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 âcommercial rights reversedâ and âno rights reservedâ?
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1-2 sentences: 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.
2-3 questions: 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?
additional info: brian fitzgerald from cc australia, paul keller from cc netherlands and juan carlos de martin from cc italy may be here. the 3 of them are all involved in discussions with their national collecting societies, so this may also be a topic, but US collecting societies are the only CC-friendly cllecting societies in the world (no exclusive assignments because of US competition law history). this could be related to terry's work on alternative compensation systems.
best practises to open public sector information (including legal information) and broadcasting could also be a topic.
open access to scientific publications & free culture are very close of course.
the session might also be extended to governance issues, we may consider to invite shunling chen to collaborate (cc taiwan, doing her sjd here with terry)