The Power of Open/Text
Contents
- 1 Acknowledgements
- 2 Credits
- 3 Introduction
- 4 About Creative Commons
- 5 Creative Commons Stories
- 5.1 TED Talks
- 5.2 Jonathan Worth
- 5.3 Nina Paley
- 5.4 ProPublica
- 5.5 Yunyu
- 5.6 DJ Vadim
- 5.7 Global Voices
- 5.8 Pratham Books
- 5.9 The Open University
- 5.10 Epic Fu
- 5.11 Bloomsbury Academic
- 5.12 Indaba Music
- 5.13 Curt Smith
- 5.14 Fiat
- 5.15 Vincent Moon
- 5.16 Dan Gillmor
- 5.17 Riot Cinema
- 5.18 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- 5.19 Ficly
- 5.20 IntraHealth
- 5.21 Uncensored Interview
- 5.22 Jamendo
- 5.23 Dublab
- 5.24 Tiago Serra
- 5.25 Al Jazeera
- 5.26 Khan Academy
- 5.27 Human Rights Watch
- 5.28 Arduino
- 5.29 James Patrick Kelly
- 5.30 Robin Sloan
- 5.31 Public Library of Science
- 6 Other Voices: Testimonials
- 7 What is the Power of Open worth?
- 8 The Power of Open Supporters
Acknowledgements
Creative Commons would like to acknowledge the many contributions of staff, consultants, sponsors, and supporters responsible for producing The Power of Open. A very special thanks goes to the organizations, artists, and creators who not only share their work with CC licenses, but shared their time and insights to be profiled in this book.
Visit http://thepowerofopen.org to download a digital version of The Power of Open or to find out how to order print copies.
Credits
Text and layout © 2011 Creative Commons Corporation; photo credits appear alongside images throughout the book.
Cover art © 2011 Naeema Zarif (http://naeemazarif.com). Created as a special commission for this project.
This book uses two public domain fonts available via The League of Moveable Type: League Gothic and Goudy Bookletter 1911. For more information see http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com.
The double C in a circle, the words and logotype “Creative Commons,” and the Creative Commons license buttons are trademarks of Creative Commons. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/policies.
Except where otherwise noted, content in The Power of Open, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For the terms of this license, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
Introduction
BY Catherine CASSERLY / CEO, CREATIVE COMMONS Joi ITO / CHAIR, CREATIVE COMMONS
The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results.
Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly, millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity.
The Power of Open, collects the stories of those creators. Some are like ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news organization that uses CC while partnering with the world’s largest media companies. Others like nomadic filmmaker Vincent Moon use CC licensing as an essential element of a lifestyle of openness in pursuit of creativity. The breadth of uses is as great as the creativity of the individuals and organizations choosing to open their content, art and ideas to the rest of the world.
As we look ahead, the field of openness is approaching a critical mass of adoption that could result in sharing becoming a default standard for the many works that were previously made available only under the all-rights-reserved framework. Even more exciting is the potential increase in global welfare from the use of Creative Commons’ tools and the increasing relevance of openness to the discourse of culture, education and innovation policy.
We hope that The Power of Open inspires you to examine and embrace the practice of open licensing so that your contributions to the global intellectual commons can provide their greatest benefit to all people.
About Creative Commons
Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to culture, education and research – to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity.
The idea of universal access to research, education and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.
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