location of the problem. After you turn on debugging, look at your cc-errors.txt file and send that along to the developers so they can narrow down the issue for you.

==== Outputting Debug Messages ====

In order to help ccHost developers troubleshoot your site you should enable debugging messages in your system. The easiest way to do this is to create a file called '''_DEBUG_.php''' with the following contents:

<pre>
<?
CCDebug::Enable(true);
?>
</pre>

and put that file into a directory in your 'Plugins Path' (e.g. '''local_files/lib''')

Now repeat the steps that led you to the problem and hopefully you will get more detailed information about the error.

Make sure to remove this file in your production installation. ''Hint: Changing the extension to anything other than .php is the same as removing it''

= Administration =

So you've got your ccHost up and running. now what?

Check out the new official [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/cchost/tutorial_admin.pkg.html ccHost Administrator's Guide].

This document is based on information gathered from admins who have installed ccHost.

It is brand new, not reviewed and (as of this writing) has ''tons'' of spelling and grammatical errors. However, there is a lot of hopefully useful information. Please give the team feedback and by all means become a contributing editor.

= Development =

=== Source Code & Documentation ===

* [http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/cctools/cchost/trunk/ Browsable Source Code (Anonymous)]

* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Source_Repository_Information How to Check Out Code] -- Specifically for ccHost:
** Log in as administrator on your ccHost installation
** '''Then''' do your svn update
** Browse to <nowiki>http://your_installation?update=1</nowiki>

* [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/ Online Code Documentation] including developer's guide.

=== Creating Skins ===

For administrators looking to customize the look of their sites you should read the [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/cchost/tutorial_admin.skins.pkg.html Admin's Skin Tutorial] which also includes a '''Skin Maker''' download tool.

For slightly more advanced usage see [[CcHost_Skins|How to create a skin for ccHost]]

=== People ===

* [[User:fourstones|Victor Stone]]
* [[User:Jon Phillips|Jon Phillips]]

=== Communication ===

* Chat: #cc on irc.freenode.net
* Wiki: This page (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CcHost)
* Mailing List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/cctools-cchost
** [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=cctools-cchost Archive]

=== Submitting Code ===

Before going too far down this road you definitely want to hop on the [https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/cctools-cchost dev mailing list]. If you are shy ask to speak with Victor or Jon in private.

[[HOWTO Patch|Submit Patches]]

=== Bugs and Feature Requests ===

''Make sure to use the 'ccHost' category when filing bugs. Also, please use a real email so that we can followup on any bugs posted. Be descriptive when posting and commenting on bugs (every bit counts).''

* [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=559966&group_id=80503&func=browse Report Bugs]
* [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80503&atid=559969 Request Features]

=== Roadmap ===

[[ccHost Roadmap|Contribute to the plan and help chart the course for the project]].

= Zeitgeist =

=== Goal ===
The goal of this project is to spread media content that is licensed under
Creative Commons throughout the web in much the same way that weblogs spread
CC licensed text.

=== Short Description ===

"Web-based System Supporting Remixing and Collaboration on Media"

=== Slightly Longer Description ===
'''ccHost''' is an open source ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/ GPL] licensed) project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata. It is the codebase used by [http://ccmixter.org ccMixter] and [[#Usage Examples|other sites]].

Besides its focus on sharing content, ccHost differentiates itself from other multi-media hosting programs by emphasizing the '''reuse''' (a.k.a. remixing) of content between artists, not only between artists on any given installation of ccHost, but between all installations across the web and any web site that implements the Creative Commons [http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml Sample Pool API], including non-ccHost sites such as the [http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ freesound project].

=== Press ===

==== [[CcHost Release Notes|Release Notes]] ====

==== [[CcHost Press Releases|Press Releases]] ====

==== Sound Bites ====

* "ccHost enables you to '''run your own flickr or youtube while having an infrastructure for legally sharing audio, video, text, and other media.''" [[User:Jon Phillips|Jon Phillips]] 22:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

''Please add your own sound bite...''

==== [[ccHost Screenshots|Screenshots]] ====

* The text for the front page can be changed by editing ccfiles/home.xml. The other menu functions and so on are generally modified using the admin functions of the site.

=== Usage Examples ===

* [http://ccmixter.org ccMixter] - Primary usage of ccHost is the Creative Commons remix site, ccMixter.
* [http://www.openclipart.org/ Open Clip Art Library ccHost in testing]
* [http://www.openfontlibrary.org Open Font Library]
* [http://freemusic.freeculture.org Freemusic Project]
* [http://www.opensourcecinema.com/cchost Open Source Cinema]
* [http://rayne.hellawack.net/ Matrix Rayne Online]
* [http://remix.machinehasnoagenda.com/ remix.linux]
* [http://www.ccmixter.co.za/ ccmixter South Africa]
* [http://fourstones.net fourstones.net] Victor's personal website
* [http://www.esolpc.com/teacherhost/ TeacherHost] - for Instructors to share instructional materials.
* [http://adrenalinicsound.com/ Adrenalinic Sound]
* [http://creativecommons.org.tw/formoz ccMixter from CC Taiwan]
* [http://www.overmundo.com.br/overmixter Overmixter - Brazil]
* [http://www.iamacc.org/ Iamacc.org] Iamacc.org is a site I have dedicated to the Creative Commons. It is free and open to anyone who shares their creativity to the world.

----

= Appendix A: Compatibility =

=== Browsers ===

Tested on: Firefox 1.0+ Mac/PC/Linux, IE 6+ PC, Safari Mac

Cookies must be enabled.

Most skins (the ones people will want to use) require Javascript enabled.

=== Servers ===

Primary development is done on Windows XP and up-to-date Linux development systems using Apache, mySQL, and PHP.

==== Linux ====
ccHost on Apache (2.0.49 up to at least apache-2.0.55-r1) on Linux,

One should be able to easily install mySQL, PHP, and Apache (if they are not already available) through their distributions packaging system.

==== Windows IIS Server ====

Windows users with their installation disks may install optionally the Windows IIS Web Server. This option has been tested. However, there might still be issues with it, and if so, please file a bug.

Even if you using Apache on Windows you may need to have IIS installed if you plan to use mail contact functions.

==== Windows Apache ====
There are many good tutorials for setting up a Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP site ([http://google.com/search?q=installing+WAMP Google search]) and all three subsystems now come with Windows installers making the job of installing relatively straightforward.

====== XAMPP ======
Windows installations without Apache, mySQL and PHP already installed should consider using [http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html XAMPP] for Windows, which provides an easy install of Apache web server, MySQL database server, and PHP and perl programming languages. This is an easy way to get up and running, with the underlying technology necessary to use ccHost.

Follow the instructions for installation of XAMPP to know where to put the uncompressed ccHost package to properly work with your local setup.

==== Mac OS X ====

''NOTE: This setup is similar to Linux.''

Verified:

* OS X 10.4.6
* default OS X MySQL build, 4.0.26
* GetID3 1.7.7
* default Apache/PHP

= Appendix B: Redistribution =
=== HOWTO Tag a Release ===

Really, each major release needs to be tagged, but this 2.0.1 is the first SVN release, and we did it post CVS -> SVN migration. In the future, this is the proper way to tag and branch.

<pre>
svn copy https://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cctools/cchost/trunk \
https://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cctools/cchost/tags/2_0_1 \
-m "Tagging 2.0.1 bugfix release"
</pre>

[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html Here is more about SVN merging/branching].

=== Packaging ===

==== Sign Package ====

You should do this for all packages (RPM, tar.gz, zip, tar.bz2, etc)
<pre>
gpg --detach-sign --armor cchost-VERSION.tar.gz
</pre>

==== Verify Package ====
<pre>
gpg --verify cchost-VERSION.tar.gz.asc
</pre>