Creative Commons:Useless (historical) Facts

Leonhard DobuschFreie Universität Berlin - School of Business & Economics

10 Years of Creative CommonsDecember 8, 2012, Berlin

I. The Name

©All rights reserved Some rights reserved

I. The Name

Constitutional Copyright

I. The Name

I. The Name

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.“

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II. The Concept - a Conservancy?

the concept of an intellectual property conservancy.“ ”Eric F. Saltzman (May 1, 2001)

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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II. The Concept - First Mock Page

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)

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.

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III. The Licenses - Modules

Attribution ShareAlike NonCommercial No DerivativesCC Zero

NonCommercial Use Only

„Artistic GPL“ ShareAlike

Public Domain License CC0

Additional Restrictions Attribution

Unmodified Use Only No Derivatives

III. The Licenses - Wording

Academic Use Only (not implemented)

Timed Donation (not implemented)

Developmental Nations License

Sampling

Sampling Plus

III. The Licenses - Inflation

IV. Humbleness:

[T]here is no guarantee that if we build it, they will come.“ ”

V. World domination:

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