ElectryA

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Check the Jamendo Project, GarageBand.com and Creative Commons Licenses, and how you could be benefited. I am not a member of the mentioned project or organization; once I attended a talk of Volker Grassmuck, hearing him say about how rock band could be benefited I thought about you guys, today I see Pearl Jam doing it, and here I am sharing you the information.

What is Creative Commons?The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. What are Creative Commons Licences ? Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. The Creative Commons licenses indicate that copyrighted works are free for sharing, but only on certain conditions. The license specified that derivative works can be made and distributed, as long as they are for non-commercial purposes and the source is attributed. The Creative Commons website enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. Why there is Creative Commons ? All these efforts, and more, are done to counter the effects of what Creative Commons considers to be, in the words of chairman of the board Lawrence Lessig, a dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture, "a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past". Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions. The Knowlege Commons "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lites his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.... That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813) Projects using Creative Commons licenses Some of the best-known CC-licensed projects and works include:
Media archives (for a subset of works where the uploader chooses a Creative Commons license): Flickr, Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, and Ourmedia
Groklaw
MIT OpenCourseWare - academic course syllabi
Jamendo - Music archive
Public Library of Science
Star Wreck movies, the most recent being Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
The podcast This Week in Tech
Wikinews, Wikitravel, Memory Alpha, Uncyclopedia, and many other wikis
ccMixter, a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons
GarageBand.com, music site for exposure for unsigned bands
Notable works
Professor Lessig's 2004 electronic version of the book Free Culture. (The printed version of the book, however, was published under a full copyright.)
Yochai Benkler's The Wealth of Networks:How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Dan Gillmor's We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
The fiction of Cory Doctorow
Three of Eric S. Raymond's books: The Cathedral and the Bazaar (the first complete and commercially released book under a CC license, published by O'Reilly & Associates), The New Hacker's Dictionary and The Art of Unix Programming (all three with added proviso)
Teach, a 2001 short film directed by Davis Guggenheim.
Cactuses, a 2006 full-length dramatic movie.
Elephants Dream, a 2006 CG short film created with open-source software
Open source record labels
LOCA Records
Magnatune
Fading Ways Music
Disfish
Onclassical
Opsound
Kahvi Collective
Small Brain Records
Krayola Records
There has been lot of success, and little criticism. Recently though, critical attention has focused on the Creative Commons movement and how well it is living up to its perceived values and goals. One notable point is : An ethical position - Those in these camps criticize the Creative Commons for failing to set a minimum standard for its licenses, or for not having an ethical position to base its licenses. These camps argue that Creative Commons should follow the model of the Free (libre) or Open Source movements by defining a set of core freedoms or terms which all CC licensed works must satisify. These terms might, or might not, be the same core freedoms as the heart of the free software movement. (e.g. See Hill 2005 and the writings of Richard Stallman). References: http://creativecommons.org/

References: http://creativecommons.org/
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://www.jamendo.com/en/static/artists_why/
http://www.lessig.org/
http://www.pearljam.com/
http://www.chuckberry.com/index.php

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