Creative Commons and Science Commons Developments

The Musician and the Scientist Write the Code: Protocols for Compensation and Openness

Session Organizers

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

Wendy Seltzer

Five years after the launch of the first Creative Commons licensing suite, Creative Commons and Science Commons invite the community to expand the framework through new tools, or protocols: CC+ to signal external transactions, CC0 to waive rights, and Science Commons Open Data Protocol. Are user communities invited to appropriate, extend and customize the licenses, creating a participatory code? Should musicians self-organize and create their own structures complementary to Creative Commons licensing to collect remuneration, or can collective society schemes accommodate a possible paradigm change from public performance vs private use to commercial vs non commercial rights? How can scientific communities and government develop models to open scientific data? Is online distribution for music, and the semantic web for science, shifting legal paradigms toward “commercial rights reversed” and “no rights reserved”?

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Background

Five years after the launch of the first Creative Commons licensing suite, Creative Commons and Science Commons are developing new protocols: CC+ to signal external transactions, CC0 to waive rights, and Science Commons Open Data Protocol. This session will be discussing these ongoing efforts potential and implementation use cases.

Are licences the most appropriate tools to govern all kind of open works and data? How can protocols be adaptated to jurisdictions and scientific communities specific situations? How can CC+ be implemented to develop a bridge between the sharing ecology and the commercial economy?

Possible participants

John Wilbanks

Paul Keller

Juan Carlos De Martin

Mike Linksvayer

Ahrash Bissell

Brian Fitzgerald

Related topics

Collecting societies and alternative compensation systems.

Open public sector information (including legal information) and broadcasting

Open access to scientific publications & free culture