CollaboWrite - A Creative Commons Project
A Dream Shared by Will Bruce
Via Text Message...
"Cool website idea: a social user-created-content-driven project to illustrate public domain and creative-commons novels and short stories...
Could expand to a point where each work was a hub hosting all kids of responses to work: music, film, etc... within a user-curated quality control system...
You start with this strong hub of the story, and then create socially-enabled tools to both host and facillitate the creation of responses to it...
And then you do some non-evil monetization: provide a cheap printing service for finished projects, for example.
Its a totally open niche."
December 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Creative Commons is a really cool organization that works to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc
This is the type of idea that is more in-line with the current web 2.0 movement. The black and white dichotimy of "full copyright" and "public domain" simply do no account for today's ideologies about intellectual property. What about all the gray area in between? Why can't we have "some rights reserved" instead of "all rights reserved"?
That is what Creative Commons is fighting for. Its a very adaptive and progressive idea and I love it! Plus, it makes things like Girl Talk's Feed the Animals series possible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBAxkZun3s