[FC-discuss] ccLearn intern position at Creative Commons

[Janet Hawtin]

On 10/25/07, Fred Beneson <fred.benenson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 24, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Crosbie Fitch <crosbie at cyberspaceengineers.org
>  > wrote:
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> >> From: Fred Benenson
> >> First, Creative Commons created and maintains both the CC-BY
> >> and CC-BY-
> >> SA licenses, which I assume you consider part of free culture.
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> > Licences are tools to permit/restore liberties suspended by copyright.

Free culture has the potential to help people work through ideas and
business models
which do not start with the assumption of restriction as the means for
making value.

The access to knowledge movement is also thinking about means of
valuing which enable
the social and ecological and medical roles of information as a social
good as a primary goal, with copyright being just one tool we have
employed to express value which has cost us in these Access to
Knowledge respects.

CC currently operates on the assumption that copyright is THE means
for deriving value.

Free culture can recognise the constructive work of the CC group
within that scope but it would be sad if free culture as a name space
was not about thinking beyond restriction based models of making
value.

Sometimes it is hard to think beyond the models we use in daily life
because they are so intrinsic to the way we are currently. Copyright
has been built around the industrial business model and is a poor fit
for collaborative diffuse generation of knowledge and value which is
possible with the internet. People are looking for ways to work which
are a closer match to the A2K values for information in society, and
also which are supportive of diffuse collaboration as a means of
aggregating value. It would be great if the Free Culture group could
be a part of that broader conversation.

Voices and projects which are able to explore our potential beyond
existing patterns are valuable. Students are well placed to explore
new models.

Janet