Practical How-to Use Creative Commons for Videomakers

From Transmission

map is not the city license is not the story

facilitated by namita

a) context of discussing creative commons:

open content licensing is just of a small part of foss, borrowed from software licensing, only the legal part
fundamental freedoms that should not be taken away from the public domain
traditionally copyright protects you against copying, open licensing allows you to copy under certain conditions
everyday life invents itself by poaching on the property of others (e.g. labor working for mcdonald's want more wages, and use the "m" in protest for more wages)

b) what to choose and on what criteria

your copyright is the basis of license
rights for the end-user
can the end-users remix, use, make derivative, distribute, perform, display their works? (e.g. endless love and kill bill remixed)
commercial and non-commercial use allowed? (in indian context, independent film makers are afraid that their works be used by right-wing, so they tend to avoid licensing their works by CC)
i want my name to be there! (i.e. attribution)
i want the license i've chosen to be there too! (share alike)
fair use rights exist even if i dont license my work under CC or any open content license (OCL) (e.g. small amount of your work in classroom, i.e. education purposes.)
i dont have to give a warranty for my work now!
standard legal mumbo jumbo.

c) types of license

world wide applicable: lasts for the duration of the work's copyright and not revocable

d) practical enforciability

2 countries, germany and the u.s. uphold CC
GPL requires less restrictive license for derivatives works, i.e. more stringent than CC.

e) why OCL?

ensuring distribution of works to a fairly wlarger public. easily and lgally downloadable and copyable. not necessarily comform with the copyeft ideal, but it lets material get to a wider public
politics of change are linked to politics of information and copyright
publicly funded works should and must remain to the public domain, so content about them should remain in public domain and not limited to the glory of director's vision

f) philosophy of change

license has become the product so to speak
for example, dvd, you buy a right to watch but not anything else
copyright is now alienated from the right to copy content in the format of a book, to restrict the way you use the content contained in whatever container.