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Mike Linksvayer: try changing to plain quotes

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Michelle Thorne: moved SomeRightsReserved to Case Studies/SomeRightsReserved

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-|Quote=You’re not meant to give things away for free, your not meant to publish the blueprints & instructions to your ideas, your not meant to let people copy your work, improve upon it or share it. But we do. its different, at first it seems illogical, but hopefully its the start for a whole new generation of similar thinkers.
+|Quote=You're not meant to give things away for free, you're not meant to publish the blueprints & instructions to your ideas, you're not meant to let people copy your work, improve upon it or share it. But we do. It's different, at first it seems illogical, but hopefully it's the start for a whole new generation of similar thinkers.
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 |Description=SomeRightsReserved is the digital publishing platform for creative cooperative KithKin - read more at our [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10360 Featured Commoner Interview].
 |Mainurl=http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/
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 |Mainurl=http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/
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 == Overview ==

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 == Overview ==
-Launched in April 2008 by England-based creative cooperative KithKin, SomeRightsReserved is an online download shop which challenges traditional design practices and empowers the role of designers and consumers alike.  <ref name=”test”> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/ SomeRightsReserved] </ref>
+Launched in April 2008 by England-based creative cooperative KithKin, SomeRightsReserved is an online download shop which challenges traditional design practices and empowers the role of designers and consumers alike.  <ref name="test"> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/ SomeRightsReserved] </ref>
 :‘Imagine being able to buy the digital blueprints to any object, being able to take it to a skilled professional and have it produced directly. Imagine instant access to quality design ideas and the means to manufacture products on demand. Imagine completely removing the middleman.’
 :– [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/about/ SomeRightsReserved]
-This direct link to consumers means that the traditional route taken to market a product, involving protracted negotiations with manufacturers and shops, is avoided.  <ref name=”test”> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/press/releases/milan/KithKin_SomeRightsReserved_2008.pdf SomeRightsReserved Press Release], 25 March 2008
+This direct link to consumers means that the traditional route taken to market a product, involving protracted negotiations with manufacturers and shops, is avoided.  <ref name="test"> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/press/releases/milan/KithKin_SomeRightsReserved_2008.pdf SomeRightsReserved Press Release], 25 March 2008
 (accessed 18 March 2009). </ref> Now, they can ‘conceive an idea, refine it in a day and publish it the next’.  <ref name=”test”> [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10360 Featured Commoner Interview] with Ian Atkins by Cameron Parkins from Creative Commons, 29 October 2008 (accessed 11 March 2009).</ref> The results are products which represent KithKin’s honest creative voice, and ideas driven by ‘a genuine passion for inspiring people and celebrating creativity’.  <ref name=”test”> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/press/releases/milan/KithKin_SomeRightsReserved_2008.pdf SomeRightsReserved Press Release], 25 March 2008
 (accessed 18 March 2009). </ref>

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 Ian confesses that ‘it goes against logic to say, one person can buy the product, share it legally, then all their friends can enjoy it’. However, he explains that it is not about money, but about getting their ideas out there, via the internet which ‘is becoming increasingly prominent, and accessible, in our culture’. As a cooperative, KithKin relish the thought of ‘sharing their idea with the world, and take comfort in their ability to produce hundreds of good ideas in the future’.  <ref name=”test”> [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10360 Featured Commoner Interview] with Ian Atkins by Cameron Parkins from Creative Commons, 29 October 2008 (accessed 11 March 2009).</ref>
-Similarly, Anthony Dickens, designer of the Playtime Clock,<ref name="test"> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/playtime-clock/ Playtime Clock]</ref> admits that Creative Commons is not right for every product. It has to fit in the legal contract world, where a balance must be met, i.e. ideas benefiting society must do so and not be held for the sole benefit of an individual or organisation. Nevertheless, Anthony chose Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) licensing for the Playtime Clock due to ‘the nature of the project and how the practices of the internet can influence product design’. In particular, it enabled him to get his product out into a commercial domain, at the same time legally allowing consumers to customise it.  <ref name=”test”> Email interview with Anthony Dickens by Cheryl Foong from ccClinic, 19 March 2009. </ref>
+[[Image:Playtime.jpg|thumb|Image: Playtime Clock by Anthony Dickens, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported, http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/playtime-clock/]]Similarly, Anthony Dickens, designer of the Playtime Clock,<ref name="test"> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/playtime-clock/ Playtime Clock]</ref> admits that Creative Commons is not right for every product. It has to fit in the legal contract world, where a balance must be met, i.e. ideas benefiting society must do so and not be held for the sole benefit of an individual or organisation. Nevertheless, Anthony chose Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) licensing for the Playtime Clock due to ‘the nature of the project and how the practices of the internet can influence product design’. In particular, it enabled him to get his product out into a commercial domain, at the same time legally allowing consumers to customise it.  <ref name=”test”> Email interview with Anthony Dickens by Cheryl Foong from ccClinic, 19 March 2009. </ref>
 In a practical sense, KithKin wanted SomeRightsReserved to honestly reflect how the internet currently works. Ian explains that ‘the copyright system as we know it now is broken, it can’t reflect the way we live our lives in a modern interconnected and information aware society. The amount of times copyright is infringed everyday is phenomenal. Forwarding emails, photocopying books, singing happy birthday, recording TV, and downloading stuff.  In some cases Creative Commons is a good alternative.’ If they had chosen full copyright and restricted sharing, they would not have the monetary or human resources to uphold it. Even if able to take infringers to court, the benefit and value of raising a law suit would have been limited.  <ref name=”test”>Email interview with Ian Atkins by Cheryl Foong from ccClinic, 21 March 2009. </ref>
-Likewise, Stuart Bannocks, designer of the Ring Sight,<ref name="test"> [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/ring-sight/ Ring Sight]</ref> found Creative Commons to be a great way to distribute his designs (compared to other forms of licensing which left him somewhat bemused about how best to use them). Stuart observes that ‘we now live in a time where the concept of ownership is shifting rapidly and our need for ownership over an object or entity is changing.’  <ref name=”test”> Email interview with Stuart Bannocks by Cheryl Foong from ccClinic, 23 March 2009.</ref>
+[[Image:Ring-Sight.jpg|thumb|Image: Ring Sight by Stuart Bannocks,
 KithKin product designer, Joss Debae, points out that these Open Content licences are growing in popularity as a new marketing tool, with big names also spurring the trend.  <ref name=”test”> See for example, Nine Inch Nails’ release of Ghosts I-IV and [http://theslip.nin.com/ The Slip] under a Creative Commons licence (accessed 24 March 2009). </ref> ‘MySpace and Flickr are tools for hobbyists, but people can get discovered and become platinum selling artists from using them.’ Similarly, SomeRightsReserved gives the opportunity for designers to promote their creations, instead of letting their designs sit on ‘hard drives collecting virtual dust’.  <ref name=”test”> Email interview Joss Debae by Cheryl Foong from ccClinic, 21 March 2009.</ref>
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 == Motivations ==

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-The shop lists 30 products, ranging from product blueprints which can be printed, laser-cut and rapid prototyped after being downloaded, to ready-to-use digital products such as music, e-books, fonts, and graphics. Even Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture is available for download as a pdf file at the shop.  <ref name=”test”> http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/free-culture/ </ref>
+The shop lists 30 products, ranging from product blueprints which can be printed, laser-cut and rapid prototyped after being downloaded, to ready-to-use digital products such as music, e-books, fonts, and graphics. Even Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture is available for download as a pdf file at the shop.  <ref name=”test”> http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/free-culture/ </ref> [[Image:Street-sofa-before-after.jpg|thumb|Image: Street Sofa by WEmake, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported, http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/street-sofa/]]
 Whilst their collection of blueprints includes fairly industrious designs (such as the Street Sofa by WEmake which costs approximately £2000, and requires access to a welder and grinder to produce), the shop also stocks simple conceptual products (for example, the fold up Graphic Grenade by PostlerFerguson which can be made with just paper, a knife and glue).

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 Ian Atkins, founder of KithKin and SomeRightsReserved, hopes that as modern manufacturing methods like rapid prototyping and laser cutting become increasingly available and affordable, they will become as common as deskjet paper printers. He explains that these advancements are leading to a new model of commerce, allowing individuals the power and flexibility to produce from home. Thus, they wanted to address this model from a new perspective. ‘Instead of buying the product, why not buy the source file…Creative Commons then adds another level, allowing people to be able to pass the source file around for others to use and experience, just like you would a traditional product.’  <ref name=”test”>Email interview with Ian Atkins by Cheryl Foong from ccClinic, 21 March 2009. See for example the [http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/reprap/ RepRap] by Adrian Bowyer </ref> [[Image:Darwin-small.jpg|thumb|Image: RepRap, by Adrian Bowyer, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported, http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/shop/reprap/.
 RepRap is a self replicating rapid prototyper which can produce the parts needed to make another of itself.]]
 == Licence Usage ==