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/