English subtitles for clip: File:Reticulum Rex with subtitles - Creative Commons.ogv

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Reticulum Rex

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Remix Culture: A year in the life of Creative Commons

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In our last episode you met Creative Commons, a young project with big plans

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plans to bring some sense to the copyright debate

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plans to partner with the big C, to clarify the rules of creativity.

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To help authors and artists build a body of free culture they can draw from in return.

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So where have Creative Commons' adventures led?

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It all began with our copyright licenses, tools that help you mark your work as free to share or build upon with only some rights reserved.

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And you did just that, with an enthusiasm that surprised even us.

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First came the early adopters: writers, like Campbell Award winning Cory Doctorow,

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who offered fans his first novel for free download, and for sale in hard copy

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educators, like MIT and Rice University, who made their courseware available online, for free, to the world

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also, community builders like Sal Randolph of Opsound, who collects hundreds of licensed songs for people to remix and share

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and there are thousands of modern day Thomas Paines, the grassroots journalists known as webloggers

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plus photographers, illustrators, filmmakers, and more

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Only a couple of months into Creative Commons' life, and more than 100,000 pioneers like these had joined the movement

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And then things got really interesting.

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Because before long, YOU put this commons into practice, just as we had dreamed but could never have done alone

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Guitarist Colin Mutchler contributed a track to Opsound

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and a young violinist named Cora Beth recorded a duet with him without ever meeting him

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An academic program in Vietnam began translating and teaching MIT's course materials

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Cory Doctorow's novel sold a whole print run. It saw hundreds of thousands of downloads.

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Even Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com recommended it to his customers.

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All of this, across the net, with no middleman, no legal doubt, no friction, just free culture created in real-time. 

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All the while you built the commons out in whole new directions, in ways we never anticipated

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High-tech publisher Tim O'Reilly helped us create the Founder's Copyright

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that's fourteen years in the care of Big C, and then works move onto public pastures

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Software developers began to incorporate our tools, helping people free their works at the point of creation

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Common Content and the Internet Archive began to register and host Creative Commons works, for free

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The iCommons opened, and experts around the world began porting our licenses to many legal systems, 

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so that your expression can travel freely across borders.

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And suddenly, what had been only an idea eight months earlier

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was a global movement, more than 700,000 licensed works strong

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and still you helped us realize that more could be done

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The legendary musician Gilberto Gil, along with the digital collage artists Negativland

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inspired us to build Creative Commons' latest and most exciting tool

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one that encourages a kind of creativity that children with scissors and glue

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and scientists who cure with genes, and lawyers who cite precedent

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understand as second nature

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to take a bit and make it new. Some from here, some from there, to make a mosaic from the old, but not to copy

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to remix culture.

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Introducing: the Creative Commons Sampling Licenses

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New tools to help you invite others to get creative with a part of your work, even for profit, but not to copy the whole thing

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The legendary Mr. Gil will introduce the first wave of sample friendly tunes from Brazil

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leaving you free to jam with him across the net, with more artists soon to follow.

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And so, Creative Commons carries on, twelve months since hitting the scene

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more than one million licensed works, one million artifacts of culture, free to reuse

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And we've got bigger plans still: plans to help authors republish books out of print

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plans to explore a science commons

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plans to weave our philosophy and our tools into the fabric of the net

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plans to knock down the walls between reader and author

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or listener and composer, between audience and artists, between community and citizen, or culture and creator

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plans to bring creativity back to its senses

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and with your help, to keep growing, just as big as the old Big C

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Creative Commons: the rules have changed, and it's just the beginning