"RETICULUM REX (REMIX CULTURE)" Script / 05:40 / 02.26.03 ...................................................................... ------------------------------ A / 00:00 - 00:27 ------------------------------ TITLE: RETICULUM REX / REMIX CULTURE (A Year In The Life Of Creative Commons) In our last episode, you met Creative Commons. [00:06 - 00:09] A young project with big plans. [00:09 - 00:11] Plans to bring some sense to the copyright debate. [00:11 - 00:14] Plans to partner with the Big C, to clarify the rules of creativity. [00:14 - 00:19] To help authors and artists build a body of free culture they can drawn from in return. [00:20 - 00:27] ------------------------------ B / 00:00 - 01:14 ------------------------------ So where have Creative Commons' adventures led? [00:00 - 00:04] It all began with our copyright licenses: tools that help you mark your work as free to share or build upon -- with only Some Rights reserved. [00:04 - 00:13] And you did just that -- with an enthusiasm that surprised even us. [00:13 - 00:18] First came the early adopters. [00:18 - 00:19] Writers... like Campbell award-winning Cory Doctorow, who offered fans his first novel for free download *and* for sale in hardcopy. [00:19 - 00:28] Educators... like MIT and Rice University, who made their courseware available online, for free, to the world. [00:28 - 00:36] Also Community-builders... like Sal Randolph of Opsound, who collects hundreds of licensed songs for people to remix and share. [00:36 - 00:45] And there are thousands of modern-day Thomas Paines -- the grass-roots journalists known as Webloggers. [00:45 - 00:51] Plus photographers, illustrators, filmmakers, and more. [00:51 - 00:55] Only a couple of months into Creative Commons' life, and more than 100,000 pioneers like these had joined the movement. [00:55 - 01:03] And then things got really interesting. [01:03 - 01:06] Because before long, you put this commons into practice just as we had dreamed, but could never have done alone. [01:06 - 01:14] ------------------------------ C / 00:00 - 00:46 ------------------------------ Guitarist Colin Mutchler contributed a track to Opsound, and a young violinist named Cora Beth recorded a duet with him -- without ever meeting him. [00:00 - 00:17] An academic program in Vietnam began translating and teaching MIT's course materials. [00:17 - 00:24] Cory Doctorow's novel sold a whole print run! It saw hundreds of thousands of downloads. Even Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, recommended it to his customers. [00:24 - 00:36] All of this -- across the Net, with no middleman, no legal doubt, no friction. [00:36 - 00:42] Just free culture created in real-time. [00:42 - 00:46] ------------------------------ D / 00:00 - 00:54 ------------------------------ All the while, you built the commons out in whole new directions, in ways we never anticipated. [00:00 - 00:05] Hi-tech publisher Tim O'Reilly helped us create the Founders' Copyright. That's Fourteen years in the care of Big C, and then works move on to public pastures. [00:05 - 00:15] Software developers began to incorporate our tools, helping people free their works at the point of creation. [00:15 - 00:22] Common Content and the Internet Archive began to register and host Creative Commons works -- for free. [00:22 - 00:29] The iCommons opened, and experts around the world began porting our licenses to many legal systems -- so that your expression can travel freely across borders. [00:29 - 00:39] And suddenly, what had been only an idea eight months earlier, was a global movement -- more than 700,000 licensed works strong. [00:39 - 00:50] And still, you helped us realize that *more* could be done. [00:50 - 00:54] ------------------------------ E / 00:00 - 00:57 ------------------------------ The Legendary musician Gilberto Gil, along with the digital collage artists Negativland, inspired us to build Creative Commons' latest and most exciting tool. [00:00 - 00:10] One that encourages a kind of creativity that children with scissors and glue, and scientists who cure with genes, and lawyers who cite precedent, understand as second nature: [00:10 - 00:20] to take a bit and make it new -- some from here, some from there, to make mosaic from the old, but not to copy. [00:20 - 00:29] To remix culture. [00:29 - 00:32] Introducing the Creative Commons Sampling Licenses. [00:32 - 00:37] New tools to help you invite others to get creative with a *part* of your work, even for profit, but not to copy the whole thing. [00:37 - 00:46] The legendary Mr. Gil will release the first wave of Sampling-friendly tunes from Brazil, leaving you free to jam with him across the net. [00:46 - 00:54] With more artists soon to follow. [00:54 - 00:57] ------------------------------ F / 00:00 - 01:03 ------------------------------ And so Creative Commons carries on. [00:00 - 00:03] Twelve months since hitting the scene, more than 1 million licensed works. One million artifacts of culture free to reuse. [00:03 - 00:12] And we've got bigger plans still. [00:12 - 00:14] Plans to help authors re-publish books out of print. [00:14 - 00:17] Plans to explore a Science Commons. [00:17 - 00:20] plans To weave our philosophy, and our tools, into the fabric of the Net. [00:20 - 00:24] plans To knock down the walls between reader and author, or listener and composer, between audience and artists, between community and citizen, or culture and creator. [00:24 - 00:35] plans To bring creativity back to its senses. And with your help, to keep growing. [00:35 - 00:41] Just as big as the old Big C. [00:41 - 00:44] Creative Commons. The rules have changed. [00:44 - 00:47] And it's just the beginning. [00:47 - 00:49] ------------------------------ CREDITS / 00:49 - 01:03 ------------------------------ The End.