Introductionto theCommons 2

2008-07-31Sapporo

CreativeCommonsAroundtheWorld

Mike LinksvayerVP, Creative Commons

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Creative Commons Around the World

2008

Global adoption and infrastructure

CC licenses ported to 47 jurisdictions

CC licenses used worldwide

Lower bound estimate of CC licensed works: 130 million

Witness global nature of CC at this conference

Example global content projects: OpenCourseWare and Wikimedia Commons

Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ocw-tt1128.html

Uneven global infrastructure

Huge variation in general population ability to participate

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Some CC jurisdiction projects have funding, other committed resources, rich CC experience

Many do not

Gaps: Africa, Middle East, former Soviet Union

Uneven global adoption

Google Trends: visitors to creativecommons.org

Google Trends: searches for creative commons

2008 status

Large, global movement

Still an alternative in most fields

Not central to copyright debate

Beginning to influence norms and expectations more broadly and to be influenced by expectations of related movements

Use case for some policy debates

Creative Commons Around the World

2013

CC infrastructure 2013

Truly global

Projects in many jurisdictions have substantial funding, other resources, experience

No geographic or cultural gaps

The network knows and exploits itself

Very successful and influential long-term collaborations with related movements and institutions worldwide

CC in context 2013

Norms and expectations for openness predominate

CC a high profile case in copyright debate in every jurisdiction and internationally

Policymakers find success of commons impossible to ignore

Full promise of the global digital network much closer to realization due to thriving commons and beginning of resulting policy rationalization

It should be expected that in 2018 we will have ...

2018?

Global, universal access to and participation in creation of open educational resources

Rapid, globally produced innovation in drug development and more equitable access to medical technology

Sense that peoples relationship to culture has fundamentally flipped to the participatory

Commons innovations have produced many new categories of works the way Wikipedia blew up the encyclopedia category

http://planet.creativecommons.org

Presentation License and Attribution

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Author: Mike Linksvayer

Link: http://creativecommons.org