What does it mean to be human if we do not have a shared culture?
And what does a shared culture mean if we can't share it?
It is only in the last 100 or 150 years or so,
that we started tightly restricting how that culture gets used.
The Internet enabled an infrastructure
where anybody could participate without asking permission.
We have all these new technologies
that allow people to express themselves,
take control of their own creative impulses,
but the law is getting in the way.
Creative Commons is designed to save the world from failed sharing.
People who actually want to share stuff,
who put it up on the web
because they want to share it under certain terms.
So we wanted to create a simple way, for creators
to say to the world: here is the freedom
that I want to run with my creative work.
Here are the things you are allowed to do.
Can I reproduce it, can I copy it, can I put it in my text book?
Can I use that photograph? Can I make a new version of it?
Creative Commons gives tools to creators
to make a choice about copyright.
Creative Commons license can cover anything that copyright covers.
Every license says "You need to give me attribution".
I created this, give me credit for the work I did.
The basic choices are commercial use, or not.
Can you make derivative works, versions, adaptations, or not?
And do you want me to have to share alike?
So if I take your stuff,
do I have to offer it to the next person under the same terms?
There is no requirement for you to do anything with your work
other than what you want to do.
You own the copyright to it.
What we have done is given you the right
to exercise your copyright in more ways, more simply.
So the idea here is to enable the creative impulses
that the technology turns loose,
and get the law out of the way.
The work of Creative Commons is really about laying
the infrastructure ground work for this new type of culture.
A new kind of folk culture.
Somebody from Delhi, somebody from New York,
somebody from Singapore, can feel comfortable
using a photo that was created and given away
by someone in the United States or in China,
or wherever that the licenses have been extended to.
With their identity being preserved.
Which means that people can actually create new kinds of things,
come together and build things.
Mashups that people can do with people's Flickr photos.
And CCmixter has allowed artists to make music together.
It is really about creativity and connection,
access and control.
From amateurs who simply, for the love of what they are doing
(and they) want to share it - and they want other people
to be able to make use of it -
to commercial organizations.
In the end, this will have a very successful place
in the for-profit economy.
Creative Commons is this bridge to this future.
You have got to move away
from thinking about content to thinking about communities.
Communities that develop around content
and the sharing, that the licenses allow,
enable these communities to come together.
A physical Commons is like a park
where anybody can enter equally.
A Commons with intellectual works is actually much freer.
It really is going to be the pillar
for communication between people, cultural exchange.
The space for more speech, more free expression.
And that is the kind of Commons we are trying to create.
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