A year ago I wrote an email to someone about an idea about how to address some of the issues I saw in copyright without requiring a change to current legislation. A recent conversation reminded me of the idea, so I dug it up, brushed it off, and expanded on it. Here’s the result. I [...]
While the overriding driver for the Brain Candy team to start Runes of Gallidon was a passion for the concept of building a shared world collaboratively, we also acknowledged that at some point we would have to figure out how we could share revenue with Artisans. Ah, the wonderfully tricky, sticky issues with money and [...]
More than a bit late on this post, but I had the good fortune to sit in on a conference call Monday that Creative Commons hosted. James Boyle and Joi Ito provided updates on challenges, opportunities, and upcoming activities for CC. It was a great way for them to reach out to the CC community, [...]
I’m noticing more and more blogs publishing under CC, and now there’s a way a CC answer for twitter! tweetCC gives you an easy-to-configure mechanism for automatically publishing your tweets under a CC license of your choosing.
I’m really pleased to announce that Creative Commons posted about Runes of Gallidon today! The permanent link is here. Cameron Parkins has been lending his support since we first approached Creative Commons last summer; many thanks to Cameron and the rest of the CC Crew for the post!
This report was actually released last month (and I found it on the Creative Commons – Through the Looking Glass blog) , but I thought it was worthy of a mention and permanent tagging here. The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living: Choose Your own Adventure was written by Therese Fingleton, Christy Dena, and [...]
A few months ago I learned about a new Alternate Reality Fiction world being started by Continuous Labs. I already knew about ARG’s, but ARF was a new one for me. I’m not entirely sure I understand what I’m seeing, but I like it (and in entertainment, just keeping someone’s attention is half the battle [...]
While it’s neither the most important nor the most controversial moment of today, I did feel compelled to post about whitehouse.gov incorporating a Creative Commons license for the content on the website. This is meaningful in many ways, but I’m encouraged that copyright, intellectual laws, and creative efforts by our society will improve over the [...]