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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Day World Intellectual Property Day] is observed April 26th. "Encouraging Creativity" is the theme for 2007.
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Day World Intellectual Property Day] is observed on April 26th. "Encouraging Creativity" is the theme for 2007.
  
 
The following article addresses this theme from a Creative Commons perspective.
 
The following article addresses this theme from a Creative Commons perspective.
  
Please spread: PDF version (forthcoming) and [[#Translations|translations]].  
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Please spread: [[Media:World-IP-Day-flyer.pdf|PDF flyer version]] and [[#Translations|translate]].  
  
 
==Creative Commons: Encouraging Creativity==
 
==Creative Commons: Encouraging Creativity==
  
===Background===
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World IP Day is observed on April 26th. This year’s theme is "Encouraging Creativity."
  
The advent of the digital revolution and the Internet presents an
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Encouraging creativity has been Creative Commons’ goal since the organization was established four and a half years ago. Creative Commons empowers creators to use copyright law to enable creative new ways of sharing, reusing, and remixing culture.
opportunity for an enormous and unprecedented 
 
stimulation of creativity and production of knowledge. As more and 
 
more people are interconnected and communicating, it becomes easier 
 
to obtain exactly the content one needs or want and to complete tasks 
 
and solve problems by the cooperation this interconnection enables.
 
The convergence of technologies and media also create multiple new 
 
possibilities for creating derivatives of existing works – for 
 
example, remixes and mash-ups.
 
 
 
Wikipedia and the free and open source software community are 
 
examples of these sociological and economic phenomena. The activities 
 
of many contributors to projects in these areas are not motivated by 
 
the desire to gain (immediate) financial benefit but by the desire to 
 
learn, to get recognition, and also to help others.
 
 
 
These new technologies can also be used to violate the rights of 
 
copyright owners as they are currently defined. In turn, major rights 
 
holders have reacted to this with a fourfold strategy: (a) by trying 
 
to prevent the deployment of technologies that can be put to 
 
infringing uses; (b) by developing tools that enable them to manage 
 
their rights with an amount of precision hitherto unknown and 
 
unthinkable: digital rights management and technological protection 
 
measures against unauthorized copying; (c) by successfully lobbying 
 
for support of these technological measures through legal 
 
restrictions; and, (d) by starting huge publicity campaigns designed 
 
to teach young people that they must keep their hands off copyrighted 
 
material – or else.
 
 
 
These responses are understandable, if regrettable. Our concern is 
 
that their combined effect will be to stifle the opportunities for 
 
digital technologies to be used widely to encourage creativity and
 
for the problem solving and collaboration discussed above. If 
 
creators and licensors have to negotiate not only complicated legal 
 
rules, but also burdensome technical barriers, many will either 
 
ignore the rules or not create.
 
  
 
===Creative Commons===
 
===Creative Commons===
  
Our alternative is to provide creators and licensors with a simple   
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Creative Commons provides creators and licensors with a simple   
 
way to say what freedoms they want their creative work to carry. This   
 
way to say what freedoms they want their creative work to carry. This   
 
in turn makes it easy to share, or build upon creative work. It makes   
 
in turn makes it easy to share, or build upon creative work. It makes   
 
it possible for creators and licensors to reserve some rights while   
 
it possible for creators and licensors to reserve some rights while   
releasing others. This, at its core, is our mission. Copyright gives   
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releasing others. Copyright gives   
 
authors certain rights. We want to make it simpler for authors to   
 
authors certain rights. We want to make it simpler for authors to   
 
exercise those rights in ways others can understand.
 
exercise those rights in ways others can understand.
  
Creative Commons is a voluntary "some rights reserved to copyright."
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Creative Commons is a voluntary "some rights reserved" alternative to
The system empowers creators to use copyright law to enable a new   
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default copyright. The system empowers creators to use copyright law to enable a new   
 
creativity that has been given rise to by digital technology.   
 
creativity that has been given rise to by digital technology.   
 
Creative Commons' legal tools let creators mix and match license   
 
Creative Commons' legal tools let creators mix and match license   
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Our licenses come with "human readable" explanations of license terms, enabling non-lawyers to quickly understand the licenses, and get back to creating and collaborating.
 
Our licenses come with "human readable" explanations of license terms, enabling non-lawyers to quickly understand the licenses, and get back to creating and collaborating.
  
We also use "metadata" to describe our licenses and licensed works in a way computers can understand. This enables software tools such as web search to help you find, organize and use media in ways creators want.
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We also use "metadata" to describe our licenses and licensed works in a way computers can understand. This enables software tools such as Web search engines that help you find, organize, and use media.
  
Just a few examples of creativity building on this infrastructure:
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Below are just a few examples of creativity that builds upon this infrastructure:
* ccMixter.org, a music community that makes the genealogy of remix explicit, launching long term creative and business collaborations and participation by major labels.
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* ccMixter.org, a music community that makes the genealogy of remix explicit, launching long-term creative and business collaborations, with participation by musicians across the globe, as well as by both major and independent labels.
* Wikitravel, a community built and CC-licensed travel guide, successfully acquired by Internet Brands, demonstrating the compatibility of community, Creative Commons, and business.
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* Wikitravel, a community-built, CC-licensed travel guide, that demonstrates the compatibility of community, Creative Commons, and business.
* Flickr users have CC-licensed over 33 million photos. This content and Flickr's API support for Creative Commons has led to innumerable creative reuses and web mashups.
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* Flickr, where users have CC-licensed over 33 million photos. This content and Flickr's Apİ support for Creative Commons has led to innumerable creative reuses and Web mash-ups.
  
We're constantly improving the infrastructure to make legal creativity easier still, for example:
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We're constantly improving the CC infrastructure to make legal creativity easier still. For example:
 
* Our licenses have been ported to 36 different legal jurisdictions, with many more to come.
 
* Our licenses have been ported to 36 different legal jurisdictions, with many more to come.
* We're helping to make ccMixter.org style collaboration the norm across the web, rather than just within one site.
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* We're helping to make ccMixter.org-style collaboration the norm across the Web, rather than just within one site.
* We're exploring ways to make the sharing economy and commercial economy build on each other, creating more growth, and more resources for creativity.
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* We're exploring ways to make the sharing economy and commercial economy build upon each other, creating more growth and resources for creativity.
* Our Science Commons division is working to lower barriers to creativity in science, using Creative Commons copyright tools and legal and technical tools specific to science.
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* Our Science Commons division is working to lower barriers to creativity in science, using Creative Commons copyright tools, as well as legal and technical tools specific to science.
* CC Learn will be applying our tools to encourage creativity in education.
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* CC Learn will use our tools to encourage creativity in education. [http://www.highereducation.co.th]
  
In sum, the Creative Commons toolset encourages and enables participation in creativity by everyone, not only those with access to copyright lawyers. This is as it should be in modern democracies where the tools for expression and creativity are available to everyone as everyday consumer goods.
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In sum, the Creative Commons toolset encourages and enables participation in creativity by everyone, not only those with access to copyright lawyers. This is as it should be in modern democracies, where the tools for expression and creativity are available to everyone as everyday consumer goods.
  
 
==Learn More==
 
==Learn More==
  
 
Visit http://creativecommons.org
 
Visit http://creativecommons.org
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==Flyer==
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Download a [[Media:World-IP-Day-flyer.pdf|PDF handout]].
  
 
==Translations==
 
==Translations==

Latest revision as of 05:40, 4 July 2013

World Intellectual Property Day is observed on April 26th. "Encouraging Creativity" is the theme for 2007.

The following article addresses this theme from a Creative Commons perspective.

Please spread: PDF flyer version and translate.

Creative Commons: Encouraging Creativity

World IP Day is observed on April 26th. This year’s theme is "Encouraging Creativity."

Encouraging creativity has been Creative Commons’ goal since the organization was established four and a half years ago. Creative Commons empowers creators to use copyright law to enable creative new ways of sharing, reusing, and remixing culture.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons provides creators and licensors with a simple way to say what freedoms they want their creative work to carry. This in turn makes it easy to share, or build upon creative work. It makes it possible for creators and licensors to reserve some rights while releasing others. Copyright gives authors certain rights. We want to make it simpler for authors to exercise those rights in ways others can understand.

Creative Commons is a voluntary "some rights reserved" alternative to default copyright. The system empowers creators to use copyright law to enable a new creativity that has been given rise to by digital technology. Creative Commons' legal tools let creators mix and match license terms that reflect their personal preferences: Require attribution with link back? Permit sharing? Permit remix? Restrict commercial use? Require remixers to share alike?

Encouraging Creativity

Creative Commons licenses legally enable voluntary sharing and collaboration across space and time, without needing to call in the (very expensive) lawyers.

Our licenses come with "human readable" explanations of license terms, enabling non-lawyers to quickly understand the licenses, and get back to creating and collaborating.

We also use "metadata" to describe our licenses and licensed works in a way computers can understand. This enables software tools such as Web search engines that help you find, organize, and use media.

Below are just a few examples of creativity that builds upon this infrastructure:

  • ccMixter.org, a music community that makes the genealogy of remix explicit, launching long-term creative and business collaborations, with participation by musicians across the globe, as well as by both major and independent labels.
  • Wikitravel, a community-built, CC-licensed travel guide, that demonstrates the compatibility of community, Creative Commons, and business.
  • Flickr, where users have CC-licensed over 33 million photos. This content and Flickr's Apİ support for Creative Commons has led to innumerable creative reuses and Web mash-ups.

We're constantly improving the CC infrastructure to make legal creativity easier still. For example:

  • Our licenses have been ported to 36 different legal jurisdictions, with many more to come.
  • We're helping to make ccMixter.org-style collaboration the norm across the Web, rather than just within one site.
  • We're exploring ways to make the sharing economy and commercial economy build upon each other, creating more growth and resources for creativity.
  • Our Science Commons division is working to lower barriers to creativity in science, using Creative Commons copyright tools, as well as legal and technical tools specific to science.
  • CC Learn will use our tools to encourage creativity in education. [1]

In sum, the Creative Commons toolset encourages and enables participation in creativity by everyone, not only those with access to copyright lawyers. This is as it should be in modern democracies, where the tools for expression and creativity are available to everyone as everyday consumer goods.

Learn More

Visit http://creativecommons.org

Flyer

Download a PDF handout.

Translations

To start a translation, click on one of the following links, or create a new one for your language. (You must register and confirm your account via email before editing this wiki.)