Reticulum Rex

Duration: 5 minutes and 41 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC Attribution

Genre: Instructional

Posted by: creativecommons on Jul 25, 2007

This film marks our first year of handing out free licenses for content, describes our progress, and gives insight into where we are heading.

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Reticulum Rex
Remix Culture: A year in the life of Creative Commons
In our last episode you met Creative Commons, a young project with big plans
plans to bring some sense to the copyright debate
plans to partner with the big C, to clarify the rules of creativity.
To help authors and artists build a body of free culture they can draw from in return.
So where have Creative Commons' adventures led?
It all began with our copyright licenses, tools that help you mark your work as free to share or build upon with only some rights reserved.
And you did just that, with an enthusiasm that surprised even us.
First came the early adopters: writers, like Campbell Award winning Cory Doctorow,
who offered fans his first novel for free download, and for sale in hard copy
educators, like MIT and Rice University, who made their courseware available online, for free, to the world
also, community builders like Sal Randolph of Opsound, who collects hundreds of licensed songs for people to remix and share
and there are thousands of modern day Thomas Paines, the grassroots journalists known as webloggers
plus photographers, illustrators, filmmakers, and more
Only a couple of months into Creative Commons' life, and more than 100,000 pioneers like these had joined the movement
And then things got really interesting.
Because before long, YOU put this commons into practice, just as we had dreamed but could never have done alone
Guitarist Colin Mutchler contributed a track to Opsound
and a young violinist named Cora Beth recorded a duet with him without ever meeting him
An academic program in Vietnam began translating and teaching MIT's course materials
Cory Doctorow's novel sold a whole print run. It saw hundreds of thousands of downloads.
Even Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com recommended it to his customers.
All of this, across the net, with no middleman, no legal doubt, no friction, just free culture created in real-time.
All the while you built the commons out in whole new directions, in ways we never anticipated
High-tech publisher Tim O'Reilly helped us create the Founder's Copyright
that's fourteen years in the care of Big C, and then works move onto public pastures
Software developers started incorporating our tools, helping people free their works at the point of creation
Common Content and the Internet Archive began to register and host Creative Commons works, for free
The iCommons opened, and experts around the world began porting our licenses to many legal systems,
so that your expression can travel freely across borders.
And suddenly, what had been only an idea eight months earlier
was a global movement, more than 700,000 licensed works strong
and still you helped us realize that more could be done
The legendary musician Gilberto Gil, along with the digital collage artists Negativland
inspired us to build Creative Commons' latest and most exciting tool
one that encourages a kind of creativity that children with scissors and glue
and scientists who cure with genes, and lawyers who cite precedent
understand as second nature
to take a bit and make it new. Some from here, some from there, to make a mosaic from the old, but not to copy
to remix culture.
Introducing: the Creative Commons Sampling Licenses
New tools to help you invite others to get creative with a part of your work, even for profit, but not to copy the whole thing
The legendary Mr. Gil will introduce the first wave of sample friendly tunes from Brazil
leaving you free to jam with him across the net, with more artists soon to follow.
And so, Creative Commons carries on, twelve months since hitting the scene
more than one million licensed works, one million artifacts of culture, free to reuse
And we've got bigger plans still: plans to help authors republish books out of print
plans to explore a science commons
plans to weave our philosophy and our tools into the fabric of the net
plans to knock down the wall between reader and author
or listener and composer, between audience and artists, between community and citizen, or culture and creator
plans to bring creativity back to its senses
and with your help, to keep growing, just as big as the old Big C
Creative Commons: the rules have changed, and it's just the beginning

Reticulum Rex

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