Creative Commons & Free Culture

Reijo Kupiainen

Free culture: ideology Download this song Richard Stallman: “Free Software, Free Society” Lawrence Lessing (2004). Free Culture.

Free: essential part of cultural ecology [Video] Free culture: free speech, free markets, free

trade, free will, free elections. “A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators” Intellectual property rights It guarantees that follow-on creators and innovators

remain as free as possible from the control of the past: sharing, remixing, mash-up’s, modifying, derivatives, crowd-sourcing, collaboration, participation, circulation, P2P

A culture is not private property, we are and make the culture Disney

Background: Free software Richard M. Stallman: Free software

From Copy Rights to Copy Left Free software / Open source / Linux General Public License, GPL (Copy Left License) Copyleft:

The freedom to use the work The freedom to study the work The freedom to copy and share the work with others the freedom to modify the work, and the freedom to

distribute modified and therefore derivative works.

Idea Digital information is not a scarce resource,

like material resources are. Scarcity is made: ideology: business models based on scarcity, ”you

can get this only for a short time” politics: trade treaties and law making law: copyright technology: DRM (Digital Rigths Management),

nonstandards, closed standards and systems Digized information can be modified, copied,

distributed ad infinitum To modify digital material is collaboration No owner but wide user group

“Two cultures”

Colin Lankshear & Michelle Knobel (2006), New Literacies: Everyday Practices & Classroom Learning

Participatory cultureThe principles:

Being open Peering Sharing Acting Globally

Participation Recognition Collaboration

Affiliations Expressions Collaborate problem

solving CirculationsTapscott & Williams 2008, Wikinomics.

Leadbeater 2008, We-think. Mass innovation, not mass procuction.

Jenkins et. al. 2006, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for 21th Century.http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF

Creativity ?

Andrew Keen, The Cult of Amateur. How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture, 2007

We-think

“You are what you share”: we-think

Diversity+collaboration+indebendence = CREATIVITY

From mass consumption to mass innovation

Images courtesy of www.charlesleadbeater.net

Charles Leadbeater, We-Think, 2009

Wisdom of crowds (James Surowiecki) Value of diversity

Not homogenous groups (groupthink) but diversity of people

Leadbeater: “It all depends on how the individual members combine their participation and collaboration, diversity and share of values, independence of thought and community. When the mix is right […] the outcome is a powerful shared intelligence. When the mix is wrong it leads to cacophony or conformity.”

(Source: Wikipedia)

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative commons licenses Licenses

examples: Social media: flickr.com Star Wreck:

http://www.starwreck.com/introduction.php Magnatune: http://magnatune.com/

examples Books Blanket: http://www.blanket.fi/bl/ Michael Moore: Slacker Uprising Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails Open Source Hardware MakerBot Common: FearLess Projects

TedTalks Virtues of copying in fashion Open-source economics Re-examining the remix Collaboration User-generated content