Posts tagged “Creative Commons”

There are better ways to share knowledge than eating brains

Posted on June 1st, 2010

This article analogises the term of copyright, in particular the continuation of protection for 70 years after the death of the creator (in many countries), with zombies. Content, like the bodies of the living reanimated after death, lingers on for years after the author is dead. Through the short stories of American author Kelly Link and her preoccupation with zombie contingency plans and the genre-mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the article aims to draw into light the potentially limiting effect that posthumous copyright protection has on innovation. The article was written for The Ownership Issue of WQ published by the Queensland Writers’ Centre. If you republish it or reuse it please attribute me as the author and acknowledge that the article was first…

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Tagged: ccAustralia, content corpses, Creative Commons, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Jane Austen, Kelly Link, permissions culture, pride and prejudice and zombies, Queensland Writers Centre, quirk books, sense and sensibility and sea monsters, seth grahame-smith, small beer press, zombies

CC-licensed image used in Iron Man, but not under the licence

Posted on December 2nd, 2008

I just read on the Creative Commons blog that a photo published on Flickr by amateur photographer and web developer Jeremy Keith was used in Marvel-blockbuster Iron Man (2008, Paramount Pictures). On his site, Adactio, Jeremy humourously outlines how his “blurry and washed out” photo of his friend out the front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center ended up in an big-budget feature. What’s interesting about this situation is that the photo in question was published under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence. “All of my Flickr pictures are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence,” he explains on his site,”One of the reasons I switched over to using this licence was so that people didn’t have to write and ask me whenever they want to…

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Tagged: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CC BY, CC Defining Noncommercial study (2009), Creative Commons, Creative Commons, Creative Commons blog, Flickr, Iron Man (2008), Jeremy Keith, Marvel Entertainment, Netpop Research, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures

iSummit 2008 :: CC international legal day overview – morning session

Posted on July 29th, 2008

I am at the Creative Commons Legal Day for which I will publish my Google Notebooks for later, but I do want to say a few things about Hokkaido University Professor Yoshiyuki Tamura’s keynote. And interesting point he makes is that intellectual property conflicts with the underlying concept of Lockean Labor Theory of property. The theory says individual property is a natural right. And property rights are the natural (and automatic) result of the exertion of labour upon natural resources. One should be entitled to the fruits of their labor. But of course, the underlying concept of (little L) liberalism (as it exists in practice) is to limit exercising of one’s rights where it affects the rights of another individual to do the same. One…

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Tagged: CC0, ccREL, Creative Commons, isummit, isummit08, labor property theory, thomas locke