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CC:meWhy Creative Common rocks
Christian HeilmannMinibar London, 31.08.07
Things I’ve done
• Published 4 books (1 in full, 3 as part of)
• Wrote lots of online and print articles.
• Conducted workshops in the UK, US, India, Singapore and Hongkong
Things I’ve done
• Released a lot of scripts and products for free.
• Bagged a job at a cool big company that pays me to do things I love doing.
Things I am rubbish at:
• Invoicing • Paperwork• Legalese
Things that annoyed me
• People take on my free stuff• Then they change and re-distribute it• Who gets the bug reports of the
changed and buggy code?
Things that annoyed me
• People commission me to write articles for money.
• People then ask me to re-write it over and over again to make it what they’d have liked to write.
• And I have to adhere to annoying size restrictions and text formats.
My decision
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Which means…
• People can use my stuff• People can make changes • People MUST add their name to the
changes when they distribute it.
Bugs are not my problem any longer.
Example
Example
• This was commissioned but did not please the editors.
• After three re-writes I told them to forget about it.
• I put the article online.• I’ve added some Ads.
Example
• I made the same money they’d have paid me in the first 5 days with clicks.
• It doesn’t end there…
Surprise, Surprise
Don’t hold back!
• Use Yahoo! CC search to find information to build upon.
• Use CC imagery from Flickr instead of browsing and buying from huge photo catalogues with shiny happy office people.
Don’t hold back
• Find and remix CC video online with jumpcut.
Hippie time!
• Give out free and good, and good things will come back to you.
• It worked for me.
Thanks!
Christian Heilmann
chris.heilmann@gmail.comhttp://wait-till-i.comhttp://icant.co.uk
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/