creative commons around the world 2008-07-31
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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