<quote who="Sven Manguard" date="Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:50:50PM -0400"> > In the mean time, I'd like to put free culture on the Governor's agenda, > albeit in a comparatively minor role. The Governor's official Flickr stream > (http://www.flickr.com/photos/massgovernor) releases all work under a > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. The fact that it's a CC > license at all shows that someone, somewhere in the administration is > trying. > > What I'd like to do is create a petition asking the administration to > release their photographs under a CC-BY (or CC-BY-SA) license, instead of > an NC one. I think it's an eminently achievable goal. The way I see it, we > need a few things to make it happen: > > 1) Research: We need to know exactly what we're asking for. Are we asking > for an executive order, or something less formal?
I think you would just want them to switch the CC license on their Flickr stream, right? > Would this apply to future administrations? Who in the Massachusetts > State bureaucracy should we be handing this petition to (i.e. whose > responsibility does this fall under, since I doubt it's going to go > straight to the governor). Who publishes the Flickr stream? Probably it should be addressed the head of that office? > 2) Petition writing: The petition needs to be well written. It needs > to explain our argument clearly and concisely. We need to point out > the benefits of making such a change. It needs to be professionally > worded and not sound like a rant. You get the idea. Why you don't try to right a draft. We can put it on a wiki and others can help improve it. > 3) Rallying: Before we even release the petition to the public, we're going > to want to make sure that all the signatories we want are on board, and > we're going to want them to be signing it they day that the petition goes > public, or even before then. Momentum is important. Momentum and a list of > names with cachet is even better. > > Is anyone else interested in this? Does anyone have any ideas? I'd really > like to run with this, but I can't do it on my own. It's worth a try. I think leveraging the people on this list would be a good start. It's totally possible to over think this. Writing a position and getting it out there is not such a big issue. We should be worrying about how we're going to get momentum and not afraid that we're giong to screw up in some way that is going to lead to that momementum being squandered. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [email protected] http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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