Amanda Bergson-Shilcock escribió:
Fred makes a good point. Another issue is that nonprofits, especially in the social services, are often being told by their funders to "do more with less" and to "create earned income streams". Both of these exhortations tend to reinforce a scarcity mentality that feeds a "We must hold on to our rights at all costs!" line of thinking. The idea of "giving something away" via CC feels like giving up revenue, even if the organization is selling very few copies under traditional copyright, or (more likely) hasn't even gotten organized enough to sell its photos/videos at all.
Actually, that can be even worse -- the imaginary revenue of "If we could just sell some of our ___" makes it psychologically hard for the organization to embrace a free culture philosophy, even when the organization's mission has nothing to do with selling anything and it's wildly unlikely that they're going to start, say, a big T-shirt business.
I work for a nonprofit organization and just recently used two CC-licensed photos I found on Flickr in our e-mail newsletter. I view this as a very mild kind of evangelism, because I had the opportunity to share a little bit about CC with my colleagues (who are unfamiliar with it) and because having a photo credit in our newsletter that explicitly references CC is a little bit of consciousness-raising for the folks alert enough to read it.
-Amanda
On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at 07:53PM, "Fred Beneson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think WITNESS is a good example of this... Their default license is
BY-NC.
I work with a lot of non-profits who like the idea of CC but honestly
don't have the time or resources to convert their content to it. Isn't
it easy to cc license work, isn't that the point?, you may ask.
Good question, but most nonprofits don't have in house lawyers and the
ones they work with are on borrowed/probono time and its too precious
to determine whether they have the proper rights to release their old
content under cc (think copyright fraud). The trick I've found is to
offer your time (see my work with rhizome.org this summer) to help
them do it right rather than demand for them to do it for you.
But on the other hand, it may just require a generational shift in the
management of these nonprofits. A lot of them are run by dedicated
lifers who are not as comfortable with the Internet as we might be.
Just remember, volunteering for a cash and time strapped non profit
can go a long way in convincing them of the benefits of free culture.
F
On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:31 PM, "William Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
That's a really good point. It makes a lot of sense to advocate CC
in the non-profit arena. It's just so much of a shift for
commercial organizations to understand how to use CC compared to
ARR. I imagine CC would be much more successful if it could gain a
large foothold with non-profits such that proprietary groups can see
the kind of audiences that can be explored by loosening their
control. This would also give CC more of an opportunity to
experiment with new flavors to work more effectively for the
commercial sector.
----
Wm
On Nov 14, 2007 5:49 PM, Brian Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are a lot of public interest organizations that are using All
Rights Reserved when they really want their message to get out to as
many people as possible. I think that engaging non-profits and
educating them about the advantages of using CC would be a good idea
for SFFC.
I am running a panel on nonprofit copyright in New Orleans this
coming March for NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference. I may be
looking for additional speakers.
Brian Rowe
2L Seattle University
On Nov 14, 2007 1:27 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"(c) ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 1000"
First, we need to get the ACLU to start using CC licenses. Second, we
need to get documentarians and public TV to use them as well, so that
more people can have access to the work they create and broadcast.
Then this might be actually be related to FC. ;)
On 11/14/07, William Norton < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Under this sort of reasoning almost any educational or First
Amendment issue
could be grouped under the Free Culture category. I can't imagine
it would
be useful to have such a broad mission for this organization. The
NOVA
special was very interesting, though.
On Nov 12, 2007 7:25 PM, Peter Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 7:48 PM -0500 11/12/07, Fred Benenson wrote:
Hi, I know this seems like something most people on this list
might
be interested in, but it's really not on topic with respect to
Free
Culture, so it's really not appropriate for this list.
Hope you understand & Thanks!
Fred
I understand that it's borderline, and has an argument against
it that it
could start an argument about the merits of ID, which definitely
would be
off-topic.
But consider the situation in which you live in a theocracy where
religious
tenets are deployed routinely to interfere with science. Such
theocracies
exist, but the United States is not one of them. Nevertheless,
for
someone
in that situation interference with science in this fashion is
as much a
free
culture issue as open access to knowledge.
(I will now step off my soapbox :-)
peter
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Hey, this is my first time on the list, I am from Guatemala, CC Project
Lead. Now that you mentioned the issue with nonprofits, I work as
volunteer proving legal aid to several complex issues on a genocide
case, and other matters regarding environmental law.
Many of the NGO´s working on Human Rights get the funding from US,
Europe or Soros, and are all the time hiring lawyers to litigate the
cases, and producing similar contents that organizations just do not
like to share, but with Amnesty International we will launch a project
to create a space where lawyers, experts and activist can share their
contents, I will try to convince them to license it with cc by, and if
they do, I will share the results.
The project is so interesting cause involves lawyers working in Spain,
San Francisco, Guatemala City, Villages in Guatemala, and London. And is
easier because from the starting point all the "contents" might be under
the same set of licenses.
If they are working to improve Human Rights litigation, they ought to
share, I think...
Good point Fred!
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