Creative Commons: Useless (Historical) Facts
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This document summarizes the early development of Creative Commons and discusses key issues addressed in its founding, including: 1) Whether to have a centralized website or distributed model, with concerns about sufficient storage capacity. 2) The concept of an "intellectual property conservancy" to manage copyrighted works. 3) Early discussions around tax deductions to incentivize donations of intellectual property and concerns about unregulated content becoming a "junkyard" or hosting pornography. 4) The development of Creative Commons licenses including options for attribution, sharing, non-commercial use, no derivatives, and additional restrictions.
![II. The Concept - enough storage capacity?
“ [A] Commons defined by quantity of content available
(or number of donations) will require more storage space
and less screening of content, while one focused on quality
will require expert content-selection, but perhaps
correspondingly less storage capacity. Servers, storage, and
salaried editors all cost money, and as a not-for-profit
entity, we must choose our expenses carefully.
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![IV. Humbleness:
“ [T]here is no guarantee that if we build it, they will come.
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![Sources:
Documents of the Creative Commons meeting at May 7,
2001 at Harvard Law School‘s Berkman Center, online:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/creativecommons/
[26.11.2012]
Interview with Lawrence Lessig, Founder of Creative
Commons
Interview with Mike Linksvayer, former Vice-CEO of
Creative Commons](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/slides-cc-birthday-en-121208032430-phpapp02/85/Creative-Commons-Useless-Historical-Facts-17-320.jpg)
Creative Commons: Useless (Historical) Facts
- 1. Creative Commons: Useless (historical) Facts Leonhard Dobusch Freie Universität Berlin - School of Business & Economics 10 Years of Creative Commons December 8, 2012, Berlin
- 2. I. The Name
- 3. I. The Name © All rights reserved Some rights reserved
- 4. I. The Name Constitutional Copyright
- 5. I. The Name
- 6. II. The Concept - Central or Decentralized? “ The overarching structural question is whether the Commons should be centralized around a particular ” website or distributed over the Internet.
- 7. II. The Concept - a Conservancy? “ the concept of an intellectual property conservancy. ” Eric F. Saltzman (May 1, 2001)
- 8. II. The Concept - enough storage capacity? “ [A] Commons defined by quantity of content available (or number of donations) will require more storage space and less screening of content, while one focused on quality will require expert content-selection, but perhaps correspondingly less storage capacity. Servers, storage, and salaried editors all cost money, and as a not-for-profit entity, we must choose our expenses carefully. ”
- 9. II. The Concept - First Mock Page
- 10. II. The Concept - Tax Deductions? “ We first pounded the promise of tax deductions as a ” motivation for donors of intellectual property. Eric F. Saltzman (May 1, 2001)
- 11. II. The Concept - the Greatest Concerns “ It is too easy to imagine a scenario in which a completely unregulated Commons turns into either a junkyard for worthless content, or alternately, a repository of Internet pornography. ”
- 12. III. The Licenses - Modules CC Zero Attribution ShareAlike NonCommercial No Derivatives
- 13. III. The Licenses - Wording „Artistic GPL“ ShareAlike Public Domain License CC0 Additional Restrictions Attribution NonCommercial Use Only Unmodified Use Only No Derivatives
- 14. III. The Licenses - Inflation Developmental Nations License Sampling Sampling Plus Academic Use Only (not implemented) Timed Donation (not implemented)
- 15. IV. Humbleness: “ [T]here is no guarantee that if we build it, they will come. ”
- 17. Sources: Documents of the Creative Commons meeting at May 7, 2001 at Harvard Law School‘s Berkman Center, online: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/creativecommons/ [26.11.2012] Interview with Lawrence Lessig, Founder of Creative Commons Interview with Mike Linksvayer, former Vice-CEO of Creative Commons