Creative Commons Joichi Ito July 7, 2008 Keio SFC
Layers of Open Innovation Ethernet Connecting computers TCP/IP Connecting the network HTTP/The Web Connecting websites Creative Commons Connecting content
Innovation and The Internet The Internet “The Stupid Network” - David Isenberg “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” - David Weinberger
Professional vs Amateur Amateur Amateur
Copyright
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
most uses free
most regulated uses commercial
couldn’t legally control perfectly perfectly
analog vs digital
(1) copyright regulates “ copies ”
(2) in digital world
every use = “ copy ”
(3) thus , presumption:  every use requires permission
 
 
Law + Technology = (DRM)
control
Copyright All Rights Reserved No Rights Reserved
free culture
Open Source for Content
User Interface for Copyright
Licensing Step 1:  Choose Conditions Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works Share Alike
Licensing Step 2:  Receive a License
 
 
Creative Commons Internationally
Ported to 46 Jurisdictions
9 Jurisdictions  In Development In Development
Text Yearly Growth in Millions of CC Licensed Works 2003-8. Note: data for 2008 on this chart only reflects mid-year estimates made in July  Text Approximate Minimum Total CC Licensed Works as of July 2008: ~130 million
Projects Search Science  Commons ccLearn Licensing ccInternational
http://creativecommons.org/projects/cczero
Waiver
 
 
http://creativecommons.org/projects/ccplus
 
 
 
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The Success of Star Wreck 100% collaborative production   By building and utilizing an online community The first feature-length Internet film Hollywood quality, made for less than €15,000  and with a lot of love Over 8 million free downloads Resulting in global media attention Commercial success TV broadcasts in Belgium, Japan, Finland, Italy, … DVD distribution by Universal Pictures Merchandise success
 
 
 
 
Search and Technology
 
 
access to digital knowledge (copyright and contract) access to physical tools (one-click for biological materials) open source tools for data integration (semantic web)
“ By open access to the literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.”  image from the public library of science licensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0
“ The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited” - the Budapest Open Access Initiative image from the public library of science licensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0
 
 
google maps for brain images? http://sparql.neurocommons.org:8890/map/#Kcnip3@2850,Kcnd1@2800
 

Creative Commons talk at Keio SFC July 7, 2008