This could be a great relationship. They need exposure and we need protection.
It's a great opportunity. I can't believe that you heavy hitters have not totally hooked up with them (like I hope we do because of this situation). A cool public service campaign drawing attention to CC licensing and basic media netiquette would be huge, and this community could pull it off. CC needs exposure and ubiquity and we need protection. It's a match made in heaven. I am well aware of my CC licensing, and it's shortcomings (Our BIG project for 2007, a discdog training series, will probably not be CC...), but I really rely on the protection from exploitation, the likes of MyHeavy, so much. I would never post video without that protection. Someone talked about feeling degraded,at a basic level, by My Heavy because their work was feeding consumerism; I couldn't agree more. I think a collaborative effort to define and publicize CC licensing between this community and the CC folk could really give the whole Open Source movement a serious megaphone; one that could rival the Corporate Media and the Closed Net Movement. Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 5, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Casey McKinnon wrote: > Further to my last post, I have just called the Creative Commons > office in San Francisco and they are currently looking into our case > to see how we should prevent such problems in the future. The person > I spoke to had previously been contacted by a fellow videoblogger and > a lawyer about the MyHeavy case, so we shall see what she suggests to > us as a community. I will inform you all of her opinion when she > replies to me. > > Best, > Casey > > --- > http://www.galacticast.com/ > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Casey McKinnon" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After the whole MyHeavy debacle, I believe it important to > discuss our > > Creative Commons licenses. I don't believe we need to change > anything > > about the licenses because they are pretty thorough already, but > since > > this is the second (known) time that we have had an issue with sites > > disregarding our licenses, I think it's important not to sweep it > > under the rug too quickly. > > > > I believe our next step should be to reach out to the Creative > Commons > > community and ask them for an opinion and how we should deal with > the > > situation in the future. > > > > The truth of the matter is that most of us do not have the funds for > > legal representation so we need to figure out what options are > > available from the larger internet community. I have no doubt that > > the good people at Creative Commons have dealt with situations like > > this before and I believe that they may have a lot to contribute to > > this discussion. > > > > Best, > > Casey > > > > --- > > Casey McKinnon > > Executive Producer, Galacticast > > http://www.galacticast.com/ > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
