Changes For Good

Some of the more forward thinking copyright owners are slapping Creative Commons licenses on their content, allowing reuse and remixing of their content by others. The copyright owner may even allow use for commercial purposes. That’s great!

But there are countless copyright owners who have not released their works to the public domain or the Creative Commons. Perhaps some of these copyright owners would be more receptive to “some rights reserved” if it was under the condition that the use be restricted to charitable purposes (i.e. charities would be allowed to use the content; or the proceeds would have to be donated to charity).

What do you all think? Larry Lessig, feel free to chime in here.

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As I mentioned in my last post, I loved The Corporation. My daughter Chloe did too. She wants to be a director, and watching The Corporation really inspired her to make her own documentary to educate children and adults alike to some of the problems of the world. It would be fantastic if directors/producers of The Corporation, An Inconvenient Truth, Supersize Me, The Indigo Evolution, Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi and other documentary films could be persuaded to put a Creative Commons license on the film, allowing re-mixing by students for class projects in their film, social studies, government, economics, etc. courses. The issues exposed in a documentary will ’sink in’ much more for kids if they get to work with it. Kinesthetic learning beats passive viewing any day.

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