OPENSTUDIO Adds Creative Commons Licenses
Today we have released a Creative Commons license selection feature for OPENSTUDIO. As many of you are aware, creating an account on OPENSTUDIO requires consent to a Creative Commons license with Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (by-nc-sa) condition on every drawing created in this system. Now you can change the license on a per piece basis.
PLWer and Toshiba research affiliate Jun Sato has created a video explaining this new feature that he has added to OS:
You can choose any of the license for your artworks as long as you own it. Creative Commons also offers a nice explanation of each of the licenses.
Questions & Answers
How do I change my license?
After you login to OPENSTUDIO and select an artwork in your gallery or inventory, click the “change license” link below the “set price” option. You will be forwarded to the Creative Commons site, where you will answer two simple questions: “Allow commercial uses of your work?” and “Allow modifications of your work?” Hit the “Select a license” button then confirm at next page. You will then return to OPENSTUDIO. The change will not be saved unless you hit the “Save Changes” button.
Who can change the license?
The only owner of the artwork can change the license as well as he/she can change the price of the piece. However. the creator of the artwork still have copyright of the artwork since it always has “by” attribution.
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a team to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules. You can learn about them on their website [http://creativecommons.org/]
Why did OPENSTUDIO adopt a Creative Commons license scheme?
Creative Commons licenses are a suitable existing scheme for our system, because
- They are simple with six iconic representation.
- They let others distribute and alter, one of the fundamental design features of OS.
- They are free, open, and widely used in the Internet community.
We are not promoting Creative Commons, but we are integrating it into OPENSTUDIO as part of an ongoing exploration of licensing issues in digital media and online communities and economies. How do differing licenses affect the value of a piece of digital media?
Can I change the license to be less restrictive?
In OPENSTUDIO, if you own the artwork you have the right to change the license. We don’t disallow owners changing to less restrictive licenses in this system. Rather than encoding rules into the code, we leave this issue of trust and enforcement to the community of creators and buyers.
Can I change the license to be more restrictive?
Yes you can.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
interesting, does this mean that now if people outside OS, they have to pay something (buraks, dollars etc) acording to the licence that the drawing have or is it just for OS. i sure seems to me that is not only for OS. keeps getting more fun. thanx
October 9th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Just a heads up — looks like the NonCommercial license icon has the wrong hover text (shows the “NoDerivativeWorks” description on mouseover).
Also, is there a way to change the licenses for works you’ve already sold (i.e., which are no longer in your inventory)? I may just be missing it… (though I guess I didn’t look very hard…)
Thanks.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:41 am
yeah. i think that the artist, not the current owner, should have say as to what the licensing of their work is. mainly, ’cause i want to make all of my work as open to change as possible — all i want is attribution (assuming there’s always a history of the work). so i would like to apply that to all my past works.
October 12th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Hello Usman!!
Thanks for the heads up, we have fixed it.
Regarding, your question, no, you cannnot change the license which have sold to someone else. The buyer might get confusing if the creater change the license afterwards.
October 13th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Hi Armand and Usman,
Thanks for the feedbacks, the issue has been fixed.
Regarding, Usman’s question, once the art piece is sold to someone, the creator cannot change the license. The only the buyer=owner can change it. If the creator change thier license which has been sold to someone anytime, the owner might get confused.
October 27th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
How can I do that?