Week 1 Reading - Copyright Issues - Creative Commons Solution
Creative Commons Experiment
I am intrigued by the creative commons movement and how one might compare it to the American Revolution and the similarities that can be found within. In Larry Lessig’s TED talk, he mentioned that there is no revolt but rather a movement to extremes in the response to copyright concepts. As in the early days of the American Revolution the extremes were being defined by the loyalists and the patriots but if it were not for the defining document of the Declaration of Independence and the leadership of Washington and other founding fathers the potential of our revolution looking more like the French’s was a possibility much like the lawlessness that we are incubating in our youth with the lack of common sense being applied to the constraints of current copyright practices. The thought I have about the Creative Commons approach is whether it is capable to bringing about the necessary balancing effect to the copyright battleground as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution did to the American Experiment.
How much does the Creative Commons approach depend upon the character of the people involved to relinquish the greed that feeds the current extension of the copyright termination to be extended further and further into the future? Will the involved see the needs of the culture taking precedence over the financial gain they could continue to have if they hold firm to reaping from the current copyright laws. Does the 11 possible choices of Creative Commons structuring allow for an effective strategy to balance the personal gain and preserving the culture for healthy growth in both areas? This is yet to be determined but is worth a try since it is obvious the current status quo is destructive.
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@Bruce.
I’m happy to read that your appreciated the historical view of the tension between it the good of individuality vs. the control of the group in power. This is such a fundamental challenge throughout history but what we experience today is unprecedented and the world that we are creating this very moment will be oddly foreign yet so very familiar because it will have all of our parts in it! The mashing up just in the readings this week gave us a lot of other people’s views to consider and our doing this exercise is a continuance of this creativity. We, in fact, are behind the 8 ball in teaching our children what to bring into that future that we can hardly see through all of the sounds and rhythms, chatter and images available to them every day. What a task we have. I am particularly respectful of you and my other classmates who take this on and accept it as your future too. It’s a bit too late for me to start a teaching career with kids and technology, I’ll stick with adults for now - but I feel you all are some of the most awesome people going! - August 6, 2011 4:46 PM
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