Open Source, Creative Commons = Open Content

DRAFT Document - May 2008

Project

To investigate the relationships between artists, developers, business models and open source technologies around media, art & design production. Through the creation of open content practice lead projects incorporating open source technologies and the open source ethos I hope to create and develop open content and communities around them. The research will focus on the way this content is then used, build upon, studied, changed and the various exciting developments open content creates.

Concept

Presentation on Open Source and Open Content, bases for Proposal.

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Methodology

Research current Open Source & Creative Commons projects. Blender Institute, NIN etc. Free sound project To create Open content projects, document them and look at working methodology and other outcomes from this type of work. Primary focus on Animation and New Media projects.

Context

New Media, Animation. Art production.

Open source software

Blender 3d, Celtx, Inkscape, gimp, pencil etc. http://meanwhile.beds.ac.uk/meanwiki/index.php?n=Main.Free4All http://www.osalt.com/

Research Problems/Questions

What does Open Content offer artists and developers ? What does Open content offer the web producers ?

What is open source ?

Free software but its more - it is a set of principles that promote access to desig and production of goods and knowledge. It normally refers to software that makes the code avalible to the general public with little to no IP restrictions This allows developers and users to add to the software individually or through collobaration some software projects could not exist without a community of developers. Why ? use, distribute , study and change , create new version not restricted by commercial gains it is more about the product and its potential not the sale gures

What is Creative Commons ?

The Creative Commons is a non-proit organisation devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organisation has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work.

What is Open Content

So what does this mean - by taking open source software and a creative commons licence you create open content (this names are all up for debate but they serve the purpose) This ﬂys in the face of many current buisness models Allows people to use, distribute, study, change and make new versions Why ? use, distribute , study and change , new version development model- artists challenge to change software = testing,public benefit - education, knowledge shared commercial interest - testing system need content to test fun, artistic freedom, learn new techniques, independence

Bibliography

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution No One Knows Everything - Open Source and the Crisis in Public Opinion Innovation Happens Elsewhere : Open Source as Business Strategy Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives The Economics of Open Source Software Development: Analyzing Motivation, Organization, Innovation and Competitions in the Open Source Software Revolution Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards Open Source: Technology and Policy The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender Introducing Character Animation with Blender Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!: Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D The Official Blender 2.3 Guide

Webliography

My del.icio.us account - http://del.icio.us/adamprocter http://wsa.soton.ac.uk/adam-procter/ http://creativecommons.org/ http://www.opensource.org/ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/podcasting/podcasts/conferences/video_education_and_open_conte.html http://www.columbia.edu/itc/soa/dmc/jeffrey_cunard/ http://www.blender.org/ http://www.youtube.com/welly2006 http://www.vimeo.com/898866 http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php

Filmography

Elephants Dream Big Buck Bunny

Discography

Ghosts

Confrences

Blender Conference OSCON Open Source and Sustainability

Notes

Case Studies ? Projects , CC Animations History, Artists,Developers difference (commericial vs) - General Product comparisions? Business models HE Opportunities - courses, modules Web Technologies Netvibes quote on open sourcing there widgets "If we release our code, people will leverage it and grow the reach of our platform."

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