Part 1 - talk on using Creative Commons and opensource software to make Open Content (what is creative commons ?, what is open content ?)

This is the first part of a 2 part video from my talk in May 2008 on open source content creation.

Creative commons: A convergence model between the ideal of commons and the possibilities of creation in contemporary times, opposed to copyright impediments

The contemporary individual finds on the Internet and especially on the Web facilitating conditions to build a basic infrastructure based on the concept of commons. He also finds favorable conditions which allow him to collaborate and share resources for the creation, use, reuse, access and dissemination of information. However, he also faces obstacles such as Copyright (Law 9610/98 in Brazil). An alternative is Creative Commons which not only allows the elaboration, use and dissemination of information under legal conditions but also function as a facilitator for the development of informational commons. This paper deals with this scenario.

Creative Commons Olympics. How Big Media is Learning to License From Amateur Authors

NBC Universal’s decision to use Creative Commons-licensed photographs in an Olympic broadcast is an example of how media conglomerates are experimenting with collaboration with amateurs, but it also reveals potential problems of letting non-lawyers negotiate copyright licensing agreements. In the process, NBC’s producers nearly opened the door for a multimillion-dollar infringement law suit. To avoid such pitfalls, media companies need to adopt policies and best practices for using amateur licensed works. These guidelines should instruct how a production can attribute collaborating authors and how the Open Content licensing terms affect the licensing of the productions. The guidelines should also instruct how producers can seek alternative licensing arrangements with amateurs and contribute back to the Open Content community.

Direito autoral e tecnologias de informação e comunicação no contexto da produção, uso e disseminação de informação: um olhar para as Licenças Creative Commons

The development of information and communication technologies, in particular, Internet, and its Web 2.0 information environment has led to significant changes in contemporary society as to the ways of producing informational content. Collaboration and remix, favored by the new services and applications resulting from the development of the Web, are practices which contribute for the exponential growth of information producers. An important part of humanity ceases to be a mere consumer of symbolic goods and becomes a member in a society that sees in the collaboration and remix a new form of creation, use and dissemination of intellectual content. However, as such practices involve the production and use of information intelectual content, and are ruled by a legisltion which determine determines under what conditions the author and the user must produce and use the intellectual work. This legislation established for a context prior to the develompment of the Web has created an imbalance in the context of Web 2.0 which needs to be solved in some way so as to provide the required rebalance for the flow of information. This study explores the collaborative Web environment, the scope of copyright law in Web enviroment and the Creative Commons licenses as an alternative for producers and users of information to create, recreate, share, use, reuse and disseminate legally the intellectual production for the benefit of the construction of knowledge.

Les llicències de Creative Commons a l'Estat espanyol

[eng] The Creative Commons project in Spain has its beginnings in early 2003, but until one year ago it was not possible to access licenses adapted to Spanish legislation on intellectual property. In addition to this effort of adaptation, other activities have been carried out -centred especially on the dissemination and explanation of the licensing system- and the level of acceptance has been quite positive. This article covers the history of the project and provides an explanation of the licenses and a description of some of the initiatives that this legal system is carrying out.

Part 2 - talk on using Creative Commons and opensource software to make Open Content. (Making of Doljer)

This is the second part of a 2 part video from my talk in May 2008 on open source content creation. Here I am talking about the Making of Doljer

Nota al artículo "El sistema de las Creative commons"

Después de leer el artículo "El sistema de las Creative Commons" de Marco Marandola1, me gustaría presentar de manera más completa el proyecto de las licencias de Creative commons. Actualmente las palabras copyleft, copyright, open access, creative commons, procomún, se utilizan mucho pero a veces se mezclan conceptos y se informa de manera errónea. Agradezco a los editores la posibilidad de escribir esta nota que personalmente considero de rectificación.

Creative Commons licences and design Are the two compatible?

This article analyses whether Creative Commons licences are applicable to and compatible with design. The first part focuses on the peculiar and complex nature of a design, which can benefit from a copyright and a design protection. This shows how it can affect the use of Creative Commons licences. The second and third parts deal with a specific case study. Some Internet platforms have recently emerged that offer users the possibility to download blueprints of design products in order to build them. Designers and creative users are invited to share their blueprints and creations under Creative Commons licences. The second part of the article assesses whether digital blueprints can be copyrightable and serve as the subject matter of Creative Commons licences, while the last part assesses whether the right to reproduce the digital blueprint, as provided by Creative Commons licences, extends to the right to build the product.

Las licencias Creative Commons en el Estado Español

Hace un par de años poca gente conocía las licencias Creative Commons, pero actualmente este término empieza a ser asociado a un estándar de licencias para obras digitales libres en la red, de la misma manera que las licencias del proyecto GNU (GPL, LGPL)2 se asocian a un estándar para el software libre.

Noves alternatives per gestionar els drets d'autoria en la difusió de continguts. Les llicències de Creative Commons

Les llicències de Creative Commons són una alternativa a la gestió tradicional dels drets d'autor que s'ha estès ràpidament gràcies a Internet en els seus cinc anys d'existència. L'aparició d'aquesta nova eina legal ha obert un debat sobre els models de difusió de qualsevol contingut i, en definitiva, del coneixement que ha obligat a replantejaments no tan sols entre els autors i els creadors sinó també entre institucions i administracions. En aquest llibre es presenta el model que proposa Creative Commons per facilitar la difusió i l'accés als continguts de qualsevol persona, tot respectant-ne els drets d'autor.

Aplicación de las licencias de Creative Commons en el ámbito educativo

En este texto se presentan las licencias que ofrece la organización Creative Commons para gestionar los derechos de propiedad intelectual de una manera distinta al tradicional “todos los derechos reservados”. Estas licencias inspiradas en el movimientodel software libre se ofrecen gratuitamente para todos aquellos autores que quieran compartir sus obras permitiendo determinados usos con algunas condiciones sin tener que pedir permiso previo. Además se hace un repaso a la aplicación de estas licencias en el ámbito educativo mostrando ejemplos y analizando su uso con respecto al tipo de proyecto y el tipo de licencias.

Las licencias de Creative Commons en las revistas científicas

Comunicació presentada a la "Jornada informativa Grupo de investigación Acceso Abierto a la Ciencia". Barcelona, 3 de marzo de 2010

Creative Commons lizentziak Estatu espainiarrean

Duela pare bat urte gutxi batzuk ezagutzen zituzten Creative Commons lizentziak, baina gaur egun termino hori sarean libre dauden obra digitaletarako lizentzien estandarrari lotzen ari zaio, GNU (GPL, LGPL) proiektuko lizentziak software librerako estandar bati lotzen zaizkion bezala

Open Source & Creative Commons

Talk given for Filmelab April 2008

Creative Commons: a convergence model between the ideal of commons and the possibilities of creation in contemporary times, opposed to copyright impediments

The contemporary individual finds on the Internet and especially on the Web facilitating conditions to build a basic infrastructure based on the concept of commons. He also finds favorable conditions which allow him to collaborate and share resources for the creation, use, reuse, access and dissemination of information. However, he also faces obstacles such as Copyright (Law 9610/98 in Brazil). An alternative is Creative Commons which not only allows the elaboration, use and dissemination of information under legal conditions but also function as a facilitator for the development of informational commons. This paper deals with this scenario.