Creative Commons Case Studies, Metrics Project, and CC Integration Tools at ISEA 2008 Singapore

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I’ve been here with my new media art homies of yester and today at ISEA 2008 in Singapore. I had the pleasure as well to speak at the CC Singapore launch yesterday and whipped up my feeder slide deck for this coming week’s conference in Sapporo on Commons Research, CC Metrics and CC Case Studies. It is going to be a lot of fun. I just have to remember to sleep a bunch today on my flights from Singapore to Sapporo, Japan.

I will then be heading to the BETA location in Guangzhou again for most of August. More news on that shortly and what I will be doing with most of my time.

Time to sort through my thoughts on this flight…the need for downtime will never come! Just get used to it Jon!

Originally from Creative Commons Case Studies, Metrics Project, and CC Integration Tools at ISEA 2008 Singapore

I’m stoked about the latest OpenMoko release and looking forward to getting my hands on the latest freerunner released last week. Over on the CC blog, Tim “thwang-roflcon” Hwang, blogged about the effects of releasing the OpenMoko case plans under CC BY-SA license. Enjoy!

Great news coming out recently that our good friends over at the awesome open source mobile phone project OpenMoko have been seeing rapid success with releasing their CAD design files for the FreeRunner phone under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license. Their open design approach has spurred adoption, becoming the basis for the Dash Express car navigation device, and a popular platform for other projects such as the Debian-based WEphone. It’s gaining a lot of traction, and it looks like we’ll be able to look forward to even more successes on the open design front in the near future. Might have to pick one up for myself…

This follows in the line of similar recent adoption successes seen by other businesses taking the strategy of making their CAD files open to the public like the award-winning OpenBook project that makes designs for their laptop available for anyone to use. We’re hoping that these examples set the stage for companies to take up the business opportunities available in CCing their product schematics.

Originally from More on OpenMoko CAD Designs

Poster by Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0

This is the next 30-45 days (okay a month) of knocking out all kinds of projects I’ve had in the queue for months, literally. The first of these is the Creative Commons Case Studies project. Seriously, this one has been touched by so many people for countless months now.

I remember when Mike Linksvayer wanted me to push this one out and TVOL and I sat in a room looking at each other like what the hell is this vague task Mike just gave us Well, it coalesced at the CC Taiwan

It also now helps me feel like the information side of Creative Commons infrastructure is pretty solid. I won’t say complete, but at least up to par with most projects of this size. To go along with this release, Alex and I shuffled around some of the /projects page at creativecommons.org and there is now a section called “Information” which is useful for all those seeking out about why use CC. Please all, feel free to use these sections.

Joi just blogged a chunk of the Case Studies blog post I did over at CC’s blog, which I’ve sourced below:

Creative Commons Launches Global Case Studies Project
Jon Phillips, June 24th, 2008
Brisbane, Australia & San Francisco, USA — 2008 June 24

Today Creative Commons (CC), in association with Creative Commons Australia, officially announced the release of the Case Studies Project, which is a large-scale community effort to encourage all to explore and add noteworthy global CC stories. Creative Commons provides free tools to allow copyright-holders to clearly show rights associated with creative works, and now this project shows how notable adopters like author Cory Doctorow, web video-sharing company Blip.tv, and open film project “A Swarm of Angels” have successfully used CC licenses.

And, Joi had this to say about the project:

This is a very important initiative and I hope everyone will contribute and use this resource. In order to make CC ubiquitous, we need support from businesses to get it integrated into the tools and the infrastructure. We need to prove that CC is not only good for society and culture, but makes business sense too. These case studies will be very important to help drive home the fact that sharing is good for business in addition to being “the right thing to do” in other respects.

This also helps make the case to creators that you sharing makes sense for professionals as well.

The next big projects to focus on are the Metrics project, PDWiki Projects (Open Library with CC/PD integration and PDRegistry.ca). No links you say! Well, they are mostly out there in the ether so you can do investigation to find out what these cool projects are that I’ve been working on for a couple of years, seriously!

SIDENOTE: For all you friends of Open Clip Art Library and ccHost, a few of us will be heading to Berkeley to meet at Mudrakers Cafe at 2 PM this Thursday, June 26, 2008 until whenever (~5 PM) to hack with legendary hacker, Victor Stone on ccHost 5.0, the engine behind ccMixter.org, Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library. I want to do some code fun and not just my talky talk I do mostly these days.

Originally from Launched Creative Commons Case Studies Project

Ok, the above when I say 300 million cc licenses, erase that from your mind. The actual figure’s bottom end is 90 Million licensed images which relied on a statement of 50 million CC licensed images on Flickr. Well, now that figure is more accurately 70 Million CC licensed images on Flickr, so the low bound of CC licensed images has to be more than 90 Million.

This is a video that Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson did a year ago prior to me speaking at my favorite conference last year, Pixelodeon. I’m eagerly looking forward to the fall edition of this conference which I might have to fly back from China just to attend.

Also, I should add that Ryanne and Jay are such great people. I’m so happy to know great friends that are doing amazing creative work.

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That’s right, the same Blender’s 2nd Open Source Movie, the Peach Project, aka, Big Buck Bunny, that I previoulsy spoke before the premiere of in Amsterdam, is out and in hi-def, as Alex blogged:

Big Buck Bunny, the latest open movie, modeled, rendered, and composited entirely with Blender, by the same team as Elephants Dream. Licensed CC BY 3.0.

Great stuff, especially in high-def, easily rivaling Pixar and classic WB Merry Melodies.

Even better, since the entire film is Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licensed, the film is usable in so many contexts as long as attribution is given to the project (I’m assuming to http://bigbuckbunny.org, but that is something to seek clarification from Ton and the Blender crew, fellas?). And, now, all the source files which were used to make the final video, are available as well to allow for translation, remix, education, re-purposing, you-call-it! This is brilliant and further answers the question I had ages ago about what Hollywood could do for education and training by releasing a film like the Matrix and its source files (all the files used to render the film). Well, Big Buck Bunny is cooler and better than the Matrix, and as Barry Threw, Kid Kam and I decided at dinner last night, the first Matrix’s (Matrices?) effects look old now and come on, the film is cheesy! (The part in Matrices 3 when Neo gets his eyes burned has to be one of the all-time cheesiest scenes EVER!)

Come to the water friends, companies, and .orgs and release your source files under a Creative Commons license and get more points for doing under liberal license like CC Attribution 3.0 or CC Public Domain dedication like we do over at Open Clip Art Library.

If you want help coming to the water, contact me

Originally from Open Source Movie Big Buck Bunny Source Files Available

Right before Lu and I headed back to SF, where we are right now, I helped her shoot a video of some Cantonese hip-hop dancers in Guangzhou. We had so much fun playing some loud bass and seeing these goes go for it! Totally amazing! Here is an excerpts from lu’s site.

These are pictures from my video shoot in Guangzhou 2 weeks ago. The video is for the new project titled “Don’t Talk About Politic”. I am working on the editing right now…

Originally from Cantonese Hip-hop dancers Post Lil Wayne Lollipoppin

I blogged on the Creative Commons site in depth about how awesome this release of the OpenBook CAD designs is and how it fits into the landscape for VIA and other businesses looking to go open.

Here is the post:

Today VIA launched their OpenBook, an innovative subnotebook platform. You can buy it now and also download the raw CAD files released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareaAlike 3.0 license, meaning you can get the raw machine files to make whatever case or version you want, as long as you release your modifications under the same license and give attribution back to VIA. The VIA press release today states:

The VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design introduces a host of new innovations, including the next generation of VIA Ultra Mobile Platform, based on the VIA C7®-M ULV processor and the new all-in-one VIA VX800 digital media IGP chipset. Together, this ultra compact, power efficient platform delivers richer computing and multimedia features, including a stunning 8.9” screen and greater video playback support, in a compact and stylish clamshell form factor that weighs just 1kg.

The VIA OpenBook features a flexible internal interface for high-speed broadband wireless connectivity that provides customers with the ability to select from a choice of WiMAX™, HSDPA and EV-DO/W-CDMA modules appropriate to their market. In addition, under a unique collaborative approach, the CAD files of the external panels of the reference design are offered for download under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license to give customers such as OEMs, system integrators, and broadband service providers greater freedom in tailoring the look and feel of their device to meet the diverse needs of their target markets.

And, some blogs are praising its coolness like what crunchgear had to say (which hints at business strategy of companies like VIA):

Do you own a small fabricating plant in Taiwan? Do you have an engineering team of ten PhDs? Do you want to make small laptops? Has VIA got a deal for you. The VIA OpenBook reference design is not actually a product — it’s more of an idea. Because it is ostensibly open (the CAD plans are available on the VIAOpenBook site) you simply buy the chips from VIA and use the plans to build your own cases, keyboards, and I/O systems.

Here is my quote about the release

“VIA is a forward thinking company that has realized that sharing enables a healthy ecosystem which helps them provide an innovative product which supports their core business,” commented Jon Phillips, Business and Community Manager for Creative Commons. ”Making the actual raw CAD files available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license is a brilliant first step that clearly and legally allows others to emergently build upon VIA’s open innovation.”

I’ll add that this is a very interesting project that ups the “Open” ante of the ASUS EeePC’s involvement in free and open culture beyond the software that ships on the platform, it competes strongly against the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, and the Intel Classmate, which are the predecessors of this generation of subnotebook. In fact, it appears that chip companies are realizing that in order to sell more chips, it is good to give away some parts of a product for free, or ship a free operating system which further reduces the cost barrier to selling more silicon. As an aside, this also mirrors what Nine Inch Nails did by releasing part of their product as an entry into more specific and special packages.

It should also be noted that this valiant efforts follows up the great work that FIC’s Openmoko, Open Source Cellphone, did by releasing their CAD designs, which has already led to multiple efforts to create different cases and a great set of community pages on howto get your designs manufactured. Also, we worked with Keith Packard at Intel to release some specifications of graphics chips by Intel around the same time, which has helped for more companies to realize this same level of openness, and more importantly has allowed for developers, other companies, and people to more easily support and buy more Intel chips.

If you have a product similar to the above, or something you think could benefit from Creative Commons licensing in this way, please do contact me (Jon Phillips), contact us, or comment on this post. Let’s *open* it up.

This kind of free’ness, is what I’m calling a gateway freedom. It is the first step, that if it proves successful, leads to more openness. I have some more thoughts on the above about piracy, how piracy doesn’t really work on processes that are so hard or complicated to fabricate (ala, all Apple products, computer chips) and what that means for the future of openness, but I will save for later, or demand by readers

Originally from VIA Releases OpenBook Case Designs under CC BY-SA 3.0