Blog: New Creative Commons License
"Frees Creativity Across the Digital Divide"
http://edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
Interesting news from the folks who run the Creative Commons initiative:
they've just announced a Developing Nations Copyright License that can
be used by content developers to encourage free use of their content in
the developing world.
http://creativecommons.org/license/devnations
As I reported last December from the World Summit on the Information
Society, Lawrence Lessig and his colleagues have been developing this
idea "so content may be tagged as being freely available for people in
the developing world." Thanks to the work of Jamie Love, they now have
the first release of the license, which became available last week.
So what's the big deal about this copyright license stuff? Well, it's a
big deal to two groups of people: people who create content and people
who want to use content. For people who create content, copyright
licenses are a way of protecting their work, making sure that the work
is used in ways that are acceptable to them -- picture songwriters,
authors, filmmakers, bloggers, anyone who likes to follow their creative
muse. And for people who want to use content - pretty much everyone in
the known universe -- a copyright license tells them when they're using
someone's content in a fair, reasonable way. So if I'm a guy creating a
website about dolphins and I find a nice picture of a bottlenose dolphin
in someone's website, the polite thing to do would be to find out from
them if I've got permission to use it. Not to mention the fact I could
get sued for using it without permission, particularly if I took the
picture from someone who sells pictures of dolphins for a living.
Creative Commons makes all of this easier by creating a user-friendly
way for content producers to assign copyright licenses to their work.
For example, if you look on the left-hand side of my blog's homepage
(http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/) you'll see a button saying
that my blog is published under a Creative Commons license that allows
anyone to republish my stuff as long as it's for noncommercial purposes
and that they pass along the same copyright privileges I've set up for
myself. Anyone who's got content they'd like to share publicly while
preserving their ownership of it can go to www.creativecommons.org and
design a license for themselves -- a bit of computer code they insert on
their website. Once you've placed it on your website, everyone who
visits your site will have access to an easy-to-read explanation of the
license, plus a legal deed written for all you lawyers out there. Even
better, the computer code added to the Web page means that your license
can be read by search engines and the like, so they'll note the
copyright status for your content.
So now comes along this new Developing Nations license. What this
license means is that you, as a content producer, can differentiate how
your content gets used by others based on whether they live in a
developed or developing country. By creating a Developing Nations
license for your website -- or for your video, song, photo collection,
what have you -- you grant anyone living in one of the qualifying
countries the right to copy, distribute, display and perform your work,
as well as make derivative works (ie, works based on your original
content), as long as they give you credit for the work, and pass along
the same license rules if they redistribute it. So if a person from
Uganda visits your website, they can use this license to copy your work
freely, redistribute it, etc, while someone from the United States would
need to get your permission first.
I've been wondering since last December when this new license would come
out, and am really curious to see how it gets used. Will content owners
embrace the idea? Will Internet users in less-developed countries take
advantage of it? In some of the discussions on the Creative Commons
website, some people have described the idea as "paternalistic" and
"throwing scraps to those third world types..." Others are cynical from
the perspective that people with Internet access in the developing world
are already "elites" within their nations and don't need this kind of
assistance. I think these positions insult both the thousands of people
who use Creative Commons licenses and don't see their work as "scraps,"
and are eager to work with people from the rest of the world who have an
interest in accessing a greater diversity of knowledge and creating new
knowledge in the process.
Perhaps I'm just being naive, but I'm hopeful about this new license.
Only time will tell to see if it's used in ways that are truly
beneficial to promoting knowledge sharing and development.
Meanwhile, below is a list of countries that *don't* qualify for getting
access to content through the Developing Nations license:
Andorra, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium,
Bermuda, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Cyprus,
Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany,
Greece, Hong Kong, Greenland, Guam, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macao, Malta,
Monaco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand,
Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia,
South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom, United States, US Virgin Islands
The list comes from the World Bank's list of high-income economies
(http://www.worldbank.org/data/countryclass/classgroups.htm#High_income)
which the Creative Commons folks are using as the basis for saying who
can't take advantage of the license. If you're residing in any other
country not listed here, you can take advantage of the rights defined by
the Developing Nations License.
Have any interesting examples of how this license might be put to good
use? I'd love to hear about it.... -andy
Andy Carvin
Program Director, EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin at edc.org
---------- Mensaje reenviado ----------
Subject: Re: [Educomp_CCC] RV: Certificacion Externa
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 07:59:35 -0300 (GMT)
From: "yiyoca(a)uol.com.ar" <yiyoca(a)uol.com.ar>
To: Educomp(a)ccc.uba.ar
Hola a Todos:
Parece que además de aceptar que la escuela se transforme en guardería, ahora
debemos aceptar ser entrenadores no rentados de programas comerciales.
Empleados no pagos de empresas multinacionales que se empeñan en sacar
dinero de donde sea, incluyendo las escuelas y sus docentes, con productos
recontra amortizados a los que le lava la cara cada cierto tiempo y los
vuelve a cobrar como nuevos. Cuando un docente enseña Word y no Procesadores
de Texto esta generando nuevos adicto-usuarios, que "hablarán Word" y
comprarán lo mismo. Y esta misma empresa propone "generosos" planes de pago
a las escuelas para comprar un producto del que no obtiene beneficios, pero
paga a sus entrenadores.
En la escuela en la que trabajo, Tango Gestión (Programa de gestión
empresarial)dono una licencia funcional, no educativa, para que los alumnos
del polimodal de EGO aprendieran Tango , hay un acuerdo que beneficia a
ambos. Estoy de acuerdo con el colistero de UNSA en no hacer una cruzada por
el soft libre, pero por que hacer pagar a las escuelas por un soft
comercial, cuando hay otros uguales pero gratuitos. Open Office 1.2 es
gratuito para todos y StarOffice 7 es gratuito para las escuelas y
estudiantes, ambos estan disponibles en castellano y para la mayoría de los
sistemas operativos incluído el dominante ;-)) En la escuela en la que
trabajo usamos Staroffice y los alumnos y padres no se quejan, y puedo darle
a los chicos el programa para que practiquen en su casa sin transformarme en
pirata. Saludos Hector
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrián Staffolani" <astaffolani(a)sme.com.ar>
To: "Informática Educativa" <educomp(a)ccc.uba.ar>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Educomp_CCC] RV: Certificacion Externa
> Hola Gustavo y demás miembros de la lista;
>
> ¿Por qué se siguen llamando "conocimientos" informáticos, al simple manejo
de
> algunas aplicaciones comerciales que, por otro lado, se hace imposible
> adquirirlas con los paupérrimos sueldos de los docentes argentinos?
> Saludos
>
> El Jue 30 Sep 2004 09:03, Gustavo O. Delfino escribió:
> > Hola a todos!
> > En los dos Colegios donde estoy trabajando se han establecido acuerdos
> > (contratos) con la UTN (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional) sobre
> > CERTIFICACION EXTERNA de "conocimientos" informáticos.
> >
> > Es una muy buena opción para otorgar Certificados de aptitudes para el
> > manejo de aplicaciones (soft). Hay exámenes de nivel BASICO y AVANZADO
> > para WORD, para EXCEL, para POWER POINT, para ACCESS.
> >
> > Para quiene estén interesados de llevar esta idea a sus Colegios deben
> > tener en cuenta que cada "REGIONAL" de la UTN es autónoma a este
> > respecto y esto implica muchas diferencias de $ en la matrícula y en el
> > precio de cada examen.
> >
> > Ej. Regional BUENOS AIRES: Matrícula=30$ y cada Examen=50$ La
> > repetición=Sin cargo (una)
> > Ej. Regional PACHECO: Matrícula=0$ y cada Examen=25$ La repetición: 15$
> > (sin matrícula)
> >
> > Para mas datos: <http://www.utn.edu.ar/> http://www.utn.edu.ar/
> >
> > Además se podrán enterar del ....
> >
> > Congreso de Tecnología Educativa en la UTN
> > 1er Congreso Interinstitucional de Tecnología Educativa.
> > 2do Congreso Institucional de Tecnología Educativa.
> > CITE 18 al 20 de octubre de 2004
> > Abierto el llamado a la presentación de resúmenes de trabajos.
> >
> > Gustavo O. Delfino
> > <mailto:[email protected]>
> > gdelfino(a)uolsinectis.com.ar
>
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