1 00:00:01,222 --> 00:00:04,561 What does it mean to be human if we do not have a shared culture? 2 00:00:04,830 --> 00:00:07,790 And what does a shared culture mean if we can't share it? 3 00:00:07,790 --> 00:00:10,211 It is only in the last 100 or 150 years or so, 4 00:00:10,211 --> 00:00:13,546 that we started tightly restricting how that culture gets used. 5 00:00:13,546 --> 00:00:15,205 The Internet enabled an infrastructure 6 00:00:15,205 --> 00:00:18,057 where anybody could participate without asking permission. 7 00:00:18,057 --> 00:00:19,716 We have all these new technologies 8 00:00:19,716 --> 00:00:21,535 that allow people to express themselves, 9 00:00:21,535 --> 00:00:23,987 take control of their own creative impulses, 10 00:00:23,987 --> 00:00:26,286 but the law is getting in the way. 11 00:00:26,781 --> 00:00:30,081 Creative Commons is designed to save the world from failed sharing. 12 00:00:30,081 --> 00:00:32,836 People who actually want to share stuff, 13 00:00:32,836 --> 00:00:34,124 who put it up on the web 14 00:00:34,124 --> 00:00:35,726 because they want to share it under certain terms. 15 00:00:35,726 --> 00:00:39,132 So we wanted to create a simple way, for creators 16 00:00:39,411 --> 00:00:42,174 to say to the world: here is the freedom 17 00:00:42,388 --> 00:00:44,583 that I want to run with my creative work. 18 00:00:44,583 --> 00:00:46,306 Here are the things you are allowed to do. 19 00:00:46,306 --> 00:00:49,594 Can I reproduce it, can I copy it, can I put it in my text book? 20 00:00:49,594 --> 00:00:52,761 Can I use that photograph? Can I make a new version of it? 21 00:00:52,761 --> 00:00:56,296 Creative Commons gives tools to creators 22 00:00:56,296 --> 00:00:58,775 to make a choice about copyright. 23 00:00:58,775 --> 00:01:01,759 Creative Commons license can cover anything that copyright covers. 24 00:01:01,759 --> 00:01:04,738 Every license says "You need to give me attribution". 25 00:01:04,738 --> 00:01:07,702 I created this, give me credit for the work I did. 26 00:01:07,702 --> 00:01:09,938 The basic choices are commercial use, or not. 27 00:01:09,938 --> 00:01:15,200 Can you make derivative works, versions, adaptations, or not? 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,124 And do you want me to have to share alike? 29 00:01:17,124 --> 00:01:18,424 So if I take your stuff, 30 00:01:18,424 --> 00:01:21,173 do I have to offer it to the next person under the same terms? 31 00:01:21,173 --> 00:01:24,891 There is no requirement for you to do anything with your work 32 00:01:24,891 --> 00:01:26,226 other than what you want to do. 33 00:01:26,226 --> 00:01:27,267 You own the copyright to it. 34 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:29,454 What we have done is given you the right 35 00:01:29,454 --> 00:01:32,894 to exercise your copyright in more ways, more simply. 36 00:01:32,894 --> 00:01:36,024 So the idea here is to enable the creative impulses 37 00:01:36,024 --> 00:01:38,354 that the technology turns loose, 38 00:01:38,354 --> 00:01:40,059 and get the law out of the way. 39 00:01:40,059 --> 00:01:43,135 The work of Creative Commons is really about laying 40 00:01:43,135 --> 00:01:46,455 the infrastructure ground work for this new type of culture. 41 00:01:46,455 --> 00:01:48,130 A new kind of folk culture. 42 00:01:48,130 --> 00:01:50,088 Somebody from Delhi, somebody from New York, 43 00:01:50,088 --> 00:01:52,100 somebody from Singapore, can feel comfortable 44 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:55,129 using a photo that was created and given away 45 00:01:55,129 --> 00:01:58,002 by someone in the United States or in China, 46 00:01:58,002 --> 00:02:00,523 or wherever that the licenses have been extended to. 47 00:02:00,523 --> 00:02:02,525 With their identity being preserved. 48 00:02:02,525 --> 00:02:06,142 Which means that people can actually create new kinds of things, 49 00:02:06,142 --> 00:02:07,749 come together and build things. 50 00:02:07,749 --> 00:02:10,986 Mashups that people can do with people's Flickr photos. 51 00:02:10,986 --> 00:02:14,070 And CCmixter has allowed artists to make music together. 52 00:02:14,070 --> 00:02:16,365 It is really about creativity and connection, 53 00:02:16,365 --> 00:02:17,663 access and control. 54 00:02:17,663 --> 00:02:21,095 From amateurs who simply, for the love of what they are doing 55 00:02:21,095 --> 00:02:22,862 (and they) want to share it - and they want other people 56 00:02:22,862 --> 00:02:24,389 to be able to make use of it - 57 00:02:24,389 --> 00:02:25,708 to commercial organizations. 58 00:02:25,708 --> 00:02:29,313 In the end, this will have a very successful place 59 00:02:29,313 --> 00:02:30,767 in the for-profit economy. 60 00:02:30,767 --> 00:02:33,881 Creative Commons is this bridge to this future. 61 00:02:33,881 --> 00:02:35,385 You have got to move away 62 00:02:35,385 --> 00:02:37,883 from thinking about content to thinking about communities. 63 00:02:37,883 --> 00:02:40,527 Communities that develop around content 64 00:02:40,527 --> 00:02:42,952 and the sharing, that the licenses allow, 65 00:02:42,952 --> 00:02:45,180 enable these communities to come together. 66 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:47,152 A physical Commons is like a park 67 00:02:47,152 --> 00:02:49,406 where anybody can enter equally. 68 00:02:49,406 --> 00:02:52,887 A Commons with intellectual works is actually much freer. 69 00:02:52,887 --> 00:02:54,609 It really is going to be the pillar 70 00:02:54,609 --> 00:02:57,277 for communication between people, cultural exchange. 71 00:02:57,277 --> 00:03:00,011 The space for more speech, more free expression. 72 00:03:00,011 --> 00:03:02,949 And that is the kind of Commons we are trying to create. 73 00:03:03,549 --> 00:03:06,949 Please submit your subtitle translation!! 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