creative commons

With the advent of the widespread adoption of digital technologies and the commercial phase of the Internet in the late 1990s came the empowerment of individuals to copy and redistribute content like never before. (more…)

Remix. Cut-up. Mash, sample and collate. At Creative Commons, we want to encourage creativity. We want people to build off the work others have made before; build off their cultural heritage, and create something new. (more…)

If you listen to what mainstream media, corporate giants, and governments tell us about some Internet users of digital content you might expect bandanas, scimitars and pirates’ gold. (more…)

I am delighted to be introducing this issue of Filter as the incoming Executive Director, and am looking forward to the next three to five years at ANAT. (more…)

There is something to be said for practical learning. It is one thing to spout theories about using open content licensing (OCL) to open up new worlds of creative endeavour and it is an entirely different thing to get out there and do it. (more…)

A great mass of companies are currently clamouring for your content. The names have rapidly become commonplace—YouTube, MySpace, Flickr—and their effect has been enormous, dramatically changing the production and distribution of media globally by offering a host of ‘free’ services to anyone that wants them. (more…)

Over the last few decades our post-industrial culture that once worshiped the myth of individual heroics and thrived on fierce competition and the survival of the fittest, has been challenged by the idea that co-operation and sharing actually works to ones advantage. (more…)