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Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Founder/Siterunner: In the years following the turn of the century, in 2000, we were a project under discussion. Our core team was involved in the work of the Green Institute and at GreenPolicy360 current siterunner had led efforts to set up a MediaWiki site. The initial work was taking place in St. Petersburg, Florida where another Wiki project, Wikipedia, was in their original years of formation. Our vision for the initial digital platform brought the open source/creative commons ideas of Wikipedia into the development of the GreenPolicy360 eco Operating System. The rest is history. We have grown over the years and, in many ways, have changed our MediaWiki into an educational platform designed for sharing "Green Best Practices", community-to-community. We also have shared facts and experiences that were instrumental in what we refer to as The Modern Environmental Movement. We were there for the early years and now we are in the third decade of the 21st century to continue on...
Our work is intended to be shared and is editorially vetted to be factual.
GreenPolicy360 has a focus on science and our continuing goal at the center of our work is to protect and preserve The Commons, our 'Living Earth'.
The Creative Commons sharing model, from the CC0 1.0 Universal thru all the variations is a framework on which we're built and continue building and sharing green values, ideals and ideas.
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Parker Higgins @xor ... Parker Higgins tweeted
Lawrence Lessig, launching Creative Commons, 16 Dec 2002 http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/policy/2003/01/03/cc.html …
Parker Higgins, "Our tradition is freedom, not control; creativity is built on top of freedom, not control. The ideology of control must end now."
Returning Creativity to the Commons
by Richard Koman
- 01/03/2003
- Courtesy of O'Reilly Policy DevCenter -- http://archive.oreilly.com/policy/
It was Eldred reunion night Dec. 16 at the SomArts performance space in San Francisco's South of Market district to celebrate the rollout of Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons organization. There was Net radical John Gilmore furtively handing out little LED key-chain lights in an array of colors--of course, John wasn't at the Eldred hearing because he only flies anonymously, which is to say he doesn't fly at all. EFF provacateur Cory Doctorow was there sporting a slimmer frame courtesy of the Atkins diet and a new EFF bumpersticker. Creative Commons' XML maven Lisa Rein was buzzing excitedly about the outlook for the Elcomsoft trial (they were acquitted the next day). And there was Brewster Kahle and the Internet Bookmobile, parked right on the floor of the space, just below a trippy computer projection slide show and not too far from the grilled eggplant and hummus table, handing out yet more copies of Alice in Wonderland, made on the spot thanks to the amazing desktop binding machine. Oh, and Eric Eldred himself was there, unassuming in a Red Sox baseball cap.
When the program itself started, Eldred attorney Lawrence Lessig took the stage and did what he does so well in his public speeches--boiling complex issues down to their essence, sometimes a one- or two-word essence. This boiling down is underlined by his slides, writing large the juxtaposition of two opposing themes. He starts with a story of his father complaining about someone who owes him money and the young Larry innocently asks, "Dad, why don't you sue him?" The elder Lessig gives a stern look and tells his son, "Son, in this world there are those who do"; cues a black slide with the Courier-set word "do"; "and those who sue"; cue the "sue" slide. "Those who tear down and those who build"; cue the "build" slide...
The genesis for Creative Commons came from Eldred himself, who told Lessig in an early meeting on the case that he didn't even care if they won the case; "what I care about," Lessig reports Eldred saying, "is that we build something that increases the public domain." That's Creative Commons, a series of projects designed to increase the amount of "stuff available to others."
Creative Commons is trying to build, or rebuild, the enabling of the public domain. It starts with two efforts, both of which allow creators to say, "I want to be compensated (perhaps financially or perhaps just with credit) for my work, and I want to enrich the public domain with my works."
These two efforts are:
The Creative Commons license, which includes "legal code" (assuring creators that the rights they assert will be legally protected), a "commons deed," (a simple statement of which rights are asserted and which are ceded, which anyone can understand), and "machine-readable code," (some metadata in the form of RDF, so that computer programs can understand the terms of the work.)
The Founders Copyright, under which publishers and creators agree to limit their copyright protections to 14 years, renewable to 28 years. (O'Reilly & Associates has pledged to convert some 200 works to Founders Copyright within the next month)...
Lessig talks about creative works having two lives. First, there is the private, commercial life, during which money is charged and, perhaps, profits are made. Then there is a second life, a noncommercial life, when the work is turned over to the public domain. It's not a new idea; surely this was the framers' vision.
"Think of it as recycling," Tim O'Reilly tells me .... "It's a code of conduct for the digital age: recycle ...."
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