1 # MADE WITH CREATIVE COMMONS
2 # Copyright (C) 2017 by Creative Commons.
3 # This file is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA), version 4.0
4 # Authors: Paul Stacey and Sarah Hinchliff Pearson
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67 "This book is published under a CC BY-SA license, which means that you can "
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71 "transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your "
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124 "Made With Creative Commons is published with the kind support of Creative "
125 "Commons and backers of our crowdfunding-campaign on the Kickstarter.com "
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172 "<quote>I don’t know a whole lot about nonfiction journalism. . . The way "
173 "that I think about these things, and in terms of what I can do "
174 "is. . . essays like this are occasions to watch somebody reasonably bright "
175 "but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more "
176 "length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to "
177 "in our daily lives.</quote>"
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182 msgid "— <emphasis>David Foster Wallace</emphasis>"
185 #. type: Content of: <book><preface><title>
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193 "Three years ago, just after I was hired as CEO of Creative Commons, I met "
194 "with Cory Doctorow in the hotel bar of Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. As one of "
195 "CC’s most well-known proponents—one who has also had a successful career as "
196 "a writer who shares his work using CC—I told him I thought CC had a role in "
197 "defining and advancing open business models. He kindly disagreed, and called "
198 "the pursuit of viable business models through CC <quote>a red "
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205 "He was, in a way, completely correct—those who make things with Creative "
206 "Commons have ulterior motives, as Paul Stacey explains in this book: "
207 "<quote>Regardless of legal status, they all have a social mission. Their "
208 "primary reason for being is to make the world a better place, not to "
209 "profit. Money is a means to a social end, not the end itself.</quote>"
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215 "In the case study about Cory Doctorow, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson cites Cory’s "
216 "words from his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: <quote>Entering the "
217 "arts because you want to get rich is like buying lottery tickets because you "
218 "want to get rich. It might work, but it almost certainly won’t. Though, of "
219 "course, someone always wins the lottery.</quote>"
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225 "Today, copyright is like a lottery ticket—everyone has one, and almost "
226 "nobody wins. What they don’t tell you is that if you choose to share your "
227 "work, the returns can be significant and long-lasting. This book is filled "
228 "with stories of those who take much greater risks than the two dollars we "
229 "pay for a lottery ticket, and instead reap the rewards that come from "
230 "pursuing their passions and living their values."
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236 "So it’s not about the money. Also: it is. Finding the means to continue to "
237 "create and share often requires some amount of income. Max Temkin of Cards "
238 "Against Humanity says it best in their case study: <quote>We don’t make "
239 "jokes and games to make money—we make money so we can make more jokes and "
243 #. type: Content of: <book><preface><para>
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246 "Creative Commons’ focus is on building a vibrant, usable commons, powered by "
247 "collaboration and gratitude. Enabling communities of collaboration is at the "
248 "heart of our strategy. With that in mind, Creative Commons began this book "
249 "project. Led by Paul and Sarah, the project set out to define and advance "
250 "the best open business models. Paul and Sarah were the ideal authors to "
251 "write Made with Creative Commons."
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257 "Paul dreams of a future where new models of creativity and innovation "
258 "overpower the inequality and scarcity that today define the worst parts of "
259 "capitalism. He is driven by the power of human connections between "
260 "communities of creators. He takes a longer view than most, and it’s made him "
261 "a better educator, an insightful researcher, and also a skilled gardener. He "
262 "has a calm, cool voice that conveys a passion that inspires his colleagues "
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269 "Sarah is the best kind of lawyer—a true advocate who believes in the good of "
270 "people, and the power of collective acts to change the world. Over the past "
271 "year I’ve seen Sarah struggle with the heartbreak that comes from investing "
272 "so much into a political campaign that didn’t end as she’d hoped. Today, "
273 "she’s more determined than ever to live with her values right out on her "
274 "sleeve. I can always count on Sarah to push Creative Commons to focus on our "
275 "impact—to make the main thing the main thing. She’s practical, "
276 "detail-oriented, and clever. There’s no one on my team that I enjoy debating "
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283 "As coauthors, Paul and Sarah complement each other perfectly. They "
284 "researched, analyzed, argued, and worked as a team, sometimes together and "
285 "sometimes independently. They dove into the research and writing with "
286 "passion and curiosity, and a deep respect for what goes into building the "
287 "commons and sharing with the world. They remained open to new ideas, "
288 "including the possibility that their initial theories would need refinement "
289 "or might be completely wrong. That’s courageous, and it has made for a "
290 "better book that is insightful, honest, and useful."
293 #. type: Content of: <book><preface><para>
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296 "From the beginning, CC wanted to develop this project with the principles "
297 "and values of open collaboration. The book was funded, developed, "
298 "researched, and written in the open. It is being shared openly under a CC "
299 "BY-SA license for anyone to use, remix, or adapt with attribution. It is, in "
300 "itself, an example of an open business model."
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306 "For 31 days in August of 2015, Sarah took point to organize and execute a "
307 "Kickstarter campaign to generate the core funding for the book. The "
308 "remainder was provided by CC’s generous donors and supporters. In the end, "
309 "it became one of the most successful book projects on Kickstarter, smashing "
310 "through two stretch goals and engaging over 1,600 donors—the majority of "
311 "them new supporters of Creative Commons."
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317 "Paul and Sarah worked openly throughout the project, publishing the plans, "
318 "drafts, case studies, and analysis, early and often, and they engaged "
319 "communities all over the world to help write this book. As their opinions "
320 "diverged and their interests came into focus, they divided their voices and "
321 "decided to keep them separate in the final product. Working in this way "
322 "requires both humility and self-confidence, and without question it has made "
323 "Made with Creative Commons a better project."
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329 "Those who work and share in the commons are not typical creators. They are "
330 "part of something greater than themselves, and what they offer us all is a "
331 "profound gift. What they receive in return is gratitude and a community."
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337 "Jonathan Mann, who is profiled in this book, writes a song a day. When I "
338 "reached out to ask him to write a song for our Kickstarter (and to offer "
339 "himself up as a Kickstarter benefit), he agreed immediately. Why would he "
340 "agree to do that? Because the commons has collaboration at its core, and "
341 "community as a key value, and because the CC licenses have helped so many to "
342 "share in the ways that they choose with a global audience."
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348 "Sarah writes, <quote>Endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons thrive "
349 "when community is built around what they do. This may mean a community "
350 "collaborating together to create something new, or it may simply be a "
351 "collection of like-minded people who get to know each other and rally around "
352 "common interests or beliefs. To a certain extent, simply being Made with "
353 "Creative Commons automatically brings with it some element of community, by "
354 "helping connect you to like-minded others who recognize and are drawn to the "
355 "values symbolized by using CC.</quote> Amanda Palmer, the other musician "
356 "profiled in the book, would surely add this from her case study: "
357 "<quote>There is no more satisfying end goal than having someone tell you "
358 "that what you do is genuinely of value to them.</quote>"
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364 "This is not a typical business book. For those looking for a recipe or a "
365 "roadmap, you might be disappointed. But for those looking to pursue a social "
366 "end, to build something great through collaboration, or to join a powerful "
367 "and growing global community, they’re sure to be satisfied. Made with "
368 "Creative Commons offers a world-changing set of clearly articulated values "
369 "and principles, some essential tools for exploring your own business "
370 "opportunities, and two dozen doses of pure inspiration."
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376 "In a 1996 Stanford Law Review article <quote>The Zones of "
377 "Cyberspace</quote>, CC founder Lawrence Lessig wrote, <quote>Cyberspace is a "
378 "place. People live there. They experience all the sorts of things that they "
379 "experience in real space, there. For some, they experience more. They "
380 "experience this not as isolated individuals, playing some high tech computer "
381 "game; they experience it in groups, in communities, among strangers, among "
382 "people they come to know, and sometimes like.</quote>"
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388 "I’m incredibly proud that Creative Commons is able to publish this book for "
389 "the many communities that we have come to know and like. I’m grateful to "
390 "Paul and Sarah for their creativity and insights, and to the global "
391 "communities that have helped us bring it to you. As CC board member "
392 "Johnathan Nightingale often says, <quote>It’s all made of people.</quote>"
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397 msgid "That’s the true value of things that are Made with Creative Commons."
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402 msgid "<emphasis>Ryan Merkley</emphasis>"
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407 msgid "<emphasis>CEO, Creative Commons</emphasis>"
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418 "This book shows the world how sharing can be good for business—but with a "
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425 "We began the project intending to explore how creators, organizations, and "
426 "businesses make money to sustain what they do when they share their work "
427 "using Creative Commons licenses. Our goal was not to identify a formula for "
428 "business models that use Creative Commons but instead gather fresh ideas and "
429 "dynamic examples that spark new, innovative models and help others follow "
430 "suit by building on what already works. At the onset, we framed our "
431 "investigation in familiar business terms. We created a blank <quote>open "
432 "business model canvas,</quote> an interactive online tool that would help "
433 "people design and analyze their business model."
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439 "Through the generous funding of Kickstarter backers, we set about this "
440 "project first by identifying and selecting a diverse group of creators, "
441 "organizations, and businesses who use Creative Commons in an integral "
442 "way—what we call being Made with Creative Commons. We interviewed them and "
443 "wrote up their stories. We analyzed what we heard and dug deep into the "
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450 "But as we did our research, something interesting happened. Our initial way "
451 "of framing the work did not match the stories we were hearing."
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457 "Those we interviewed were not typical businesses selling to consumers and "
458 "seeking to maximize profits and the bottom line. Instead, they were sharing "
459 "to make the world a better place, creating relationships and community "
460 "around the works being shared, and generating revenue not for unlimited "
461 "growth but to sustain the operation."
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467 "They often didn’t like hearing what they do described as an open business "
468 "model. Their endeavor was something more than that. Something "
469 "different. Something that generates not just economic value but social and "
470 "cultural value. Something that involves human connection. Being Made with "
471 "Creative Commons is not <quote>business as usual.</quote>"
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477 "We had to rethink the way we conceived of this project. And it didn’t happen "
478 "overnight. From the fall of 2015 through 2016, we documented our thoughts in "
479 "blog posts on Medium and with regular updates to our Kickstarter backers. We "
480 "shared drafts of case studies and analysis with our Kickstarter cocreators, "
481 "who provided invaluable edits, feedback, and advice. Our thinking changed "
482 "dramatically over the course of a year and a half."
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488 "Throughout the process, the two of us have often had very different ways of "
489 "understanding and describing what we were learning. Learning from each other "
490 "has been one of the great joys of this work, and, we hope, something that "
491 "has made the final product much richer than it ever could have been if "
492 "either of us undertook this project alone. We have preserved our voices "
493 "throughout, and you’ll be able to sense our different but complementary "
494 "approaches as you read through our different sections."
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500 "While we recommend that you read the book from start to finish, each section "
501 "reads more or less independently. The book is structured into two main "
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508 "Part one, the overview, begins with a big-picture framework written by "
509 "Paul. He provides some historical context for the digital commons, "
510 "describing the three ways society has managed resources and shared "
511 "wealth—the commons, the market, and the state. He advocates for thinking "
512 "beyond business and market terms and eloquently makes the case for sharing "
513 "and enlarging the digital commons."
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519 "The overview continues with Sarah’s chapter, as she considers what it means "
520 "to be successfully Made with Creative Commons. While making money is one "
521 "piece of the pie, there is also a set of public-minded values and the kind "
522 "of human connections that make sharing truly meaningful. This section "
523 "outlines the ways the creators, organizations, and businesses we interviewed "
524 "bring in revenue, how they further the public interest and live out their "
525 "values, and how they foster connections with the people with whom they "
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532 "And to end part one, we have a short section that explains the different "
533 "Creative Commons licenses. We talk about the misconception that the more "
534 "restrictive licenses—the ones that are closest to the all-rights-reserved "
535 "model of traditional copyright—are the only ways to make money."
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541 "Part two of the book is made up of the twenty-four stories of the creators, "
542 "businesses, and organizations we interviewed. While both of us participated "
543 "in the interviews, we divided up the writing of these profiles."
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549 "Of course, we are pleased to make the book available using a Creative "
550 "Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Please copy, distribute, translate, "
551 "localize, and build upon this work."
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557 "Writing this book has transformed and inspired us. The way we now look at "
558 "and think about what it means to be Made with Creative Commons has "
559 "irrevocably changed. We hope this book inspires you and your enterprise to "
560 "use Creative Commons and in so doing contribute to the transformation of our "
561 "economy and world for the better."
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566 msgid "<emphasis>Paul and Sarah </emphasis>"
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571 msgid "The Big Picture"
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575 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:405
576 msgid "The New World of Digital Commons"
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584 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
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586 msgid "Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013), 14."
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592 "Jonathan Rowe eloquently describes the commons as <quote>the air and oceans, "
593 "the web of species, wilderness and flowing water—all are parts of the "
594 "commons. So are language and knowledge, sidewalks and public squares, the "
595 "stories of childhood and the processes of democracy. Some parts of the "
596 "commons are gifts of nature, others the product of human endeavor. Some are "
597 "new, such as the Internet; others are as ancient as soil and "
598 "calligraphy.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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604 "In Made with Creative Commons, we focus on our current era of digital "
605 "commons, a commons of human-produced works. This commons cuts across a broad "
606 "range of areas including cultural heritage, education, research, technology, "
607 "art, design, literature, entertainment, business, and data. Human-produced "
608 "works in all these areas are increasingly digital. The Internet is a kind of "
609 "global, digital commons. The individuals, organizations, and businesses we "
610 "profile in our case studies use Creative Commons to share their resources "
611 "online over the Internet."
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617 "David Bollier, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of "
618 "the Commons (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 176."
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629 "The commons is not just about shared resources, however. It’s also about the "
630 "social practices and values that manage them. A resource is a noun, but to "
631 "common—to put the resource into the commons—is a verb.<placeholder "
632 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The creators, organizations, and businesses we "
633 "profile are all engaged with commoning. Their use of Creative Commons "
634 "involves them in the social practice of commoning, managing resources in a "
635 "collective manner with a community of users.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
636 "id=\"1\"/> Commoning is guided by a set of values and norms that balance the "
637 "costs and benefits of the enterprise with those of the community. Special "
638 "regard is given to equitable access, use, and sustainability."
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643 msgid "The Commons, the Market, and the State"
646 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
647 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:458
651 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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654 "Historically, there have been three ways to manage resources and share "
655 "wealth: the commons (managed collectively), the state (i.e., the "
656 "government), and the market—with the last two being the dominant forms "
657 "today.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
660 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
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665 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
666 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:462
668 "The organizations and businesses in our case studies are unique in the way "
669 "they participate in the commons while still engaging with the market and/or "
670 "state. The extent of engagement with market or state varies. Some operate "
671 "primarily as a commons with minimal or no reliance on the market or "
672 "state.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Others are very much a part "
673 "of the market or state, depending on them for financial sustainability. All "
674 "operate as hybrids, blending the norms of the commons with those of the "
678 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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681 "Fig. 1. is a depiction of how an enterprise can have varying levels of "
682 "engagement with commons, state, and market."
685 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
686 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:478
688 "Some of our case studies are simply commons and market enterprises with "
689 "little or no engagement with the state. A depiction of those case studies "
690 "would show the state sphere as tiny or even absent. Other case studies are "
691 "primarily market-based with only a small engagement with the commons. A "
692 "depiction of those case studies would show the market sphere as large and "
693 "the commons sphere as small. The extent to which an enterprise sees itself "
694 "as being primarily of one type or another affects the balance of norms by "
695 "which they operate."
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701 "All our case studies generate money as a means of livelihood and "
702 "sustainability. Money is primarily of the market. Finding ways to generate "
703 "revenue while holding true to the core values of the commons (usually "
704 "expressed in mission statements) is challenging. To manage interaction and "
705 "engagement between the commons and the market requires a deft touch, a "
706 "strong sense of values, and the ability to blend the best of both."
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712 "The state has an important role to play in fostering the use and adoption of "
713 "the commons. State programs and funding can deliberately contribute to and "
714 "build the commons. Beyond money, laws and regulations regarding property, "
715 "copyright, business, and finance can all be designed to foster the commons."
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736 "It’s helpful to understand how the commons, market, and state manage "
737 "resources differently, and not just for those who consider themselves "
738 "primarily as a commons. For businesses or governmental organizations who "
739 "want to engage in and use the commons, knowing how the commons operates will "
740 "help them understand how best to do so. Participating in and using the "
741 "commons the same way you do the market or state is not a strategy for "
745 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
746 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:529
747 msgid "The Four Aspects of a Resource"
750 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
751 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:534
753 "Daniel H. Cole, <quote>Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the "
754 "Natural Commons for the Knowledge Commons,</quote> in Governing Knowledge "
755 "Commons, eds. Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. "
756 "Strandburg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 53."
759 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
760 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:531
762 "As part of her Nobel Prize–winning work, Elinor Ostrom developed a framework "
763 "for analyzing how natural resources are managed in a commons.<placeholder "
764 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Her framework considered things like the "
765 "biophysical characteristics of common resources, the community’s actors and "
766 "the interactions that take place between them, rules-in-use, and "
767 "outcomes. That framework has been simplified and generalized to apply to the "
768 "commons, the market, and the state for this chapter."
771 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
772 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:547
774 "To compare and contrast the ways in which the commons, market, and state "
775 "work, let’s consider four aspects of resource management: resource "
776 "characteristics, the people involved and the process they use, the norms and "
777 "rules they develop to govern use, and finally actual resource use along with "
778 "outcomes of that use (see Fig. 2)."
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783 msgid "Four aspects of resource management"
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793 msgid "Characteristics"
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799 "Resources have particular characteristics or attributes that affect the way "
800 "they can be used. Some resources are natural; others are human "
801 "produced. And—significantly for today’s commons—resources can be physical or "
802 "digital, which affects a resource’s inherent potential."
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808 "Physical resources exist in limited supply. If I have a physical resource "
809 "and give it to you, I no longer have it. When a resource is removed and "
810 "used, the supply becomes scarce or depleted. Scarcity can result in "
811 "competing rivalry for the resource. Made with Creative Commons enterprises "
812 "are usually digitally based but some of our case studies also produce "
813 "resources in physical form. The costs of producing and distributing a "
814 "physical good usually require them to engage with the market."
817 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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820 "Physical resources are depletable, exclusive, and rivalrous. Digital "
821 "resources, on the other hand, are nondepletable, nonexclusive, and "
822 "nonrivalrous. If I share a digital resource with you, we both have the "
823 "resource. Giving it to you does not mean I no longer have it. Digital "
824 "resources can be infinitely stored, copied, and distributed without becoming "
825 "depleted, and at close to zero cost. Abundance rather than scarcity is an "
826 "inherent characteristic of digital resources."
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832 "The nondepletable, nonexclusive, and nonrivalrous nature of digital "
833 "resources means the rules and norms for managing them can (and ought to) be "
834 "different from how physical resources are managed. However, this is not "
835 "always the case. Digital resources are frequently made artificially "
836 "scarce. Placing digital resources in the commons makes them free and "
840 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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843 "Our case studies frequently manage hybrid resources, which start out as "
844 "digital with the possibility of being made into a physical resource. The "
845 "digital file of a book can be printed on paper and made into a physical "
846 "book. A computer-rendered design for furniture can be physically "
847 "manufactured in wood. This conversion from digital to physical invariably "
848 "has costs. Often the digital resources are managed in a free and open way, "
849 "but money is charged to convert a digital resource into a physical one."
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855 "Beyond this idea of physical versus digital, the commons, market, and state "
856 "conceive of resources differently (see Fig. 3). The market sees resources "
857 "as private goods—commodities for sale—from which value is extracted. The "
858 "state sees resources as public goods that provide value to state "
859 "citizens. The commons sees resources as common goods, providing a common "
860 "wealth extending beyond state boundaries, to be passed on in undiminished or "
861 "enhanced form to future generations."
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866 msgid "People and processes"
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872 "In the commons, the market, and the state, different people and processes "
873 "are used to manage resources. The processes used define both who has a say "
874 "and how a resource is managed."
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880 "In the state, a government of elected officials is responsible for managing "
881 "resources on behalf of the public. The citizens who produce and use those "
882 "resources are not directly involved; instead, that responsibility is given "
883 "over to the government. State ministries and departments staffed with "
884 "public servants set budgets, implement programs, and manage resources based "
885 "on government priorities and procedures."
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891 "In the market, the people involved are producers, buyers, sellers, and "
892 "consumers. Businesses act as intermediaries between those who produce "
893 "resources and those who consume or use them. Market processes seek to "
894 "extract as much monetary value from resources as possible. In the market, "
895 "resources are managed as commodities, frequently mass-produced, and sold to "
896 "consumers on the basis of a cash transaction."
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902 "Max Haiven, Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity "
903 "and the Commons (New York: Zed Books, 2014), 93."
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909 "In contrast to the state and market, resources in a commons are managed more "
910 "directly by the people involved.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
911 "Creators of human produced resources can put them in the commons by personal "
912 "choice. No permission from state or market is required. Anyone can "
913 "participate in the commons and determine for themselves the extent to which "
914 "they want to be involved—as a contributor, user, or manager. The people "
915 "involved include not only those who create and use resources but those "
916 "affected by outcome of use. Who you are affects your say, actions you can "
917 "take, and extent of decision making. In the commons, the community as a "
918 "whole manages the resources. Resources put into the commons using Creative "
919 "Commons require users to give the original creator credit. Knowing the "
920 "person behind a resource makes the commons less anonymous and more personal."
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925 msgid "How the market, commons and state concieve of resources."
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935 msgid "Norms and rules"
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941 "The social interactions between people, and the processes used by the state, "
942 "market, and commons, evolve social norms and rules. These norms and rules "
943 "define permissions, allocate entitlements, and resolve disputes."
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949 "State authority is governed by national constitutions. Norms related to "
950 "priorities and decision making are defined by elected officials and "
951 "parliamentary procedures. State rules are expressed through policies, "
952 "regulations, and laws. The state influences the norms and rules of the "
953 "market and commons through the rules it passes."
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959 "Market norms are influenced by economics and competition for scarce "
960 "resources. Market rules follow property, business, and financial laws "
961 "defined by the state."
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966 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 175."
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972 "As with the market, a commons can be influenced by state policies, "
973 "regulations, and laws. But the norms and rules of a commons are largely "
974 "defined by the community. They weigh individual costs and benefits against "
975 "the costs and benefits to the whole community. Consideration is given not "
976 "just to economic efficiency but also to equity and "
977 "sustainability.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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988 "The combination of the aspects we’ve discussed so far—the resource’s "
989 "inherent characteristics, people and processes, and norms and rules—shape "
990 "how resources are used. Use is also influenced by the different goals the "
991 "state, market, and commons have."
994 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
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997 "Joshua Farley and Ida Kubiszewski, <quote>The Economics of Information in a "
998 "Post-Carbon Economy,</quote> in Free Knowledge: Confronting the "
999 "Commodification of Human Discovery, eds. Patricia W. Elliott and Daryl "
1000 "H. Hepting (Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2015), 201–4."
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1006 "In the market, the focus is on maximizing the utility of a resource. What we "
1007 "pay for the goods we consume is seen as an objective measure of the utility "
1008 "they provide. The goal then becomes maximizing total monetary value in the "
1009 "economy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Units consumed translates "
1010 "to sales, revenue, profit, and growth, and these are all ways to measure "
1011 "goals of the market."
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1017 "The state aims to use and manage resources in a way that balances the "
1018 "economy with the social and cultural needs of its citizens. Health care, "
1019 "education, jobs, the environment, transportation, security, heritage, and "
1020 "justice are all facets of a healthy society, and the state applies its "
1021 "resources toward these aims. State goals are reflected in quality of life "
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1028 "In the commons, the goal is maximizing access, equity, distribution, "
1029 "participation, innovation, and sustainability. You can measure success by "
1030 "looking at how many people access and use a resource; how users are "
1031 "distributed across gender, income, and location; if a community to extend "
1032 "and enhance the resources is being formed; and if the resources are being "
1033 "used in innovative ways for personal and social good."
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1039 "As hybrid combinations of the commons with the market or state, the success "
1040 "and sustainability of all our case study enterprises depends on their "
1041 "ability to strategically utilize and balance these different aspects of "
1042 "managing resources."
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1047 msgid "A Short History of the Commons"
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1053 "Using the commons to manage resources is part of a long historical "
1054 "continuum. However, in contemporary society, the market and the state "
1055 "dominate the discourse on how resources are best managed. Rarely is the "
1056 "commons even considered as an option. The commons has largely disappeared "
1057 "from consciousness and consideration. There are no news reports or speeches "
1058 "about the commons."
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1064 "But the more than 1.1 billion resources licensed with Creative Commons "
1065 "around the world are indications of a grassroots move toward the "
1066 "commons. The commons is making a resurgence. To understand the resilience of "
1067 "the commons and its current renewal, it’s helpful to know something of its "
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1074 "Rowe, Our Common Wealth, 19; and Heather Menzies, Reclaiming the Commons for "
1075 "the Common Good: A Memoir and Manifesto (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, "
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1082 "For centuries, indigenous people and preindustrialized societies managed "
1083 "resources, including water, food, firewood, irrigation, fish, wild game, and "
1084 "many other things collectively as a commons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
1085 "id=\"0\"/> There was no market, no global economy. The state in the form of "
1086 "rulers influenced the commons but by no means controlled it. Direct social "
1087 "participation in a commons was the primary way in which resources were "
1088 "managed and needs met. (Fig. 4 illustrates the commons in relation to the "
1089 "state and the market.)"
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1094 msgid "In preindustrialized society."
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1104 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 55–78."
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1110 "Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei, The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in "
1111 "Tune with Nature and Community (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2015), 46–57; "
1112 "and Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 88."
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1118 "This is followed by a long history of the state (a monarchy or ruler) taking "
1119 "over the commons for their own purposes. This is called enclosure of the "
1120 "commons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In olden days, "
1121 "<quote>commoners</quote> were evicted from the land, fences and hedges "
1122 "erected, laws passed, and security set up to forbid access.<placeholder "
1123 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Gradually, resources became the property of the "
1124 "state and the state became the primary means by which resources were "
1125 "managed. (See Fig. 5)."
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1131 "Holdings of land, water, and game were distributed to ruling family and "
1132 "political appointees. Commoners displaced from the land migrated to "
1133 "cities. With the emergence of the industrial revolution, land and resources "
1134 "became commodities sold to businesses to support production. Monarchies "
1135 "evolved into elected parliaments. Commoners became labourers earning money "
1136 "operating the machinery of industry. Financial, business, and property laws "
1137 "were revised by governments to support markets, growth, and "
1138 "productivity. Over time ready access to market produced goods resulted in a "
1139 "rising standard of living, improved health, and education. Fig. 6 shows how "
1140 "today the market is the primary means by which resources are managed."
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1145 msgid "The commons is gradually superseded by the state."
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1156 "However, the world today is going through turbulent times. The benefits of "
1157 "the market have been offset by unequal distribution and overexploitation."
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1163 "Overexploitation was the topic of Garrett Hardin’s influential essay "
1164 "<quote>The Tragedy of the Commons,</quote> published in Science in "
1165 "1968. Hardin argues that everyone in a commons seeks to maximize personal "
1166 "gain and will continue to do so even when the limits of the commons are "
1167 "reached. The commons is then tragically depleted to the point where it can "
1168 "no longer support anyone. Hardin’s essay became widely accepted as an "
1169 "economic truism and a justification for private property and free markets."
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1175 "Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg, "
1176 "<quote>Governing Knowledge Commons,</quote> in Frischmann, Madison, and "
1177 "Strandburg Governing Knowledge Commons, 12."
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1183 "However, there is one serious flaw with Hardin’s <quote>The Tragedy of the "
1184 "Commons</quote>—it’s fiction. Hardin did not actually study how real commons "
1185 "work. Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics for her work "
1186 "studying different commons all around the world. Ostrom’s work shows that "
1187 "natural resource commons can be successfully managed by local communities "
1188 "without any regulation by central authorities or without privatization. "
1189 "Government and privatization are not the only two choices. There is a third "
1190 "way: management by the people, where those that are directly impacted are "
1191 "directly involved. With natural resources, there is a regional locality. The "
1192 "people in the region are the most familiar with the natural resource, have "
1193 "the most direct relationship and history with it, and are therefore best "
1194 "situated to manage it. Ostrom’s approach to the governance of natural "
1195 "resources broke with convention; she recognized the importance of the "
1196 "commons as an alternative to the market or state for solving problems of "
1197 "collective action.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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1203 "Hardin failed to consider the actual social dynamic of the commons. His "
1204 "model assumed that people in the commons act autonomously, out of pure "
1205 "self-interest, without interaction or consideration of others. But as Ostrom "
1206 "found, in reality, managing common resources together forms a community and "
1207 "encourages discourse. This naturally generates norms and rules that help "
1208 "people work collectively and ensure a sustainable commons. Paradoxically, "
1209 "while Hardin’s essay is called The Tragedy of the Commons it might more "
1210 "accurately be titled The Tragedy of the Market."
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1216 "Farley and Kubiszewski, <quote>Economics of Information,</quote> in Elliott "
1217 "and Hepting, Free Knowledge, 203."
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1223 "Hardin’s story is based on the premise of depletable resources. Economists "
1224 "have focused almost exclusively on scarcity-based markets. Very little is "
1225 "known about how abundance works.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1226 "The emergence of information technology and the Internet has led to an "
1227 "explosion in digital resources and new means of sharing and "
1228 "distribution. Digital resources can never be depleted. An absence of a "
1229 "theory or model for how abundance works, however, has led the market to make "
1230 "digital resources artificially scarce and makes it possible for the usual "
1231 "market norms and rules to be applied."
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1237 "When it comes to use of state funds to create digital goods, however, there "
1238 "is really no justification for artificial scarcity. The norm for state "
1239 "funded digital works should be that they are freely and openly available to "
1240 "the public that paid for them."
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1245 msgid "How the market, the state and the commons look today."
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1255 msgid "The Digital Revolution"
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1261 "In the early days of computing, programmers and developers learned from each "
1262 "other by sharing software. In the 1980s, the free-software movement codified "
1263 "this practice of sharing into a set of principles and freedoms:"
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1268 msgid "The freedom to run a software program as you wish, for any purpose."
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1274 "The freedom to study how a software program works (because access to the "
1275 "source code has been freely given), and change it so it does your computing "
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1281 msgid "The freedom to redistribute copies."
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1287 "<quote>What Is Free Software?</quote> GNU Operating System, the Free "
1288 "Software Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Lab, accessed December 30, "
1289 "2016, <ulink url=\"http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw\"/>."
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1295 "The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to "
1296 "others.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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1302 "These principles and freedoms constitute a set of norms and rules that "
1303 "typify a digital commons."
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1307 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:998
1309 "Wikipedia, s.v. <quote>Open-source software,</quote> last modified November "
1313 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1314 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:987
1316 "In the late 1990s, to make the sharing of source code and collaboration more "
1317 "appealing to companies, the open-source-software initiative converted these "
1318 "principles into licenses and standards for managing access to and "
1319 "distribution of software. The benefits of open source—such as reliability, "
1320 "scalability, and quality verified by independent peer review—became widely "
1321 "recognized and accepted. Customers liked the way open source gave them "
1322 "control without being locked into a closed, proprietary technology. Free and "
1323 "open-source software also generated a network effect where the value of a "
1324 "product or service increases with the number of people using it.<placeholder "
1325 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The dramatic growth of the Internet itself owes "
1326 "much to the fact that nobody has a proprietary lock on core Internet "
1330 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1331 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1013
1333 "Eric S. Raymond, <quote>The Magic Cauldron,</quote> in The Cathedral and the "
1334 "Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, "
1335 "rev. ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2001), <ulink "
1336 "url=\"http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/\"/>."
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1340 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1005
1342 "While open-source software functions as a commons, many businesses and "
1343 "markets did build up around it. Business models based on the licenses and "
1344 "standards of open-source software evolved alongside organizations that "
1345 "managed software code on principles of abundance rather than scarcity. Eric "
1346 "Raymond’s essay <quote>The Magic Cauldron</quote> does a great job of "
1347 "analyzing the economics and business models associated with open-source "
1348 "software.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> These models can provide "
1349 "examples of sustainable approaches for those Made with Creative Commons."
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1353 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1022
1355 "It isn’t just about an abundant availability of digital assets but also "
1356 "about abundance of participation. The growth of personal computing, "
1357 "information technology, and the Internet made it possible for mass "
1358 "participation in producing creative works and distributing them. Photos, "
1359 "books, music, and many other forms of digital content could now be readily "
1360 "created and distributed by almost anyone. Despite this potential for "
1361 "abundance, by default these digital works are governed by copyright "
1362 "laws. Under copyright, a digital work is the property of the creator, and by "
1363 "law others are excluded from accessing and using it without the creator’s "
1367 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1368 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1041
1370 "New York Times Customer Insight Group, The Psychology of Sharing: Why Do "
1371 "People Share Online? (New York: New York Times Customer Insight Group, "
1372 "2011), <ulink url=\"http://www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf\"/>."
1375 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1376 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1035
1378 "But people like to share. One of the ways we define ourselves is by sharing "
1379 "valuable and entertaining content. Doing so grows and nourishes "
1380 "relationships, seeks to change opinions, encourages action, and informs "
1381 "others about who we are and what we care about. Sharing lets us feel more "
1382 "involved with the world.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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1387 msgid "The Birth of Creative Commons"
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1391 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1051
1393 "In 2001, Creative Commons was created as a nonprofit to support all those "
1394 "who wanted to share digital content. A suite of Creative Commons licenses "
1395 "was modeled on those of open-source software but for use with digital "
1396 "content rather than software code. The licenses give everyone from "
1397 "individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, "
1398 "standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work."
1401 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1402 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1071
1404 "<quote>Licensing Considerations,</quote> Creative Commons, accessed December "
1406 "url=\"http://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/\"/>."
1409 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1410 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1060
1412 "Creative Commons licenses have a three-layer design. The norms and rules of "
1413 "each license are first expressed in full legal language as used by "
1414 "lawyers. This layer is called the legal code. But since most creators and "
1415 "users are not lawyers, the licenses also have a commons deed, expressing the "
1416 "permissions in plain language, which regular people can read and quickly "
1417 "understand. It acts as a user-friendly interface to the legal-code layer "
1418 "beneath. The third layer is the machine-readable one, making it easy for the "
1419 "Web to know a work is Creative Commons–licensed by expressing permissions in "
1420 "a way that software systems, search engines, and other kinds of technology "
1421 "can understand.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Taken together, "
1422 "these three layers ensure creators, users, and even the Web itself "
1423 "understand the norms and rules associated with digital content in a commons."
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1429 "In 2015, there were over one billion Creative Commons licensed works in a "
1430 "global commons. These works were viewed online 136 billion times. People are "
1431 "using Creative Commons licenses all around the world, in thirty-four "
1432 "languages. These resources include photos, artwork, research articles in "
1433 "journals, educational resources, music and other audio tracks, and videos."
1436 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1437 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1092
1439 "Creative Commons, 2015 State of the Commons (Mountain View, CA: Creative "
1440 "Commons, 2015), <ulink url=\"http://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/\"/>."
1443 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1444 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1087
1446 "Individual artists, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers use Creative "
1447 "Commons, but so do museums, governments, creative industries, manufacturers, "
1448 "and publishers. Millions of websites use CC licenses, including major "
1449 "platforms like Wikipedia and Flickr and smaller ones like blogs.<placeholder "
1450 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Users of Creative Commons are diverse and cut "
1451 "across many different sectors. (Our case studies were chosen to reflect that "
1455 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1458 "Some see Creative Commons as a way to share a gift with others, a way of "
1459 "getting known, or a way to provide social benefit. Others are simply "
1460 "committed to the norms associated with a commons. And for some, "
1461 "participation has been spurred by the free-culture movement, a social "
1462 "movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative "
1463 "works. The free-culture movement sees a commons as providing significant "
1464 "benefits compared to restrictive copyright laws. This ethos of free exchange "
1465 "in a commons aligns the free-culture movement with the free and open-source "
1466 "software movement."
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1470 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1112
1472 "Over time, Creative Commons has spawned a range of open movements, including "
1473 "open educational resources, open access, open science, and open data. The "
1474 "goal in every case has been to democratize participation and share digital "
1475 "resources at no cost, with legal permissions for anyone to freely access, "
1479 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1480 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1125
1482 "Wikipedia, s.v. <quote>Open Government Partnership,</quote> last modified "
1483 "September 24, 2016, <ulink "
1484 "url=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Partnership\"/>."
1487 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1490 "The state is increasingly involved in supporting open movements. The Open "
1491 "Government Partnership was launched in 2011 to provide an international "
1492 "platform for governments to become more open, accountable, and responsive to "
1493 "citizens. Since then, it has grown from eight participating countries to "
1494 "seventy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In all these countries, "
1495 "government and civil society are working together to develop and implement "
1496 "ambitious open-government reforms. Governments are increasingly adopting "
1497 "Creative Commons to ensure works funded with taxpayer dollars are open and "
1498 "free to the public that paid for them."
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1503 msgid "The Changing Market"
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1508 msgid "Capra and Mattei, Ecology of Law, 114."
1511 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
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1519 "Today’s market is largely driven by global capitalism. Law and financial "
1520 "systems are structured to support extraction, privatization, and corporate "
1521 "growth. A perception that the market is more efficient than the state has "
1522 "led to continual privatization of many public natural resources, utilities, "
1523 "services, and infrastructures.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1524 "While this system has been highly efficient at generating consumerism and "
1525 "the growth of gross domestic product, the impact on human well-being has "
1526 "been mixed. Offsetting rising living standards and improvements to health "
1527 "and education are ever-increasing wealth inequality, social inequality, "
1528 "poverty, deterioration of our natural environment, and breakdowns of "
1529 "democracy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
1532 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1533 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1162
1535 "The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, <quote>Stockholm "
1536 "Statement</quote> accessed February 15, 2017, <ulink "
1537 "url=\"http://sida.se/globalassets/sida/eng/press/stockholm-statement.pdf\"/>"
1540 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1543 "In light of these challenges there is a growing recognition that GDP growth "
1544 "should not be an end in itself, that development needs to be socially and "
1545 "economically inclusive, that environmental sustainability is a requirement "
1546 "not an option, and that we need to better balance the market, state and "
1547 "community.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
1550 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1551 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1174
1553 "City of Bologna, Regulation on Collaboration between Citizens and the City "
1554 "for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons, trans. LabGov (LABoratory "
1555 "for the GOVernance of Commons) (Bologna, Italy: City of Bologna, 2014), "
1557 "url=\"http://www.labgov.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/Bologna-Regulation-on-collaboration-between-citizens-and-the-city-for-the-cure-and-regeneration-of-urban-commons1.pdf\"/>."
1560 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
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1563 "The Seoul Sharing City website is <ulink "
1564 "url=\"http://english.sharehub.kr\"/>; for Amsterdam Sharing City, go to "
1565 "<ulink url=\"http://www.sharenl.nl/amsterdam-sharing-city/\"/>."
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1571 "These realizations have led to a resurgence of interest in the commons as a "
1572 "means of enabling that balance. City governments like Bologna, Italy, are "
1573 "collaborating with their citizens to put in place regulations for the care "
1574 "and regeneration of urban commons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1575 "Seoul and Amsterdam call themselves <quote>sharing cities,</quote> looking "
1576 "to make sustainable and more efficient use of scarce resources. They see "
1577 "sharing as a way to improve the use of public spaces, mobility, social "
1578 "cohesion, and safety.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
1581 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1582 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1201
1584 "Tom Slee, What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy (New York: OR "
1588 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1591 "The market itself has taken an interest in the sharing economy, with "
1592 "businesses like Airbnb providing a peer-to-peer marketplace for short-term "
1593 "lodging and Uber providing a platform for ride sharing. However, Airbnb and "
1594 "Uber are still largely operating under the usual norms and rules of the "
1595 "market, making them less like a commons and more like a traditional business "
1596 "seeking financial gain. Much of the sharing economy is not about the commons "
1597 "or building an alternative to a corporate-driven market economy; it’s about "
1598 "extending the deregulated free market into new areas of our "
1599 "lives.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> While none of the people we "
1600 "interviewed for our case studies would describe themselves as part of the "
1601 "sharing economy, there are in fact some significant parallels. Both the "
1602 "sharing economy and the commons make better use of asset capacity. The "
1603 "sharing economy sees personal residents and cars as having latent spare "
1604 "capacity with rental value. The equitable access of the commons broadens and "
1605 "diversifies the number of people who can use and derive value from an asset."
1608 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1609 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1223
1611 "Chris Anderson, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving "
1612 "Something for Nothing, Reprint with new preface. (New York: Hyperion, "
1616 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1617 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1213
1619 "One way Made with Creative Commons case studies differ from those of the "
1620 "sharing economy is their focus on digital resources. Digital resources "
1621 "function under different economic rules than physical ones. In a world where "
1622 "prices always seem to go up, information technology is an "
1623 "anomaly. Computer-processing power, storage, and bandwidth are all rapidly "
1624 "increasing, but rather than costs going up, costs are coming down. Digital "
1625 "technologies are getting faster, better, and cheaper. The cost of anything "
1626 "built on these technologies will always go down until it is close to "
1627 "zero.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
1630 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1633 "Those that are Made with Creative Commons are looking to leverage the unique "
1634 "inherent characteristics of digital resources, including lowering costs. The "
1635 "use of digital-rights-management technologies in the form of locks, "
1636 "passwords, and controls to prevent digital goods from being accessed, "
1637 "changed, replicated, and distributed is minimal or nonexistent. Instead, "
1638 "Creative Commons licenses are used to put digital content out in the "
1639 "commons, taking advantage of the unique economics associated with being "
1640 "digital. The aim is to see digital resources used as widely and by as many "
1641 "people as possible. Maximizing access and participation is a common goal. "
1642 "They aim for abundance over scarcity."
1645 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1646 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1248
1648 "Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the "
1649 "Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (New York: Palgrave "
1650 "Macmillan, 2014), 273."
1653 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1654 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1243
1656 "The incremental cost of storing, copying, and distributing digital goods is "
1657 "next to zero, making abundance possible. But imagining a market based on "
1658 "abundance rather than scarcity is so alien to the way we conceive of "
1659 "economic theory and practice that we struggle to do so.<placeholder "
1660 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Those that are Made with Creative Commons are "
1661 "each pioneering in this new landscape, devising their own economic models "
1665 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1668 "Some are looking to minimize their interactions with the market and operate "
1669 "as autonomously as possible. Others are operating largely as a business "
1670 "within the existing rules and norms of the market. And still others are "
1671 "looking to change the norms and rules by which the market operates."
1674 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1675 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1270
1677 "Gar Alperovitz, What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American "
1678 "Revolution: Democratizing Wealth and Building a Community-Sustaining Economy "
1679 "from the Ground Up (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013), 39."
1682 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1683 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1279
1685 "Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution; "
1686 "Journeys to a Generative Economy (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2012), "
1690 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1693 "For an ordinary corporation, making social benefit a part of its operations "
1694 "is difficult, as it’s legally required to make decisions that financially "
1695 "benefit stockholders. But new forms of business are emerging. There are "
1696 "benefit corporations and social enterprises, which broaden their business "
1697 "goals from making a profit to making a positive impact on society, workers, "
1698 "the community, and the environment.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1699 "Community-owned businesses, worker-owned businesses, cooperatives, guilds, "
1700 "and other organizational forms offer alternatives to the traditional "
1701 "corporation. Collectively, these alternative market entities are changing "
1702 "the rules and norms of the market.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
1705 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1706 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1291
1708 "Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation (Hoboken, NJ: "
1709 "John Wiley and Sons, 2010). A preview of the book is available at <ulink "
1710 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation\"/>."
1713 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1714 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1284
1716 "<quote>A book on open business models</quote> is how we described it in this "
1717 "book’s Kickstarter campaign. We used a handbook called Business Model "
1718 "Generation as our reference for defining just what a business model "
1719 "is. Developed over nine years using an <quote>open process</quote> involving "
1720 "470 coauthors from forty-five countries, it is useful as a framework for "
1721 "talking about business models.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
1724 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
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1727 "This business model canvas is available to download at <ulink "
1728 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/canvas/business-model-canvas\"/>."
1731 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1732 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1309
1734 "We’ve made the <quote>Open Business Model Canvas,</quote> designed by the "
1735 "coauthor Paul Stacey, available online at <ulink "
1736 "url=\"http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1QOIDa2qak7wZSSOa4Wv6qVMO77IwkKHN7CYyq0wHivs/edit\"/>. "
1737 "You can also find the accompanying Open Business Model Canvas Questions at "
1739 "url=\"http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kACK7TkoJgsM18HUWCbX9xuQ0Byna4plSVZXZGTtays/edit\"/>."
1742 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1743 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1298
1745 "It contains a <quote>business model canvas,</quote> which conceives of a "
1746 "business model as having nine building blocks.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
1747 "id=\"0\"/> This blank canvas can serve as a tool for anyone to design their "
1748 "own business model. We remixed this business model canvas into an open "
1749 "business model canvas, adding three more building blocks relevant to hybrid "
1750 "market, commons enterprises: social good, Creative Commons license, and "
1751 "<quote>type of open environment that the business fits "
1752 "in.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> This enhanced canvas "
1753 "proved useful when we analyzed businesses and helped start-ups plan their "
1757 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1758 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1319
1760 "In our case study interviews, many expressed discomfort over describing "
1761 "themselves as an open business model—the term business model suggested "
1762 "primarily being situated in the market. Where you sit on the "
1763 "commons-to-market spectrum affects the extent to which you see yourself as a "
1764 "business in the market. The more central to the mission shared resources "
1765 "and commons values are, the less comfort there is in describing yourself, or "
1766 "depicting what you do, as a business. Not all who have endeavors Made with "
1767 "Creative Commons use business speak; for some the process has been "
1768 "experimental, emergent, and organic rather than carefully planned using a "
1772 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1773 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1341
1775 "A more comprehensive list of revenue streams is available in this post I "
1776 "wrote on Medium on March 6, 2016. <quote>What Is an Open Business Model and "
1777 "How Can You Generate Revenue?</quote>, available at <ulink "
1778 "url=\"http://medium.com/made-with-creative-commons/what-is-an-open-business-model-and-how-can-you-generate-revenue-5854d2659b15\"/>."
1781 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1782 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1332
1784 "The creators, businesses, and organizations we profile all engage with the "
1785 "market to generate revenue in some way. The ways in which this is done vary "
1786 "widely. Donations, pay what you can, memberships, <quote>digital for free "
1787 "but physical for a fee,</quote> crowdfunding, matchmaking, value-add "
1788 "services, patrons . . . the list goes on and on. (Initial description of how "
1789 "to earn revenue available through reference note. For latest thinking see "
1790 "How to Bring In Money in the next section.)<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
1791 "id=\"0\"/> There is no single magic bullet, and each endeavor has devised "
1792 "ways that work for them. Most make use of more than one way. Diversifying "
1793 "revenue streams lowers risk and provides multiple paths to sustainability."
1796 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
1797 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1353
1798 msgid "Benefits of the Digital Commons"
1801 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1802 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1355
1804 "While it may be clear why commons-based organizations want to interact and "
1805 "engage with the market (they need money to survive), it may be less obvious "
1806 "why the market would engage with the commons. The digital commons offers "
1810 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1811 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1361
1813 "The commons speeds dissemination. The free flow of resources in the commons "
1814 "offers tremendous economies of scale. Distribution is decentralized, with "
1815 "all those in the commons empowered to share the resources they have access "
1816 "to. Those that are Made with Creative Commons have a reduced need for sales "
1817 "or marketing. Decentralized distribution amplifies supply and know-how."
1820 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1821 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1370
1823 "The commons ensures access to all. The market has traditionally operated by "
1824 "putting resources behind a paywall requiring payment first before "
1825 "access. The commons puts resources in the open, providing access up front "
1826 "without payment. Those that are Made with Creative Commons make little or no "
1827 "use of digital rights management (DRM) to manage resources. Not using DRM "
1828 "frees them of the costs of acquiring DRM technology and staff resources to "
1829 "engage in the punitive practices associated with restricting access. The way "
1830 "the commons provides access to everyone levels the playing field and "
1831 "promotes inclusiveness, equity, and fairness."
1834 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1835 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1383
1837 "The commons maximizes participation. Resources in the commons can be used "
1838 "and contributed to by everyone. Using the resources of others, contributing "
1839 "your own, and mixing yours with others to create new works are all dynamic "
1840 "forms of participation made possible by the commons. Being Made with "
1841 "Creative Commons means you’re engaging as many users with your resources as "
1842 "possible. Users are also authoring, editing, remixing, curating, "
1843 "localizing, translating, and distributing. The commons makes it possible for "
1844 "people to directly participate in culture, knowledge building, and even "
1845 "democracy, and many other socially beneficial practices."
1848 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1849 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1405
1851 "Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and "
1852 "Profiting from Technology (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2006), "
1856 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1857 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1396
1859 "The commons spurs innovation. Resources in the hands of more people who can "
1860 "use them leads to new ideas. The way commons resources can be modified, "
1861 "customized, and improved results in derivative works never imagined by the "
1862 "original creator. Some endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons "
1863 "deliberately encourage users to take the resources being shared and innovate "
1864 "them. Doing so moves research and development (R&D) from being solely "
1865 "inside the organization to being in the community.<placeholder "
1866 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Community-based innovation will keep an "
1867 "organization or business on its toes. It must continue to contribute new "
1868 "ideas, absorb and build on top of the innovations of others, and steward the "
1869 "resources and the relationship with the community."
1872 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1873 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1414
1875 "The commons boosts reach and impact. The digital commons is "
1876 "global. Resources may be created for a local or regional need, but they go "
1877 "far and wide generating a global impact. In the digital world, there are no "
1878 "borders between countries. When you are Made with Creative Commons, you are "
1879 "often local and global at the same time: Digital designs being globally "
1880 "distributed but made and manufactured locally. Digital books or music being "
1881 "globally distributed but readings and concerts performed locally. The "
1882 "digital commons magnifies impact by connecting creators to those who use and "
1883 "build on their work both locally and globally."
1886 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1887 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1427
1889 "The commons is generative. Instead of extracting value, the commons adds "
1890 "value. Digitized resources persist without becoming depleted, and through "
1891 "use are improved, personalized, and localized. Each use adds value. The "
1892 "market focuses on generating value for the business and the customer. The "
1893 "commons generates value for a broader range of beneficiaries including the "
1894 "business, the customer, the creator, the public, and the commons itself. The "
1895 "generative nature of the commons means that it is more cost-effective and "
1896 "produces a greater return on investment. Value is not just measured in "
1897 "financial terms. Each new resource added to the commons provides value to "
1898 "the public and contributes to the overall value of the commons."
1901 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1902 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1441
1904 "The commons brings people together for a common cause. The commons vests "
1905 "people directly with the responsibility to manage the resources for the "
1906 "common good. The costs and benefits for the individual are balanced with the "
1907 "costs and benefits for the community and for future generations. Resources "
1908 "are not anonymous or mass produced. Their provenance is known and "
1909 "acknowledged through attribution and other means. Those that are Made with "
1910 "Creative Commons generate awareness and reputation based on their "
1911 "contributions to the commons. The reach, impact, and sustainability of those "
1912 "contributions rest largely on their ability to forge relationships and "
1913 "connections with those who use and improve them. By functioning on the basis "
1914 "of social engagement, not monetary exchange, the commons unifies people."
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1920 "The benefits of the commons are many. When these benefits align with the "
1921 "goals of individuals, communities, businesses in the market, or state "
1922 "enterprises, choosing to manage resources as a commons ought to be the "
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1927 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1463
1928 msgid "Our Case Studies"
1931 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1932 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1465
1934 "The creators, organizations, and businesses in our case studies operate as "
1935 "nonprofits, for-profits, and social enterprises. Regardless of legal "
1936 "status, they all have a social mission. Their primary reason for being is "
1937 "to make the world a better place, not to profit. Money is a means to a "
1938 "social end, not the end itself. They factor public interest into decisions, "
1939 "behavior, and practices. Transparency and trust are really important. Impact "
1940 "and success are measured against social aims expressed in mission "
1941 "statements, and are not just about the financial bottom line."
1944 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1945 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1477
1947 "The case studies are based on the narratives told to us by founders and key "
1948 "staff. Instead of solely using financials as the measure of success and "
1949 "sustainability, they emphasized their mission, practices, and means by which "
1950 "they measure success. Metrics of success are a blend of how social goals "
1951 "are being met and how sustainable the enterprise is."
1954 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1955 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1485
1957 "Our case studies are diverse, ranging from publishing to education and "
1958 "manufacturing. All of the organizations, businesses, and creators in the "
1959 "case studies produce digital resources. Those resources exist in many forms "
1960 "including books, designs, songs, research, data, cultural works, education "
1961 "materials, graphic icons, and video. Some are digital representations of "
1962 "physical resources. Others are born digital but can be made into physical "
1966 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1967 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1495
1969 "They are creating new resources, or using the resources of others, or mixing "
1970 "existing resources together to make something new. They, and their audience, "
1971 "all play a direct, participatory role in managing those resources, including "
1972 "their preservation, curation, distribution, and enhancement. Access and "
1973 "participation is open to all regardless of monetary means."
1976 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1977 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1503
1979 "And as users of Creative Commons licenses, they are automatically part of a "
1980 "global community. The new digital commons is global. Those we profiled come "
1981 "from nearly every continent in the world. To build and interact within this "
1982 "global community is conducive to success."
1985 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1986 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1510
1988 "Creative Commons licenses may express legal rules around the use of "
1989 "resources in a commons, but success in the commons requires more than "
1990 "following the letter of the law and acquiring financial means. Over and over "
1991 "we heard in our interviews how success and sustainability are tied to a set "
1992 "of beliefs, values, and principles that underlie their actions: Give more "
1993 "than you take. Be open and inclusive. Add value. Make visible what you are "
1994 "using from the commons, what you are adding, and what you are "
1995 "monetizing. Maximize abundance. Give attribution. Express gratitude. Develop "
1996 "trust; don’t exploit. Build relationship and community. Be "
1997 "transparent. Defend the commons."
2000 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2001 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1523
2003 "The new digital commons is here to stay. Made With Creative Commons case "
2004 "studies show how it’s possible to be part of this commons while still "
2005 "functioning within market and state systems. The commons generates benefits "
2006 "neither the market nor state can achieve on their own. Rather than the "
2007 "market or state dominating as primary means of resource management, a more "
2008 "balanced alternative is possible."
2011 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2012 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1532
2014 "Enterprise use of Creative Commons has only just begun. The case studies in "
2015 "this book are merely starting points. Each is changing and evolving over "
2016 "time. Many more are joining and inventing new models. This overview aims to "
2017 "provide a framework and language for thinking and talking about the new "
2018 "digital commons. The remaining sections go deeper providing further guidance "
2019 "and insights on how it works."
2022 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
2023 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1543
2024 msgid "How to Be Made with Creative Commons"
2027 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2028 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1545
2029 msgid "Sarah Hinchliff Pearson"
2032 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2033 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1548
2035 "When we began this project in August 2015, we set out to write a book about "
2036 "business models that involve Creative Commons licenses in some significant "
2037 "way—what we call being Made with Creative Commons. With the help of our "
2038 "Kickstarter backers, we chose twenty-four endeavors from all around the "
2039 "world that are Made with Creative Commons. The mix is diverse, from an "
2040 "individual musician to a university-textbook publisher to an electronics "
2041 "manufacturer. Some make their own content and share under Creative Commons "
2042 "licensing. Others are platforms for CC-licensed creative work made by "
2043 "others. Many sit somewhere in between, both using and contributing creative "
2044 "work that’s shared with the public. Like all who use the licenses, these "
2045 "endeavors share their work—whether it’s open data or furniture designs—in a "
2046 "way that enables the public not only to access it but also to make use of "
2050 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2051 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1564
2053 "We analyzed the revenue models, customer segments, and value propositions of "
2054 "each endeavor. We searched for ways that putting their content under "
2055 "Creative Commons licenses helped boost sales or increase reach. Using "
2056 "traditional measures of economic success, we tried to map these business "
2057 "models in a way that meaningfully incorporated the impact of Creative "
2058 "Commons. In our interviews, we dug into the motivations, the role of CC "
2059 "licenses, modes of revenue generation, definitions of success."
2062 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2063 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1574
2065 "In fairly short order, we realized the book we set out to write was quite "
2066 "different from the one that was revealing itself in our interviews and "
2070 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2071 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1579
2073 "It isn’t that we were wrong to think you can make money while using Creative "
2074 "Commons licenses. In many instances, CC can help make you more money. Nor "
2075 "were we wrong that there are business models out there that others who want "
2076 "to use CC licensing as part of their livelihood or business could "
2077 "replicate. What we didn’t realize was just how misguided it would be to "
2078 "write a book about being Made with Creative Commons using only a business "
2082 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2083 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1592
2085 "Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation (Hoboken, NJ: "
2086 "John Wiley and Sons, 2010), 14. A preview of the book is available at <ulink "
2087 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation\"/>."
2090 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2091 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1588
2093 "According to the seminal handbook Business Model Generation, a business "
2094 "model <quote>describes the rationale of how an organization creates, "
2095 "delivers, and captures value.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2096 "id=\"0\"/> Thinking about sharing in terms of creating and capturing value "
2097 "always felt inappropriately transactional and out of place, something we "
2098 "heard time and time again in our interviews. And as Cory Doctorow told us in "
2099 "our interview with him, <quote>Business model can mean anything you want it "
2103 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2104 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1604
2106 "Eventually, we got it. Being Made with Creative Commons is more than a "
2107 "business model. While we will talk about specific revenue models as one "
2108 "piece of our analysis (and in more detail in the case studies), we scrapped "
2109 "that as our guiding rubric for the book."
2112 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2113 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1611
2115 "Admittedly, it took me a long time to get there. When Paul and I divided up "
2116 "our writing after finishing the research, my charge was to distill "
2117 "everything we learned from the case studies and write up the practical "
2118 "lessons and takeaways. I spent months trying to jam what we learned into the "
2119 "business-model box, convinced there must be some formula for the way things "
2120 "interacted. But there is no formula. You’ll probably have to discard that "
2121 "way of thinking before you read any further."
2124 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2125 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1621
2127 "In every interview, we started from the same simple questions. Amid all the "
2128 "diversity among the creators, organizations, and businesses we profiled, "
2129 "there was one constant. Being Made with Creative Commons may be good for "
2130 "business, but that is not why they do it. Sharing work with Creative Commons "
2131 "is, at its core, a moral decision. The commercial and other self-interested "
2132 "benefits are secondary. Most decided to use CC licenses first and found a "
2133 "revenue model later. This was our first hint that writing a book solely "
2134 "about the impact of sharing on business might be a little off track."
2137 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2138 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1633
2140 "But we also started to realize something about what it means to be Made with "
2141 "Creative Commons. When people talked to us about how and why they used CC, "
2142 "it was clear that it meant something more than using a copyright license. It "
2143 "also represented a set of values. There is symbolism behind using CC, and "
2144 "that symbolism has many layers."
2147 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2148 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1641
2150 "At one level, being Made with Creative Commons expresses an affinity for the "
2151 "value of Creative Commons. While there are many different flavors of CC "
2152 "licenses and nearly infinite ways to be Made with Creative Commons, the "
2153 "basic value system is rooted in a fundamental belief that knowledge and "
2154 "creativity are building blocks of our culture rather than just commodities "
2155 "from which to extract market value. These values reflect a belief that the "
2156 "common good should always be part of the equation when we determine how to "
2157 "regulate our cultural outputs. They reflect a belief that everyone has "
2158 "something to contribute, and that no one can own our shared culture. They "
2159 "reflect a belief in the promise of sharing."
2162 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2163 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1655
2165 "Whether the public makes use of the opportunity to copy and adapt your work, "
2166 "sharing with a Creative Commons license is a symbol of how you want to "
2167 "interact with the people who consume your work. Whenever you create "
2168 "something, <quote>all rights reserved</quote> under copyright is automatic, "
2169 "so the copyright symbol (©) on the work does not necessarily come across as "
2170 "a marker of distrust or excessive protectionism. But using a CC license can "
2171 "be a symbol of the opposite—of wanting a real human relationship, rather "
2172 "than an impersonal market transaction. It leaves open the possibility of "
2176 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2177 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1667
2179 "Being Made with Creative Commons not only demonstrates values connected to "
2180 "CC and sharing. It also demonstrates that something other than profit drives "
2181 "what you do. In our interviews, we always asked what success looked like for "
2182 "them. It was stunning how rarely money was mentioned. Most have a deeper "
2183 "purpose and a different vision of success."
2186 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2187 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1680
2189 "Cory Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet "
2190 "Age (San Francisco, CA: McSweeney’s, 2014) 68."
2193 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2194 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1675
2196 "The driving motivation varies depending on the type of endeavor. For "
2197 "individual creators, it is most often about personal inspiration. In some "
2198 "ways, this is nothing new. As Doctorow has written, <quote>Creators usually "
2199 "start doing what they do for love.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2200 "id=\"0\"/> But when you share your creative work under a CC license, that "
2201 "dynamic is even more pronounced. Similarly, for technological innovators, it "
2202 "is often less about creating a specific new thing that will make you rich "
2203 "and more about solving a specific problem you have. The creators of Arduino "
2204 "told us that the key question when creating something is <quote>Do you as "
2205 "the creator want to use it? It has to have personal use and meaning.</quote>"
2208 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2209 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1692
2211 "Many that are Made with Creative Commons have an express social mission that "
2212 "underpins everything they do. In many cases, sharing with Creative Commons "
2213 "expressly advances that social mission, and using the licenses can be the "
2214 "difference between legitimacy and hypocrisy. Noun Project co-founder Edward "
2215 "Boatman told us they could not have stated their social mission of sharing "
2216 "with a straight face if they weren’t willing to show the world that it was "
2217 "OK to share their content using a Creative Commons license."
2220 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2221 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1702
2223 "This dynamic is probably one reason why there are so many nonprofit examples "
2224 "of being Made with Creative Commons. The content is the result of a labor of "
2225 "love or a tool to drive social change, and money is like gas in the car, "
2226 "something that you need to keep going but not an end in itself. Being Made "
2227 "with Creative Commons is a different vision of a business or livelihood, "
2228 "where profit is not paramount, and producing social good and human "
2229 "connection are integral to success."
2232 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2233 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1712
2235 "Even if profit isn’t the end goal, you have to bring in money to be "
2236 "successfully Made with Creative Commons. At a bare minimum, you have to make "
2237 "enough money to keep the lights on."
2240 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2241 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1717
2243 "The costs of doing business vary widely for those made with CC, but there is "
2244 "generally a much lower threshold for sustainability than there used to be "
2245 "for any creative endeavor. Digital technology has made it easier than ever "
2246 "to create, and easier than ever to distribute. As Doctorow put it in his "
2247 "book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, <quote>If analog dollars have "
2248 "turned into digital dimes (as the critics of ad-supported media have it), "
2249 "there is the fact that it’s possible to run a business that gets the same "
2250 "amount of advertising as its forebears at a fraction of the price.</quote>"
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2254 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1734
2258 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2259 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1729
2261 "Some creation costs are the same as they always were. It takes the same "
2262 "amount of time and money to write a peer-reviewed journal article or paint a "
2263 "painting. Technology can’t change that. But other costs are dramatically "
2264 "reduced by technology, particularly in production-heavy domains like "
2265 "filmmaking.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> CC-licensed content and "
2266 "content in the public domain, as well as the work of volunteer "
2267 "collaborators, can also dramatically reduce costs if they’re being used as "
2268 "resources to create something new. And, of course, there is the reality that "
2269 "some content would be created whether or not the creator is paid because it "
2270 "is a labor of love."
2273 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2274 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1746
2276 "Chris Anderson, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving "
2277 "Something for Nothing, reprint with new preface (New York: Hyperion, 2010), "
2281 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2282 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1743
2284 "Distributing content is almost universally cheaper than ever. Once content "
2285 "is created, the costs to distribute copies digitally are essentially "
2286 "zero.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The costs to distribute "
2287 "physical copies are still significant, but lower than they have been "
2288 "historically. And it is now much easier to print and distribute physical "
2289 "copies on-demand, which also reduces costs. Depending on the endeavor, there "
2290 "can be a whole host of other possible expenses like marketing and promotion, "
2291 "and even expenses associated with the various ways money is being made, like "
2292 "touring or custom training."
2295 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2296 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1768
2297 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 44."
2300 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2301 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1758
2303 "It’s important to recognize that the biggest impact of technology on "
2304 "creative endeavors is that creators can now foot the costs of creation and "
2305 "distribution themselves. People now often have a direct route to their "
2306 "potential public without necessarily needing intermediaries like record "
2307 "labels and book publishers. Doctorow wrote, <quote>If you’re a creator who "
2308 "never got the time of day from one of the great imperial powers, this is "
2309 "your time. Where once you had no means of reaching an audience without the "
2310 "assistance of the industry-dominating megacompanies, now you have hundreds "
2311 "of ways to do it without them.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2312 "id=\"0\"/> Previously, distribution of creative work involved the costs "
2313 "associated with sustaining a monolithic entity, now creators can do the work "
2314 "themselves. That means the financial needs of creative endeavors can be a "
2318 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2319 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1775
2321 "Whether for an individual creator or a larger endeavor, it usually isn’t "
2322 "enough to break even if you want to make what you’re doing a livelihood. You "
2323 "need to build in some support for the general operation. This extra bit "
2324 "looks different for everyone, but importantly, in nearly all cases for those "
2325 "Made with Creative Commons, the definition of <quote>enough money</quote> "
2326 "looks a lot different than it does in the world of venture capital and stock "
2327 "options. It is more about sustainability and less about unlimited growth and "
2328 "profit. SparkFun founder Nathan Seidle told us, <quote>Business model is a "
2329 "really grandiose word for it. It is really just about keeping the operation "
2330 "going day to day.</quote>"
2333 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2334 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1788
2336 "This book is a testament to the notion that it is possible to make money "
2337 "while using CC licenses and CC-licensed content, but we are still very much "
2338 "at an experimental stage. The creators, organizations, and businesses we "
2339 "profile in this book are blazing the trail and adapting in real time as they "
2340 "pursue this new way of operating."
2343 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2344 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1796
2346 "There are, however, plenty of ways in which CC licensing can be good for "
2347 "business in fairly predictable ways. The first is how it helps solve "
2348 "<quote>problem zero.</quote>"
2351 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
2352 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1801
2353 msgid "Problem Zero: Getting Discovered"
2356 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2357 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1808
2359 "Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let "
2360 "People Help (New York: Grand Central, 2014), 121."
2363 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2364 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1823
2366 "Chris Anderson, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution (New York: Signal, "
2370 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2371 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1803
2373 "Once you create or collect your content, the next step is finding users, "
2374 "customers, fans—in other words, your people. As Amanda Palmer wrote, "
2375 "<quote>It has to start with the art. The songs had to touch people "
2376 "initially, and mean something, for anything to work at "
2377 "all.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> There isn’t any magic "
2378 "to finding your people, and there is certainly no formula. Your work has to "
2379 "connect with people and offer them some artistic and/or utilitarian "
2380 "value. In some ways, this is easier than ever. Online we are not limited by "
2381 "shelf space, so there is room for every obscure interest, taste, and need "
2382 "imaginable. This is what Chris Anderson dubbed the Long Tail, where "
2383 "consumption becomes less about mainstream mass <quote>hits</quote> and more "
2384 "about micromarkets for every particular niche. As Anderson wrote, <quote>We "
2385 "are all different, with different wants and needs, and the Internet now has "
2386 "a place for all of them in the way that physical markets did "
2387 "not.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> We are no longer "
2388 "limited to what appeals to the masses."
2391 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2392 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1837
2394 "David Bollier, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of "
2395 "the Commons (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 70."
2398 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2399 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1844
2400 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 66."
2403 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2404 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1849
2406 "Bryan Kramer, Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy (New "
2407 "York: Morgan James, 2016), 10."
2410 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2411 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1829
2413 "While finding <quote>your people</quote> online is theoretically easier than "
2414 "in the analog world, as a practical matter it can still be difficult to "
2415 "actually get noticed. The Internet is a firehose of content, one that only "
2416 "grows larger by the minute. As a content creator, not only are you "
2417 "competing for attention against more content creators than ever before, you "
2418 "are competing against creativity generated outside the market as "
2419 "well.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Anderson wrote, <quote>The "
2420 "greatest change of the past decade has been the shift in time people spend "
2421 "consuming amateur content instead of professional "
2422 "content.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> To top it all off, "
2423 "you have to compete against the rest of their lives, too—<quote>friends, "
2424 "family, music playlists, soccer games, and nights on the "
2425 "town.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> Somehow, some way, "
2426 "you have to get noticed by the right people."
2429 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2430 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1863
2431 msgid "Anderson, Free, 62."
2434 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2435 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1855
2437 "When you come to the Internet armed with an all-rights-reserved mentality "
2438 "from the start, you are often restricting access to your work before there "
2439 "is even any demand for it. In many cases, requiring payment for your work is "
2440 "part of the traditional copyright system. Even a tiny cost has a big effect "
2441 "on demand. It’s called the penny gap—the large difference in demand between "
2442 "something that is available at the price of one cent versus the price of "
2443 "zero.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> That doesn’t mean it is wrong "
2444 "to charge money for your content. It simply means you need to recognize the "
2445 "effect that doing so will have on demand. The same principle applies to "
2446 "restricting access to copy the work. If your problem is how to get "
2447 "discovered and find <quote>your people,</quote> prohibiting people from "
2448 "copying your work and sharing it with others is counterproductive."
2451 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2452 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1877
2453 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 38."
2456 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2457 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1873
2459 "Of course, it’s not that being discovered by people who like your work will "
2460 "make you rich—far from it. But as Cory Doctorow says, <quote>Recognition is "
2461 "one of many necessary preconditions for artistic "
2462 "success.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2465 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2466 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1881
2468 "Choosing not to spend time and energy restricting access to your work and "
2469 "policing infringement also builds goodwill. Lumen Learning, a for-profit "
2470 "company that publishes online educational materials, made an early decision "
2471 "not to prevent students from accessing their content, even in the form of a "
2472 "tiny paywall, because it would negatively impact student success in a way "
2473 "that would undermine the social mission behind what they do. They believe "
2474 "this decision has generated an immense amount of goodwill within the "
2478 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2479 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1899
2480 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 68."
2483 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2484 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1892
2486 "It is not just that restricting access to your work may undermine your "
2487 "social mission. It also may alienate the people who most value your creative "
2488 "work. If people like your work, their natural instinct will be to share it "
2489 "with others. But as David Bollier wrote, <quote>Our natural human impulses "
2490 "to imitate and share—the essence of culture—have been "
2491 "criminalized.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2494 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2495 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1903
2497 "The fact that copying can carry criminal penalties undoubtedly deters "
2498 "copying it, but copying with the click of a button is too easy and "
2499 "convenient to ever fully stop it. Try as the copyright industry might to "
2500 "persuade us otherwise, copying a copyrighted work just doesn’t feel like "
2501 "stealing a loaf of bread. And, of course, that’s because it isn’t. Sharing a "
2502 "creative work has no impact on anyone else’s ability to make use of it."
2505 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2506 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1912
2508 "If you take some amount of copying and sharing your work as a given, you can "
2509 "invest your time and resources elsewhere, rather than wasting them on "
2510 "playing a cat and mouse game with people who want to copy and share your "
2511 "work. Lizzy Jongma from the Rijksmuseum said, <quote>We could spend a lot of "
2512 "money trying to protect works, but people are going to do it anyway. And "
2513 "they will use bad-quality versions.</quote> Instead, they started releasing "
2514 "high-resolution digital copies of their collection into the public domain "
2515 "and making them available for free on their website. For them, sharing was a "
2516 "form of quality control over the copies that were inevitably being shared "
2517 "online. Doing this meant forgoing the revenue they previously got from "
2518 "selling digital images. But Lizzy says that was a small price to pay for all "
2519 "of the opportunities that sharing unlocked for them."
2522 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2523 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1932
2524 msgid "Anderson, Free, 86."
2527 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2528 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1928
2530 "Being Made with Creative Commons means you stop thinking about ways to "
2531 "artificially make your content scarce, and instead leverage it as the "
2532 "potentially abundant resource it is.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2533 "id=\"0\"/> When you see information abundance as a feature, not a bug, you "
2534 "start thinking about the ways to use the idling capacity of your content to "
2535 "your advantage. As my friend and colleague Eric Steuer once said, "
2536 "<quote>Using CC licenses shows you get the Internet.</quote>"
2539 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2540 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1943
2541 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 144."
2544 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2545 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1940
2547 "Cory Doctorow says it costs him nothing when other people make copies of his "
2548 "work, and it opens the possibility that he might get something in "
2549 "return.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Similarly, the makers of "
2550 "the Arduino boards knew it was impossible to stop people from copying their "
2551 "hardware, so they decided not to even try and instead look for the benefits "
2552 "of being open. For them, the result is one of the most ubiquitous pieces of "
2553 "hardware in the world, with a thriving online community of tinkerers and "
2554 "innovators that have done things with their work they never could have done "
2558 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2559 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1953
2561 "There are all kinds of way to leverage the power of sharing and remix to "
2562 "your benefit. Here are a few."
2565 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2566 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1957
2567 msgid "Use CC to grow a larger audience"
2570 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2571 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1959
2573 "Putting a Creative Commons license on your content won’t make it "
2574 "automatically go viral, but eliminating legal barriers to copying the work "
2575 "certainly can’t hurt the chances that your work will be shared. The CC "
2576 "license symbolizes that sharing is welcome. It can act as a little tap on "
2577 "the shoulder to those who come across the work—a nudge to copy the work if "
2578 "they have any inkling of doing so. All things being equal, if one piece of "
2579 "content has a sign that says Share and the other says Don’t Share (which is "
2580 "what <quote>©</quote> means), which do you think people are more likely to "
2584 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2585 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1971
2587 "The Conversation is an online news site with in-depth articles written by "
2588 "academics who are experts on particular topics. All of the articles are "
2589 "CC-licensed, and they are copied and reshared on other sites by design. This "
2590 "proliferating effect, which they track, is a central part of the value to "
2591 "their academic authors who want to reach as many readers as possible."
2594 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2595 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1988
2596 msgid "Anderson, Free, 123."
2599 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2600 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1980
2602 "The idea that more eyeballs equates with more success is a form of the max "
2603 "strategy, adopted by Google and other technology companies. According to "
2604 "Google’s Eric Schmidt, the idea is simple: <quote>Take whatever it is you "
2605 "are doing and do it at the max in terms of distribution. The other way of "
2606 "saying this is that since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might "
2607 "as well put things everywhere.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2608 "id=\"0\"/> This strategy is what often motivates companies to make their "
2609 "products and services free (i.e., no cost), but the same logic applies to "
2610 "making content freely shareable. Because CC-licensed content is free (as in "
2611 "cost) and can be freely copied, CC licensing makes it even more accessible "
2612 "and likely to spread."
2615 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2616 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2002
2620 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2621 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2007
2625 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2626 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1997
2628 "If you are successful in reaching more users, readers, listeners, or other "
2629 "consumers of your work, you can start to benefit from the bandwagon "
2630 "effect. The simple fact that there are other people consuming or following "
2631 "your work spurs others to want to do the same.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2632 "id=\"0\"/> This is, in part, because we simply have a tendency to engage in "
2633 "herd behavior, but it is also because a large following is at least a "
2634 "partial indicator of quality or usefulness.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2638 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2639 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2012
2640 msgid "Use CC to get attribution and name recognition"
2643 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2644 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2026
2646 "James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (New York: Anchor Books, 2005), "
2647 "124. Surowiecki says, <quote>The measure of success of laws and contracts is "
2648 "how rarely they are invoked.</quote>"
2651 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2652 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2014
2654 "Every Creative Commons license requires that credit be given to the author, "
2655 "and that reusers supply a link back to the original source of the "
2656 "material. CC0, not a license but a tool used to put work in the public "
2657 "domain, does not make attribution a legal requirement, but many communities "
2658 "still give credit as a matter of best practices and social norms. In fact, "
2659 "it is social norms, rather than the threat of legal enforcement, that most "
2660 "often motivate people to provide attribution and otherwise comply with the "
2661 "CC license terms anyway. This is the mark of any well-functioning community, "
2662 "within both the marketplace and the society at large.<placeholder "
2663 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> CC licenses reflect a set of wishes on the part "
2664 "of creators, and in the vast majority of circumstances, people are naturally "
2665 "inclined to follow those wishes. This is particularly the case for something "
2666 "as straightforward and consistent with basic notions of fairness as "
2670 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2671 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2037
2673 "The fact that the name of the creator follows a CC-licensed work makes the "
2674 "licenses an important means to develop a reputation or, in corporate speak, "
2675 "a brand. The drive to associate your name with your work is not just based "
2676 "on commercial motivations, it is fundamental to authorship. Knowledge "
2677 "Unlatched is a nonprofit that helps to subsidize the print production of "
2678 "CC-licensed academic texts by pooling contributions from libraries around "
2679 "the United States. The CEO, Frances Pinter, says that the Creative Commons "
2680 "license on the works has a huge value to authors because reputation is the "
2681 "most important currency for academics. Sharing with CC is a way of having "
2682 "the most people see and cite your work."
2685 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2686 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2051
2688 "Attribution can be about more than just receiving credit. It can also be "
2689 "about establishing provenance. People naturally want to know where content "
2690 "came from—the source of a work is sometimes just as interesting as the work "
2691 "itself. Opendesk is a platform for furniture designers to share their "
2692 "designs. Consumers who like those designs can then get matched with local "
2693 "makers who turn the designs into real-life furniture. The fact that I, "
2694 "sitting in the middle of the United States, can pick out a design created by "
2695 "a designer in Tokyo and then use a maker within my own community to "
2696 "transform the design into something tangible is part of the power of their "
2697 "platform. The provenance of the design is a special part of the product."
2700 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2701 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2066
2703 "Knowing the source of a work is also critical to ensuring its "
2704 "credibility. Just as a trademark is designed to give consumers a way to "
2705 "identify the source and quality of a particular good and service, knowing "
2706 "the author of a work gives the public a way to assess its credibility. In a "
2707 "time when online discourse is plagued with misinformation, being a trusted "
2708 "information source is more valuable than ever."
2711 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2712 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2076
2713 msgid "Use CC-licensed content as a marketing tool"
2716 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2717 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2078
2719 "As we will cover in more detail later, many endeavors that are Made with "
2720 "Creative Commons make money by providing a product or service other than the "
2721 "CC-licensed work. Sometimes that other product or service is completely "
2722 "unrelated to the CC content. Other times it’s a physical copy or live "
2723 "performance of the CC content. In all cases, the CC content can attract "
2724 "people to your other product or service."
2727 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2728 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2100
2729 msgid "Anderson, Free, 44."
2732 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2733 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2087
2735 "Knowledge Unlatched’s Pinter told us she has seen time and again how "
2736 "offering CC-licensed content—that is, digitally for free—actually increases "
2737 "sales of the printed goods because it functions as a marketing tool. We see "
2738 "this phenomenon regularly with famous artwork. The Mona Lisa is likely the "
2739 "most recognizable painting on the planet. Its ubiquity has the effect of "
2740 "catalyzing interest in seeing the painting in person, and in owning physical "
2741 "goods with the image. Abundant copies of the content often entice more "
2742 "demand, not blunt it. Another example came with the advent of the "
2743 "radio. Although the music industry did not see it coming (and fought it!), "
2744 "free music on the radio functioned as advertising for the paid version "
2745 "people bought in music stores.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Free "
2746 "can be a form of promotion."
2749 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2750 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2104
2752 "In some cases, endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons do not even "
2753 "need dedicated marketing teams or marketing budgets. Cards Against Humanity "
2754 "is a CC-licensed card game available as a free download. And because of this "
2755 "(thanks to the CC license on the game), the creators say it is one of the "
2756 "best-marketed games in the world, and they have never spent a dime on "
2757 "marketing. The textbook publisher OpenStax has also avoided hiring a "
2758 "marketing team. Their products are free, or cheaper to buy in the case of "
2759 "physical copies, which makes them much more attractive to students who then "
2760 "demand them from their universities. They also partner with service "
2761 "providers who build atop the CC-licensed content and, in turn, spend money "
2762 "and resources marketing those services (and by extension, the OpenStax "
2766 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2767 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2121
2768 msgid "Use CC to enable hands-on engagement with your work"
2771 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2772 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2124
2774 "The great promise of Creative Commons licensing is that it signifies an "
2775 "embrace of remix culture. Indeed, this is the great promise of digital "
2776 "technology. The Internet opened up a whole new world of possibilities for "
2777 "public participation in creative work."
2780 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2781 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2138
2782 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 23."
2785 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2786 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2131
2788 "Four of the six CC licenses enable reusers to take apart, build upon, or "
2789 "otherwise adapt the work. Depending on the context, adaptation can mean "
2790 "wildly different things—translating, updating, localizing, improving, "
2791 "transforming. It enables a work to be customized for particular needs, uses, "
2792 "people, and communities, which is another distinct value to offer the "
2793 "public.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Adaptation is more game "
2794 "changing in some contexts than others. With educational materials, the "
2795 "ability to customize and update the content is critically important for its "
2796 "usefulness. For photography, the ability to adapt a photo is less important."
2799 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2800 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2151
2801 msgid "Anderson, Free, 67."
2804 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2805 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2156
2809 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2810 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2159
2811 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 71."
2814 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2815 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2164
2817 "Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into "
2818 "Collaborators (London: Penguin Books, 2010), 78."
2821 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2822 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2146
2824 "This is a way to counteract a potential downside of the abundance of free "
2825 "and open content described above. As Anderson wrote in Free, <quote>People "
2826 "often don’t care as much about things they don’t pay for, and as a result "
2827 "they don’t think as much about how they consume them.</quote><placeholder "
2828 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> If even the tiny act of volition of paying one "
2829 "penny for something changes our perception of that thing, then surely the "
2830 "act of remixing it enhances our perception exponentially.<placeholder "
2831 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> We know that people will pay more for products "
2832 "they had a part in creating.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> And we "
2833 "know that creating something, no matter what quality, brings with it a type "
2834 "of creative satisfaction that can never be replaced by consuming something "
2835 "created by someone else.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"3\"/>"
2838 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2839 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2177
2843 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2844 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2170
2846 "Actively engaging with the content helps us avoid the type of aimless "
2847 "consumption that anyone who has absentmindedly scrolled through their "
2848 "social-media feeds for an hour knows all too well. In his book, Cognitive "
2849 "Surplus, Clay Shirky says, <quote>To participate is to act as if your "
2850 "presence matters, as if, when you see something or hear something, your "
2851 "response is part of the event.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2852 "id=\"0\"/> Opening the door to your content can get people more deeply tied "
2856 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2857 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2183
2858 msgid "Use CC to differentiate yourself"
2861 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2862 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2192
2863 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 43."
2866 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2867 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2185
2869 "Operating under a traditional copyright regime usually means operating under "
2870 "the rules of establishment players in the media. Business strategies that "
2871 "are embedded in the traditional copyright system, like using digital rights "
2872 "management (DRM) and signing exclusivity contracts, can tie the hands of "
2873 "creators, often at the expense of the creator’s best interest.<placeholder "
2874 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Being Made with Creative Commons means you can "
2875 "function without those barriers and, in many cases, use the increased "
2876 "openness as a competitive advantage. David Harris from OpenStax said they "
2877 "specifically pursue strategies they know that traditional publishers "
2878 "cannot. <quote>Don’t go into a market and play by the incumbent "
2879 "rules,</quote> David said. <quote>Change the rules of engagement.</quote>"
2882 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
2883 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2204
2884 msgid "Making Money"
2887 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2888 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2214
2890 "William Landes Foster, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen, <quote>Ten "
2891 "Nonprofit Funding Models,</quote> Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring "
2893 "url=\"http://ssir.org/articles/entry/ten_nonprofit_funding_models\"/>."
2896 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2897 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2206
2899 "Like any moneymaking endeavor, those that are Made with Creative Commons "
2900 "have to generate some type of value for their audience or "
2901 "customers. Sometimes that value is subsidized by funders who are not "
2902 "actually beneficiaries of that value. Funders, whether philanthropic "
2903 "institutions, governments, or concerned individuals, provide money to the "
2904 "organization out of a sense of pure altruism. This is the way traditional "
2905 "nonprofit funding operates.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But in "
2906 "many cases, the revenue streams used by endeavors that are Made with "
2907 "Creative Commons are directly tied to the value they generate, where the "
2908 "recipient is paying for the value they receive like any standard market "
2909 "transaction. In still other cases, rather than the quid pro quo exchange of "
2910 "money for value that typically drives market transactions, the recipient "
2911 "gives money out of a sense of reciprocity."
2914 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2915 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2235
2916 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 111."
2919 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2920 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2227
2922 "Most who are Made with Creative Commons use a variety of methods to bring in "
2923 "revenue, some market-based and some not. One common strategy is using grant "
2924 "funding for content creation when research-and-development costs are "
2925 "particularly high, and then finding a different revenue stream (or streams) "
2926 "for ongoing expenses. As Shirky wrote, <quote>The trick is in knowing when "
2927 "markets are an optimal way of organizing interactions and when they are "
2928 "not.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2931 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2932 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2239
2934 "Our case studies explore in more detail the various revenue-generating "
2935 "mechanisms used by the creators, organizations, and businesses we "
2936 "interviewed. There is nuance hidden within the specific ways each of them "
2937 "makes money, so it is a bit dangerous to generalize too much about what we "
2938 "learned. Nonetheless, zooming out and viewing things from a higher level of "
2939 "abstraction can be instructive."
2942 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2943 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2248
2944 msgid "Market-based revenue streams"
2947 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2948 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2253
2949 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 30."
2952 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2953 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2260
2955 "Jim Whitehurst, The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance "
2956 "(Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015), 202."
2959 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2960 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2250
2962 "In the market, the central question when determining how to bring in revenue "
2963 "is what value people are willing to pay for.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2964 "id=\"0\"/> By definition, if you are Made with Creative Commons, the content "
2965 "you provide is available for free and not a market commodity. Like the "
2966 "ubiquitous freemium business model, any possible market transaction with a "
2967 "consumer of your content has to be based on some added value you "
2968 "provide.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
2971 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2972 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2276
2973 msgid "Anderson, Free, 71."
2976 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2977 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2266
2979 "In many ways, this is the way of the future for all content-driven "
2980 "endeavors. In the market, value lives in things that are scarce. Because the "
2981 "Internet makes a universe of content available to all of us for free, it is "
2982 "difficult to get people to pay for content online. The struggling newspaper "
2983 "industry is a testament to this fact. This is compounded by the fact that at "
2984 "least some amount of copying is probably inevitable. That means you may end "
2985 "up competing with free versions of your own content, whether you condone it "
2986 "or not.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> If people can easily find "
2987 "your content for free, getting people to buy it will be difficult, "
2988 "particularly in a context where access to content is more important than "
2989 "owning it. In Free, Anderson wrote, <quote>Copyright protection schemes, "
2990 "whether coded into either law or software, are simply holding up a price "
2991 "against the force of gravity.</quote>"
2994 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2995 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2295
2999 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3000 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2285
3002 "Of course, this doesn’t mean that content-driven endeavors have no future in "
3003 "the traditional marketplace. In Free, Anderson explains how when one product "
3004 "or service becomes free, as information and content largely have in the "
3005 "digital age, other things become more valuable. <quote>Every abundance "
3006 "creates a new scarcity,</quote> he wrote. You just have to find some way "
3007 "other than the content to provide value to your audience or customers. As "
3008 "Anderson says, <quote>It’s easy to compete with Free: simply offer something "
3009 "better or at least different from the free version.</quote><placeholder "
3010 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
3013 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3014 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2299
3016 "In light of this reality, in some ways endeavors that are Made with Creative "
3017 "Commons are at a level playing field with all content-based endeavors in the "
3018 "digital age. In fact, they may even have an advantage because they can use "
3019 "the abundance of content to derive revenue from something scarce. They can "
3020 "also benefit from the goodwill that stems from the values behind being Made "
3021 "with Creative Commons."
3024 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3025 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2308
3027 "For content creators and distributors, there are nearly infinite ways to "
3028 "provide value to the consumers of your work, above and beyond the value that "
3029 "lives within your free digital content. Often, the CC-licensed content "
3030 "functions as a marketing tool for the paid product or service."
3033 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3034 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2315
3035 msgid "Here are the most common high-level categories."
3038 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3039 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2319
3041 "Providing a custom service to consumers of your work "
3042 "<emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3045 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3046 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2329
3050 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3051 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2322
3053 "In this age of information abundance, we don’t lack for content. The trick "
3054 "is finding content that matches our needs and wants, so customized services "
3055 "are particularly valuable. As Anderson wrote, <quote>Commodity information "
3056 "(everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information "
3057 "(you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be "
3058 "expensive.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> This can be "
3059 "anything from the artistic and cultural consulting services provided by "
3060 "Ártica to the custom-song business of Jonathan <quote>Song-A-Day</quote> "
3064 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3065 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2337
3066 msgid "Charging for the physical copy <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3069 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3070 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2344
3071 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 107."
3074 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3075 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2340
3077 "In his book about maker culture, Anderson characterizes this model as giving "
3078 "away the bits and selling the atoms (where bits refers to digital content "
3079 "and atoms refer to a physical object).<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3080 "id=\"0\"/> This is particularly successful in domains where the digital "
3081 "version of the content isn’t as valuable as the analog version, like book "
3082 "publishing where a significant subset of people still prefer reading "
3083 "something they can hold in their hands. Or in domains where the content "
3084 "isn’t useful until it is in physical form, like furniture designs. In those "
3085 "situations, a significant portion of consumers will pay for the convenience "
3086 "of having someone else put the physical version together for them. Some "
3087 "endeavors squeeze even more out of this revenue stream by using a Creative "
3088 "Commons license that only allows noncommercial uses, which means no one else "
3089 "can sell physical copies of their work in competition with them. This "
3090 "strategy of reserving commercial rights can be particularly important for "
3091 "items like books, where every printed copy of the same work is likely to be "
3092 "the same quality, so it is harder to differentiate one publishing service "
3093 "from another. On the other hand, for items like furniture or electronics, "
3094 "the provider of the physical goods can compete with other providers of the "
3095 "same works based on quality, service, or other traditional business "
3099 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3100 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2368
3101 msgid "Charging for the in-person version <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3104 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3105 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2371
3107 "As anyone who has ever gone to a concert will tell you, experiencing "
3108 "creativity in person is a completely different experience from consuming a "
3109 "digital copy on your own. Far from acting as a substitute for face-to-face "
3110 "interaction, CC-licensed content can actually create demand for the "
3111 "in-person version of experience. You can see this effect when people go view "
3112 "original art in person or pay to attend a talk or training course."
3115 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3116 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2382
3117 msgid "Selling merchandise <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3120 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3121 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2385
3123 "In many cases, people who like your work will pay for products demonstrating "
3124 "a connection to your work. As a child of the 1980s, I can personally attest "
3125 "to the power of a good concert T-shirt. This can also be an important "
3126 "revenue stream for museums and galleries."
3129 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3130 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2402
3131 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 89."
3134 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3135 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2392
3137 "Sometimes the way to find a market-based revenue stream is by providing "
3138 "value to people other than those who consume your CC-licensed content. In "
3139 "these revenue streams, the free content is being subsidized by an entirely "
3140 "different category of people or businesses. Often, those people or "
3141 "businesses are paying to access your main audience. The fact that the "
3142 "content is free increases the size of the audience, which in turn makes the "
3143 "offer more valuable to the paying customers. This is a variation of a "
3144 "traditional business model built on free called multi-sided "
3145 "platforms.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Access to your audience "
3146 "isn’t the only thing people are willing to pay for—there are other services "
3147 "you can provide as well."
3150 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3151 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2409
3152 msgid "Charging advertisers or sponsors <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3155 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3156 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2417
3160 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3161 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2421
3162 msgid "Anderson, Free, 142."
3165 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3166 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2412
3168 "The traditional model of subsidizing free content is advertising. In this "
3169 "version of multi-sided platforms, advertisers pay for the opportunity to "
3170 "reach the set of eyeballs the content creators provide in the form of their "
3171 "audience.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The Internet has made "
3172 "this model more difficult because the number of potential channels available "
3173 "to reach those eyeballs has become essentially infinite.<placeholder "
3174 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Nonetheless, it remains a viable revenue stream "
3175 "for many content creators, including those who are Made with Creative "
3176 "Commons. Often, instead of paying to display advertising, the advertiser "
3177 "pays to be an official sponsor of particular content or projects, or of the "
3181 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3182 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2430
3183 msgid "Charging your content creators <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3186 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3187 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2433
3189 "Another type of multisided platform is where the content creators themselves "
3190 "pay to be featured on the platform. Obviously, this revenue stream is only "
3191 "available to those who rely on work created, at least in part, by "
3192 "others. The most well-known version of this model is the "
3193 "<quote>author-processing charge</quote> of open-access journals like those "
3194 "published by the Public Library of Science, but there are other "
3195 "variations. The Conversation is primarily funded by a university-membership "
3196 "model, where universities pay to have their faculties participate as writers "
3197 "of the content on the Conversation website."
3200 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3201 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2447
3202 msgid "Charging a transaction fee <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3205 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3206 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2452
3207 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 32."
3210 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3211 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2450
3213 "This is a version of a traditional business model based on brokering "
3214 "transactions between parties.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
3215 "Curation is an important element of this model. Platforms like the Noun "
3216 "Project add value by wading through CC-licensed content to curate a "
3217 "high-quality set and then derive revenue when creators of that content make "
3218 "transactions with customers. Other platforms make money when service "
3219 "providers transact with their customers; for example, Opendesk makes money "
3220 "every time someone on their site pays a maker to make furniture based on one "
3221 "of the designs on the platform."
3224 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3225 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2464
3226 msgid "Providing a service to your creators <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3229 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3230 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2467
3232 "As mentioned above, endeavors can make money by providing customized "
3233 "services to their users. Platforms can undertake a variation of this service "
3234 "model directed at the creators that provide the content they feature. The "
3235 "data platforms Figure.NZ and Figshare both capitalize on this model by "
3236 "providing paid tools to help their users make the data they contribute to "
3237 "the platform more discoverable and reusable."
3240 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3241 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2477
3242 msgid "Licensing a trademark <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3245 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3246 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2480
3248 "Finally, some that are Made with Creative Commons make money by selling use "
3249 "of their trademarks. Well known brands that consumers associate with "
3250 "quality, credibility, or even an ethos can license that trademark to "
3251 "companies that want to take advantage of that goodwill. By definition, "
3252 "trademarks are scarce because they represent a particular source of a good "
3253 "or service. Charging for the ability to use that trademark is a way of "
3254 "deriving revenue from something scarce while taking advantage of the "
3255 "abundance of CC content."
3258 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3259 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2492
3260 msgid "Reciprocity-based revenue streams"
3263 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3264 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2494
3266 "Even if we set aside grant funding, we found that the traditional economic "
3267 "framework of understanding the market failed to fully capture the ways the "
3268 "endeavors we analyzed were making money. It was not simply about monetizing "
3272 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3273 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2501
3275 "Rather than devising a scheme to get people to pay money in exchange for "
3276 "some direct value provided to them, many of the revenue streams were more "
3277 "about providing value, building a relationship, and then eventually finding "
3278 "some money that flows back out of a sense of reciprocity. While some look "
3279 "like traditional nonprofit funding models, they aren’t charity. The endeavor "
3280 "exchange value with people, just not necessarily synchronously or in a way "
3281 "that requires that those values be equal. As David Bollier wrote in Think "
3282 "Like a Commoner, <quote>There is no self-serving calculation of whether the "
3283 "value given and received is strictly equal.</quote>"
3286 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3287 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2514
3289 "This should be a familiar dynamic—it is the way you deal with your friends "
3290 "and family. We give without regard for what and when we will get back. David "
3291 "Bollier wrote, <quote>Reciprocal social exchange lies at the heart of human "
3292 "identity, community and culture. It is a vital brain function that helps the "
3293 "human species survive and evolve.</quote>"
3296 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3297 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2524
3298 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 150."
3301 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3302 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2528
3306 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3307 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2522
3309 "What is rare is to incorporate this sort of relationship into an endeavor "
3310 "that also engages with the market.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
3311 "We almost can’t help but think of relationships in the market as being "
3312 "centered on an even-steven exchange of value.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3316 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3317 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2533
3319 "Memberships and individual donations "
3320 "<emphasis>[RECIPROCITY-BASED]</emphasis>"
3323 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3324 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2536
3326 "While memberships and donations are traditional nonprofit funding models, in "
3327 "the Made with Creative Commons context, they are directly tied to the "
3328 "reciprocal relationship that is cultivated with the beneficiaries of their "
3329 "work. The bigger the pool of those receiving value from the content, the "
3330 "more likely this strategy will work, given that only a small percentage of "
3331 "people are likely to contribute. Since using CC licenses can grease the "
3332 "wheels for content to reach more people, this strategy can be more effective "
3333 "for endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons. The greater the argument "
3334 "that the content is a public good or that the entire endeavor is furthering "
3335 "a social mission, the more likely this strategy is to succeed."
3338 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3339 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2552
3340 msgid "The pay-what-you-want model <emphasis>[RECIPROCITY-BASED]</emphasis>"
3343 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3344 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2555
3346 "In the pay-what-you-want model, the beneficiary of Creative Commons content "
3347 "is invited to give—at any amount they can and feel is appropriate, based on "
3348 "the public and personal value they feel is generated by the open "
3349 "content. Critically, these models are not touted as <quote>buying</quote> "
3350 "something free. They are similar to a tip jar. People make financial "
3351 "contributions as an act of gratitude. These models capitalize on the fact "
3352 "that we are naturally inclined to give money for things we value in the "
3353 "marketplace, even in situations where we could find a way to get it for "
3357 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3358 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2568
3359 msgid "Crowdfunding <emphasis>[RECIPROCITY-BASED]</emphasis>"
3362 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3363 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2571
3365 "Crowdfunding models are based on recouping the costs of creating and "
3366 "distributing content before the content is created. If the endeavor is Made "
3367 "with Creative Commons, anyone who wants the work in question could simply "
3368 "wait until it’s created and then access it for free. That means, for this "
3369 "model to work, people have to care about more than just receiving the "
3370 "work. They have to want you to succeed. Amanda Palmer credits the success of "
3371 "her crowdfunding on Kickstarter and Patreon to the years she spent building "
3372 "her community and creating a connection with her fans. She wrote in The Art "
3373 "of Asking, <quote>Good art is made, good art is shared, help is offered, "
3374 "ears are bent, emotions are exchanged, the compost of real, deep connection "
3375 "is sprayed all over the fields. Then one day, the artist steps up and asks "
3376 "for something. And if the ground has been fertilized enough, the audience "
3377 "says, without hesitation: of course.</quote>"
3380 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3381 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2589
3383 "Other types of crowdfunding rely on a sense of responsibility that a "
3384 "particular community may feel. Knowledge Unlatched pools funds from major "
3385 "U.S. libraries to subsidize CC-licensed academic work that will be, by "
3386 "definition, available to everyone for free. Libraries with bigger budgets "
3387 "tend to give more out of a sense of commitment to the library community and "
3388 "to the idea of open access generally."
3391 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
3392 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2600
3393 msgid "Making Human Connections"
3396 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3397 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2602
3399 "Regardless of how they made money, in our interviews, we repeatedly heard "
3400 "language like <quote>persuading people to buy</quote> and <quote>inviting "
3401 "people to pay.</quote> We heard it even in connection with revenue streams "
3402 "that sit squarely within the market. Cory Doctorow told us, <quote>I have to "
3403 "convince my readers that the right thing to do is to pay me.</quote> The "
3404 "founders of the for-profit company Lumen Learning showed us the letter they "
3405 "send to those who opt not to pay for the services they provide in connection "
3406 "with their CC-licensed educational content. It isn’t a cease-and-desist "
3407 "letter; it’s an invitation to pay because it’s the right thing to do. This "
3408 "sort of behavior toward what could be considered nonpaying customers is "
3409 "largely unheard of in the traditional marketplace. But it seems to be part "
3410 "of the fabric of being Made with Creative Commons."
3413 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3414 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2619
3416 "Nearly every endeavor we profiled relied, at least in part, on people being "
3417 "invested in what they do. The closer the Creative Commons content is to "
3418 "being <quote>the product,</quote> the more pronounced this dynamic has to "
3419 "be. Rather than simply selling a product or service, they are making "
3420 "ideological, personal, and creative connections with the people who value "
3424 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3425 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2627
3427 "It took me a very long time to see how this avoidance of thinking about what "
3428 "they do in pure market terms was deeply tied to being Made with Creative "
3432 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3433 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2632
3435 "I came to the research with preconceived notions about what Creative Commons "
3436 "is and what it means to be Made with Creative Commons. It turned out I was "
3437 "wrong on so many counts."
3440 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3441 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2637
3443 "Obviously, being Made with Creative Commons means using Creative Commons "
3444 "licenses. That much I knew. But in our interviews, people spoke of so much "
3445 "more than copyright permissions when they explained how sharing fit into "
3446 "what they do. I was thinking about sharing too narrowly, and as a result, I "
3447 "was missing vast swaths of the meaning packed within Creative "
3448 "Commons. Rather than parsing the specific and narrow role of the copyright "
3449 "license in the equation, it is important not to disaggregate the rest of "
3450 "what comes with sharing. You have to widen the lens."
3453 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3454 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2648
3456 "Being Made with Creative Commons is not just about the simple act of "
3457 "licensing a copyrighted work under a set of standardized terms, but also "
3458 "about community, social good, contributing ideas, expressing a value system, "
3459 "working together. These components of sharing are hard to cultivate if you "
3460 "think about what you do in purely market terms. Decent social behavior isn’t "
3461 "as intuitive when we are doing something that involves monetary exchange. It "
3462 "takes a conscious effort to foster the context for real sharing, based not "
3463 "strictly on impersonal market exchange, but on connections with the people "
3464 "with whom you share—connections with you, with your work, with your values, "
3468 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3469 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2662
3471 "The rest of this section will explore some of the common strategies that "
3472 "creators, companies, and organizations use to remind us that there are "
3473 "humans behind every creative endeavor. To remind us we have obligations to "
3474 "each other. To remind us what sharing really looks like."
3477 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3478 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2669
3482 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3483 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2673
3485 "Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our "
3486 "Decisions, rev. ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), 109."
3489 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3490 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2671
3492 "Humans are social animals, which means we are naturally inclined to treat "
3493 "each other well.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But the further "
3494 "removed we are from the person with whom we are interacting, the less caring "
3495 "our behavior will be. While the Internet has democratized cultural "
3496 "production, increased access to knowledge, and connected us in extraordinary "
3497 "ways, it can also make it easy forget we are dealing with another human."
3500 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3501 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2697
3503 "Austin Kleon, Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get "
3504 "Discovered (New York: Workman, 2014), 93."
3507 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3508 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2684
3510 "To counteract the anonymous and impersonal tendencies of how we operate "
3511 "online, individual creators and corporations who use Creative Commons "
3512 "licenses work to demonstrate their humanity. For some, this means pouring "
3513 "their lives out on the page. For others, it means showing their creative "
3514 "process, giving a glimpse into how they do what they do. As writer Austin "
3515 "Kleon wrote, <quote>Our work doesn’t speak for itself. Human beings want to "
3516 "know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The "
3517 "stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel "
3518 "and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they "
3519 "understand about your work affects how they value it.</quote><placeholder "
3520 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
3523 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3524 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2703
3526 "A critical component to doing this effectively is not worrying about being a "
3527 "<quote>brand.</quote> That means not being afraid to be vulnerable. Amanda "
3528 "Palmer says, <quote>When you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t "
3529 "connect with them. You’re too preoccupied with the task of impressing "
3530 "them.</quote> Not everyone is suited to live life as an open book like "
3531 "Palmer, and that’s OK. There are a lot of ways to be human. The trick is "
3532 "just avoiding pretense and the temptation to artificially craft an "
3533 "image. People don’t just want the glossy version of you. They can’t relate "
3534 "to it, at least not in a meaningful way."
3537 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3538 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2724
3539 msgid "Kramer, Shareology, 76."
3542 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3543 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2716
3545 "This advice is probably even more important for businesses and organizations "
3546 "because we instinctively conceive of them as nonhuman (though in the United "
3547 "States, corporations are people!). When corporations and organizations make "
3548 "the people behind them more apparent, it reminds people that they are "
3549 "dealing with something other than an anonymous corporate entity. In "
3550 "business-speak, this is about <quote>humanizing your interactions</quote> "
3551 "with the public.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But it can’t be a "
3552 "gimmick. You can’t fake being human."
3555 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3556 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2730
3557 msgid "Be open and accountable"
3560 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3561 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2739
3562 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 252."
3565 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3566 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2744
3567 msgid "Whitehurst, Open Organization, 145."
3570 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3571 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2732
3573 "Transparency helps people understand who you are and why you do what you do, "
3574 "but it also inspires trust. Max Temkin of Cards Against Humanity told us, "
3575 "<quote>One of the most surprising things you can do in capitalism is just be "
3576 "honest with people.</quote> That means sharing the good and the bad. As "
3577 "Amanda Palmer wrote, <quote>You can fix almost anything by authentically "
3578 "communicating.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It isn’t "
3579 "about trying to satisfy everyone or trying to sugarcoat mistakes or bad "
3580 "news, but instead about explaining your rationale and then being prepared to "
3581 "defend it when people are critical.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3584 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3585 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2753
3586 msgid "Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 203."
3589 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3590 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2760
3591 msgid "Whitehurst, Open Organization, 80."
3594 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3595 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2748
3597 "Being accountable does not mean operating on consensus. According to James "
3598 "Surowiecki, consensus-driven groups tend to resort to "
3599 "lowest-common-denominator solutions and avoid the sort of candid exchange of "
3600 "ideas that cultivates healthy collaboration.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3601 "id=\"0\"/> Instead, it can be as simple as asking for input and then giving "
3602 "context and explanation about decisions you make, even if soliciting "
3603 "feedback and inviting discourse is time-consuming. If you don’t go through "
3604 "the effort to actually respond to the input you receive, it can be worse "
3605 "than not inviting input in the first place.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3606 "id=\"1\"/> But when you get it right, it can guarantee the type of diversity "
3607 "of thought that helps endeavors excel. And it is another way to get people "
3608 "involved and invested in what you do."
3611 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3612 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2768
3613 msgid "Design for the good actors"
3616 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3617 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2772
3618 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 25."
3621 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3622 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2777
3626 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3627 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2770
3629 "Traditional economics assumes people make decisions based solely on their "
3630 "own economic self-interest.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Any "
3631 "relatively introspective human knows this is a fiction—we are much more "
3632 "complicated beings with a whole range of needs, emotions, and "
3633 "motivations. In fact, we are hardwired to work together and ensure "
3634 "fairness.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Being Made with Creative "
3635 "Commons requires an assumption that people will largely act on those social "
3636 "motivations, motivations that would be considered <quote>irrational</quote> "
3637 "in an economic sense. As Knowledge Unlatched’s Pinter told us, <quote>It is "
3638 "best to ignore people who try to scare you about free riding. That fear is "
3639 "based on a very shallow view of what motivates human behavior.</quote> There "
3640 "will always be people who will act in purely selfish ways, but endeavors "
3641 "that are Made with Creative Commons design for the good actors."
3644 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3645 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2796
3646 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 112."
3649 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3650 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2790
3652 "The assumption that people will largely do the right thing can be a "
3653 "self-fulfilling prophecy. Shirky wrote in Cognitive Surplus, <quote>Systems "
3654 "that assume people will act in ways that create public goods, and that give "
3655 "them opportunities and rewards for doing so, often let them work together "
3656 "better than neoclassical economics would predict.</quote><placeholder "
3657 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> When we acknowledge that people are often "
3658 "motivated by something other than financial self-interest, we design our "
3659 "endeavors in ways that encourage and accentuate our social instincts."
3662 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3663 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2814
3664 msgid "Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 124."
3667 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3668 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2803
3670 "Rather than trying to exert control over people’s behavior, this mode of "
3671 "operating requires a certain level of trust. We might not realize it, but "
3672 "our daily lives are already built on trust. As Surowiecki wrote in The "
3673 "Wisdom of Crowds, <quote>It’s impossible for a society to rely on law alone "
3674 "to make sure citizens act honestly and responsibly. And it’s impossible for "
3675 "any organization to rely on contracts alone to make sure that its managers "
3676 "and workers live up to their obligation.</quote> Instead, we largely trust "
3677 "that people—mostly strangers—will do what they are supposed to "
3678 "do.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And most often, they do."
3681 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3682 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2819
3683 msgid "Treat humans like, well, humans"
3686 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3687 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2824
3688 msgid "Kleon, Show Your Work, 127."
3691 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3692 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2832
3693 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 121."
3696 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3697 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2821
3699 "For creators, treating people as humans means not treating them like "
3700 "fans. As Kleon says, <quote>If you want fans, you have to be a fan "
3701 "first.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Even if you happen "
3702 "to be one of the few to reach celebrity levels of fame, you are better off "
3703 "remembering that the people who follow your work are human, too. Cory "
3704 "Doctorow makes a point to answer every single email someone sends him. "
3705 "Amanda Palmer spends vast quantities of time going online to communicate "
3706 "with her public, making a point to listen just as much as she "
3707 "talks.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3710 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3711 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2836
3713 "The same idea goes for businesses and organizations. Rather than automating "
3714 "its customer service, the music platform Tribe of Noise makes a point to "
3715 "ensure its employees have personal, one-on-one interaction with users."
3718 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3719 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2847
3720 msgid "Ariely, Predictably Irrational, 87."
3723 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3724 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2857
3728 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3729 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2842
3731 "When we treat people like humans, they typically return the gift in "
3732 "kind. It’s called karma. But social relationships are fragile. It is all too "
3733 "easy to destroy them if you make the mistake of treating people as anonymous "
3734 "customers or free labor.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Platforms "
3735 "that rely on content from contributors are especially at risk of creating an "
3736 "exploitative dynamic. It is important to find ways to acknowledge and pay "
3737 "back the value that contributors generate. That does not mean you can solve "
3738 "this problem by simply paying contributors for their time or "
3739 "contributions. As soon as we introduce money into a relationship—at least "
3740 "when it takes a form of paying monetary value in exchange for other value—it "
3741 "can dramatically change the dynamic.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3745 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3746 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2862
3747 msgid "State your principles and stick to them"
3750 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3751 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2864
3753 "Being Made with Creative Commons makes a statement about who you are and "
3754 "what you do. The symbolism is powerful. Using Creative Commons licenses "
3755 "demonstrates adherence to a particular belief system, which generates "
3756 "goodwill and connects like-minded people to your work. Sometimes people will "
3757 "be drawn to endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons as a way of "
3758 "demonstrating their own commitment to the Creative Commons value system, "
3759 "akin to a political statement. Other times people will identify and feel "
3760 "connected with an endeavor’s separate social mission. Often both."
3763 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3764 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2876
3766 "The expression of your values doesn’t have to be implicit. In fact, many of "
3767 "the people we interviewed talked about how important it is to state your "
3768 "guiding principles up front. Lumen Learning attributes a lot of their "
3769 "success to having been outspoken about the fundamental values that guide "
3770 "what they do. As a for-profit company, they think their expressed commitment "
3771 "to low-income students and open licensing has been critical to their "
3772 "credibility in the OER (open educational resources) community in which they "
3776 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3777 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2891
3781 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3782 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2887
3784 "When your end goal is not about making a profit, people trust that you "
3785 "aren’t just trying to extract value for your own gain. People notice when "
3786 "you have a sense of purpose that transcends your own "
3787 "self-interest.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It attracts "
3788 "committed employees, motivates contributors, and builds trust."
3791 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3792 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2897
3793 msgid "Build a community"
3796 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3797 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2905
3799 "Jono Bacon, The Art of Community, 2nd ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, "
3803 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3804 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2899
3806 "Endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons thrive when community is built "
3807 "around what they do. This may mean a community collaborating together to "
3808 "create something new, or it may simply be a collection of like-minded people "
3809 "who get to know each other and rally around common interests or "
3810 "beliefs.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> To a certain extent, "
3811 "simply being Made with Creative Commons automatically brings with it some "
3812 "element of community, by helping connect you to like-minded others who "
3813 "recognize and are drawn to the values symbolized by using CC."
3816 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3817 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2921
3818 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 98."
3821 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3822 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2928
3823 msgid "Whitehurst, Open Organization, 34."
3826 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3827 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2913
3829 "To be sustainable, though, you have to work to nurture community. People "
3830 "have to care—about you and each other. One critical piece to this is "
3831 "fostering a sense of belonging. As Jono Bacon writes in The Art of "
3832 "Community, <quote>If there is no belonging, there is no community.</quote> "
3833 "For Amanda Palmer and her band, that meant creating an accepting and "
3834 "inclusive environment where people felt a part of their <quote>weird little "
3835 "family.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> For organizations "
3836 "like Red Hat, that means connecting around common beliefs or goals. As the "
3837 "CEO Jim Whitehurst wrote in The Open Organization, <quote>Tapping into "
3838 "passion is especially important in building the kinds of participative "
3839 "communities that drive open organizations.</quote><placeholder "
3840 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3843 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3844 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2940
3845 msgid "Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 200."
3848 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3849 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2944
3850 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 29."
3853 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3854 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2932
3856 "Communities that collaborate together take deliberate planning. Surowiecki "
3857 "wrote, <quote>It takes a lot of work to put the group together. It’s "
3858 "difficult to ensure that people are working in the group’s interest and not "
3859 "in their own. And when there’s a lack of trust between the members of the "
3860 "group (which isn’t surprising given that they don’t really know each other), "
3861 "considerable energy is wasted trying to determine each other’s bona "
3862 "fides.</quote><placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Building true "
3863 "community requires giving people within the community the power to create or "
3864 "influence the rules that govern the community.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3865 "id=\"1\"/> If the rules are created and imposed in a top-down manner, people "
3866 "feel like they don’t have a voice, which in turn leads to disengagement."
3869 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3870 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2950
3872 "Community takes work, but working together, or even simply being connected "
3873 "around common interests or values, is in many ways what sharing is about."
3876 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3877 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2956
3878 msgid "Give more to the commons than you take"
3881 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3882 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2967
3884 "Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi, <quote>The Sharing Economy Isn’t about "
3885 "Sharing at All,</quote> Harvard Business Review (website), January 28, 2015, "
3887 "url=\"http://hbr.org/2015/01/the-sharing-economy-isnt-about-sharing-at-all\"/>."
3890 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3891 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2975
3893 "Lisa Gansky, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing, reprint with "
3894 "new epilogue (New York: Portfolio, 2012)."
3897 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3898 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2958
3900 "Conventional wisdom in the marketplace dictates that people should try to "
3901 "extract as much money as possible from resources. This is essentially what "
3902 "defines so much of the so-called sharing economy. In an article on the "
3903 "Harvard Business Review website called <quote>The Sharing Economy Isn’t "
3904 "about Sharing at All,</quote> authors Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi "
3905 "explained how the anonymous market-driven trans-actions in most "
3906 "sharing-economy businesses are purely about monetizing access.<placeholder "
3907 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As Lisa Gansky put it in her book The Mesh, the "
3908 "primary strategy of the sharing economy is to sell the same product multiple "
3909 "times, by selling access rather than ownership.<placeholder "
3910 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> That is not sharing."
3913 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3914 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2991
3916 "David Lee, <quote>Inside Medium: An Attempt to Bring Civility to the "
3917 "Internet,</quote> BBC News, March 3, 2016, <ulink "
3918 "url=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35709680\"/>."
3921 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3922 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2981
3924 "Sharing requires adding as much or more value to the ecosystem than you "
3925 "take. You can’t simply treat open content as a free pool of resources from "
3926 "which to extract value. Part of giving back to the ecosystem is contributing "
3927 "content back to the public under CC licenses. But it doesn’t have to just be "
3928 "about creating content; it can be about adding value in other ways. The "
3929 "social blogging platform Medium provides value to its community by "
3930 "incentivizing good behavior, and the result is an online space with "
3931 "remarkably high-quality user-generated content and limited "
3932 "trolling.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Opendesk contributes to "
3933 "its community by committing to help its designers make money, in part by "
3934 "actively curating and displaying their work on its platform effectively."
3937 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3938 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3000
3940 "In all cases, it is important to openly acknowledge the amount of value you "
3941 "add versus that which you draw on that was created by others. Being "
3942 "transparent about this builds credibility and shows you are a contributing "
3943 "player in the commons. When your endeavor is making money, that also means "
3944 "apportioning financial compensation in a way that reflects the value "
3945 "contributed by others, providing more to contributors when the value they "
3946 "add outweighs the value provided by you."
3949 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3950 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3011
3951 msgid "Involve people in what you do"
3954 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3955 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3016
3956 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 148."
3959 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3960 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3020
3961 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 164."
3964 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3965 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3027 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3091
3966 msgid "Whitehurst, foreword to Open Organization."
3969 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3970 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3013
3972 "Thanks to the Internet, we can tap into the talents and expertise of people "
3973 "around the globe. Chris Anderson calls it the Long Tail of "
3974 "talent.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But to make collaboration "
3975 "work, the group has to be effective at what it is doing, and the people "
3976 "within the group have to find satisfaction from being involved.<placeholder "
3977 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> This is easier to facilitate for some types of "
3978 "creative work than it is for others. Groups tied together online collaborate "
3979 "best when people can work independently and asynchronously, and particularly "
3980 "for larger groups with loose ties, when contributors can make simple "
3981 "improvements without a particularly heavy time commitment.<placeholder "
3982 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/>"
3985 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3986 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3040
3987 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 144."
3990 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3991 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3031
3993 "As the success of Wikipedia demonstrates, editing an online encyclopedia is "
3994 "exactly the sort of activity that is perfect for massive co-creation because "
3995 "small, incremental edits made by a diverse range of people acting on their "
3996 "own are immensely valuable in the aggregate. Those same sorts of small "
3997 "contributions would be less useful for many other types of creative work, "
3998 "and people are inherently less motivated to contribute when it doesn’t "
3999 "appear that their efforts will make much of a difference.<placeholder "
4000 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
4003 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><quote><footnote><para>
4004 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3052
4008 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4009 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3064
4010 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 163."
4013 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
4014 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3044
4016 "It is easy to romanticize the opportunities for global cocreation made "
4017 "possible by the Internet, and, indeed, the successful examples of it are "
4018 "truly incredible and inspiring. But in a wide range of "
4019 "circumstances—perhaps more often than not—community cocreation is not part "
4020 "of the equation, even within endeavors built on CC content. Shirky wrote, "
4021 "<quote>Sometimes the value of professional work trumps the value of amateur "
4022 "sharing or a feeling of belonging.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
4023 "The textbook publisher OpenStax, which distributes all of its material for "
4024 "free under CC licensing, is an example of this dynamic. Rather than tapping "
4025 "the community to help cocreate their college textbooks, they invest a "
4026 "significant amount of time and money to develop professional content. For "
4027 "individual creators, where the creative work is the basis for what they do, "
4028 "community cocreation is only rarely a part of the picture. Even musician "
4029 "Amanda Palmer, who is famous for her openness and involvement with her fans, "
4030 "said,</quote>The only department where I wasn’t open to input was the "
4031 "writing, the music itself.\"<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
4034 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4035 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3075
4036 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 173."
4039 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4040 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3082
4042 "Tom Kelley and David Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Potential "
4043 "within Us All (New York: Crown, 2013), 82."
4046 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
4047 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3068
4049 "While we tend to immediately think of cocreation and remixing when we hear "
4050 "the word collaboration, you can also involve others in your creative process "
4051 "in more informal ways, by sharing half-baked ideas and early drafts, and "
4052 "interacting with the public to incubate ideas and get feedback. So-called "
4053 "<quote>making in public</quote> opens the door to letting people feel more "
4054 "invested in your creative work.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And "
4055 "it shows a nonterritorial approach to ideas and information. Stephen Covey "
4056 "(of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame) calls this the abundance "
4057 "mentality—treating ideas like something plentiful—and it can create an "
4058 "environment where collaboration flourishes.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
4062 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4063 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3099
4065 "Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of "
4066 "Collaborative Consumption (New York: Harper Business, 2010), 188."
4069 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
4070 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3088
4072 "There is no one way to involve people in what you do. They key is finding a "
4073 "way for people to contribute on their terms, compelled by their own "
4074 "motivations.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> What that looks like "
4075 "varies wildly depending on the project. Not every endeavor that is Made with "
4076 "Creative Commons can be Wikipedia, but every endeavor can find ways to "
4077 "invite the public into what they do. The goal for any form of collaboration "
4078 "is to move away from thinking of consumers as passive recipients of your "
4079 "content and transition them into active participants.<placeholder "
4080 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
4083 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4084 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3108
4085 msgid "The Creative Commons Licenses"
4088 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4089 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3110
4091 "All of the Creative Commons licenses grant a basic set of permissions. At a "
4092 "minimum, a CC- licensed work can be copied and shared in its original form "
4093 "for noncommercial purposes so long as attribution is given to the "
4094 "creator. There are six licenses in the CC license suite that build on that "
4095 "basic set of permissions, ranging from the most restrictive (allowing only "
4096 "those basic permissions to share unmodified copies for noncommercial "
4097 "purposes) to the most permissive (reusers can do anything they want with "
4098 "the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they give the creator "
4099 "credit). The licenses are built on copyright and do not cover other types of "
4100 "rights that creators might have in their works, like patents or trademarks."
4103 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4104 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3124
4105 msgid "Here are the six licenses:"
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4110 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001930000008D83BF99FC0821C489.png"
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4115 msgid "<placeholder type=\"inlinemediaobject\" id=\"0\"/>"
4118 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4119 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3134
4121 "The Attribution license (CC BY) lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and "
4122 "build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the "
4123 "original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses "
4124 "offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed "
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4130 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001930000008DFD3592CB17C4EC38.png"
4133 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4134 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3148
4136 "The Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA) lets others remix, tweak, and "
4137 "build upon your work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit "
4138 "you and license their new creations under identical terms. This license is "
4139 "often compared to <quote>copyleft</quote> free and open source software "
4140 "licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any "
4141 "derivatives will also allow commercial use."
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4146 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001930000008D254882DE24793FEA.png"
4149 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4150 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3164
4152 "The Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) allows for redistribution, "
4153 "commercial and noncommercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged with "
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4159 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001930000008DCAF78FB61D1CBDA6.png"
4162 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4163 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3176
4165 "The Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC) lets others remix, tweak, "
4166 "and build upon your work noncommercially. Although their new works must also "
4167 "acknowledge you, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the "
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4173 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001930000008D16DA603376395620.png"
4176 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4177 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3189
4179 "The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA) lets others "
4180 "remix, tweak, and build upon your work noncommercially, as long as they "
4181 "credit you and license their new creations under the same terms."
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4186 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001930000008DC3FEF92B21310965.png"
4189 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4190 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3202
4192 "The Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (CC BY-NC-ND) is the most "
4193 "restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your "
4194 "works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t "
4195 "change them or use them commercially."
4198 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4199 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3209
4201 "In addition to these six licenses, Creative Commons has two public-domain "
4202 "tools—one for creators and the other for those who manage collections of "
4203 "existing works by authors whose terms of copyright have expired:"
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4208 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001900000008DBE3414994CD27786.png"
4211 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4212 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3222
4214 "CC0 enables authors and copyright owners to dedicate their works to the "
4215 "worldwide public domain (<quote>no rights reserved</quote>)."
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4220 msgid "Pictures/10000201000001900000008D36DCD649C5B1411F.png"
4223 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4224 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3234
4226 "The Creative Commons Public Domain Mark facilitates the labeling and "
4227 "discovery of works that are already free of known copyright restrictions."
4230 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4231 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3239
4233 "In our case studies, some use just one Creative Commons license, others use "
4234 "several. Attribution (found in thirteen case studies) and "
4235 "Attribution-ShareAlike (found in eight studies) were the most common, with "
4236 "the other licenses coming up in four or so case studies, including the "
4237 "public-domain tool CC0. Some of the organizations we profiled offer both "
4238 "digital content and software: by using open-source-software licenses for the "
4239 "software code and Creative Commons licenses for digital content, they "
4240 "amplify their involvement with and commitment to sharing."
4243 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4244 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3250
4246 "There is a popular misconception that the three NonCommercial licenses "
4247 "offered by CC are the only options for those who want to make money off "
4248 "their work. As we hope this book makes clear, there are many ways to make "
4249 "endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons sustainable. Reserving "
4250 "commercial rights is only one of those ways. It is certainly true that a "
4251 "license that allows others to make commercial use of your work (CC BY, CC "
4252 "BY-SA, and CC BY-ND) forecloses some traditional revenue streams. If you "
4253 "apply an Attribution (CC BY) license to your book, you can’t force a film "
4254 "company to pay you royalties if they turn your book into a feature-length "
4255 "film, or prevent another company from selling physical copies of your work."
4258 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4259 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3264
4261 "The decision to choose a NonCommercial and/or NoDerivs license comes down to "
4262 "how much you need to retain control over the creative work. The "
4263 "NonCommercial and NoDerivs licenses are ways of reserving some significant "
4264 "portion of the exclusive bundle of rights that copyright grants to "
4265 "creators. In some cases, reserving those rights is important to how you "
4266 "bring in revenue. In other cases, creators use a NonCommercial or NoDerivs "
4267 "license because they can’t give up on the dream of hitting the creative "
4268 "jackpot. The music platform Tribe of Noise told us the NonCommercial "
4269 "licenses were popular among their users because people still held out the "
4270 "dream of having a major record label discover their work."
4273 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4274 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3277
4276 "Other times the decision to use a more restrictive license is due to a "
4277 "concern about the integrity of the work. For example, the nonprofit "
4278 "TeachAIDS uses a NoDerivs license for its educational materials because the "
4279 "medical subject matter is particularly important to get right."
4282 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4283 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3284
4285 "There is no one right way. The NonCommercial and NoDerivs restrictions "
4286 "reflect the values and preferences of creators about how their creative work "
4287 "should be reused, just as the ShareAlike license reflects a different set of "
4288 "values, one that is less about controlling access to their own work and more "
4289 "about ensuring that whatever gets created with their work is available to "
4290 "all on the same terms. Since the beginning of the commons, people have been "
4291 "setting up structures that helped regulate the way in which shared resources "
4292 "were used. The CC licenses are an attempt to standardize norms across all "
4296 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4297 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3296
4301 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4302 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3299
4304 "For more about the licenses including examples and tips on sharing your work "
4305 "in the digital commons, start with the Creative Commons page called "
4306 "<quote>Share Your Work</quote> at"
4309 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4310 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3303
4311 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/\"/>."
4314 #. type: Content of: <book><part><title>
4315 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3308
4316 msgid "The Case Studies"
4319 #. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
4320 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3311
4322 "The twenty-four case studies in this section were chosen from hundreds of "
4323 "nominations received from Kickstarter backers, Creative Commons staff, and "
4324 "the global Creative Commons community. We selected eighty potential "
4325 "candidates that represented a mix of industries, content types, revenue "
4326 "streams, and parts of the world. Twelve of the case studies were selected "
4327 "from that group based on votes cast by Kickstarter backers, and the other "
4328 "twelve were selected by us."
4331 #. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
4332 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3321
4334 "We did background research and conducted interviews for each case study, "
4335 "based on the same set of basic questions about the endeavor. The idea for "
4336 "each case study is to tell the story about the endeavor and the role sharing "
4337 "plays within it, largely the way in which it was told to us by those we "
4341 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4342 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3329
4346 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4347 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3332
4349 "Arduino is a for-profit open-source electronics platform and computer "
4350 "hardware and software company. Founded in 2005 in Italy."
4353 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4354 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3337
4355 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.arduino.cc\"/>"
4358 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4359 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3339
4361 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
4362 "copies (sales of boards, modules, shields, and kits), licensing a trademark "
4363 "(fees paid by those who want to sell Arduino products using their name)"
4366 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4367 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3344 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4195
4368 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 4, 2016"
4371 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4372 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3347
4374 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: David Cuartielles and Tom "
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4380 msgid "Profile written by Paul Stacey"
4383 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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4386 "In 2005, at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in northern Italy, "
4387 "teachers and students needed an easy way to use electronics and programming "
4388 "to quickly prototype design ideas. As musicians, artists, and designers, "
4389 "they needed a platform that didn’t require engineering expertise. A group of "
4390 "teachers and students, including Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, "
4391 "Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis, built a platform that combined different "
4392 "open technologies. They called it Arduino. The platform integrated software, "
4393 "hardware, microcontrollers, and electronics. All aspects of the platform "
4394 "were openly licensed: hardware designs and documentation with the "
4395 "Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA), and software with the GNU "
4396 "General Public License."
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4402 "Arduino boards are able to read inputs—light on a sensor, a finger on a "
4403 "button, or a Twitter message—and turn it into outputs—activating a motor, "
4404 "turning on an LED, publishing something online. You send a set of "
4405 "instructions to the microcontroller on the board by using the Arduino "
4406 "programming language and Arduino software (based on a piece of open-source "
4407 "software called Processing, a programming tool used to make visual art)."
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4413 "<quote>The reasons for making Arduino open source are complicated,</quote> "
4414 "Tom says. Partly it was about supporting flexibility. The open-source nature "
4415 "of Arduino empowers users to modify it and create a lot of different "
4416 "variations, adding on top of what the founders build. David says this "
4417 "<quote>ended up strengthening the platform far beyond what we had even "
4418 "thought of building.</quote>"
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4424 "For Tom another factor was the impending closure of the Ivrea design "
4425 "school. He’d seen other organizations close their doors and all their work "
4426 "and research just disappear. Open-sourcing ensured that Arduino would "
4427 "outlive the Ivrea closure. Persistence is one thing Tom really likes about "
4428 "open source. If key people leave, or a company shuts down, an open-source "
4429 "product lives on. In Tom’s view, <quote>Open sourcing makes it easier to "
4430 "trust a product.</quote>"
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4436 "With the school closing, David and some of the other Arduino founders "
4437 "started a consulting firm and multidisciplinary design studio they called "
4438 "Tinker, in London. Tinker designed products and services that bridged the "
4439 "digital and the physical, and they taught people how to use new technologies "
4440 "in creative ways. Revenue from Tinker was invested in sustaining and "
4441 "enhancing Arduino."
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4447 "For Tom, part of Arduino’s success is because the founders made themselves "
4448 "the first customer of their product. They made products they themselves "
4449 "personally wanted. It was a matter of <quote>I need this thing,</quote> not "
4450 "<quote>If we make this, we’ll make a lot of money.</quote> Tom notes that "
4451 "being your own first customer makes you more confident and convincing at "
4452 "selling your product."
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4458 "Arduino’s business model has evolved over time—and Tom says model is a "
4459 "grandiose term for it. Originally, they just wanted to make a few boards and "
4460 "get them out into the world. They started out with two hundred boards, sold "
4461 "them, and made a little profit. They used that to make another thousand, "
4462 "which generated enough revenue to make five thousand. In the early days, "
4463 "they simply tried to generate enough funding to keep the venture going day "
4464 "to day. When they hit the ten thousand mark, they started to think about "
4465 "Arduino as a company. By then it was clear you can open-source the design "
4466 "but still manufacture the physical product. As long as it’s a quality "
4467 "product and sold at a reasonable price, people will buy it."
4470 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4471 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3428
4473 "Arduino now has a worldwide community of makers—students, hobbyists, "
4474 "artists, programmers, and professionals. Arduino provides a wiki called "
4475 "Playground (a wiki is where all users can edit and add pages, contributing "
4476 "to and benefiting from collective research). People share code, circuit "
4477 "diagrams, tutorials, DIY instructions, and tips and tricks, and show off "
4478 "their projects. In addition, there’s a multilanguage discussion forum where "
4479 "users can get help using Arduino, discuss topics like robotics, and make "
4480 "suggestions for new Arduino product designs. As of January 2017, 324,928 "
4481 "members had made 2,989,489 posts on 379,044 topics. The worldwide community "
4482 "of makers has contributed an incredible amount of accessible knowledge "
4483 "helpful to novices and experts alike."
4486 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4487 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3442
4489 "Transitioning Arduino from a project to a company was a big step. Other "
4490 "businesses who made boards were charging a lot of money for them. Arduino "
4491 "wanted to make theirs available at a low price to people across a wide range "
4492 "of industries. As with any business, pricing was key. They wanted prices "
4493 "that would get lots of customers but were also high enough to sustain the "
4497 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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4500 "For a business, getting to the end of the year and not being in the red is a "
4501 "success. Arduino may have an open-licensing strategy, but they are still a "
4502 "business, and all the things needed to successfully run one still "
4503 "apply. David says, <quote>If you do those other things well, sharing things "
4504 "in an open-source way can only help you.</quote>"
4507 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4508 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3458
4510 "While openly licensing the designs, documentation, and software ensures "
4511 "longevity, it does have risks. There’s a possibility that others will create "
4512 "knockoffs, clones, and copies. The CC BY-SA license means anyone can produce "
4513 "copies of their boards, redesign them, and even sell boards that copy the "
4514 "design. They don’t have to pay a license fee to Arduino or even ask "
4515 "permission. However, if they republish the design of the board, they have to "
4516 "give attribution to Arduino. If they change the design, they must release "
4517 "the new design using the same Creative Commons license to ensure that the "
4518 "new version is equally free and open."
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4524 "Tom and David say that a lot of people have built companies off of Arduino, "
4525 "with dozens of Arduino derivatives out there. But in contrast to closed "
4526 "business models that can wring money out of the system over many years "
4527 "because there is no competition, Arduino founders saw competition as keeping "
4528 "them honest, and aimed for an environment of collaboration. A benefit of "
4529 "open over closed is the many new ideas and designs others have contributed "
4530 "back to the Arduino ecosystem, ideas and designs that Arduino and the "
4531 "Arduino community use and incorporate into new products."
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4535 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3490
4536 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Products\"/>"
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4542 "Over time, the range of Arduino products has diversified, changing and "
4543 "adapting to new needs and challenges. In addition to simple entry level "
4544 "boards, new products have been added ranging from enhanced boards that "
4545 "provide advanced functionality and faster performance, to boards for "
4546 "creating Internet of Things applications, wearables, and 3-D printing. The "
4547 "full range of official Arduino products includes boards, modules (a smaller "
4548 "form-factor of classic boards), shields (elements that can be plugged onto a "
4549 "board to give it extra features), and kits.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
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4556 "Arduino’s focus is on high-quality boards, well-designed support materials, "
4557 "and the building of community; this focus is one of the keys to their "
4558 "success. And being open lets you build a real community. David says "
4559 "Arduino’s community is a big strength and something that really does "
4560 "matter—in his words, <quote>It’s good business.</quote> When they started, "
4561 "the Arduino team had almost entirely no idea how to build a community. They "
4562 "started by conducting numerous workshops, working directly with people using "
4563 "the platform to make sure the hardware and software worked the way it was "
4564 "meant to work and solved people’s problems. The community grew organically "
4568 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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4571 "A key decision for Arduino was trademarking the name. The founders needed a "
4572 "way to guarantee to people that they were buying a quality product from a "
4573 "company committed to open-source values and knowledge sharing. Trademarking "
4574 "the Arduino name and logo expresses that guarantee and helps customers "
4575 "easily identify their products, and the products sanctioned by them. If "
4576 "others want to sell boards using the Arduino name and logo, they have to pay "
4577 "a small fee to Arduino. This allows Arduino to scale up manufacturing and "
4578 "distribution while at the same time ensuring the Arduino brand isn’t hurt by "
4579 "low-quality copies."
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4585 "Current official manufacturers are Smart Projects in Italy, SparkFun in the "
4586 "United States, and Dog Hunter in Taiwan/China. These are the only "
4587 "manufacturers that are allowed to use the Arduino logo on their "
4588 "boards. Trademarking their brand provided the founders with a way to protect "
4589 "Arduino, build it out further, and fund software and tutorial "
4590 "development. The trademark-licensing fee for the brand became Arduino’s "
4591 "revenue-generating model."
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4597 "How far to open things up wasn’t always something the founders perfectly "
4598 "agreed on. David, who was always one to advocate for opening things up more, "
4599 "had some fears about protecting the Arduino name, thinking people would be "
4600 "mad if they policed their brand. There was some early backlash with a "
4601 "project called Freeduino, but overall, trademarking and branding has been a "
4602 "critical tool for Arduino."
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4607 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/\"/>"
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4613 "David encourages people and businesses to start by sharing everything as a "
4614 "default strategy, and then think about whether there is anything that really "
4615 "needs to be protected and why. There are lots of good reasons to not open up "
4616 "certain elements. This strategy of sharing everything is certainly the "
4617 "complete opposite of how today’s world operates, where nothing is "
4618 "shared. Tom suggests a business formalize which elements are based on open "
4619 "sharing and which are closed. An Arduino blog post from 2013 entitled "
4620 "<quote>Send In the Clones,</quote> by one of the founders Massimo Banzi, "
4621 "does a great job of explaining the full complexities of how trademarking "
4622 "their brand has played out, distinguishing between official boards and those "
4623 "that are clones, derivatives, compatibles, and counterfeits.<placeholder "
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4630 "For David, an exciting aspect of Arduino is the way lots of people can use "
4631 "it to adapt technology in many different ways. Technology is always making "
4632 "more things possible but doesn’t always focus on making it easy to use and "
4633 "adapt. This is where Arduino steps in. Arduino’s goal is <quote>making "
4634 "things that help other people make things.</quote>"
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4640 "Arduino has been hugely successful in making technology and electronics "
4641 "reach a larger audience. For Tom, Arduino has been about <quote>the "
4642 "democratization of technology.</quote> Tom sees Arduino’s open-source "
4643 "strategy as helping the world get over the idea that technology has to be "
4644 "protected. Tom says, <quote>Technology is a literacy everyone should "
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4651 "Ultimately, for Arduino, going open has been good business—good for product "
4652 "development, good for distribution, good for pricing, and good for "
4656 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4657 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3574
4661 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4662 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3577
4664 "Ártica provides online courses and consulting services focused on how to use "
4665 "digital technology to share knowledge and enable collaboration in arts and "
4666 "culture. Founded in 2011 in Uruguay."
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4671 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.articaonline.com\"/>"
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4675 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3584
4677 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for custom "
4681 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4682 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3587
4683 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 9, 2016"
4686 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4687 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3589
4689 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Mariana Fossatti and "
4690 "Jorge Gemetto, cofounders"
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4695 msgid "Profile written by Sarah Hinchliff Pearson"
4698 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4699 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3597
4701 "The story of Mariana Fossatti and Jorge Gemetto’s business, Ártica, is the "
4702 "ultimate example of DIY. Not only are they successful entrepreneurs, the "
4703 "niche in which their small business operates is essentially one they built "
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4709 msgid "Their dream jobs didn’t exist, so they created them."
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4715 "In 2011, Mariana was a sociologist working for an international organization "
4716 "to develop research and online education about rural-development "
4717 "issues. Jorge was a psychologist, also working in online education. Both "
4718 "were bloggers and heavy users of social media, and both had a passion for "
4719 "arts and culture. They decided to take their skills in digital technology "
4720 "and online learning and apply them to a topic area they loved. They launched "
4721 "Ártica, an online business that provides education and consulting for people "
4722 "and institutions creating artistic and cultural projects on the Internet."
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4726 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3618
4728 "Ártica feels like a uniquely twenty-first century business. The small "
4729 "company has a global online presence with no physical offices. Jorge and "
4730 "Mariana live in Uruguay, and the other two full-time employees, who Jorge "
4731 "and Mariana have never actually met in person, live in Spain. They started "
4732 "by creating a MOOC (massive open online course) about remix culture and "
4733 "collaboration in the arts, which gave them a direct way to reach an "
4734 "international audience, attracting students from across Latin America and "
4735 "Spain. In other words, it is the classic Internet story of being able to "
4736 "directly tap into an audience without relying upon gatekeepers or "
4740 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4741 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3631
4743 "Ártica offers personalized education and consulting services, and helps "
4744 "clients implement projects. All of these services are customized. They call "
4745 "it an <quote>artisan</quote> process because of the time and effort it takes "
4746 "to adapt their work for the particular needs of students and "
4747 "clients. <quote>Each student or client is paying for a specific solution to "
4748 "his or her problems and questions,</quote> Mariana said. Rather than sell "
4749 "access to their content, they provide it for free and charge for the "
4750 "personalized services."
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4756 "When they started, they offered a smaller number of courses designed to "
4757 "attract large audiences. <quote>Over the years, we realized that online "
4758 "communities are more specific than we thought,</quote> Mariana said. Ártica "
4759 "now provides more options for classes and has lower enrollment in each "
4760 "course. This means they can provide more attention to individual students "
4761 "and offer classes on more specialized topics."
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4765 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3651
4767 "Online courses are their biggest revenue stream, but they also do more than "
4768 "a dozen consulting projects each year, ranging from digitization to event "
4769 "planning to marketing campaigns. Some are significant in scope, particularly "
4770 "when they work with cultural institutions, and some are smaller projects "
4771 "commissioned by individual artists."
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4777 "Ártica also seeks out public and private funding for specific "
4778 "projects. Sometimes, even if they are unsuccessful in subsidizing a project "
4779 "like a new course or e-book, they will go ahead because they believe in "
4780 "it. They take the stance that every new project leads them to something new, "
4781 "every new resource they create opens new doors."
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4785 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3667
4787 "Ártica relies heavily on their free Creative Commons–licensed content to "
4788 "attract new students and clients. Everything they create—online education, "
4789 "blog posts, videos—is published under an Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC "
4790 "BY-SA). <quote>We use a ShareAlike license because we want to give the "
4791 "greatest freedom to our students and readers, and we also want that freedom "
4792 "to be viral,</quote> Jorge said. For them, giving others the right to reuse "
4793 "and remix their content is a fundamental value. <quote>How can you offer an "
4794 "online educational service without giving permission to download, make and "
4795 "keep copies, or print the educational resources?</quote> Jorge "
4796 "said. <quote>If we want to do the best for our students—those who trust in "
4797 "us to the point that they are willing to pay online without face-to-face "
4798 "contact—we have to offer them a fair and ethical agreement.</quote>"
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4804 "They also believe sharing their ideas and expertise openly helps them build "
4805 "their reputation and visibility. People often share and cite their work. A "
4806 "few years ago, a publisher even picked up one of their e-books and "
4807 "distributed printed copies. Ártica views reuse of their work as a way to "
4808 "open up new opportunities for their business."
4811 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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4814 "This belief that openness creates new opportunities reflects another "
4815 "belief—in serendipity. When describing their process for creating content, "
4816 "they spoke of all of the spontaneous and organic ways they find "
4817 "inspiration. <quote>Sometimes, the collaborative process starts with a "
4818 "conversation between us, or with friends from other projects,</quote> Jorge "
4819 "said. <quote>That can be the first step for a new blog post or another "
4820 "simple piece of content, which can evolve to a more complex product in the "
4821 "future, like a course or a book.</quote>"
4824 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4825 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3702
4827 "Rather than planning their work in advance, they let their creative process "
4828 "be dynamic. <quote>This doesn’t mean that we don’t need to work hard in "
4829 "order to get good professional results, but the design process is more "
4830 "flexible,</quote> Jorge said. They share early and often, and they adjust "
4831 "based on what they learn, always exploring and testing new ideas and ways of "
4832 "operating. In many ways, for them, the process is just as important as the "
4836 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4837 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3712
4839 "People and relationships are also just as important, sometimes "
4840 "more. <quote>In the educational and cultural business, it is more important "
4841 "to pay attention to people and process, rather than content or specific "
4842 "formats or materials,</quote> Mariana said. <quote>Materials and content "
4843 "are fluid. The important thing is the relationships.</quote>"
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4847 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3720
4849 "Ártica believes in the power of the network. They seek to make connections "
4850 "with people and institutions across the globe so they can learn from them "
4851 "and share their knowledge."
4854 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4855 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3725
4857 "At the core of everything Ártica does is a set of values. <quote>Good "
4858 "content is not enough,</quote> Jorge said. <quote>We also think that it is "
4859 "very important to take a stand for some things in the cultural "
4860 "sector.</quote> Mariana and Jorge are activists. They defend free culture "
4861 "(the movement promoting the freedom to modify and distribute creative work) "
4862 "and work to demonstrate the intersection between free culture and other "
4863 "social-justice movements. Their efforts to involve people in their work and "
4864 "enable artists and cultural institutions to better use technology are all "
4865 "tied closely to their belief system. Ultimately, what drives their work is "
4866 "a mission to democratize art and culture."
4869 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4870 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3739
4872 "Of course, Ártica also has to make enough money to cover its expenses. Human "
4873 "resources are, by far, their biggest expense. They tap a network of "
4874 "collaborators on a case-by-case basis and hire contractors for specific "
4875 "projects. Whenever possible, they draw from artistic and cultural resources "
4876 "in the commons, and they rely on free software. Their operation is small, "
4877 "efficient, and sustainable, and because of that, it is a success."
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4883 "<quote>There are lots of people offering online courses,</quote> Jorge "
4884 "said. <quote>But it is easy to differentiate us. We have an approach that is "
4885 "very specific and personal.</quote> Ártica’s model is rooted in the personal "
4886 "at every level. For Mariana and Jorge, success means doing what brings them "
4887 "personal meaning and purpose, and doing it sustainably and collaboratively."
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4893 "In their work with younger artists, Mariana and Jorge try to emphasize that "
4894 "this model of success is just as valuable as the picture of success we get "
4895 "from the media. <quote>If they seek only the traditional type of success, "
4896 "they will get frustrated,</quote> Mariana said. <quote>We try to show them "
4897 "another image of what it looks like.</quote>"
4900 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4901 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3764
4902 msgid "Blender Institute"
4905 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4906 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3767
4908 "The Blender Institute is an animation studio that creates 3-D films using "
4909 "Blender software. Founded in 2006 in the Netherlands."
4912 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4913 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3772
4914 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.blender.org\"/>"
4917 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4918 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3774
4920 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: crowdfunding "
4921 "(subscription-based), charging for physical copies, selling merchandise"
4924 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4925 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3778
4926 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 8, 2016"
4929 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4930 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3780
4932 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Francesco Siddi, "
4933 "production coordinator"
4936 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4937 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3788
4939 "For Ton Roosendaal, the creator of Blender software and its related "
4940 "entities, sharing is practical. Making their 3-D content creation software "
4941 "available under a free software license has been integral to its development "
4942 "and popularity. Using that software to make movies that were licensed with "
4943 "Creative Commons pushed that development even further. Sharing enables "
4944 "people to participate and to interact with and build upon the technology and "
4945 "content they create in a way that benefits Blender and its community in "
4949 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4950 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3799
4952 "Each open-movie project Blender runs produces a host of openly licensed "
4953 "outputs, not just the final film itself but all of the source material as "
4954 "well. The creative process also enhances the development of the Blender "
4955 "software because the technical team responds directly to the needs of the "
4956 "film production team, creating tools and features that make their lives "
4957 "easier. And, of course, each project involves a long, rewarding process for "
4958 "the creative and technical community working together."
4961 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4962 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3809
4964 "Rather than just talking about the theoretical benefits of sharing and free "
4965 "culture, Ton is very much about doing and making free culture. Blender’s "
4966 "production coordinator Francesco Siddi told us, <quote>Ton believes if you "
4967 "don’t make content using your tools, then you’re not doing anything.</quote>"
4970 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4971 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3816
4973 "Blender’s history begins in the late 1990s, when Ton created the Blender "
4974 "software. Originally, the software was an in-house resource for his "
4975 "animation studio based in the Netherlands. Investors became interested in "
4976 "the software, so he began marketing the software to the public, offering a "
4977 "free version in addition to a paid version. Sales were disappointing, and "
4978 "his investors gave up on the endeavor in the early 2000s. He made a deal "
4979 "with investors—if he could raise enough money, he could then make the "
4980 "Blender software available under the GNU General Public License."
4983 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4984 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3827
4986 "This was long before Kickstarter and other online crowdfunding sites "
4987 "existed, but Ton ran his own version of a crowdfunding campaign and quickly "
4988 "raised the money he needed. The Blender software became freely available for "
4989 "anyone to use. Simply applying the General Public License to the software, "
4990 "however, was not enough to create a thriving community around it. Francesco "
4991 "told us, <quote>Software of this complexity relies on people and their "
4992 "vision of how people work together. Ton is a fantastic community builder and "
4993 "manager, and he put a lot of work into fostering a community of developers "
4994 "so that the project could live.</quote>"
4997 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4998 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3840
5000 "Like any successful free and open-source software project, Blender developed "
5001 "quickly because the community could make fixes and "
5002 "improvements. <quote>Software should be free and open to hack,</quote> "
5003 "Francesco said. <quote>Otherwise, everyone is doing the same thing in the "
5004 "dark for ten years.</quote> Ton set up the Blender Foundation to oversee and "
5005 "steward the software development and maintenance."
5008 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5009 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3849
5011 "After a few years, Ton began looking for new ways to push development of the "
5012 "software. He came up with the idea of creating CC-licensed films using the "
5013 "Blender software. Ton put a call online for all interested and skilled "
5014 "artists. Francesco said the idea was to get the best artists available, put "
5015 "them in a building together with the best developers, and have them work "
5016 "together. They would not only produce high-quality openly licensed content, "
5017 "they would improve the Blender software in the process."
5020 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5021 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3859
5023 "They turned to crowdfunding to subsidize the costs of the project. They had "
5024 "about twenty people working full-time for six to ten months, so the costs "
5025 "were significant. Francesco said that when their crowdfunding campaign "
5026 "succeeded, people were astounded. <quote>The idea that making money was "
5027 "possible by producing CC-licensed material was mind-blowing to "
5028 "people,</quote> he said. <quote>They were like, <quote>I have to see it to "
5029 "believe it.</quote></quote>"
5032 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5033 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3869
5035 "The first film, which was released in 2006, was an experiment. It was so "
5036 "successful that Ton decided to set up the Blender Institute, an entity "
5037 "dedicated to hosting open-movie projects. The Blender Institute’s next "
5038 "project was an even bigger success. The film, Big Buck Bunny, went viral, "
5039 "and its animated characters were picked up by marketers."
5042 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5043 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3877
5045 "Francesco said that, over time, the Blender Institute projects have gotten "
5046 "bigger and more prominent. That means the filmmaking process has become more "
5047 "complex, combining technical experts and artists who focus on "
5048 "storytelling. Francesco says the process is almost on an industrial scale "
5049 "because of the number of moving parts. This requires a lot of specialized "
5050 "assistance, but the Blender Institute has no problem finding the talent it "
5051 "needs to help on projects. <quote>Blender hardly does any recruiting for "
5052 "film projects because the talent emerges naturally,</quote> Francesco "
5053 "said. <quote>So many people want to work with us, and we can’t always hire "
5054 "them because of budget constraints.</quote>"
5057 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5058 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3890
5060 "Blender has had a lot of success raising money from its community over the "
5061 "years. In many ways, the pitch has gotten easier to make. Not only is "
5062 "crowdfunding simply more familiar to the public, but people know and trust "
5063 "Blender to deliver, and Ton has developed a reputation as an effective "
5064 "community leader and visionary for their work. <quote>There is a whole "
5065 "community who sees and understands the benefit of these projects,</quote> "
5069 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5070 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3899
5072 "While these benefits of each open-movie project make a compelling pitch for "
5073 "crowdfunding campaigns, Francesco told us the Blender Institute has found "
5074 "some limitations in the standard crowdfunding model where you propose a "
5075 "specific project and ask for funding. <quote>Once a project is over, "
5076 "everyone goes home,</quote> he said. <quote>It is great fun, but then it "
5077 "ends. That is a problem.</quote>"
5080 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5081 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3908
5083 "To make their work more sustainable, they needed a way to receive ongoing "
5084 "support rather than on a project-by-project basis. Their solution is Blender "
5085 "Cloud, a subscription-style crowdfunding model akin to the online "
5086 "crowdfunding platform, Patreon. For about ten euros each month, subscribers "
5087 "get access to download everything the Blender Institute produces—software, "
5088 "art, training, and more. All of the assets are available under an "
5089 "Attribution license (CC BY) or placed in the public domain (CC0), but they "
5090 "are initially made available only to subscribers. Blender Cloud enables "
5091 "subscribers to follow Blender’s movie projects as they develop, sharing "
5092 "detailed information and content used in the creative process. Blender Cloud "
5093 "also has extensive training materials and libraries of characters and other "
5094 "assets used in various projects."
5097 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5098 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3923
5100 "The continuous financial support provided by Blender Cloud subsidizes five "
5101 "to six full-time employees at the Blender Institute. Francesco says their "
5102 "goal is to grow their subscriber base. <quote>This is our freedom,</quote> "
5103 "he told us, <quote>and for artists, freedom is everything.</quote>"
5106 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5107 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3930
5109 "Blender Cloud is the primary revenue stream of the Blender Institute. The "
5110 "Blender Foundation is funded primarily by donations, and that money goes "
5111 "toward software development and maintenance. The revenue streams of the "
5112 "Institute and Foundation are deliberately kept separate. Blender also has "
5113 "other revenue streams, such as the Blender Store, where people can purchase "
5114 "DVDs, T-shirts, and other Blender products."
5117 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5118 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3939
5120 "Ton has worked on projects relating to his Blender software for nearly "
5121 "twenty years. Throughout most of that time, he has been committed to making "
5122 "the software and the content produced with the software free and "
5123 "open. Selling a license has never been part of the business model."
5126 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5127 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3946
5129 "Since 2006, he has been making films available along with all of their "
5130 "source material. He says he has hardly ever seen people stepping into "
5131 "Blender’s shoes and trying to make money off of their content. Ton believes "
5132 "this is because the true value of what they do is in the creative and "
5133 "production process. <quote>Even when you share everything, all your original "
5134 "sources, it still takes a lot of talent, skills, time, and budget to "
5135 "reproduce what you did,</quote> Ton said."
5138 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5139 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3956
5140 msgid "For Ton and Blender, it all comes back to doing."
5143 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
5144 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3960
5145 msgid "Cards Against Humanity"
5148 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
5149 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3963
5151 "Cards Against Humanity is a private, for-profit company that makes a popular "
5152 "party game by the same name. Founded in 2011 in the U.S."
5155 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
5156 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3968
5157 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com\"/>"
5160 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
5161 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3970
5163 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
5167 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
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5169 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 3, 2016"
5172 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
5173 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3976
5174 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Max Temkin, cofounder"
5177 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5178 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3984
5180 "If you ask cofounder Max Temkin, there is nothing particularly interesting "
5181 "about the Cards Against Humanity business model. <quote>We make a "
5182 "product. We sell it for money. Then we spend less money than we "
5183 "make,</quote> Max said."
5186 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5187 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3990
5189 "He is right. Cards Against Humanity is a simple party game, modeled after "
5190 "the game Apples to Apples. To play, one player asks a question or "
5191 "fill-in-the-blank statement from a black card, and the other players submit "
5192 "their funniest white card in response. The catch is that all of the cards "
5193 "are filled with crude, gruesome, and otherwise awful things. For the right "
5194 "kind of people (<quote>horrible people,</quote> according to Cards Against "
5195 "Humanity advertising), this makes for a hilarious and fun game."
5198 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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5201 "The revenue model is simple. Physical copies of the game are sold for a "
5202 "profit. And it works. At the time of this writing, Cards Against Humanity is "
5203 "the number-one best-selling item out of all toys and games on Amazon. There "
5204 "are official expansion packs available, and several official themed packs "
5205 "and international editions as well."
5208 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5209 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4008
5211 "But Cards Against Humanity is also available for free. Anyone can download a "
5212 "digital version of the game on the Cards Against Humanity website. More than "
5213 "one million people have downloaded the game since the company began tracking "
5217 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5218 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4014
5220 "The game is available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
5221 "(CC BY-NC-SA). That means, in addition to copying the game, anyone can "
5222 "create new versions of the game as long as they make it available under the "
5223 "same noncommercial terms. The ability to adapt the game is like an entire "
5224 "new game unto itself."
5227 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5228 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4022
5230 "All together, these factors—the crass tone of the game and company, the free "
5231 "download, the openness to fans remixing the game—give the game a massive "
5235 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5236 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4027
5238 "Their success is not the result of a grand plan. Instead, Cards Against "
5239 "Humanity was the last in a long line of games and comedy projects that Max "
5240 "Temkin and his friends put together for their own amusement. As Max tells "
5241 "the story, they made the game so they could play it themselves on New Year’s "
5242 "Eve because they were too nerdy to be invited to other parties. The game was "
5243 "a hit, so they decided to put it up online as a free PDF. People started "
5244 "asking if they could pay to have the game printed for them, and eventually "
5245 "they decided to run a Kickstarter to fund the printing. They set their "
5246 "Kickstarter goal at $4,000—and raised $15,000. The game was officially "
5247 "released in May 2011."
5250 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5251 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4040
5253 "The game caught on quickly, and it has only grown more popular over "
5254 "time. Max says the eight founders never had a meeting where they decided to "
5255 "make it an ongoing business. <quote>It kind of just happened,</quote> he "
5259 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5260 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4046
5262 "But this tale of a <quote>happy accident</quote> belies marketing "
5263 "genius. Just like the game, the Cards Against Humanity brand is irreverent "
5264 "and memorable. It is hard to forget a company that calls the FAQ on their "
5265 "website <quote>Your dumb questions.</quote>"
5268 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5269 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4052
5271 "Like most quality satire, however, there is more to the joke than vulgarity "
5272 "and shock value. The company’s marketing efforts around Black Friday "
5273 "illustrate this particularly well. For those outside the United States, "
5274 "Black Friday is the term for the day after the Thanksgiving holiday, the "
5275 "biggest shopping day of the year. It is an incredibly important day for "
5276 "Cards Against Humanity, like it is for all U.S. retailers. Max said they "
5277 "struggled with what to do on Black Friday because they didn’t want to "
5278 "support what he called the <quote>orgy of consumerism</quote> the day has "
5279 "become, particularly since it follows a day that is about being grateful for "
5280 "what you have. In 2013, after deliberating, they decided to have an "
5281 "Everything Costs $5 More sale."
5284 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5285 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4065
5287 "<quote>We sweated it out the night before Black Friday, wondering if our "
5288 "fans were going to hate us for it,</quote> he said. <quote>But it made us "
5289 "laugh so we went with it. People totally caught the joke.</quote>"
5292 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5293 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4071
5295 "This sort of bold transparency delights the media, but more importantly, it "
5296 "engages their fans. <quote>One of the most surprising things you can do in "
5297 "capitalism is just be honest with people,</quote> Max said. <quote>It shocks "
5298 "people that there is transparency about what you are doing.</quote>"
5301 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5302 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4078
5304 "Max also likened it to a grand improv scene. <quote>If we do something a "
5305 "little subversive and unexpected, the public wants to be a part of the "
5306 "joke.</quote> One year they did a Give Cards Against Humanity $5 event, "
5307 "where people literally paid them five dollars for no reason. Their fans "
5308 "wanted to make the joke funnier by making it successful. They made $70,000 "
5312 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5313 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4086
5315 "This remarkable trust they have in their customers is what inspired their "
5316 "decision to apply a Creative Commons license to the game. Trusting your "
5317 "customers to reuse and remix your work requires a leap of faith. Cards "
5318 "Against Humanity obviously isn’t afraid of doing the unexpected, but there "
5319 "are lines even they do not want to cross. Before applying the license, Max "
5320 "said they worried that some fans would adapt the game to include all of the "
5321 "jokes they intentionally never made because they crossed that "
5322 "line. <quote>It happened, and the world didn’t end,</quote> Max "
5323 "said. <quote>If that is the worst cost of using CC, I’d pay that a hundred "
5324 "times over because there are so many benefits.</quote>"
5327 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5328 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4099
5330 "Any successful product inspires its biggest fans to create remixes of it, "
5331 "but unsanctioned adaptations are more likely to fly under the radar. The "
5332 "Creative Commons license gives fans of Cards Against Humanity the freedom to "
5333 "run with the game and copy, adapt, and promote their creations openly. Today "
5334 "there are thousands of fan expansions of the game."
5337 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5338 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4107
5340 "Max said, <quote>CC was a no-brainer for us because it gets the most people "
5341 "involved. Making the game free and available under a CC license led to the "
5342 "unbelievable situation where we are one of the best-marketed games in the "
5343 "world, and we have never spent a dime on marketing.</quote>"
5346 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5347 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4114
5349 "Of course, there are limits to what the company allows its customers to do "
5350 "with the game. They chose the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
5351 "because it restricts people from using the game to make money. It also "
5352 "requires that adaptations of the game be made available under the same "
5353 "licensing terms if they are shared publicly. Cards Against Humanity also "
5354 "polices its brand. <quote>We feel like we’re the only ones who can use our "
5355 "brand and our game and make money off of it,</quote> Max said. About 99.9 "
5356 "percent of the time, they just send an email to those making commercial use "
5357 "of the game, and that is the end of it. There have only been a handful of "
5358 "instances where they had to get a lawyer involved."
5361 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5362 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4128
5364 "Just as there is more than meets the eye to the Cards Against Humanity "
5365 "business model, the same can be said of the game itself. To be playable, "
5366 "every white card has to work syntactically with enough black cards. The "
5367 "eight creators invest an incredible amount of work into creating new cards "
5368 "for the game. <quote>We have daylong arguments about commas,</quote> Max "
5369 "said. <quote>The slacker tone of the cards gives people the impression that "
5370 "it is easy to write them, but it is actually a lot of work and "
5371 "quibbling.</quote>"
5374 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5375 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4139
5377 "That means cocreation with their fans really doesn’t work. The company has a "
5378 "submission mechanism on their website, and they get thousands of "
5379 "suggestions, but it is very rare that a submitted card is adopted. Instead, "
5380 "the eight initial creators remain the primary authors of expansion decks and "
5381 "other new products released by the company. Interestingly, the creativity of "
5382 "their customer base is really only an asset to the company once their "
5383 "original work is created and published when people make their own "
5384 "adaptations of the game."
5387 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5388 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4150
5390 "For all of their success, the creators of Cards Against Humanity are only "
5391 "partially motivated by money. Max says they have always been interested in "
5392 "the Walt Disney philosophy of financial success. <quote>We don’t make jokes "
5393 "and games to make money—we make money so we can make more jokes and "
5394 "games,</quote> he said."
5397 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5398 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4157
5400 "In fact, the company has given more than $4 million to various charities and "
5401 "causes. <quote>Cards is not our life plan,</quote> Max said. <quote>We all "
5402 "have other interests and hobbies. We are passionate about other things going "
5403 "on in our lives. A lot of the activism we have done comes out of us taking "
5404 "things from the rest of our lives and channeling some of the excitement from "
5405 "the game into it.</quote>"
5408 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5409 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4166
5411 "Seeing money as fuel rather than the ultimate goal is what has enabled them "
5412 "to embrace Creative Commons licensing without reservation. CC licensing "
5413 "ended up being a savvy marketing move for the company, but nonetheless, "
5414 "giving up exclusive control of your work necessarily means giving up some "
5415 "opportunities to extract more money from customers."
5418 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5419 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4173
5421 "<quote>It’s not right for everyone to release everything under CC "
5422 "licensing,</quote> Max said. <quote>If your only goal is to make a lot of "
5423 "money, then CC is not best strategy. This kind of business model, though, "
5424 "speaks to your values, and who you are and why you’re making things.</quote>"
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5429 msgid "The Conversation"
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5433 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4184
5435 "The Conversation is an independent source of news, sourced from the academic "
5436 "and research community and delivered direct to the public over the "
5437 "Internet. Founded in 2011 in Australia."
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5442 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://theconversation.com\"/>"
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5448 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging content "
5449 "creators (universities pay membership fees to have their faculties serve as "
5450 "writers), grant funding"
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5455 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Andrew Jaspan, founder"
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5461 "Andrew Jaspan spent years as an editor of major newspapers including the "
5462 "Observer in London, the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, and the Age in Melbourne, "
5463 "Australia. He experienced firsthand the decline of newspapers, including the "
5464 "collapse of revenues, layoffs, and the constant pressure to reduce "
5465 "costs. After he left the Age in 2005, his concern for the future journalism "
5466 "didn’t go away. Andrew made a commitment to come up with an alternative "
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5473 "Around the time he left his job as editor of the Melbourne Age, Andrew "
5474 "wondered where citizens would get news grounded in fact and evidence rather "
5475 "than opinion or ideology. He believed there was still an appetite for "
5476 "journalism with depth and substance but was concerned about the increasing "
5477 "focus on the sensational and sexy."
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5483 "While at the Age, he’d become friends with a vice-chancellor of a university "
5484 "in Melbourne who encouraged him to talk to smart people across campus—an "
5485 "astrophysicist, a Nobel laureate, earth scientists, economists . . . These "
5486 "were the kind of smart people he wished were more involved in informing the "
5487 "world about what is going on and correcting the errors that appear in "
5488 "media. However, they were reluctant to engage with mass media. Often, "
5489 "journalists didn’t understand what they said, or unilaterally chose what "
5490 "aspect of a story to tell, putting out a version that these people felt was "
5491 "wrong or mischaracterized. Newspapers want to attract a mass "
5492 "audience. Scholars want to communicate serious news, findings, and "
5493 "insights. It’s not a perfect match. Universities are massive repositories of "
5494 "knowledge, research, wisdom, and expertise. But a lot of that stays behind a "
5495 "wall of their own making—there are the walled garden and ivory tower "
5496 "metaphors, and in more literal terms, the paywall. Broadly speaking, "
5497 "universities are part of society but disconnected from it. They are an "
5498 "enormous public resource but not that good at presenting their expertise to "
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5505 "Andrew believed he could to help connect academics back into the public "
5506 "arena, and maybe help society find solutions to big problems. He thought "
5507 "about pairing professional editors with university and research experts, "
5508 "working one-on-one to refine everything from story structure to headline, "
5509 "captions, and quotes. The editors could help turn something that is "
5510 "academic into something understandable and readable. And this would be a key "
5511 "difference from traditional journalism—the subject matter expert would get a "
5512 "chance to check the article and give final approval before it is "
5513 "published. Compare this with reporters just picking and choosing the quotes "
5514 "and writing whatever they want."
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5520 "The people he spoke to liked this idea, and Andrew embarked on raising money "
5521 "and support with the help of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial "
5522 "Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne, Monash "
5523 "University, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of "
5524 "Western Australia. These founding partners saw the value of an independent "
5525 "information channel that would also showcase the talent and knowledge of the "
5526 "university and research sector. With their help, in 2011, the Conversation, "
5527 "was launched as an independent news site in Australia. Everything published "
5528 "in the Conversation is openly licensed with Creative Commons."
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5534 "The Conversation is founded on the belief that underpinning a functioning "
5535 "democracy is access to independent, high-quality, informative "
5536 "journalism. The Conversation’s aim is for people to have a better "
5537 "understanding of current affairs and complex issues—and hopefully a better "
5538 "quality of public discourse. The Conversation sees itself as a source of "
5539 "trusted information dedicated to the public good. Their core mission is "
5540 "simple: to provide readers with a reliable source of evidence-based "
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5552 "Andrew worked hard to reinvent a methodology for creating reliable, credible "
5553 "content. He introduced strict new working practices, a charter, and codes of "
5554 "conduct.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> These include fully "
5555 "disclosing who every author is (with their relevant expertise); who is "
5556 "funding their research; and if there are any potential or real conflicts of "
5557 "interest. Also important is where the content originates, and even though it "
5558 "comes from the university and research community, it still needs to be fully "
5559 "disclosed. The Conversation does not sit behind a paywall. Andrew believes "
5560 "access to information is an issue of equality—everyone should have access, "
5561 "like access to clean water. The Conversation is committed to an open and "
5562 "free Internet. Everyone should have free access to their content, and be "
5563 "able to share it or republish it."
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5569 "Creative Commons help with these goals; articles are published with the "
5570 "Attribution- NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND). They’re freely available for "
5571 "others to republish elsewhere as long as attribution is given and the "
5572 "content is not edited. Over five years, more than twenty-two thousand sites "
5573 "have republished their content. The Conversation website gets about 2.9 "
5574 "million unique views per month, but through republication they have "
5575 "thirty-five million readers. This couldn’t have been done without the "
5576 "Creative Commons license, and in Andrew’s view, Creative Commons is central "
5577 "to everything the Conversation does."
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5583 "When readers come across the Conversation, they seem to like what they find "
5584 "and recommend it to their friends, peers, and networks. Readership has "
5585 "grown primarily through word of mouth. While they don’t have sales and "
5586 "marketing, they do promote their work through social media (including "
5587 "Twitter and Facebook), and by being an accredited supplier to Google News."
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5593 "It’s usual for the founders of any company to ask themselves what kind of "
5594 "company it should be. It quickly became clear to the founders of the "
5595 "Conversation that they wanted to create a public good rather than make money "
5596 "off of information. Most media companies are working to aggregate as many "
5597 "eyeballs as possible and sell ads. The Conversation founders didn’t want "
5598 "this model. It takes no advertising and is a not-for-profit venture."
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5604 "There are now different editions of the Conversation for Africa, the United "
5605 "Kingdom, France, and the United States, in addition to the one for "
5606 "Australia. All five editions have their own editorial mastheads, advisory "
5607 "boards, and content. The Conversation’s global virtual newsroom has roughly "
5608 "ninety staff working with thirty-five thousand academics from over sixteen "
5609 "hundred universities around the world. The Conversation would like to be "
5610 "working with university scholars from even more parts of the world."
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5616 "Additionally, each edition has its own set of founding partners, strategic "
5617 "partners, and funders. They’ve received funding from foundations, "
5618 "corporates, institutions, and individual donations, but the Conversation is "
5619 "shifting toward paid memberships by universities and research institutions "
5620 "to sustain operations. This would safeguard the current service and help "
5621 "improve coverage and features."
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5627 "When professors from member universities write an article, there is some "
5628 "branding of the university associated with the article. On the Conversation "
5629 "website, paying university members are listed as <quote>members and "
5630 "funders.</quote> Early participants may be designated as <quote>founding "
5631 "members,</quote> with seats on the editorial advisory board."
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5637 "Academics are not paid for their contributions, but they get free editing "
5638 "from a professional (four to five hours per piece, on average). They also "
5639 "get access to a large audience. Every author and member university has "
5640 "access to a special analytics dashboard where they can check the reach of an "
5641 "article. The metrics include what people are tweeting, the comments, "
5642 "countries the readership represents, where the article is being republished, "
5643 "and the number of readers per article."
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5649 "The Conversation plans to expand the dashboard to show not just reach but "
5650 "impact. This tracks activities, behaviors, and events that occurred as a "
5651 "result of publication, including things like a scholar being asked to go on "
5652 "a show to discuss their piece, give a talk at a conference, collaborate, "
5653 "submit a journal paper, and consult a company on a topic."
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5659 "These reach and impact metrics show the benefits of membership. With the "
5660 "Conversation, universities can engage with the public and show why they’re "
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5667 "With its tagline, <quote>Academic Rigor, Journalistic Flair,</quote> the "
5668 "Conversation represents a new form of journalism that contributes to a more "
5669 "informed citizenry and improved democracy around the world. Its open "
5670 "business model and use of Creative Commons show how it’s possible to "
5671 "generate both a public good and operational revenue at the same time."
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5676 msgid "Cory Doctorow"
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5682 "Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer, activist, blogger, and "
5683 "journalist. Based in the U.S."
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5689 "<ulink url=\"http://craphound.com\"/> and <ulink "
5690 "url=\"http://boingboing.net\"/>"
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5696 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
5697 "copies (book sales), pay-what-you-want, selling translation rights to books"
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5702 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: January 12, 2016"
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5708 "Cory Doctorow hates the term <quote>business model,</quote> and he is "
5709 "adamant that he is not a brand. <quote>To me, branding is the idea that you "
5710 "can take a thing that has certain qualities, remove the qualities, and go on "
5711 "selling it,</quote> he said. <quote>I’m not out there trying to figure out "
5712 "how to be a brand. I’m doing this thing that animates me to work crazy "
5713 "insane hours because it’s the most important thing I know how to do.</quote>"
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5719 "Cory calls himself an entrepreneur. He likes to say his success came from "
5720 "making stuff people happened to like and then getting out of the way of them "
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5727 "He is a science fiction writer, activist, blogger, and journalist. "
5728 "Beginning with his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, in 2003, "
5729 "his work has been published under a Creative Commons license. Cory is "
5730 "coeditor of the popular CC-licensed site Boing Boing, where he writes about "
5731 "technology, politics, and intellectual property. He has also written several "
5732 "nonfiction books, including the most recent Information Doesn’t Want to Be "
5733 "Free, about the ways in which creators can make a living in the Internet "
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5740 "Cory primarily makes money by selling physical books, but he also takes on "
5741 "paid speaking gigs and is experimenting with pay-what-you-want models for "
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5748 "While Cory’s extensive body of fiction work has a large following, he is "
5749 "just as well known for his activism. He is an outspoken opponent of "
5750 "restrictive copyright and digital-rights-management (DRM) technology used to "
5751 "lock up content because he thinks both undermine creators and the public "
5752 "interest. He is currently a special adviser at the Electronic Frontier "
5753 "Foundation, where he is involved in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. law that "
5754 "protects DRM. Cory says his political work doesn’t directly make him money, "
5755 "but if he gave it up, he thinks he would lose credibility and, more "
5756 "importantly, lose the drive that propels him to create. <quote>My political "
5757 "work is a different expression of the same artistic-political urge,</quote> "
5758 "he said. <quote>I have this suspicion that if I gave up the things that "
5759 "didn’t make me money, the genuineness would leach out of what I do, and the "
5760 "quality that causes people to like what I do would be gone.</quote>"
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5766 "Cory has been financially successful, but money is not his primary "
5767 "motivation. At the start of his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, he "
5768 "stresses how important it is not to become an artist if your goal is to get "
5769 "rich. <quote>Entering the arts because you want to get rich is like buying "
5770 "lottery tickets because you want to get rich,</quote> he wrote. <quote>It "
5771 "might work, but it almost certainly won’t. Though, of course, someone always "
5772 "wins the lottery.</quote> He acknowledges that he is one of the lucky few to "
5773 "<quote>make it,</quote> but he says he would be writing no matter "
5774 "what. <quote>I am compelled to write,</quote> he wrote. <quote>Long before "
5775 "I wrote to keep myself fed and sheltered, I was writing to keep myself "
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5782 "Just as money is not his primary motivation to create, money is not his "
5783 "primary motivation to share. For Cory, sharing his work with Creative "
5784 "Commons is a moral imperative. <quote>It felt morally right,</quote> he said "
5785 "of his decision to adopt Creative Commons licenses. <quote>I felt like I "
5786 "wasn’t contributing to the culture of surveillance and censorship that has "
5787 "been created to try to stop copying.</quote> In other words, using CC "
5788 "licenses symbolizes his worldview."
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5794 "He also feels like there is a solid commercial basis for licensing his work "
5795 "with Creative Commons. While he acknowledges he hasn’t been able to do a "
5796 "controlled experiment to compare the commercial benefits of licensing with "
5797 "CC against reserving all rights, he thinks he has sold more books using a CC "
5798 "license than he would have without it. Cory says his goal is to convince "
5799 "people they should pay him for his work. <quote>I started by not calling "
5800 "them thieves,</quote> he said."
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5806 "Cory started using CC licenses soon after they were first created. At the "
5807 "time his first novel came out, he says the science fiction genre was overrun "
5808 "with people scanning and downloading books without permission. When he and "
5809 "his publisher took a closer look at who was doing that sort of thing online, "
5810 "they realized it looked a lot like book promotion. <quote>I knew there was a "
5811 "relationship between having enthusiastic readers and having a successful "
5812 "career as a writer,</quote> he said. <quote>At the time, it took eighty "
5813 "hours to OCR a book, which is a big effort. I decided to spare them the time "
5814 "and energy, and give them the book for free in a format destined to "
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5821 "Cory admits the stakes were pretty low for him when he first adopted "
5822 "Creative Commons licenses. He only had to sell two thousand copies of his "
5823 "book to break even. People often said he was only able to use CC licenses "
5824 "successfully at that time because he was just starting out. Now they say he "
5825 "can only do it because he is an established author."
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5831 "The bottom line, Cory says, is that no one has found a way to prevent people "
5832 "from copying the stuff they like. Rather than fighting the tide, Cory makes "
5833 "his work intrinsically shareable. <quote>Getting the hell out of the way "
5834 "for people who want to share their love of you with other people sounds "
5835 "obvious, but it’s remarkable how many people don’t do it,</quote> he said."
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5841 "Making his work available under Creative Commons licenses enables him to "
5842 "view his biggest fans as his ambassadors. <quote>Being open to fan activity "
5843 "makes you part of the conversation about what fans do with your work and how "
5844 "they interact with it,</quote> he said. Cory’s own website routinely "
5845 "highlights cool things his audience has done with his work. Unlike "
5846 "corporations like Disney that tend to have a hands-off relationship with "
5847 "their fan activity, he has a symbiotic relationship with his "
5848 "audience. <quote>Engaging with your audience can’t guarantee you "
5849 "success,</quote> he said. <quote>And Disney is an example of being able to "
5850 "remain aloof and still being the most successful company in the creative "
5851 "industry in history. But I figure my likelihood of being Disney is pretty "
5852 "slim, so I should take all the help I can get.</quote>"
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5858 "His first book was published under the most restrictive Creative Commons "
5859 "license, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND). It allows only "
5860 "verbatim copying for noncommercial purposes. His later work is published "
5861 "under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA), which "
5862 "gives people the right to adapt his work for noncommercial purposes but only "
5863 "if they share it back under the same license terms. Before releasing his "
5864 "work under a CC license that allows adaptations, he always sells the right "
5865 "to translate the book to other languages to a commercial publisher first. He "
5866 "wants to reach new potential buyers in other parts of the world, and he "
5867 "thinks it is more difficult to get people to pay for translations if there "
5868 "are fan translations already available for free."
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5874 "In his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, Cory likens his philosophy "
5875 "to thinking like a dandelion. Dandelions produce thousands of seeds each "
5876 "spring, and they are blown into the air going in every direction. The "
5877 "strategy is to maximize the number of blind chances the dandelion has for "
5878 "continuing its genetic line. Similarly, he says there are lots of people out "
5879 "there who may want to buy creative work or compensate authors for it in some "
5880 "other way. <quote>The more places your work can find itself, the greater the "
5881 "likelihood that it will find one of those would-be customers in some "
5882 "unsuspected crack in the metaphorical pavement,</quote> he wrote. <quote>The "
5883 "copies that others make of my work cost me nothing, and present the "
5884 "possibility that I’ll get something.</quote>"
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5890 "Applying a CC license to his work increases the chances it will be shared "
5891 "more widely around the Web. He avoids DRM—and openly opposes the "
5892 "practice—for similar reasons. DRM has the effect of tying a work to a "
5893 "particular platform. This digital lock, in turn, strips the authors of "
5894 "control over their own work and hands that control over to the platform. He "
5895 "calls it Cory’s First Law: <quote>Anytime someone puts a lock on something "
5896 "that belongs to you and won’t give you the key, that lock isn’t there for "
5897 "your benefit.</quote>"
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5903 "Cory operates under the premise that artists benefit when there are more, "
5904 "rather than fewer, places where people can access their work. The Internet "
5905 "has opened up those avenues, but DRM is designed to limit them. <quote>On "
5906 "the one hand, we can credibly make our work available to a widely dispersed "
5907 "audience,</quote> he said. <quote>On the other hand, the intermediaries we "
5908 "historically sold to are making it harder to go around them.</quote> Cory "
5909 "continually looks for ways to reach his audience without relying upon major "
5910 "platforms that will try to take control over his work."
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5916 "Cory says his e-book sales have been lower than those of his competitors, "
5917 "and he attributes some of that to the CC license making the work available "
5918 "for free. But he believes people are willing to pay for content they like, "
5919 "even when it is available for free, as long as it is easy to do. He was "
5920 "extremely successful using Humble Bundle, a platform that allows people to "
5921 "pay what they want for DRM-free versions of a bundle of a particular "
5922 "creator’s work. He is planning to try his own pay-what-you-want experiment "
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5929 "Fans are particularly willing to pay when they feel personally connected to "
5930 "the artist. Cory works hard to create that personal connection. One way he "
5931 "does this is by personally answering every single email he gets. <quote>If "
5932 "you look at the history of artists, most die in penury,</quote> he "
5933 "said. <quote>That reality means that for artists, we have to find ways to "
5934 "support ourselves when public tastes shift, when copyright stops producing. "
5935 "Future-proofing your artistic career in many ways means figuring out how to "
5936 "stay connected to those people who have been touched by your work.</quote>"
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5942 "Cory’s realism about the difficulty of making a living in the arts does not "
5943 "reflect pessimism about the Internet age. Instead, he says the fact that it "
5944 "is hard to make a living as an artist is nothing new. What is new, he writes "
5945 "in his book, <quote>is how many ways there are to make things, and to get "
5946 "them into other people’s hands and minds.</quote>"
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5951 msgid "It has never been easier to think like a dandelion."
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5962 "Figshare is a for-profit company offering an online repository where "
5963 "researchers can preserve and share the output of their research, including "
5964 "figures, data sets, images, and videos. Founded in 2011 in the UK."
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5969 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://figshare.com\"/>"
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5975 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: platform providing paid "
5976 "services to creators"
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5981 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: January 28, 2016"
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5986 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Mark Hahnel, founder"
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5992 "Figshare’s mission is to change the face of academic publishing through "
5993 "improved dissemination, discoverability, and reusability of scholarly "
5994 "research. Figshare is a repository where users can make all the output of "
5995 "their research available—from posters and presentations to data sets and "
5996 "code—in a way that’s easy to discover, cite, and share. Users can upload any "
5997 "file format, which can then be previewed in a Web browser. Research output "
5998 "is disseminated in a way that the current scholarly-publishing model does "
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6005 "Figshare founder Mark Hahnel often gets asked: How do you make money? How do "
6006 "we know you’ll be here in five years? Can you, as a for-profit venture, be "
6007 "trusted? Answers have evolved over time."
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6013 "Mark traces the origins of Figshare back to when he was a graduate student "
6014 "getting his PhD in stem cell biology. His research involved working with "
6015 "videos of stem cells in motion. However, when he went to publish his "
6016 "research, there was no way for him to also publish the videos, figures, "
6017 "graphs, and data sets. This was frustrating. Mark believed publishing his "
6018 "complete research would lead to more citations and be better for his career."
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6024 "Mark does not consider himself an advanced software programmer. "
6025 "Fortunately, things like cloud-based computing and wikis had become "
6026 "mainstream, and he believed it ought to be possible to put all his research "
6027 "online and share it with anyone. So he began working on a solution."
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6033 "There were two key needs: licenses to make the data citable, and persistent "
6034 "identifiers— URL links that always point back to the original object "
6035 "ensuring the research is citable for the long term."
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6041 "Mark chose Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to meet the need for a "
6042 "persistent identifier. In the DOI system, an object’s metadata is stored as "
6043 "a series of numbers in the DOI name. Referring to an object by its DOI is "
6044 "more stable than referring to it by its URL, because the location of an "
6045 "object (the web page or URL) can often change. Mark partnered with DataCite "
6046 "for the provision of DOIs for research data."
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6052 "As for licenses, Mark chose Creative Commons. The open-access and "
6053 "open-science communities were already using and recommending Creative "
6054 "Commons. Based on what was happening in those communities and Mark’s "
6055 "dialogue with peers, he went with CC0 (in the public domain) for data sets "
6056 "and CC BY (Attribution) for figures, videos, and data sets."
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6062 "So Mark began using DOIs and Creative Commons for his own research work. He "
6063 "had a science blog where he wrote about it and made all his data "
6064 "open. People started commenting on his blog that they wanted to do the "
6065 "same. So he opened it up for them to use, too."
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6071 "People liked the interface and simple upload process. People started asking "
6072 "if they could also share theses, grant proposals, and code. Inclusion of "
6073 "code raised new licensing issues, as Creative Commons licenses are not used "
6074 "for software. To allow the sharing of software code, Mark chose the MIT "
6075 "license, but GNU and Apache licenses can also be used."
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6081 "Mark sought investment to make this into a scalable product. After a few "
6082 "unsuccessful funding pitches, UK-based Digital Science expressed interest "
6083 "but insisted on a more viable business model. They made an initial "
6084 "investment, and together they came up with a freemium-like business model."
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6090 "Under the freemium model, academics upload their research to Figshare for "
6091 "storage and sharing for free. Each research object is licensed with Creative "
6092 "Commons and receives a DOI link. The premium option charges researchers a "
6093 "fee for gigabytes of private storage space, and for private online space "
6094 "designed for a set number of research collaborators, which is ideal for "
6095 "larger teams and geographically dispersed research groups. Figshare sums up "
6096 "its value proposition to researchers as <quote>You retain ownership. You "
6097 "license it. You get credit. We just make sure it persists.</quote>"
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6103 "In January 2012, Figshare was launched. (The fig in Figshare stands for "
6104 "figures.) Using investment funds, Mark made significant improvements to "
6105 "Figshare. For example, researchers could quickly preview their research "
6106 "files within a browser without having to download them first or require "
6107 "third-party software. Journals who were still largely publishing articles as "
6108 "static noninteractive PDFs became interested in having Figshare provide that "
6109 "functionality for them."
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6115 "Figshare diversified its business model to include services for "
6116 "journals. Figshare began hosting large amounts of data for the journals’ "
6117 "online articles. This additional data improved the quality of the "
6118 "articles. Outsourcing this service to Figshare freed publishers from having "
6119 "to develop this functionality as part of their own "
6120 "infrastructure. Figshare-hosted data also provides a link back to the "
6121 "article, generating additional click-through and readership—a benefit to "
6122 "both journal publishers and researchers. Figshare now provides"
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6128 "research-data infrastructure for a wide variety of publishers including "
6129 "Wiley, Springer Nature, PLOS, and Taylor and Francis, to name a few, and has "
6130 "convinced them to use Creative Commons licenses for the data."
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6136 "Governments allocate significant public funds to research. In parallel with "
6137 "the launch of Figshare, governments around the world began requesting the "
6138 "research they fund be open and accessible. They mandated that researchers "
6139 "and academic institutions better manage and disseminate their research "
6140 "outputs. Institutions looking to comply with this new mandate became "
6141 "interested in Figshare. Figshare once again diversified its business model, "
6142 "adding services for institutions."
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6148 "Figshare now offers a range of fee-based services to institutions, including "
6149 "their own minibranded Figshare space (called Figshare for Institutions) that "
6150 "securely hosts research data of institutions in the cloud. Services include "
6151 "not just hosting but data metrics, data dissemination, and user-group "
6152 "administration. Figshare’s workflow, and the services they offer for "
6153 "institutions, take into account the needs of librarians and administrators, "
6154 "as well as of the researchers."
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6160 "As with researchers and publishers, Fig-share encouraged institutions to "
6161 "share their research with CC BY (Attribution) and their data with CC0 (into "
6162 "the public domain). Funders who require researchers and institutions to use "
6163 "open licensing believe in the social responsibilities and benefits of making "
6164 "research accessible to all. Publishing research in this open way has come to "
6165 "be called open access. But not all funders specify CC BY; some institutions "
6166 "want to offer their researchers a choice, including less permissive licenses "
6167 "like CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial), CC BY-SA "
6168 "(Attribution-ShareAlike), or CC BY-ND (Attribution-NoDerivs)."
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6174 "For Mark this created a conflict. On the one hand, the principles and "
6175 "benefits of open science are at the heart of Figshare, and Mark believes CC "
6176 "BY is the best license for this. On the other hand, institutions were saying "
6177 "they wouldn’t use Figshare unless it offered a choice in licenses. He "
6178 "initially refused to offer anything beyond CC0 and CC BY, but after seeing "
6179 "an open-source CERN project offer all Creative Commons licenses without any "
6180 "negative repercussions, he decided to follow suit."
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6186 "Mark is thinking of doing a Figshare study that tracks research "
6187 "dissemination according to Creative Commons license, and gathering metrics "
6188 "on views, citations, and downloads. You could see which license generates "
6189 "the biggest impact. If the data showed that CC BY is more impactful, Mark "
6190 "believes more and more researchers and institutions will make it their "
6191 "license of choice."
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6211 "Figshare has an Application Programming Interface (API) that makes it "
6212 "possible for data to be pulled from Figshare and used in other "
6213 "applications. As an example, Mark shared a Figshare data set showing the "
6214 "journal subscriptions that higher-education institutions in the United "
6215 "Kingdom paid to ten major publishers.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
6216 "id=\"0\"/> Figshare’s API enables that data to be pulled into an app "
6217 "developed by a completely different researcher that converts the data into a "
6218 "visually interesting graph, which any viewer can alter by changing any of "
6219 "the variables.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
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6225 "The free version of Figshare has built a community of academics, who through "
6226 "word of mouth and presentations have promoted and spread awareness of "
6227 "Figshare. To amplify and reward the community, Figshare established an "
6228 "Advisor program, providing those who promoted Figshare with hoodies and "
6229 "T-shirts, early access to new features, and travel expenses when they gave "
6230 "presentations outside of their area. These Advisors also helped Mark on what "
6231 "license to use for software code and whether to offer universities an option "
6232 "of using Creative Commons licenses."
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6243 "Mark says his success is partly about being in the right place at the right "
6244 "time. He also believes that the diversification of Figshare’s model over "
6245 "time has been key to success. Figshare now offers a comprehensive set of "
6246 "services to researchers, publishers, and institutions.<placeholder "
6247 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> If he had relied solely on revenue from premium "
6248 "subscriptions, he believes Figshare would have struggled. In Figshare’s "
6249 "early days, their primary users were early-career and late-career "
6250 "academics. It has only been because funders mandated open licensing that "
6251 "Figshare is now being used by the mainstream."
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6257 "Today Figshare has 26 million–plus page views, 7.5 million–plus downloads, "
6258 "800,000–plus user uploads, 2 million–plus articles, 500,000-plus "
6259 "collections, and 5,000–plus projects. Sixty percent of their traffic comes "
6260 "from Google. A sister company called Altmetric tracks the use of Figshare by "
6261 "others, including Wikipedia and news sources."
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6267 "Figshare uses the revenue it generates from the premium subscribers, journal "
6268 "publishers, and institutions to fund and expand what it can offer to "
6269 "researchers for free. Figshare has publicly stuck to its principles—keeping "
6270 "the free service free and requiring the use of CC BY and CC0 from the "
6271 "start—and from Mark’s perspective, this is why people trust Figshare. Mark "
6272 "sees new competitors coming forward who are just in it for money. If "
6273 "Figshare was only in it for the money, they wouldn’t care about offering a "
6274 "free version. Figshare’s principles and advocacy for openness are a key "
6275 "differentiator. Going forward, Mark sees Figshare not only as supporting "
6276 "open access to research but also enabling people to collaborate and make new "
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6288 "Figure.NZ is a nonprofit charity that makes an online data platform designed "
6289 "to make data reusable and easy to understand. Founded in 2012 in New "
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6301 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: platform providing paid "
6302 "services to creators, donations, sponsorships"
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6307 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: May 3, 2016"
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6312 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Lillian Grace, founder"
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6319 "url=\"http://www.nzdatafutures.org.nz/sites/default/files/NZDFF_harness-the-power.pdf\"/>"
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6325 "In the paper Harnessing the Economic and Social Power of Data presented at "
6326 "the New Zealand Data Futures Forum in 2014,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
6327 "id=\"0\"/> Figure.NZ founder Lillian Grace said there are thousands of "
6328 "valuable and relevant data sets freely available to us right now, but most "
6329 "people don’t use them. She used to think this meant people didn’t care about "
6330 "being informed, but she’s come to see that she was wrong. Almost everyone "
6331 "wants to be informed about issues that matter—not only to them, but also to "
6332 "their families, their communities, their businesses, and their country. But "
6333 "there’s a big difference between availability and accessibility of "
6334 "information. Data is spread across thousands of sites and is held within "
6335 "databases and spreadsheets that require both time and skill to engage "
6336 "with. To use data when making a decision, you have to know what specific "
6337 "question to ask, identify a source that has collected the data, and "
6338 "manipulate complex tools to extract and visualize the information within the "
6339 "data set. Lillian established Figure.NZ to make data truly accessible to "
6340 "all, with a specific focus on New Zealand."
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6346 "Lillian had the idea for Figure.NZ in February 2012 while working for the "
6347 "New Zealand Institute, a think tank concerned with improving economic "
6348 "prosperity, social well-being, environmental quality, and environmental "
6349 "productivity for New Zealand and New Zealanders. While giving talks to "
6350 "community and business groups, Lillian realized <quote>every single issue we "
6351 "addressed would have been easier to deal with if more people understood the "
6352 "basic facts.</quote> But understanding the basic facts sometimes requires "
6353 "data and research that you often have to pay for."
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6359 "Lillian began to imagine a website that lifted data up to a visual form that "
6360 "could be easily understood and freely accessed. Initially launched as Wiki "
6361 "New Zealand, the original idea was that people could contribute their data "
6362 "and visuals via a wiki. However, few people had graphs that could be used "
6363 "and shared, and there were no standards or consistency around the data and "
6364 "the visuals. Realizing the wiki model wasn’t working, Lillian brought the "
6365 "process of data aggregation, curation, and visual presentation in-house, and "
6366 "invested in the technology to help automate some of it. Wiki New Zealand "
6367 "became Figure.NZ, and efforts were reoriented toward providing services to "
6368 "those wanting to open their data and present it visually."
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6374 "Here’s how it works. Figure.NZ sources data from other organizations, "
6375 "including corporations, public repositories, government departments, and "
6376 "academics. Figure.NZ imports and extracts that data, and then validates and "
6377 "standardizes it—all with a strong eye on what will be best for users. They "
6378 "then make the data available in a series of standardized forms, both human- "
6379 "and machine-readable, with rich metadata about the sources, the licenses, "
6380 "and data types. Figure.NZ has a chart-designing tool that makes simple bar, "
6381 "line, and area graphs from any data source. The graphs are posted to the "
6382 "Figure.NZ website, and they can also be exported in a variety of formats for "
6383 "print or online use. Figure.NZ makes its data and graphs available using "
6384 "the Attribution (CC BY) license. This allows others to reuse, revise, remix, "
6385 "and redistribute Figure.NZ data and graphs as long as they give attribution "
6386 "to the original source and to Figure.NZ."
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6399 "Lillian characterizes the initial decision to use Creative Commons as "
6400 "naively fortunate. It was first recommended to her by a colleague. Lillian "
6401 "spent time looking at what Creative Commons offered and thought it looked "
6402 "good, was clear, and made common sense. It was easy to use and easy for "
6403 "others to understand. Over time, she’s come to realize just how fortunate "
6404 "and important that decision turned out to be. New Zealand’s government has "
6405 "an open-access and licensing framework called NZGOAL, which provides "
6406 "guidance for agencies when they release copyrighted and noncopyrighted work "
6407 "and material.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It aims to "
6408 "standardize the licensing of works with government copyright and how they "
6409 "can be reused, and it does this with Creative Commons licenses. As a result, "
6410 "98 percent of all government-agency data is Creative Commons licensed, "
6411 "fitting in nicely with Figure.NZ’s decision."
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6417 "Lillian thinks current ideas of what a business is are relatively new, only "
6418 "a hundred years old or so. She’s convinced that twenty years from now, we "
6419 "will see new and different models for business. Figure.NZ is set up as a "
6420 "nonprofit charity. It is purpose-driven but also strives to pay people well "
6421 "and thinks like a business. Lillian sees the charity-nonprofit status as an "
6422 "essential element for the mission and purpose of Figure.NZ. She believes "
6423 "Wikipedia would not work if it were for profit, and similarly, Figure.NZ’s "
6424 "nonprofit status assures people who have data and people who want to use it "
6425 "that they can rely on Figure.NZ’s motives. People see them as a trusted "
6426 "wrangler and source."
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6432 "Although Figure.NZ is a social enterprise that openly licenses their data "
6433 "and graphs for everyone to use for free, they have taken care not to be "
6434 "perceived as a free service all around the table. Lillian believes hundreds "
6435 "of millions of dollars are spent by the government and organizations to "
6436 "collect data. However, very little money is spent on taking that data and "
6437 "making it accessible, understandable, and useful for decision making. "
6438 "Government uses some of the data for policy, but Lillian believes that it is "
6439 "underutilized and the potential value is much larger. Figure.NZ is focused "
6440 "on solving that problem. They believe a portion of money allocated to "
6441 "collecting data should go into making sure that data is useful and generates "
6442 "value. If the government wants citizens to understand why certain decisions "
6443 "are being made and to be more aware about what the government is doing, why "
6444 "not transform the data it collects into easily understood visuals? It could "
6445 "even become a way for a government or any organization to differentiate, "
6446 "market, and brand itself."
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6452 "Figure.NZ spends a lot of time seeking to understand the motivations of data "
6453 "collectors and to identify the channels where it can provide value. Every "
6454 "part of their business model has been focused on who is going to get value "
6455 "from the data and visuals."
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6461 "Figure.NZ has multiple lines of business. They provide commercial services "
6462 "to organizations that want their data publicly available and want to use "
6463 "Figure.NZ as their publishing platform. People who want to publish open data "
6464 "appreciate Figure.NZ’s ability to do it faster, more easily, and better than "
6465 "they can. Customers are encouraged to help their users find, use, and make "
6466 "things from the data they make available on Figure.NZ’s website. Customers "
6467 "control what is released and the license terms (although Figure.NZ "
6468 "encourages Creative Commons licensing). Figure.NZ also serves customers who "
6469 "want a specific collection of charts created—for example, for their website "
6470 "or annual report. Charging the organizations that want to make their data "
6471 "available enables Figure.NZ to provide their site free to all users, to "
6472 "truly democratize data."
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6478 "Lillian notes that the current state of most data is terrible and often not "
6479 "well understood by the people who have it. This sometimes makes it difficult "
6480 "for customers and Figure.NZ to figure out what it would cost to import, "
6481 "standardize, and display that data in a useful way. To deal with this, "
6482 "Figure.NZ uses <quote>high-trust contracts,</quote> where customers allocate "
6483 "a certain budget to the task that Figure.NZ is then free to draw from, as "
6484 "long as Figure.NZ frequently reports on what they’ve produced so the "
6485 "customer can determine the value for money. This strategy has helped build "
6486 "trust and transparency about the level of effort associated with doing work "
6487 "that has never been done before."
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6499 "Statistics New Zealand are partners who back Figure.NZ’s efforts. As one "
6500 "example, with their support Figure.NZ has been able to create Business "
6501 "Figures, a special way for businesses to find useful data without having to "
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6513 "Figure.NZ also has patrons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Patrons "
6514 "donate to topic areas they care about, directly enabling Figure.NZ to get "
6515 "data together to flesh out those areas. Patrons do not direct what data is "
6516 "included or excluded."
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6522 "Figure.NZ also accepts philanthropic donations, which are used to provide "
6523 "more content, extend technology, and improve services, or are targeted to "
6524 "fund a specific effort or provide in-kind support. As a charity, donations "
6525 "are tax deductible."
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6529 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5052
6531 "Figure.NZ has morphed and grown over time. With data aggregation, curation, "
6532 "and visualizing services all in-house, Figure.NZ has developed a deep "
6533 "expertise in taking random styles of data, standardizing it, and making it "
6534 "useful. Lillian realized that Figure.NZ could easily become a warehouse of "
6535 "seventy people doing data. But for Lillian, growth isn’t always good. In her "
6536 "view, bigger often means less effective. Lillian set artificial constraints "
6537 "on growth, forcing the organization to think differently and be more "
6538 "efficient. Rather than in-house growth, they are growing and building "
6539 "external relationships."
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6543 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5064
6545 "Figure.NZ’s website displays visuals and data associated with a wide range "
6546 "of categories including crime, economy, education, employment, energy, "
6547 "environment, health, information and communications technology, industry, "
6548 "tourism, and many others. A search function helps users find tables and "
6549 "graphs. Figure.NZ does not provide analysis or interpretation of the data or "
6550 "visuals. Their goal is to teach people how to think, not think for them. "
6551 "Figure.NZ wants to create intuitive experiences, not user manuals."
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6555 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5074
6557 "Figure.NZ believes data and visuals should be useful. They provide their "
6558 "customers with a data collection template and teach them why it’s important "
6559 "and how to use it. They’ve begun putting more emphasis on tracking what "
6560 "users of their website want. They also get requests from social media and "
6561 "through email for them to share data for a specific topic—for example, can "
6562 "you share data for water quality? If they have the data, they respond "
6563 "quickly; if they don’t, they try and identify the organizations that would "
6564 "have that data and forge a relationship so they can be included on "
6565 "Figure.NZ’s site. Overall, Figure.NZ is seeking to provide a place for "
6566 "people to be curious about, access, and interpret data on topics they are "
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6573 "Lillian has a deep and profound vision for Figure.NZ that goes well beyond "
6574 "simply providing open-data services. She says things are different now. \"We "
6575 "used to live in a world where it was really hard to share information "
6576 "widely. And in that world, the best future was created by having a few great "
6577 "leaders who essentially had access to the information and made decisions on "
6578 "behalf of others, whether it was on behalf of a country or companies."
6581 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
6582 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5098
6584 "\"But now we live in a world where it’s really easy to share information "
6585 "widely and also to communicate widely. In the world we live in now, the best "
6586 "future is the one where everyone can make well-informed decisions."
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6590 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5104
6592 "\"The use of numbers and data as a way of making well-informed decisions is "
6593 "one of the areas where there is the biggest gaps. We don’t really use "
6594 "numbers as a part of our thinking and part of our understanding yet."
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6598 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5110
6600 "\"Part of the reason is the way data is spread across hundreds of sites. In "
6601 "addition, for the most part, deep thinking based on data is constrained to "
6602 "experts because most people don’t have data literacy. There once was a time "
6603 "when many citizens in society couldn’t read or write. However, as a society, "
6604 "we’ve now come to believe that reading and writing skills should be "
6605 "something all citizens have. We haven’t yet adopted a similar belief around "
6606 "numbers and data literacy. We largely still believe that only a few "
6607 "specially trained people can analyze and think with numbers."
6610 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
6611 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5121
6613 "\"Figure.NZ may be the first organization to assert that everyone can use "
6614 "numbers in their thinking, and it’s built a technological platform along "
6615 "with trust and a network of relationships to make that possible. What you "
6616 "can see on Figure.NZ are tens of thousands of graphs, maps, and data."
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6622 "<quote>Figure.NZ sees this as a new kind of alphabet that can help people "
6623 "analyze what they see around them. A way to be thoughtful and informed about "
6624 "society. A means of engaging in conversation and shaping decision making "
6625 "that transcends personal experience. The long-term value and impact is "
6626 "almost impossible to measure, but the goal is to help citizens gain "
6627 "understanding and work together in more informed ways to shape the "
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6634 "Lillian sees Figure.NZ’s model as having global potential. But for now, "
6635 "their focus is completely on making Figure.NZ work in New Zealand and to get "
6636 "the <quote>network effect</quote>—"
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6640 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5142
6642 "users dramatically increasing value for themselves and for others through "
6643 "use of their service. Creative Commons is core to making the network effect "
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6649 msgid "Knowledge Unlatched"
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6655 "Knowledge Unlatched is a not-for-profit community interest company that "
6656 "brings libraries together to pool funds to publish open-access "
6657 "books. Founded in 2012 in the UK."
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6662 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://knowledgeunlatched.org\"/>"
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6668 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: crowdfunding "
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6674 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 26, 2016"
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6679 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Frances Pinter, founder"
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6685 "The serial entrepreneur Dr. Frances Pinter has been at the forefront of "
6686 "innovation in the publishing industry for nearly forty years. She founded "
6687 "the UK-based Knowledge Unlatched with a mission to enable open access to "
6688 "scholarly books. For Frances, the current scholarly- book-publishing system "
6689 "is not working for anyone, and especially not for monographs in the "
6690 "humanities and social sciences. Knowledge Unlatched is committed to changing "
6691 "this and has been working with libraries to create a sustainable alternative "
6692 "model for publishing scholarly books, sharing the cost of making monographs "
6693 "(released under a Creative Commons license) and savings costs over the long "
6694 "term. Since its launch, Knowledge Unlatched has received several awards, "
6695 "including the IFLA/Brill Open Access award in 2014 and a Curtin University "
6696 "Commercial Innovation Award for Innovation in Education in 2015."
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6700 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5188
6702 "Dr. Pinter has been in academic publishing most of her career. About ten "
6703 "years ago, she became acquainted with the Creative Commons founder Lawrence "
6704 "Lessig and got interested in Creative Commons as a tool for both protecting "
6705 "content online and distributing it free to users."
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6711 "Not long after, she ran a project in Africa convincing publishers in Uganda "
6712 "and South Africa to put some of their content online for free using a "
6713 "Creative Commons license and to see what happened to print sales. Sales went "
6717 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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6720 "In 2008, Bloomsbury Academic, a new imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing in the "
6721 "United Kingdom, appointed her its founding publisher in London. As part of "
6722 "the launch, Frances convinced Bloomsbury to differentiate themselves by "
6723 "putting out monographs for free online under a Creative Commons license "
6724 "(BY-NC or BY-NC-ND, i.e., Attribution-NonCommercial or "
6725 "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs). This was seen as risky, as the biggest "
6726 "cost for publishers is getting a book to the stage where it can be "
6727 "printed. If everyone read the online book for free, there would be no "
6728 "print-book sales at all, and the costs associated with getting the book to "
6729 "print would be lost. Surprisingly, Bloomsbury found that sales of the print "
6730 "versions of these books were 10 to 20 percent higher than normal. Frances "
6731 "found it intriguing that the Creative Commons–licensed free online book acts "
6732 "as a marketing vehicle for the print format."
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6738 "Frances began to look at customer interest in the three forms of the book: "
6739 "1) the Creative Commons–licensed free online book in PDF form, 2) the "
6740 "printed book, and 3) a digital version of the book on an aggregator platform "
6741 "with enhanced features. She thought of this as the <quote>ice cream "
6742 "model</quote>: the free PDF was vanilla ice cream, the printed book was an "
6743 "ice cream cone, and the enhanced e-book was an ice cream sundae."
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6749 "After a while, Frances had an epiphany—what if there was a way to get "
6750 "libraries to underwrite the costs of making these books up until they’re "
6751 "ready be printed, in other words, cover the fixed costs of getting to the "
6752 "first digital copy? Then you could either bring down the cost of the printed "
6753 "book, or do a whole bunch of interesting things with the printed book and "
6754 "e-book—the ice cream cone or sundae part of the model."
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6758 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5236
6760 "This idea is similar to the article-processing charge some open-access "
6761 "journals charge researchers to cover publishing costs. Frances began to "
6762 "imagine a coalition of libraries paying for the prepress costs—a "
6763 "<quote>book-processing charge</quote>—and providing everyone in the world "
6764 "with an open-access version of the books released under a Creative Commons "
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6771 "This idea really took hold in her mind. She didn’t really have a name for it "
6772 "but began talking about it and making presentations to see if there was "
6773 "interest. The more she talked about it, the more people agreed it had "
6774 "appeal. She offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who could come up with a "
6775 "good name for the idea. Her husband came up with Knowledge Unlatched, and "
6776 "after two years of generating interest, she decided to move forward and "
6777 "launch a community interest company (a UK term for not-for-profit social "
6778 "enterprises) in 2012."
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6784 "She describes the business model in a paper called Knowledge Unlatched: "
6785 "Toward an Open and Networked Future for Academic Publishing:"
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6789 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5262
6791 "Publishers offer titles for sale reflecting origination costs only via "
6792 "Knowledge Unlatched."
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6798 "Individual libraries select titles either as individual titles or as "
6799 "collections (as they do from library suppliers now)."
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6805 "Their selections are sent to Knowledge Unlatched specifying the titles to be "
6806 "purchased at the stated price(s)."
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6812 "The price, called a Title Fee (set by publishers and negotiated by Knowledge "
6813 "Unlatched), is paid to publishers to cover the fixed costs of publishing "
6814 "each of the titles that were selected by a minimum number of libraries to "
6815 "cover the Title Fee."
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6821 "Publishers make the selected titles available Open Access (on a Creative "
6822 "Commons or similar open license) and are then paid the Title Fee which is "
6823 "the total collected from the libraries."
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6828 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.pinter.org.uk/pdfs/Toward_an_Open.pdf\"/>"
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6834 "Publishers make print copies, e-Pub, and other digital versions of selected "
6835 "titles available to member libraries at a discount that reflects their "
6836 "contribution to the Title Fee and incentivizes membership.<placeholder "
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6843 "The first round of this model resulted in a collection of twenty-eight "
6844 "current titles from thirteen recognized scholarly publishers being "
6845 "unlatched. The target was to have two hundred libraries participate. The "
6846 "cost of the package per library was capped at $1,680, which was an average "
6847 "price of sixty dollars per book, but in the end they had nearly three "
6848 "hundred libraries sharing the costs, and the price per book came in at just "
6849 "under forty-three dollars."
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6862 "The open-access, Creative Commons versions of these twenty-eight books are "
6863 "still available online.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Most books "
6864 "have been licensed with CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND. Authors are the copyright "
6865 "holder, not the publisher, and negotiate choice of license as part of the "
6866 "publishing agreement. Frances has found that most authors want to retain "
6867 "control over the commercial and remix use of their work. Publishers list the "
6868 "book in their catalogs, and the noncommercial restriction in the Creative "
6869 "Commons license ensures authors continue to get royalties on sales of "
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6876 "There are three cost variables to consider for each round: the overall cost "
6877 "incurred by the publishers, total cost for each library to acquire all the "
6878 "books, and the individual price per book. The fee publishers charge for each "
6879 "title is a fixed charge, and Knowledge Unlatched calculates the total amount "
6880 "for all the books being unlatched at a time. The cost of an order for each "
6881 "library is capped at a maximum based on a minimum number of libraries "
6882 "participating. If the number of participating libraries exceeds the minimum, "
6883 "then the cost of the order and the price per book go down for each library."
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6889 "The second round, recently completed, unlatched seventy-eight books from "
6890 "twenty-six publishers. For this round, Frances was experimenting with the "
6891 "size and shape of the offerings. Books were being bundled into eight small "
6892 "packages separated by subject (including Anthropology, History, Literature, "
6893 "Media and Communications, and Politics), of around ten books per package. "
6894 "Three hundred libraries around the world have to commit to at least six of "
6895 "the eight packages to enable unlatching. The average cost per book was just "
6896 "under fifty dollars. The unlatching process took roughly ten months. It "
6897 "started with a call to publishers for titles, followed by having a library "
6898 "task force select the titles, getting authors’ permissions, getting the "
6899 "libraries to pledge, billing the libraries, and finally, unlatching."
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6905 "The longest part of the whole process is getting libraries to pledge and "
6906 "commit funds. It takes about five months, as library buy-in has to fit "
6907 "within acquisition cycles, budget cycles, and library-committee meetings."
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6913 "Knowledge Unlatched informs and recruits libraries through social media, "
6914 "mailing lists, listservs, and library associations. Of the three hundred "
6915 "libraries that participated in the first round, 80 percent are also "
6916 "participating in the second round, and there are an additional eighty new "
6917 "libraries taking part. Knowledge Unlatched is also working not just with "
6918 "individual libraries but also library consortia, which has been getting even "
6919 "more libraries involved."
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6925 "Knowledge Unlatched is scaling up, offering 150 new titles in the second "
6926 "half of 2016. It will also offer backlist titles, and in 2017 will start to "
6927 "make journals open access too."
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6933 "Knowledge Unlatched deliberately chose monographs as the initial type of "
6934 "book to unlatch. Monographs are foundational and important, but also "
6935 "problematic to keep going in the standard closed publishing model."
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6941 "The cost for the publisher to get to a first digital copy of a monograph is "
6942 "$5,000 to $50,000. A good one costs in the $10,000 to $15,000 "
6943 "range. Monographs typically don’t sell a lot of copies. A publisher who in "
6944 "the past sold three thousand copies now typically sells only three "
6945 "hundred. That makes unlatching monographs a low risk for publishers. For the "
6946 "first round, it took five months to get thirteen publishers. For the second "
6947 "round, it took one month to get twenty-six."
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6952 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/featured-authors-section/\"/>"
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6958 "Authors don’t generally make a lot of royalties from monographs. Royalties "
6959 "range from zero dollars to 5 to 10 percent of receipts. The value to the "
6960 "author is the awareness it brings to them; when their book is being read, it "
6961 "increases their reputation. Open access through unlatching generates many "
6962 "more downloads and therefore awareness. (On the Knowledge Unlatched website, "
6963 "you can find interviews with the twenty-eight round-one authors describing "
6964 "their experience and the benefits of taking part.)<placeholder "
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6971 "Library budgets are constantly being squeezed, partly due to the inflation "
6972 "of journal subscriptions. But even without budget constraints, academic "
6973 "libraries are moving away from buying physical copies. An academic library "
6974 "catalog entry is typically a URL to wherever the book is hosted. Or if they "
6975 "have enough electronic storage space, they may download the digital file "
6976 "into their digital repository. Only secondarily do they consider getting a "
6977 "print book, and if they do, they buy it separately from the digital version."
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6983 "Knowledge Unlatched offers libraries a compelling economic argument. Many of "
6984 "the participating libraries would have bought a copy of the monograph "
6985 "anyway, but instead of paying $95 for a print copy or $150 for a digital "
6986 "multiple-use copy, they pay $50 to unlatch. It costs them less, and it opens "
6987 "the book to not just the participating libraries, but to the world."
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6993 "Not only do the economics make sense, but there is very strong alignment "
6994 "with library mandates. The participating libraries pay less than they would "
6995 "have in the closed model, and the open-access book is available to all "
6996 "libraries. While this means nonparticipating libraries could be seen as free "
6997 "riders, in the library world, wealthy libraries are used to paying more than "
6998 "poor libraries and accept that part of their money should be spent to "
6999 "support open access. <quote>Free ride</quote> is more like community "
7000 "responsibility. By the end of March 2016, the round-one books had been "
7001 "downloaded nearly eighty thousand times in 175 countries."
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7007 "For publishers, authors, and librarians, the Knowledge Unlatched model for "
7008 "monographs is a win-win-win."
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7014 "In the first round, Knowledge Unlatched’s overheads were covered by "
7015 "grants. In the second round, they aim to demonstrate the model is "
7016 "sustainable. Libraries and publishers will each pay a 7.5 percent service "
7017 "charge that will go toward Knowledge Unlatched’s running costs. With plans "
7018 "to scale up in future rounds, Frances figures they can fully recover costs "
7019 "when they are unlatching two hundred books at a time. Moving forward, "
7020 "Knowledge Unlatched is making investments in technology and "
7021 "processes. Future plans include unlatching journals and older books."
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7027 "Frances believes that Knowledge Unlatched is tapping into new ways of "
7028 "valuing academic content. It’s about considering how many people can find, "
7029 "access, and use your content without pay barriers. Knowledge Unlatched taps "
7030 "into the new possibilities and behaviors of the digital world. In the "
7031 "Knowledge Unlatched model, the content-creation process is exactly the same "
7032 "as it always has been, but the economics are different. For Frances, "
7033 "Knowledge Unlatched is connected to the past but moving into the future, an "
7034 "evolution rather than a revolution."
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7039 msgid "Lumen Learning"
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7045 "Lumen Learning is a for-profit company helping educational institutions use "
7046 "open educational resources (OER). Founded in 2013 in the U.S."
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7058 "services, grant funding"
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7063 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 21, 2015"
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7069 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: David Wiley and Kim "
7070 "Thanos, cofounders"
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7075 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://lumenlearning.com/innovative-projects/\"/>"
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7081 "Cofounded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and "
7082 "education-technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning is dedicated to "
7083 "improving student success, bringing new ideas to pedagogy, and making "
7084 "education more affordable by facilitating adoption of open educational "
7085 "resources. In 2012, David and Kim partnered on a grant-funded project called "
7086 "the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
7087 "id=\"0\"/> It involved a set of fully open general-education courses across "
7088 "eight colleges predominantly serving at-risk students, with goals to "
7089 "dramatically reduce textbook costs and collaborate to improve the courses to "
7090 "help students succeed. David and Kim exceeded those goals: the cost of the "
7091 "required textbooks, replaced with OER, decreased to zero dollars, and "
7092 "average student-success rates improved by 5 to 10 percent when compared with "
7093 "previous years. After a second round of funding, a total of more than "
7094 "twenty-five institutions participated in and benefited from this project. It "
7095 "was career changing for David and Kim to see the impact this initiative had "
7096 "on low-income students. David and Kim sought further funding from the Bill "
7097 "and Melinda Gates Foundation, who asked them to define a plan to scale their "
7098 "work in a financially sustainable way. That is when they decided to create "
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7105 "David and Kim went back and forth on whether it should be a nonprofit or "
7106 "for- profit. A nonprofit would make it a more comfortable fit with the "
7107 "education sector but meant they’d be constantly fund-raising and seeking "
7108 "grants from philanthropies. Also, grants usually require money to be used "
7109 "in certain ways for specific deliverables. If you learn things along the way "
7110 "that change how you think the grant money should be used, there often isn’t "
7111 "a lot of flexibility to do so."
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7117 "But as a for-profit, they’d have to convince educational institutions to pay "
7118 "for what Lumen had to offer. On the positive side, they’d have more control "
7119 "over what to do with the revenue and investment money; they could make "
7120 "decisions to invest the funds or use them differently based on the situation "
7121 "and shifting opportunities. In the end, they chose the for-profit status, "
7122 "with its different model for and approach to sustainability."
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7128 "Right from the start, David and Kim positioned Lumen Learning as a way to "
7129 "help institutions engage in open educational resources, or OER. OER are "
7130 "teaching, learning, and research materials, in all different media, that "
7131 "reside in the public domain or are released under an open license that "
7132 "permits free use and repurposing by others."
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7138 "Originally, Lumen did custom contracts for each institution. This was "
7139 "complicated and challenging to manage. However, through that process "
7140 "patterns emerged which allowed them to generalize a set of approaches and "
7141 "offerings. Today they don’t customize as much as they used to, and instead "
7142 "they tend to work with customers who can use their off-the-shelf "
7143 "options. Lumen finds that institutions and faculty are generally very good "
7144 "at seeing the value Lumen brings and are willing to pay for it. Serving "
7145 "disadvantaged learner populations has led Lumen to be very pragmatic; they "
7146 "describe what they offer in quantitative terms—with facts and figures—and in "
7147 "a way that is very student-focused. Lumen Learning helps colleges and "
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7153 msgid "replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment courses with OER;"
7156 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
7157 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5554
7159 "provide enrolled students day one access to Lumen’s fully customizable OER "
7160 "course materials through the institution’s learning-management system;"
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7164 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5561
7166 "measure improvements in student success with metrics like passing rates, "
7167 "persistence, and course completion; and"
7170 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
7171 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5567
7173 "collaborate with faculty to make ongoing improvements to OER based on "
7174 "student success research."
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7180 "Lumen has developed a suite of open, Creative Commons–licensed courseware in "
7181 "more than sixty-five subjects. All courses are freely and publicly available "
7182 "right off their website. They can be copied and used by others as long as "
7183 "they provide attribution to Lumen Learning following the terms of the "
7184 "Creative Commons license."
7187 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7188 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5581
7190 "Then there are three types of bundled services that cost money. One option, "
7191 "which Lumen calls Candela courseware, offers integration with the "
7192 "institution’s learning-management system, technical and pedagogical support, "
7193 "and tracking of effectiveness. Candela courseware costs institutions ten "
7194 "dollars per enrolled student."
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7200 "A second option is Waymaker, which offers the services of Candela but adds "
7201 "personalized learning technologies, such as study plans, automated messages, "
7202 "and assessments, and helps instructors find and support the students who "
7203 "need it most. Waymaker courses cost twenty-five dollars per enrolled "
7207 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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7210 "The third and emerging line of business for Lumen is providing guidance and "
7211 "support for institutions and state systems that are pursuing the development "
7212 "of complete OER degrees. Often called Z-Degrees, these programs eliminate "
7213 "textbook costs for students in all courses that make up the degree (both "
7214 "required and elective) by replacing commercial textbooks and other "
7215 "expensive resources with OER."
7218 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7219 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5605
7221 "Lumen generates revenue by charging for their value-added tools and services "
7222 "on top of their free courses, just as solar-power companies provide the "
7223 "tools and services that help people use a free resource—sunlight. And "
7224 "Lumen’s business model focuses on getting the institutions to pay, not the "
7225 "students. With projects they did prior to Lumen, David and Kim learned that "
7226 "students who have access to all course materials from day one have greater "
7227 "success. If students had to pay, Lumen would have to restrict access to "
7228 "those who paid. Right from the start, their stance was that they would not "
7229 "put their content behind a paywall. Lumen invests zero dollars in "
7230 "technologies and processes for restricting access—no digital rights "
7231 "management, no time bombs. While this has been a challenge from a "
7232 "business-model perspective, from an open-access perspective, it has "
7233 "generated immense goodwill in the community."
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7239 "In most cases, development of their courses is funded by the institution "
7240 "Lumen has a contract with. When creating new courses, Lumen typically works "
7241 "with the faculty who are teaching the new course. They’re often part of the "
7242 "institution paying Lumen, but sometimes Lumen has to expand the team and "
7243 "contract faculty from other institutions. First, the faculty identifies all "
7244 "of the course’s learning outcomes. Lumen then searches for, aggregates, and "
7245 "curates the best OER they can find that addresses those learning needs, "
7246 "which the faculty reviews."
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7250 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5633
7252 "Sometimes faculty like the existing OER but not the way it is presented. The "
7253 "open licensing of existing OER allows Lumen to pick and choose from images, "
7254 "videos, and other media to adapt and customize the course. Lumen creates new "
7255 "content as they discover gaps in existing OER. Test-bank items and feedback "
7256 "for students on their progress are areas where new content is frequently "
7257 "needed. Once a course is created, Lumen puts it on their platform with all "
7258 "the attributions and links to the original sources intact, and any of "
7259 "Lumen’s new content is given an Attribution (CC BY) license."
7262 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7263 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5644
7265 "Using only OER made them experience firsthand how complex it could be to mix "
7266 "differently licensed work together. A common strategy with OER is to place "
7267 "the Creative Commons license and attribution information in the website’s "
7268 "footer, which stays the same for all pages. This doesn’t quite work, "
7269 "however, when mixing different OER together."
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7273 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5652
7275 "Remixing OER often results in multiple attributions on every page of every "
7276 "course—text from one place, images from another, and videos from yet "
7277 "another. Some are licensed as Attribution (CC BY), others as "
7278 "Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). If this information is put within the "
7279 "text of the course, faculty members sometimes try to edit it and students "
7280 "find it a distraction. Lumen dealt with this challenge by capturing the "
7281 "license and attribution information as metadata, and getting it to show up "
7282 "at the end of each page."
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7286 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5663
7288 "Lumen’s commitment to open licensing and helping low-income students has led "
7289 "to strong relationships with institutions, open-education enthusiasts, and "
7290 "grant funders. People in their network generously increase the visibility of "
7291 "Lumen through presentations, word of mouth, and referrals. Sometimes the "
7292 "number of general inquiries exceed Lumen’s sales capacity."
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7298 "To manage demand and ensure the success of projects, their strategy is to be "
7299 "proactive and focus on what’s going on in higher education in different "
7300 "regions of the United States, watching out for things happening at the "
7301 "system level in a way that fits with what Lumen offers. A great example is "
7302 "the Virginia community college system, which is building out "
7303 "Z-Degrees. David and Kim say there are nine other U.S. states with similar "
7304 "system-level activity where Lumen is strategically focusing its "
7305 "efforts. Where there are projects that would require a lot of resources on "
7306 "Lumen’s part, they prioritize the ones that would impact the largest number "
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7313 "As a business, Lumen is committed to openness. There are two core "
7314 "nonnegotiables: Lumen’s use of CC BY, the most permissive of the Creative "
7315 "Commons licenses, for all the materials it creates; and day-one access for "
7316 "students. Having clear nonnegotiables allows them to then engage with the "
7317 "education community to solve for other challenges and work with institutions "
7318 "to identify new business models that achieve institution goals, while "
7319 "keeping Lumen healthy."
7322 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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7325 "Openness also means that Lumen’s OER must necessarily be nonexclusive and "
7326 "nonrivalrous. This represents several big challenges for the business model: "
7327 "Why should you invest in creating something that people will be reluctant to "
7328 "pay for? How do you ensure that the investment the diverse education "
7329 "community makes in OER is not exploited? Lumen thinks we all need to be "
7330 "clear about how we are benefiting from and contributing to the open "
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7337 "In the OER sector, there are examples of corporations, and even "
7338 "institutions, acting as free riders. Some simply take and use open resources "
7339 "without paying anything or contributing anything back. Others give back the "
7340 "minimum amount so they can save face. Sustainability will require those "
7341 "using open resources to give back an amount that seems fair or even give "
7342 "back something that is generous."
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7348 "Lumen does track institutions accessing and using their free content. They "
7349 "proactively contact those institutions, with an estimate of how much their "
7350 "students are saving and encouraging them to switch to a paid model. Lumen "
7351 "explains the advantages of the paid model: a more interactive relationship "
7352 "with Lumen; integration with the institution’s learning-management system; a "
7353 "guarantee of support for faculty and students; and future sustainability "
7354 "with funding supporting the evolution and improvement of the OER they are "
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7361 "Lumen works hard to be a good corporate citizen in the OER community. For "
7362 "David and Kim, a good corporate citizen gives more than they take, adds "
7363 "unique value, and is very transparent about what they are taking from "
7364 "community, what they are giving back, and what they are monetizing. Lumen "
7365 "believes these are the building blocks of a sustainable model and strives "
7366 "for a correct balance of all these factors."
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7370 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5733
7372 "Licensing all the content they produce with CC BY is a key part of giving "
7373 "more value than they take. They’ve also worked hard at finding the right "
7374 "structure for their value-add and how to package it in a way that is "
7375 "understandable and repeatable."
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7381 "As of the fall 2016 term, Lumen had eighty-six different open courses, "
7382 "working relationships with ninety-two institutions, and more than "
7383 "seventy-five thousand student enrollments. Lumen received early start-up "
7384 "funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, "
7385 "and the Shuttleworth Foundation. Since then, Lumen has also attracted "
7386 "investment funding. Over the last three years, Lumen has been roughly 60 "
7387 "percent grant funded, 20 percent revenue earned, and 20 percent funded with "
7388 "angel capital. Going forward, their strategy is to replace grant funding "
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7395 "In creating Lumen Learning, David and Kim say they’ve landed on solutions "
7396 "they never imagined, and there is still a lot of learning taking place. For "
7397 "them, open business models are an emerging field where we are all learning "
7398 "through sharing. Their biggest recommendations for others wanting to pursue "
7399 "the open model are to make your commitment to open resources public, let "
7400 "people know where you stand, and don’t back away from it. It really is about "
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7405 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5762
7406 msgid "Jonathan Mann"
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7412 "Jonathan Mann is a singer and songwriter who is most well known as the "
7413 "<quote>Song A Day</quote> guy. Based in the U.S."
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7419 "<ulink url=\"http://jonathanmann.net\"/> and <ulink "
7420 "url=\"http://jonathanmann.bandcamp.com\"/>"
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7426 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for custom "
7427 "services, pay-what-you-want, crowdfunding (subscription-based), charging for "
7428 "in-person version (speaking engagements and musical performances)"
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7433 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 22, 2016"
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7439 "Jonathan Mann thinks of his business model as "
7440 "<quote>hustling</quote>—seizing nearly every opportunity he sees to make "
7441 "money. The bulk of his income comes from writing songs under commission for "
7442 "people and companies, but he has a wide variety of income sources. He has "
7443 "supporters on the crowdfunding site Patreon. He gets advertising revenue "
7444 "from YouTube and Bandcamp, where he posts all of his music. He gives paid "
7445 "speaking engagements about creativity and motivation. He has been hired by "
7446 "major conferences to write songs summarizing what speakers have said in the "
7447 "conference sessions."
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7453 "His entrepreneurial spirit is coupled with a willingness to take action "
7454 "quickly. A perfect illustration of his ability to act fast happened in 2010, "
7455 "when he read that Apple was having a conference the following day to address "
7456 "a snafu related to the iPhone 4. He decided to write and post a song about "
7457 "the iPhone 4 that day, and the next day he got a call from the public "
7458 "relations people at Apple wanting to use and promote his video at the Apple "
7459 "conference. The song then went viral, and the experience landed him in Time "
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7466 "Jonathan’s successful <quote>hustling</quote> is also about old-fashioned "
7467 "persistence. He is currently in his eighth straight year of writing one song "
7468 "each day. He holds the Guinness World Record for consecutive daily "
7469 "songwriting, and he is widely known as the <quote>song-a-day guy.</quote>"
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7475 "He fell into this role by, naturally, seizing a random opportunity a friend "
7476 "alerted him to seven years ago—an event called Fun-A-Day, where people are "
7477 "supposed to create a piece of art every day for thirty-one days straight. He "
7478 "was in need of a new project, so he decided to give it a try by writing and "
7479 "posting a song each day. He added a video component to the songs because he "
7480 "knew people were more likely to watch video online than simply listening to "
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7487 "He had a really good time doing the thirty-one-day challenge, so he decided "
7488 "to see if he could continue it for one year. He never stopped. He has "
7489 "written and posted a new song literally every day, seven days a week, since "
7490 "he began the project in 2009. When he isn’t writing songs that he is hired "
7491 "to write by clients, he writes songs about whatever is on his mind that "
7492 "day. His songs are catchy and mostly lighthearted, but they often contain at "
7493 "least an undercurrent of a deeper theme or meaning. Occasionally, they are "
7494 "extremely personal, like the song he cowrote with his exgirlfriend "
7495 "announcing their breakup. Rain or shine, in sickness or health, Jonathan "
7496 "posts and writes a song every day. If he is on a flight or otherwise "
7497 "incapable of getting Internet access in time to meet the deadline, he will "
7498 "prepare ahead and have someone else post the song for him."
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7504 "Over time, the song-a-day gig became the basis of his livelihood. In the "
7505 "beginning, he made money one of two ways. The first was by entering a wide "
7506 "variety of contests and winning a handful. The second was by having the "
7507 "occasional song and video go some varying degree of viral, which would bring "
7508 "more eyeballs and mean that there were more people wanting him to write "
7509 "songs for them. Today he earns most of his money this way."
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7515 "His website explains his gig as <quote>taking any message, from the super "
7516 "simple to the totally complicated, and conveying that message through a "
7517 "heartfelt, fun and quirky song.</quote> He charges $500 to create a produced "
7518 "song and $300 for an acoustic song. He has been hired for product launches, "
7519 "weddings, conferences, and even Kickstarter campaigns like the one that "
7520 "funded the production of this book."
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7526 "Jonathan can’t recall when exactly he first learned about Creative Commons, "
7527 "but he began applying CC licenses to his songs and videos as soon as he "
7528 "discovered the option. <quote>CC seems like such a no-brainer,</quote> "
7529 "Jonathan said. <quote>I don’t understand how anything else would make "
7530 "sense. It seems like such an obvious thing that you would want your work to "
7531 "be able to be shared.</quote>"
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7537 "His songs are essentially marketing for his services, so obviously the "
7538 "further his songs spread, the better. Using CC licenses helps grease the "
7539 "wheels, letting people know that Jonathan allows and encourages them to "
7540 "copy, interact with, and remix his music. <quote>If you let someone cover "
7541 "your song or remix it or use parts of it, that’s how music is supposed to "
7542 "work,</quote> Jonathan said. <quote>That is how music has worked since the "
7543 "beginning of time. Our me-me, mine-mine culture has undermined that.</quote>"
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7549 "There are some people who cover his songs fairly regularly, and he would "
7550 "never shut that down. But he acknowledges there is a lot more he could do to "
7551 "build community. <quote>There is all of this conventional wisdom about how "
7552 "to build an audience online, and I generally think I don’t do any of "
7553 "that,</quote> Jonathan said."
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7559 "He does have a fan community he cultivates on Bandcamp, but it isn’t his "
7560 "major focus. <quote>I do have a core audience that has stuck around for a "
7561 "really long time, some even longer than I’ve been doing song-a-day,</quote> "
7562 "he said. <quote>There is also a transitional aspect that drop in and get "
7563 "what they need and then move on.</quote> Focusing less on community building "
7564 "than other artists makes sense given Jonathan’s primary income source of "
7565 "writing custom songs for clients."
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7571 "Jonathan recognizes what comes naturally to him and leverages those "
7572 "skills. Through the practice of daily songwriting, he realized he has a gift "
7573 "for distilling complicated subjects into simple concepts and putting them to "
7574 "music. In his song <quote>How to Choose a Master Password,</quote> Jonathan "
7575 "explained the process of creating a secure password in a silly, simple "
7576 "song. He was hired to write the song by a client who handed him a long "
7577 "technical blog post from which to draw the information. Like a good (and "
7578 "rare) journalist, he translated the technical concepts into something "
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7585 "When he is hired by a client to write a song, he first asks them to send a "
7586 "list of talking points and other information they want to include in the "
7587 "song. He puts all of that into a text file and starts moving things around, "
7588 "cutting and pasting until the message starts to come together. The first "
7589 "thing he tries to do is grok the core message and develop the chorus. Then "
7590 "he looks for connections or parts he can make rhyme. The entire process "
7591 "really does resemble good journalism, but of course the final product of his "
7592 "work is a song rather than news. \"There is something about being challenged "
7593 "and forced to take information that doesn’t seem like it should be sung "
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7600 "or doesn’t seem like it lends itself to a song,\" he said. <quote>I find "
7601 "that creative challenge really satisfying. I enjoy getting lost in that "
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7608 "Jonathan admits that in an ideal world, he would exclusively write the music "
7609 "he wanted to write, rather than what clients hire him to write. But his "
7610 "business model is about capitalizing on his strengths as a songwriter, and "
7611 "he has found a way to keep it interesting for himself."
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7617 "Jonathan uses nearly every tool possible to make money from his art, but he "
7618 "does have lines he won’t cross. He won’t write songs about things he "
7619 "fundamentally does not believe in, and there are times he has turned down "
7620 "jobs on principle. He also won’t stray too much from his natural "
7621 "style. <quote>My style is silly, so I can’t really accommodate people who "
7622 "want something super serious,</quote> Jonathan said. <quote>I do what I do "
7623 "very easily, and it’s part of who I am.</quote> Jonathan hasn’t gotten into "
7624 "writing commercials for the same reasons; he is best at using his own unique "
7625 "style rather than mimicking others."
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7631 "Jonathan’s song-a-day commitment exemplifies the power of habit and "
7632 "grit. Conventional wisdom about creative productivity, including advice in "
7633 "books like the best-seller The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, routinely "
7634 "emphasizes the importance of ritual and action. No amount of planning can "
7635 "replace the value of simple practice and just doing. Jonathan Mann’s work is "
7636 "a living embodiment of these principles."
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7642 "When he speaks about his work, he talks about how much the song-a-day "
7643 "process has changed him. Rather than seeing any given piece of work as "
7644 "precious and getting stuck on trying to make it perfect, he has become "
7645 "comfortable with just doing. If today’s song is a bust, tomorrow’s song "
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7652 "Jonathan seems to have this mentality about his career more generally. He is "
7653 "constantly experimenting with ways to make a living while sharing his work "
7654 "as widely as possible, seeing what sticks. While he has major "
7655 "accomplishments he is proud of, like being in the Guinness World Records or "
7656 "having his song used by Steve Jobs, he says he never truly feels successful."
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7662 "<quote>Success feels like it’s over,</quote> he said. <quote>To a certain "
7663 "extent, a creative person is not ever going to feel completely satisfied "
7664 "because then so much of what drives you would be gone.</quote>"
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7669 msgid "Noun Project"
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7675 "The Noun Project is a for-profit company offering an online platform to "
7676 "display visual icons from a global network of designers. Founded in 2010 in "
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7682 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://thenounproject.com\"/>"
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7688 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging a transaction "
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7694 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: October 6, 2015"
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7699 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Edward Boatman, cofounder"
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7705 "The Noun Project creates and shares visual language. There are millions who "
7706 "use Noun Project symbols to simplify communication across borders, "
7707 "languages, and cultures."
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7713 "The original idea for the Noun Project came to cofounder Edward Boatman "
7714 "while he was a student in architecture design school. He’d always done a lot "
7715 "of sketches and started to draw what used to fascinate him as a child, like "
7716 "trains, sequoias, and bulldozers. He began thinking how great it would be "
7717 "if he had a simple image or small icon of every single object or concept on "
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7724 "When Edward went on to work at an architecture firm, he had to make a lot of "
7725 "presentation boards for clients. But finding high-quality sources for "
7726 "symbols and icons was difficult. He couldn’t find any website that could "
7727 "provide them. Perhaps his idea for creating a library of icons could "
7728 "actually help people in similar situations."
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7734 "With his partner, Sofya Polyakov, he began collecting symbols for a website "
7735 "and writing a business plan. Inspiration came from the book Professor and "
7736 "the Madman, which chronicles the use of crowdsourcing to create the Oxford "
7737 "English Dictionary in 1870. Edward began to imagine crowdsourcing icons and "
7738 "symbols from volunteer designers around the world."
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7745 "url=\"http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tnp/building-a-free-collection-of-our-worlds-visual-sy/description\"/>"
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7751 "Then Edward got laid off during the recession, which turned out to be a huge "
7752 "catalyst. He decided to give his idea a go, and in 2010 Edward and Sofya "
7753 "launched the Noun Project with a Kickstarter campaign, back when Kickstarter "
7754 "was in its infancy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> They thought "
7755 "it’d be a good way to introduce the global web community to their "
7756 "idea. Their goal was to raise $1,500, but in twenty days they got over "
7757 "$14,000. They realized their idea had the potential to be something much "
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7764 "They created a platform where symbols and icons could be uploaded, and "
7765 "Edward began recruiting talented designers to contribute their designs, a "
7766 "process he describes as a relatively easy sell. Lots of designers have old "
7767 "drawings just gathering <quote>digital dust</quote> on their hard "
7768 "drives. It’s easy to convince them to finally share them with the world."
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7774 "The Noun Project currently has about seven thousand designers from around "
7775 "the world. But not all submissions are accepted. The Noun Project’s "
7776 "quality-review process means that only the best works become part of its "
7777 "collection. They make sure to provide encouraging, constructive feedback "
7778 "whenever they reject a piece of work, which maintains and builds the "
7779 "relationship they have with their global community of designers."
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7785 "Creative Commons is an integral part of the Noun Project’s business model; "
7786 "this decision was inspired by Chris Anderson’s book Free: The Future of "
7787 "Radical Price, which introduced Edward to the idea that you could build a "
7788 "business model around free content."
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7794 "Edward knew he wanted to offer a free visual language while still providing "
7795 "some protection and reward for its contributors. There is a tension between "
7796 "those two goals, but for Edward, Creative Commons licenses bring this "
7797 "idealism and business opportunity together elegantly. He chose the "
7798 "Attribution (CC BY) license, which means people can download the icons for "
7799 "free and modify them and even use them commercially. The requirement to give "
7800 "attribution to the original creator ensures that the creator can build a "
7801 "reputation and get global recognition for their work. And if they simply "
7802 "want to offer an icon that people can use without having to give credit, "
7803 "they can use CC0 to put the work into the public domain."
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7809 "Noun Project’s business model and means of generating revenue have evolved "
7810 "significantly over time. Their initial plan was to sell T-shirts with the "
7811 "icons on it, which in retrospect Edward says was a horrible idea. They did "
7812 "get a lot of email from people saying they loved the icons but asking if "
7813 "they could pay a fee instead of giving attribution. Ad agencies (among "
7814 "others) wanted to keep marketing and presentation materials clean and free "
7815 "of attribution statements. For Edward, <quote>That’s when our lightbulb went "
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7822 "They asked their global network of designers whether they’d be open to "
7823 "receiving modest remuneration instead of attribution. Designers saw it as a "
7824 "win-win. The idea that you could offer your designs for free and have a "
7825 "global audience and maybe even make some money was pretty exciting for most "
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7832 "The Noun Project first adopted a model whereby using an icon without giving "
7833 "attribution would cost $1.99 per icon. The model’s second iteration added a "
7834 "subscription component, where there would be a monthly fee to access a "
7835 "certain number of icons—ten, fifty, a hundred, or five hundred. However, "
7836 "users didn’t like these hard-count options. They preferred to try out many "
7837 "similar icons to see which worked best before eventually choosing the one "
7838 "they wanted to use. So the Noun Project moved to an unlimited model, whereby "
7839 "users have unlimited access to the whole library for a flat monthly "
7840 "fee. This service is called NounPro and costs $9.99 per month. Edward says "
7841 "this model is working well—good for customers, good for creators, and good "
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7848 "Customers then began asking for an application-programming interface (API), "
7849 "which would allow Noun Project icons and symbols to be directly accessed "
7850 "from within other applications. Edward knew that the icons and symbols would "
7851 "be valuable in a lot of different contexts and that they couldn’t possibly "
7852 "know all of them in advance, so they built an API with a lot of "
7853 "flexibility. Knowing that most API applications would want to use the icons "
7854 "without giving attribution, the API was built with the aim of charging for "
7855 "its use. You can use what’s called the <quote>Playground API</quote> for "
7856 "free to test how it integrates with your application, but full "
7857 "implementation will require you to purchase the API Pro version."
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7863 "The Noun Project shares revenue with its international designers. For "
7864 "one-off purchases, the revenue is split 70 percent to the designer and 30 "
7865 "percent to Noun Project."
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7871 "The revenue from premium purchases (the subscription and API options) is "
7872 "split a little differently. At the end of each month, the total revenue from "
7873 "subscriptions is divided by Noun Project’s total number of downloads, "
7874 "resulting in a rate per download—for example, it could be $0.13 per download "
7875 "for that month. For each download, the revenue is split 40 percent to the "
7876 "designer and 60 percent to the Noun Project. (For API usage, it’s per use "
7877 "instead of per download.) Noun Project’s share is higher this time as it’s "
7878 "providing more service to the user."
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7883 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://thenounproject.com/handbook/royalties/#getting_paid\"/>"
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7889 "The Noun Project tries to be completely transparent about their royalty "
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7891 "communicate with creators about it because building trust is the top "
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7898 "For most creators, contributing to the Noun Project is not a full-time job "
7899 "but something they do on the side. Edward categorizes monthly earnings for "
7900 "creators into three broad categories: enough money to buy beer; enough to "
7901 "pay the bills; and most successful of all, enough to pay the rent."
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7907 "Recently the Noun Project launched a new app called Lingo. Designers can "
7908 "use Lingo to organize not just their Noun Project icons and symbols but also "
7909 "their photos, illustrations, UX designs, et cetera. You simply drag any "
7910 "visual item directly into Lingo to save it. Lingo also works for teams so "
7911 "people can share visuals with each other and search across their combined "
7912 "collections. Lingo is free for personal use. A pro version for $9.99 per "
7913 "month lets you add guests. A team version for $49.95 per month allows up to "
7914 "twenty-five team members to collaborate, and to view, use, edit, and add new "
7915 "assets to each other’s collections. And if you subscribe to NounPro, you "
7916 "can access Noun Project from within Lingo."
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7922 "The Noun Project gives a ton of value away for free. A very large percentage "
7923 "of their roughly one million members have a free account, but there are "
7924 "still lots of paid accounts coming from digital designers, advertising and "
7925 "design agencies, educators, and others who need to communicate ideas "
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7932 "For Edward, <quote>creating, sharing, and celebrating the world’s visual "
7933 "language</quote> is the most important aspect of what they do; it’s their "
7934 "stated mission. It differentiates them from others who offer graphics, "
7935 "icons, or clip art."
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7941 "Noun Project creators agree. When surveyed on why they participate in the "
7942 "Noun Project, this is how designers rank their reasons: 1) to support the "
7943 "Noun Project mission, 2) to promote their own personal brand, and 3) to "
7944 "generate money. It’s striking to see that money comes third, and mission, "
7945 "first. If you want to engage a global network of contributors, it’s "
7946 "important to have a mission beyond making money."
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7952 "In Edward’s view, Creative Commons is central to their mission of sharing "
7953 "and social good. Using Creative Commons makes the Noun Project’s mission "
7954 "genuine and has generated a lot of their initial traction and "
7955 "credibility. CC comes with a built-in community of users and fans."
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7961 "Edward told us, <quote>Don’t underestimate the power of a passionate "
7962 "community around your product or your business. They are going to go to bat "
7963 "for you when you’re getting ripped in the media. If you go down the road of "
7964 "choosing to work with Creative Commons, you’re taking the first step to "
7965 "building a great community and tapping into a really awesome community that "
7966 "comes with it. But you need to continue to foster that community through "
7967 "other initiatives and continue to nurture it.</quote>"
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7973 "The Noun Project nurtures their creators’ second motivation—promoting a "
7974 "personal brand—by connecting every icon and symbol to the creator’s name and "
7975 "profile page; each profile features their full collection. Users can also "
7976 "search the icons by the creator’s name."
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7982 "The Noun Project also builds community through Iconathons—hackathons for "
7983 "icons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In partnership with a "
7984 "sponsoring organization, the Noun Project comes up with a theme (e.g., "
7985 "sustainable energy, food bank, guerrilla gardening, human rights) and a list "
7986 "of icons that are needed, which designers are invited to create at the "
7987 "event. The results are vectorized, and added to the Noun Project using CC0 "
7988 "so they can be used by anyone for free."
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7994 "Providing a free version of their product that satisfies a lot of their "
7995 "customers’ needs has actually enabled the Noun Project to build the paid "
7996 "version, using a service-oriented model. The Noun Project’s success lies in "
7997 "creating services and content that are a strategic mix of free and paid "
7998 "while staying true to their mission—creating, sharing, and celebrating the "
7999 "world’s visual language. Integrating Creative Commons into their model has "
8000 "been key to that goal."
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8005 msgid "Open Data Institute"
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8011 "The Open Data Institute is an independent nonprofit that connects, equips, "
8012 "and inspires people around the world to innovate with data. Founded in 2012 "
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8043 "Cofounded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the "
8044 "London-based Open Data Institute (ODI) offers data-related training, events, "
8045 "consulting services, and research. For ODI, Creative Commons licenses are "
8046 "central to making their own business model and their customers’ open. CC BY "
8047 "(Attribution), CC BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike), and CC0 (placed in the "
8048 "public domain) all play a critical role in ODI’s mission to help people "
8049 "around the world innovate with data."
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8055 "Data underpins planning and decision making across all aspects of "
8056 "society. Weather data helps farmers know when to plant their crops, flight "
8057 "time data from airplane companies helps us plan our travel, data on local "
8058 "housing informs city planning. When this data is not only accurate and "
8059 "timely, but open and accessible, it opens up new possibilities. Open data "
8060 "can be a resource businesses use to build new products and services. It can "
8061 "help governments measure progress, improve efficiency, and target "
8062 "investments. It can help citizens improve their lives by better "
8063 "understanding what is happening around them."
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8069 "The Open Data Institute’s 2012–17 business plan starts out by describing its "
8070 "vision to establish itself as a world-leading center and to research and be "
8071 "innovative with the opportunities created by the UK government’s open data "
8072 "policy. (The government was an early pioneer in open policy and open-data "
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8079 "demonstrate the commercial value of open government data and how open-data "
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8085 msgid "develop the economic benefits case and business models for open data;"
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8090 msgid "help UK businesses use open data; and"
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8103 "show how open data can improve public services.<placeholder "
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8110 "ODI is very explicit about how it wants to make open business models, and "
8111 "defining what this means. Jeni Tennison, ODI’s technical director, puts it "
8112 "this way: <quote>There is a whole ecosystem of open—open-source software, "
8113 "open government, open-access research—and a whole ecosystem of data. ODI’s "
8114 "work cuts across both, with an emphasis on where they overlap—with open "
8115 "data.</quote> ODI’s particular focus is to show open data’s potential for "
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8122 "As an independent nonprofit, ODI secured £10 million over five years from "
8123 "the UK government via Innovate UK, an agency that promotes innovation in "
8124 "science and technology. For this funding, ODI has to secure matching funds "
8125 "from other sources, some of which were met through a $4.75-million "
8126 "investment from the Omidyar Network."
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8132 "Jeni started out as a developer and technical architect for data.gov.uk, the "
8133 "UK government’s pioneering open-data initiative. She helped make data sets "
8134 "from government departments available as open data. She joined ODI in 2012 "
8135 "when it was just starting up, as one of six people. It now has a staff of "
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8142 "ODI strives to have half its annual budget come from the core UK government "
8143 "and Omidyar grants, and the other half from project-based research and "
8144 "commercial work. In Jeni’s view, having this balance of revenue sources "
8145 "establishes some stability, but also keeps them motivated to go out and "
8146 "generate these matching funds in response to market needs."
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8152 "On the commercial side, ODI generates funding through memberships, training, "
8153 "and advisory services."
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8164 "You can join the ODI as an individual or commercial member. Individual "
8165 "membership is pay-what-you-can, with options ranging from £1 to "
8166 "£100. Members receive a newsletter and related communications and a discount "
8167 "on ODI training courses and the annual summit, and they can display an "
8168 "ODI-supporter badge on their website. Commercial membership is divided into "
8169 "two tiers: small to medium size enterprises and nonprofits at £720 a year, "
8170 "and corporations and government organizations at £2,200 a year. Commercial "
8171 "members have greater opportunities to connect and collaborate, explore the "
8172 "benefits of open data, and unlock new business opportunities. (All members "
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8179 "ODI provides standardized open data training courses in which anyone can "
8180 "enroll. The initial idea was to offer an intensive and academically oriented "
8181 "diploma in open data, but it quickly became clear there was no market for "
8182 "that. Instead, they offered a five-day-long public training course, which "
8183 "has subsequently been reduced to three days; now the most popular course is "
8184 "one day long. The fee, in addition to the time commitment, can be a barrier "
8185 "for participation. Jeni says, <quote>Most of the people who would be able to "
8186 "pay don’t know they need it. Most who know they need it can’t pay.</quote> "
8187 "Public-sector organizations sometimes give vouchers to their employees so "
8188 "they can attend as a form of professional development."
8191 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8192 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6370
8194 "ODI customizes training for clients as well, for which there is more "
8195 "demand. Custom training usually emerges through an established relationship "
8196 "with an organization. The training program is based on a definition of "
8197 "open-data knowledge as applicable to the organization and on the skills "
8198 "needed by their high-level executives, management, and technical staff. The "
8199 "training tends to generate high interest and commitment."
8202 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8203 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6379
8205 "Education about open data is also a part of ODI’s annual summit event, where "
8206 "curated presentations and speakers showcase the work of ODI and its members "
8207 "across the entire ecosystem. Tickets to the summit are available to the "
8208 "public, and hundreds of people and organizations attend and participate. In "
8209 "2014, there were four thematic tracks and over 750 attendees."
8212 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8213 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6387
8215 "In addition to memberships and training, ODI provides advisory services to "
8216 "help with technical-data support, technology development, change management, "
8217 "policies, and other areas. ODI has advised large commercial organizations, "
8218 "small businesses, and international governments; the focus at the moment is "
8219 "on government, but ODI is working to shift more toward commercial "
8223 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8224 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6396
8225 msgid "On the commercial side, the following value propositions seem to resonate:"
8228 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8229 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6402
8231 "Data-driven insights. Businesses need data from outside their business to "
8232 "get more insight. Businesses can generate value and more effectively pursue "
8233 "their own goals if they open up their own data too. Big data is a hot topic."
8236 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8237 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6410
8239 "Open innovation. Many large-scale enterprises are aware they don’t innovate "
8240 "very well. One way they can innovate is to open up their data. ODI "
8241 "encourages them to do so even if it exposes problems and challenges. The key "
8242 "is to invite other people to help while still maintaining organizational "
8246 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8247 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6419
8249 "Corporate social responsibility. While this resonates with businesses, ODI "
8250 "cautions against having it be the sole reason for making data open. If a "
8251 "business is just thinking about open data as a way to be transparent and "
8252 "accountable, they can miss out on efficiencies and opportunities."
8255 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8256 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6428
8258 "During their early years, ODI wanted to focus solely on the United "
8259 "Kingdom. But in their first year, large delegations of government visitors "
8260 "from over fifty countries wanted to learn more about the UK government’s "
8261 "open-data practices and how ODI saw that translating into economic "
8262 "value. They were contracted as a service provider to international "
8263 "governments, which prompted a need to set up international ODI "
8264 "<quote>nodes.</quote>"
8267 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8268 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6437
8270 "Nodes are franchises of the ODI at a regional or city level. Hosted by "
8271 "existing (for-profit or not-for-profit) organizations, they operate locally "
8272 "but are part of the global network. Each ODI node adopts the charter, a set "
8273 "of guiding principles and rules under which ODI operates. They develop and "
8274 "deliver training, connect people and businesses through membership and "
8275 "events, and communicate open-data stories from their part of the "
8276 "world. There are twenty-seven different nodes across nineteen countries. ODI "
8277 "nodes are charged a small fee to be part of the network and to use the "
8281 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8282 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6451
8284 "<ulink url=\"http://theodi.org/odi-startup-programme\"/>; <ulink "
8285 "url=\"http://theodi.org/open-data-incubator-for-europe\"/>"
8288 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8289 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6449
8291 "ODI also runs programs to help start-ups in the UK and across Europe develop "
8292 "a sustainable business around open data, offering mentoring, advice, "
8293 "training, and even office space.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8296 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8297 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6455
8299 "A big part of ODI’s business model revolves around community "
8300 "building. Memberships, training, summits, consulting services, nodes, and "
8301 "start-up programs create an ever-growing network of open-data users and "
8302 "leaders. (In fact, ODI even operates something called an Open Data Leaders "
8303 "Network.) For ODI, community is key to success. They devote significant time "
8304 "and effort to build it, not just online but through face-to-face events."
8307 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8308 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6469
8309 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://certificates.theodi.org\"/>"
8312 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8313 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6464
8315 "ODI has created an online tool that organizations can use to assess the "
8316 "legal, practical, technical, and social aspects of their open data. If it is "
8317 "of high quality, the organization can earn ODI’s Open Data Certificate, a "
8318 "globally recognized mark that signals that their open data is useful, "
8319 "reliable, accessible, discoverable, and supported.<placeholder "
8320 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8323 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8324 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6472
8326 "Separate from commercial activities, the ODI generates funding through "
8327 "research grants. Research includes looking at evidence on the impact of open "
8328 "data, development of open-data tools and standards, and how to deploy open "
8332 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8333 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6478
8335 "Creative Commons 4.0 licenses cover database rights and ODI recommends CC "
8336 "BY, CC BY-SA, and CC0 for data releases. ODI encourages publishers of data "
8337 "to use Creative Commons licenses rather than creating new <quote>open "
8338 "licenses</quote> of their own."
8341 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8342 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6485
8344 "For ODI, open is at the heart of what they do. They also release any "
8345 "software code they produce under open-source-software licenses, and "
8346 "publications and reports under CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses. ODI’s mission is "
8347 "to connect and equip people around the world so they can innovate with "
8348 "data. Disseminating stories, research, guidance, and code under an open "
8349 "license is essential for achieving that mission. It also demonstrates that "
8350 "it is perfectly possible to generate sustainable revenue streams that do not "
8351 "rely on restrictive licensing of content, data, or code. People pay to have "
8352 "ODI experts provide training to them, not for the content of the training; "
8353 "people pay for the advice ODI gives them, not for the methodologies they "
8354 "use. Producing open content, data, and source code helps establish "
8355 "credibility and creates leads for the paid services that they "
8356 "offer. According to Jeni, <quote>The biggest lesson we have learned is that "
8357 "it is completely possible to be open, get customers, and make money.</quote>"
8360 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8361 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6503
8363 "To serve as evidence of a successful open business model and return on "
8364 "investment, ODI has a public dashboard of key performance indicators. Here "
8365 "are a few metrics as of April 27, 2016:"
8368 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8369 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6511
8371 "Total amount of cash investments unlocked in direct investments in ODI, "
8372 "competition funding, direct contracts, and partnerships, and income that ODI "
8373 "nodes and ODI start-ups have generated since joining the ODI program: £44.5 "
8377 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8378 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6519
8379 msgid "Total number of active members and nodes across the globe: 1,350"
8382 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8383 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6525
8384 msgid "Total sales since ODI began: £7.44 million"
8387 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8388 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6530
8390 "Total number of unique people reached since ODI began, in person and online: "
8394 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8395 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6536
8396 msgid "Total Open Data Certificates created: 151,000"
8399 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para><footnote><para>
8400 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6542
8401 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://dashboards.theodi.org/company/all\"/>"
8404 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8405 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6541
8407 "Total number of people trained by ODI and its nodes since ODI began: "
8408 "5,080<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8411 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
8412 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6548
8416 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8417 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6551
8419 "Opendesk is a for-profit company offering an online platform that connects "
8420 "furniture designers around the world with customers and local makers who "
8421 "bring the designs to life. Founded in 2014 in the UK."
8424 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8425 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6557
8426 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc\"/>"
8429 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8430 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6559 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8990
8432 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging a transaction "
8436 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8437 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6562
8438 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: November 4, 2015"
8441 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8442 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6565
8444 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Nick Ierodiaconou and "
8445 "Joni Steiner, cofounders"
8448 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8449 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6573
8451 "Opendesk is an online platform that connects furniture designers around the "
8452 "world not just with customers but also with local registered makers who "
8453 "bring the designs to life. Opendesk and the designer receive a portion of "
8454 "every sale that is made by a maker."
8457 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8458 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6579
8460 "Cofounders Nick Ierodiaconou and Joni Steiner studied and worked as "
8461 "architects together. They also made goods. Their first client was Mint "
8462 "Digital, who had an interest in open licensing. Nick and Joni were exploring "
8463 "digital fabrication, and Mint’s interest in open licensing got them to "
8464 "thinking how the open-source world may interact and apply to physical "
8465 "goods. They sought to design something for their client that was also "
8466 "reproducible. As they put it, they decided to <quote>ship the recipe, but "
8467 "not the goods.</quote> They created the design using software, put it under "
8468 "an open license, and had it manufactured locally near the client. This was "
8469 "the start of the idea for Opendesk. The idea for Wikihouse—another open "
8470 "project dedicated to accessible housing for all—started as discussions "
8471 "around the same table. The two projects ultimately went on separate paths, "
8472 "with Wikihouse becoming a nonprofit foundation and Opendesk a for-profit "
8476 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8477 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6596
8479 "When Nick and Joni set out to create Opendesk, there were a lot of questions "
8480 "about the viability of distributed manufacturing. No one was doing it in a "
8481 "way that was even close to realistic or competitive. The design community "
8482 "had the intent, but fulfilling this vision was still a long way away."
8485 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8486 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6603
8488 "And now this sector is emerging, and Nick and Joni are highly interested in "
8489 "the commercialization aspects of it. As part of coming up with a business "
8490 "model, they began investigating intellectual property and licensing "
8491 "options. It was a thorny space, especially for designs. Just what aspect of "
8492 "a design is copyrightable? What is patentable? How can allowing for digital "
8493 "sharing and distribution be balanced against the designer’s desire to still "
8494 "hold ownership? In the end, they decided there was no need to reinvent the "
8495 "wheel and settled on using Creative Commons."
8498 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8499 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6614
8501 "When designing the Opendesk system, they had two goals. They wanted anyone, "
8502 "anywhere in the world, to be able to download designs so that they could be "
8503 "made locally, and they wanted a viable model that benefited designers when "
8504 "their designs were sold. Coming up with a business model was going to be "
8508 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8509 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6621
8511 "They gave a lot of thought to three angles—the potential for social sharing, "
8512 "allowing designers to choose their license, and the impact these choices "
8513 "would have on the business model."
8516 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8517 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6626
8519 "In support of social sharing, Opendesk actively advocates for (but doesn’t "
8520 "demand) open licensing. And Nick and Joni are agnostic about which Creative "
8521 "Commons license is used; it’s up to the designer. They can be proprietary or "
8522 "choose from the full suite of Creative Commons licenses, deciding for "
8523 "themselves how open or closed they want to be."
8526 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8527 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6638
8528 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc/designers\"/>"
8531 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8532 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6634
8534 "For the most part, designers love the idea of sharing content. They "
8535 "understand that you get positive feedback when you’re attributed, what Nick "
8536 "and Joni called <quote>reputational glow.</quote> And Opendesk does an "
8537 "awesome job profiling the designers.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
8541 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8542 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6641
8544 "While designers are largely OK with personal sharing, there is a concern "
8545 "that someone will take the design and manufacture the furniture in bulk, "
8546 "with the designer not getting any benefits. So most Opendesk designers "
8547 "choose the Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC)."
8550 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8551 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6648
8553 "Anyone can download a design and make it themselves, provided it’s for "
8554 "noncommercial use — and there have been many, many downloads. Or users can "
8555 "buy the product from Opendesk, or from a registered maker in Opendesk’s "
8556 "network, for on-demand personal fabrication. The network of Opendesk makers "
8557 "currently is made up of those who do digital fabrication using a "
8558 "computer-controlled CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machining device that "
8559 "cuts shapes out of wooden sheets according to the specifications in the "
8563 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8564 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6665
8565 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc/open-making/makers/\"/>"
8568 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8569 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6658
8571 "Makers benefit from being part of Opendesk’s network. Making furniture for "
8572 "local customers is paid work, and Opendesk generates business for them. Joni "
8573 "said, <quote>Finding a whole network and community of makers was pretty easy "
8574 "because we built a site where people could write in about their "
8575 "capabilities. Building the community by learning from the maker community is "
8576 "how we have moved forward.</quote> Opendesk now has relationships with "
8577 "hundreds of makers in countries all around the world.<placeholder "
8578 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8581 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8582 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6668
8584 "The makers are a critical part of the Opendesk business model. Their model "
8585 "builds off the makers’ quotes. Here’s how it’s expressed on Opendesk’s "
8589 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8590 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6673
8592 "When customers buy an Opendesk product directly from a registered maker, "
8596 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8597 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6679
8599 "the manufacturing cost as set by the maker (this covers material and labour "
8600 "costs for the product to be manufactured and any extra assembly costs "
8601 "charged by the maker)"
8604 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8605 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6686
8607 "a design fee for the designer (a design fee that is paid to the designer "
8608 "every time their design is used)"
8611 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8612 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6692
8614 "a percentage fee to the Opendesk platform (this supports the infrastructure "
8615 "and ongoing development of the platform that helps us build out our "
8619 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8620 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6699
8622 "a percentage fee to the channel through which the sale is made (at the "
8623 "moment this is Opendesk, but in the future we aim to open this up to "
8624 "third-party sellers who can sell Opendesk products through their own "
8625 "channels—this covers sales and marketing fees for the relevant channel)"
8628 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8629 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6708
8631 "a local delivery service charge (the delivery is typically charged by the "
8632 "maker, but in some cases may be paid to a third-party delivery partner)"
8635 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8636 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6715
8638 "charges for any additional services the customer chooses, such as on-site "
8639 "assembly (additional services are discretionary—in many cases makers will be "
8640 "happy to quote for assembly on-site and designers may offer bespoke design "
8644 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para><footnote><para>
8645 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6724
8646 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc/open-making/join\"/>"
8649 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8650 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6723
8652 "local sales taxes (variable by customer and maker location)<placeholder "
8653 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8656 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8657 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6729
8658 msgid "They then go into detail how makers’ quotes are created:"
8661 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8662 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6732
8664 "When a customer wants to buy an Opendesk . . . they are provided with a "
8665 "transparent breakdown of fees including the manufacturing cost, design fee, "
8666 "Opendesk platform fee and channel fees. If a customer opts to buy by getting "
8667 "in touch directly with a registered local maker using a downloaded Opendesk "
8668 "file, the maker is responsible for ensuring the design fee, Opendesk "
8669 "platform fee and channel fees are included in any quote at the time of "
8670 "sale. Percentage fees are always based on the underlying manufacturing cost "
8671 "and are typically apportioned as follows:"
8674 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8675 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6745
8677 "manufacturing cost: fabrication, finishing and any other costs as set by the "
8678 "maker (excluding any services like delivery or on-site assembly)"
8681 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8682 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6752
8683 msgid "design fee: 8 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8686 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8687 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6757
8688 msgid "platform fee: 12 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8691 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8692 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6762
8693 msgid "channel fee: 18 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8696 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8697 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6767
8698 msgid "sales tax: as applicable (depends on product and location)"
8701 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8702 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6772
8704 "Opendesk shares revenue with their community of designers. According to "
8705 "Nick and Joni, a typical designer fee is around 2.5 percent, so Opendesk’s 8 "
8706 "percent is more generous, and providing a higher value to the designer."
8709 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8710 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6778
8712 "The Opendesk website features stories of designers and makers. Denis Fuzii "
8713 "published the design for the Valovi Chair from his studio in São Paulo. His "
8714 "designs have been downloaded over five thousand times in ninety-five "
8715 "countries. I.J. CNC Services is Ian Jinks, a professional maker based in the "
8716 "United Kingdom. Opendesk now makes up a large proportion of his business."
8719 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8720 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6786
8722 "To manage resources and remain effective, Opendesk has so far focused on a "
8723 "very narrow niche—primarily office furniture of a certain simple aesthetic, "
8724 "which uses only one type of material and one manufacturing technique. This "
8725 "allows them to be more strategic and more disruptive in the market, by "
8726 "getting things to market quickly with competitive prices. It also reflects "
8727 "their vision of creating reproducible and functional pieces."
8730 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8731 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6795
8733 "On their website, Opendesk describes what they do as <quote>open "
8734 "making</quote>: <quote>Designers get a global distribution channel. Makers "
8735 "get profitable jobs and new customers. You get designer products without the "
8736 "designer price tag, a more social, eco-friendly alternative to "
8737 "mass-production and an affordable way to buy custom-made products.</quote>"
8740 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8741 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6803
8743 "Nick and Joni say that customers like the fact that the furniture has a "
8744 "known provenance. People really like that their furniture was designed by a "
8745 "certain international designer but was made by a maker in their local "
8746 "community; it’s a great story to tell. It certainly sets apart Opendesk "
8747 "furniture from the usual mass-produced items from a store."
8750 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8751 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6816
8752 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://openmaking.is\"/>"
8755 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8756 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6811
8758 "Nick and Joni are taking a community-based approach to define and evolve "
8759 "Opendesk and the <quote>open making</quote> business model. They’re "
8760 "engaging thought leaders and practitioners to define this new movement. They "
8761 "have a separate Open Making site, which includes a manifesto, a field guide, "
8762 "and an invitation to get involved in the Open Making community.<placeholder "
8763 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> People can submit ideas and discuss the "
8764 "principles and business practices they’d like to see used."
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8770 "Nick and Joni talked a lot with us about intellectual property (IP) and "
8771 "commercialization. Many of their designers fear the idea that someone could "
8772 "take one of their design files and make and sell infinite number of pieces "
8773 "of furniture with it. As a consequence, most Opendesk designers choose the "
8774 "Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC)."
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8780 "Opendesk established a set of principles for what their community considers "
8781 "commercial and noncommercial use. Their website states:"
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8786 msgid "It is unambiguously commercial use when anyone:"
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8791 msgid "charges a fee or makes a profit when making an Opendesk"
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8796 msgid "sells (or bases a commercial service on) an Opendesk"
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8802 "It follows from this that noncommercial use is when you make an Opendesk "
8803 "yourself, with no intention to gain commercial advantage or monetary "
8804 "compensation. For example, these qualify as noncommercial:"
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8810 "you are an individual with your own CNC machine, or access to a shared CNC "
8811 "machine, and will personally cut and make a few pieces of furniture yourself"
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8817 "you are a student (or teacher) and you use the design files for educational "
8818 "purposes or training (and do not intend to sell the resulting pieces)"
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8824 "you work for a charity and get furniture cut by volunteers, or by employees "
8825 "at a fab lab or maker space"
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8831 "Whether or not people technically are doing things that implicate IP, Nick "
8832 "and Joni have found that people tend to comply with the wishes of creators "
8833 "out of a sense of fairness. They have found that behavioral economics can "
8834 "replace some of the thorny legal issues. In their business model, Nick and "
8835 "Joni are trying to suspend the focus on IP and build an open business model "
8836 "that works for all stakeholders—designers, channels, manufacturers, and "
8837 "customers. For them, the value Opendesk generates hangs off "
8838 "<quote>open,</quote> not IP."
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8844 "The mission of Opendesk is about relocalizing manufacturing, which changes "
8845 "the way we think about how goods are made. Commercialization is integral to "
8846 "their mission, and they’ve begun to focus on success metrics that track how "
8847 "many makers and designers are engaged through Opendesk in revenue-making "
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8854 "As a global platform for local making, Opendesk’s business model has been "
8855 "built on honesty, transparency, and inclusivity. As Nick and Joni describe "
8856 "it, they put ideas out there that get traction and then have faith in "
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8868 "OpenStax is a nonprofit that provides free, openly licensed textbooks for "
8869 "high-enrollment introductory college courses and Advanced Placement "
8870 "courses. Founded in 2012 in the U.S."
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8875 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.openstaxcollege.org\"/>"
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8881 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: grant funding, charging "
8882 "for custom services, charging for physical copies (textbook sales)"
8885 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
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8887 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 16, 2015"
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8893 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: David Harris, "
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8900 "OpenStax is an extension of a program called Connexions, which was started "
8901 "in 1999 by Dr. Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of "
8902 "Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, "
8903 "Texas. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional textbooks and courses, "
8904 "Dr. Baraniuk wanted to provide authors and learners a way to share and "
8905 "freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and "
8906 "reports. Today, Connexions (now called OpenStax CNX) is one of the world’s "
8907 "best libraries of customizable educational materials, all licensed with "
8908 "Creative Commons and available to anyone, anywhere, anytime—for free."
8911 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8912 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6937
8914 "In 2008, while in a senior leadership role at WebAssign and looking at ways "
8915 "to reduce the risk that came with relying on publishers, David Harris began "
8916 "investigating open educational resources (OER) and discovered Connexions. A "
8917 "year and a half later, Connexions received a grant to help grow the use of "
8918 "OER so that it could meet the needs of students who couldn’t afford "
8919 "textbooks. David came on board to spearhead this effort. Connexions became "
8920 "OpenStax CNX; the program to create open textbooks became OpenStax College, "
8921 "now simply called OpenStax."
8924 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8927 "David brought with him a deep understanding of the best practices of "
8928 "publishing along with where publishers have inefficiencies. In David’s view, "
8929 "peer review and high standards for quality are critically important if you "
8930 "want to scale easily. Books have to have logical scope and sequence, they "
8931 "have to exist as a whole and not in pieces, and they have to be easy to "
8932 "find. The working hypothesis for the launch of OpenStax was to "
8933 "professionally produce a turnkey textbook by investing effort up front, with "
8934 "the expectation that this would lead to rapid growth through easy downstream "
8935 "adoptions by faculty and students."
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8942 "url=\"http://news.rice.edu/files/2016/01/0119-OPENSTAX-2016Infographic-lg-1tahxiu.jpg\"/>"
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8948 "In 2012, OpenStax College launched as a nonprofit with the aim of producing "
8949 "high-quality, peer-reviewed full-color textbooks that would be available for "
8950 "free for the twenty-five most heavily attended college courses in the "
8951 "nation. Today they are fast approaching that number. There is data that "
8952 "proves the success of their original hypothesis on how many students they "
8953 "could help and how much money they could help save.<placeholder "
8954 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Professionally produced content scales "
8955 "rapidly. All with no sales force!"
8958 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8959 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6970
8961 "OpenStax textbooks are all Attribution (CC BY) licensed, and each textbook "
8962 "is available as a PDF, an e-book, or web pages. Those who want a physical "
8963 "copy can buy one for an affordable price. Given the cost of education and "
8964 "student debt in North America, free or very low-cost textbooks are very "
8965 "appealing. OpenStax encourages students to talk to their professor and "
8966 "librarians about these textbooks and to advocate for their use."
8969 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8972 "Teachers are invited to try out a single chapter from one of the textbooks "
8973 "with students. If that goes well, they’re encouraged to adopt the entire "
8974 "book. They can simply paste a URL into their course syllabus, for free and "
8975 "unlimited access. And with the CC BY license, teachers are free to delete "
8976 "chapters, make changes, and customize any book to fit their needs."
8979 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8982 "Any teacher can post corrections, suggest examples for difficult concepts, "
8983 "or volunteer as an editor or author. As many teachers also want supplemental "
8984 "material to accompany a textbook, OpenStax also provides slide "
8985 "presentations, test banks, answer keys, and so on."
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8990 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://openstax.org/adopters\"/>"
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8996 "Institutions can stand out by offering students a lower-cost education "
8997 "through the use of OpenStax textbooks; there’s even a textbook-savings "
8998 "calculator they can use to see how much students would save. OpenStax keeps "
8999 "a running list of institutions that have adopted their "
9000 "textbooks.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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9006 "Unlike traditional publishers’ monolithic approach of controlling "
9007 "intellectual property, distribution, and so many other aspects, OpenStax has "
9008 "adopted a model that embraces open licensing and relies on an extensive "
9009 "network of partners."
9012 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9015 "Up-front funding of a professionally produced all-color turnkey textbook is "
9016 "expensive. For this part of their model, OpenStax relies on "
9017 "philanthropy. They have initially been funded by the William and Flora "
9018 "Hewlett Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Bill and "
9019 "Melinda Gates Foundation, the 20 Million Minds Foundation, the Maxfield "
9020 "Foundation, the Calvin K. Kazanjian Foundation, and Rice University. To "
9021 "develop additional titles and supporting technology is probably still going "
9022 "to require philanthropic investment."
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9028 "However, ongoing operations will not rely on foundation grants but instead "
9029 "on funds received through an ecosystem of over forty partners, whereby a "
9030 "partner takes core content from OpenStax and adds features that it can "
9031 "create revenue from. For example, WebAssign, an online homework and "
9032 "assessment tool, takes the physics book and adds algorithmically generated "
9033 "physics problems, with problem-specific feedback, detailed solutions, and "
9034 "tutorial support. WebAssign resources are available to students for a fee."
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9040 "Another example is Odigia, who has turned OpenStax books into interactive "
9041 "learning experiences and created additional tools to measure and promote "
9042 "student engagement. Odigia licenses its learning platform to "
9043 "institutions. Partners like Odigia and WebAssign give a percentage of the "
9044 "revenue they earn back to OpenStax, as mission-support fees. OpenStax has "
9045 "already published revisions of their titles, such as Introduction to "
9046 "Sociology 2e, using these funds."
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9052 "In David’s view, this approach lets the market operate at peak "
9053 "efficiency. OpenStax’s partners don’t have to worry about developing "
9054 "textbook content, freeing them up from those development costs and letting "
9055 "them focus on what they do best. With OpenStax textbooks available at no "
9056 "cost, they can provide their services at a lower cost—not free, but still "
9057 "saving students money. OpenStax benefits not only by receiving "
9058 "mission-support fees but through free publicity and marketing. OpenStax "
9059 "doesn’t have a sales force; partners are out there showcasing their "
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9066 "OpenStax’s cost of sales to acquire a single student is very, very low and "
9067 "is a fraction of what traditional players in the market face. This year, "
9068 "Tyton Partners is actually evaluating the costs of sales for an OER effort "
9069 "like OpenStax in comparison with incumbents. David looks forward to sharing "
9070 "these findings with the community."
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9076 "While OpenStax books are available online for free, many students still want "
9077 "a print copy. Through a partnership with a print and courier company, "
9078 "OpenStax offers a complete solution that scales. OpenStax sells tens of "
9079 "thousands of print books. The price of an OpenStax sociology textbook is "
9080 "about twenty-eight dollars, a fraction of what sociology textbooks usually "
9081 "cost. OpenStax keeps the prices low but does aim to earn a small margin on "
9082 "each book sold, which also contributes to ongoing operations."
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9088 "Campus-based bookstores are part of the OpenStax solution. OpenStax "
9089 "collaborates with NACSCORP (the National Association of College Stores "
9090 "Corporation) to provide print versions of their textbooks in the "
9091 "stores. While the overall cost of the textbook is significantly less than a "
9092 "traditional textbook, bookstores can still make a profit on sales. Sometimes "
9093 "students take the savings they have from the lower-priced book and use it to "
9094 "buy other things in the bookstore. And OpenStax is trying to break the "
9095 "expensive behavior of excessive returns by having a no-returns policy. This "
9096 "is working well, since the sell-through of their print titles is virtually a "
9100 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9103 "David thinks of the OpenStax model as <quote>OER 2.0.</quote> So what is OER "
9104 "1.0? Historically in the OER field, many OER initiatives have been locally "
9105 "funded by institutions or government ministries. In David’s view, this "
9106 "results in content that has high local value but is infrequently adopted "
9107 "nationally. It’s therefore difficult to show payback over a time scale that "
9111 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9114 "OER 2.0 is about OER intended to be used and adopted on a national level "
9115 "right from the start. This requires a bigger investment up front but pays "
9116 "off through wide geographic adoption. The OER 2.0 process for OpenStax "
9117 "involves two development models. The first is what David calls the "
9118 "acquisition model, where OpenStax purchases the rights from a publisher or "
9119 "author for an already published book and then extensively revises it. The "
9120 "OpenStax physics textbook, for example, was licensed from an author after "
9121 "the publisher released the rights back to the authors. The second model is "
9122 "to develop a book from scratch, a good example being their biology book."
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9128 "The process is similar for both models. First they look at the scope and "
9129 "sequence of existing textbooks. They ask questions like what does the "
9130 "customer need? Where are students having challenges? Then they identify "
9131 "potential authors and put them through a rigorous evaluation—only one in ten "
9132 "authors make it through. OpenStax selects a team of authors who come "
9133 "together to develop a template for a chapter and collectively write the "
9134 "first draft (or revise it, in the acquisitions model). (OpenStax doesn’t do "
9135 "books with just a single author as David says it risks the project going "
9136 "longer than scheduled.) The draft is peer-reviewed with no less than three "
9137 "reviewers per chapter. A second draft is generated, with artists producing "
9138 "illustrations and visuals to go along with the text. The book is then "
9139 "copyedited to ensure grammatical correctness and a singular voice. Finally, "
9140 "it goes into production and through a final proofread. The whole process is "
9141 "very time-consuming."
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9147 "All the people involved in this process are paid. OpenStax does not rely on "
9148 "volunteers. Writers, reviewers, illustrators, and editors are all paid an "
9149 "up-front fee—OpenStax does not use a royalty model. A best-selling author "
9150 "might make more money under the traditional publishing model, but that is "
9151 "only maybe 5 percent of all authors. From David’s perspective, 95 percent of "
9152 "all authors do better under the OER 2.0 model, as there is no risk to them "
9153 "and they earn all the money up front."
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9159 "David thinks of the Attribution license (CC BY) as the <quote>innovation "
9160 "license.</quote> It’s core to the mission of OpenStax, letting people use "
9161 "their textbooks in innovative ways without having to ask for permission. It "
9162 "frees up the whole market and has been central to OpenStax being able to "
9163 "bring on partners. OpenStax sees a lot of customization of their "
9164 "materials. By enabling frictionless remixing, CC BY gives teachers control "
9165 "and academic freedom."
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9171 "Using CC BY is also a good example of using strategies that traditional "
9172 "publishers can’t. Traditional publishers rely on copyright to prevent others "
9173 "from making copies and heavily invest in digital rights management to ensure "
9174 "their books aren’t shared. By using CC BY, OpenStax avoids having to deal "
9175 "with digital rights management and its costs. OpenStax books can be copied "
9176 "and shared over and over again. CC BY changes the rules of engagement and "
9177 "takes advantage of traditional market inefficiencies."
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9183 "As of September 16, 2016, OpenStax has achieved some impressive "
9184 "results. From the OpenStax at a Glance fact sheet from their recent press "
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9190 msgid "Books published: 23"
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9195 msgid "Students who have used OpenStax: 1.6 million"
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9200 msgid "Money saved for students: $155 million"
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9205 msgid "Money saved for students in the 2016/17 academic year: $77 million"
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9211 "Schools that have used OpenStax: 2,668 (This number reflects all "
9212 "institutions using at least one OpenStax textbook. Out of 2,668 schools, 517 "
9213 "are two-year colleges, 835 four-year colleges and universities, and 344 "
9214 "colleges and universities outside the U.S.)"
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9220 "While OpenStax has to date been focused on the United States, there is "
9221 "overseas adoption especially in the science, technology, engineering, and "
9222 "math (STEM) fields. Large scale adoption in the United States is seen as a "
9223 "necessary precursor to international interest."
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9229 "OpenStax has primarily focused on introductory-level college courses where "
9230 "there is high enrollment, but they are starting to think about verticals—a "
9231 "broad offering for a specific group or need. David thinks it would be "
9232 "terrific if OpenStax could provide access to free textbooks through the "
9233 "entire curriculum of a nursing degree, for example."
9236 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9239 "Finally, for OpenStax success is not just about the adoption of their "
9240 "textbooks and student savings. There is a human aspect to the work that is "
9241 "hard to quantify but incredibly important. They get emails from students "
9242 "saying how OpenStax saved them from making difficult choices like buying "
9243 "food or a textbook. OpenStax would also like to assess the impact their "
9244 "books have on learning efficiency, persistence, and completion. By building "
9245 "an open business model based on Creative Commons, OpenStax is making it "
9246 "possible for every student who wants access to education to get it."
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9251 msgid "Amanda Palmer"
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9256 msgid "Amanda Palmer is a musician, artist, and writer. Based in the U.S."
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9261 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://amandapalmer.net\"/>"
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9267 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: crowdfunding "
9268 "(subscription-based), pay-what-you-want, charging for physical copies (book "
9269 "and album sales), charg-ing for in-person version (performances), selling "
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9275 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 15, 2015"
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9282 "url=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/04/16/amanda-palmer-uncut-the-kickstarter-queen-on-spotify-patreon-and-taylor-swift/#44e20ce46d67\"/>"
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9288 "Since the beginning of her career, Amanda Palmer has been on what she calls "
9289 "a <quote>journey with no roadmap,</quote> continually experimenting to find "
9290 "new ways to sustain her creative work.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
9294 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
9295 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7243
9297 "In her best-selling book, The Art of Asking, Amanda articulates exactly what "
9298 "she has been and continues to strive for—<quote>the ideal sweet spot "
9299 ". . . in which the artist can share freely and directly feel the "
9300 "reverberations of their artistic gifts to the community, and make a living "
9301 "doing that.</quote>"
9304 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9307 "While she seems to have successfully found that sweet spot for herself, "
9308 "Amanda is the first to acknowledge there is no silver bullet. She thinks the "
9309 "digital age is both an exciting and frustrating time for creators. <quote>On "
9310 "the one hand, we have this beautiful shareability,</quote> Amanda "
9311 "said. <quote>On the other, you’ve got a bunch of confused artists wondering "
9312 "how to make money to buy food so we can make more art.</quote>"
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9318 "Amanda began her artistic career as a street performer. She would dress up "
9319 "in an antique wedding gown, paint her face white, stand on a stack of milk "
9320 "crates, and hand out flowers to strangers as part of a silent dramatic "
9321 "performance. She collected money in a hat. Most people walked by her without "
9322 "stopping, but an essential few stopped to watch and drop some money into her "
9323 "hat to show their appreciation. Rather than dwelling on the majority of "
9324 "people who ignored her, she felt thankful for those who stopped. <quote>All "
9325 "I needed was . . . some people,</quote> she wrote in her book. <quote>Enough "
9326 "people. Enough to make it worth coming back the next day, enough people to "
9327 "help me make rent and put food on the table. Enough so I could keep making "
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9334 "Amanda has come a long way from her street-performing days, but her career "
9335 "remains dominated by that same sentiment—finding ways to reach <quote>her "
9336 "crowd</quote> and feeling gratitude when she does. With her band the Dresden "
9337 "Dolls, Amanda tried the traditional path of signing with a record label. It "
9338 "didn’t take for a variety of reasons, but one of them was that the label had "
9339 "absolutely no interest in Amanda’s view of success. They wanted hits, but "
9340 "making music for the masses was never what Amanda and the Dresden Dolls set "
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9347 "After leaving the record label in 2008, she began experimenting with "
9348 "different ways to make a living. She released music directly to the public "
9349 "without involving a middle man, releasing digital files on a <quote>pay what "
9350 "you want</quote> basis and selling CDs and vinyl. She also made money from "
9351 "live performances and merchandise sales. Eventually, in 2012 she decided to "
9352 "try her hand at the sort of crowdfunding we know so well today. Her "
9353 "Kickstarter project started with a goal of $100,000, and she made $1.2 "
9354 "million. It remains one of the most successful Kickstarter projects of all "
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9361 "Today, Amanda has switched gears away from crowdfunding for specific "
9362 "projects to instead getting consistent financial support from her fan base "
9363 "on Patreon, a crowdfunding site that allows artists to get recurring "
9364 "donations from fans. More than eight thousand people have signed up to "
9365 "support her so she can create music, art, and any other creative "
9366 "<quote>thing</quote> that she is inspired to make. The recurring pledges are "
9367 "made on a <quote>per thing</quote> basis. All of the content she makes is "
9368 "made freely available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
9372 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
9373 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7308
9375 "Making her music and art available under Creative Commons licensing "
9376 "undoubtedly limits her options for how she makes a living. But sharing her "
9377 "work has been part of her model since the beginning of her career, even "
9378 "before she discovered Creative Commons. Amanda says the Dresden Dolls used "
9379 "to get ten emails per week from fans asking if they could use their music "
9380 "for different projects. They said yes to all of the requests, as long as it "
9381 "wasn’t for a completely for-profit venture. At the time, they used a "
9382 "short-form agreement written by Amanda herself. <quote>I made everyone sign "
9383 "that contract so at least I wouldn’t be leaving the band vulnerable to "
9384 "someone later going on and putting our music in a Camel cigarette "
9385 "ad,</quote> Amanda said. Once she discovered Creative Commons, adopting the "
9386 "licenses was an easy decision because it gave them a more formal, "
9387 "standardized way of doing what they had been doing all along. The "
9388 "NonCommercial licenses were a natural fit."
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9394 "Amanda embraces the way her fans share and build upon her music. In The Art "
9395 "of Asking, she wrote that some of her fans’ unofficial videos using her "
9396 "music surpass the official videos in number of views on YouTube. Rather than "
9397 "seeing this sort of thing as competition, Amanda celebrates it. <quote>We "
9398 "got into this because we wanted to share the joy of music,</quote> she said."
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9404 "This is symbolic of how nearly everything she does in her career is "
9405 "motivated by a desire to connect with her fans. At the start of her career, "
9406 "she and the band would throw concerts at house parties. As the gatherings "
9407 "grew, the line between fans and friends was completely blurred. <quote>Not "
9408 "only did most our early fans know where I lived and where we practiced, but "
9409 "most of them had also been in my kitchen,</quote> Amanda wrote in The Art of "
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9416 "Even though her fan base is now huge and global, she continues to seek this "
9417 "sort of human connection with her fans. She seeks out face-to-face contact "
9418 "with her fans every chance she can get. Her hugely successful Kickstarter "
9419 "featured fifty concerts at house parties for backers. She spends hours in "
9420 "the signing line after shows. It helps that Amanda has the kind of dynamic, "
9421 "engaging personality that instantly draws people to her, but a big component "
9422 "of her ability to connect with people is her willingness to "
9423 "listen. <quote>Listening fast and caring immediately is a skill unto "
9424 "itself,</quote> Amanda wrote."
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9430 "Another part of the connection fans feel with Amanda is how much they know "
9431 "about her life. Rather than trying to craft a public persona or image, she "
9432 "essentially lives her life as an open book. She has written openly about "
9433 "incredibly personal events in her life, and she isn’t afraid to be "
9434 "vulnerable. Having that kind of trust in her fans—the trust it takes to be "
9435 "truly honest—begets trust from her fans in return. When she meets fans for "
9436 "the first time after a show, they can legitimately feel like they know her."
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9442 "<quote>With social media, we’re so concerned with the picture looking "
9443 "palatable and consumable that we forget that being human and showing the "
9444 "flaws and exposing the vulnerability actually create a deeper connection "
9445 "than just looking fantastic,</quote> Amanda said. <quote>Everything in our "
9446 "culture is telling us otherwise. But my experience has shown me that the "
9447 "risk of making yourself vulnerable is almost always worth it.</quote>"
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9453 "Not only does she disclose intimate details of her life to them, she sleeps "
9454 "on their couches, listens to their stories, cries with them. In short, she "
9455 "treats her fans like friends in nearly every possible way, even when they "
9456 "are complete strangers. This mentality—that fans are friends—is completely "
9457 "intertwined with Amanda’s success as an artist. It is also intertwined with "
9458 "her use of Creative Commons licenses. Because that is what you do with your "
9459 "friends—you share."
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9465 "After years of investing time and energy into building trust with her fans, "
9466 "she has a strong enough relationship with them to ask for support—through "
9467 "pay-what-you-want donations, Kickstarter, Patreon, or even asking them to "
9468 "lend a hand at a concert. As Amanda explains it, crowdfunding (which is "
9469 "really what all of these different things are) is about asking for support "
9470 "from people who know and trust you. People who feel personally invested in "
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9477 "<quote>When you openly, radically trust people, they not only take care of "
9478 "you, they become your allies, your family,</quote> she wrote. There really "
9479 "is a feeling of solidarity within her core fan base. From the beginning, "
9480 "Amanda and her band encouraged people to dress up for their shows. They "
9481 "consciously cultivated a feeling of belonging to their <quote>weird little "
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9488 "This sort of intimacy with fans is not possible or even desirable for every "
9489 "creator. <quote>I don’t take for granted that I happen to be the type of "
9490 "person who loves cavorting with strangers,</quote> Amanda said. <quote>I "
9491 "recognize that it’s not necessarily everyone’s idea of a good time. Everyone "
9492 "does it differently. Replicating what I have done won’t work for others if "
9493 "it isn’t joyful to them. It’s about finding a way to channel energy in a way "
9494 "that is joyful to you.</quote>"
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9500 "Yet while Amanda joyfully interacts with her fans and involves them in her "
9501 "work as much as possible, she does keep one job primarily to herself—writing "
9502 "the music. She loves the creativity with which her fans use and adapt her "
9503 "work, but she intentionally does not involve them at the first stage of "
9504 "creating her artistic work. And, of course, the songs and music are what "
9505 "initially draw people to Amanda Palmer. It is only once she has connected to "
9506 "people through her music that she can then begin to build ties with them on "
9507 "a more personal level, both in person and online. In her book, Amanda "
9508 "describes it as casting a net. It starts with the art and then the bond "
9509 "strengthens with human connection."
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9515 "For Amanda, the entire point of being an artist is to establish and maintain "
9516 "this connection. <quote>It sounds so corny,</quote> she said, <quote>but my "
9517 "experience in forty years on this planet has pointed me to an obvious "
9518 "truth—that connection with human beings feels so much better and more "
9519 "fulfilling than approaching art through a capitalist lens. There is no more "
9520 "satisfying end goal than having someone tell you that what you do is "
9521 "genuinely of value to them.</quote>"
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9527 "As she explains it, when a fan gives her a ten-dollar bill, usually what "
9528 "they are saying is that the money symbolizes some deeper value the music "
9529 "provided them. For Amanda, art is not just a product; it’s a "
9530 "relationship. Viewed from this lens, what Amanda does today is not that "
9531 "different from what she did as a young street performer. She shares her "
9532 "music and other artistic gifts. She shares herself. And then rather than "
9533 "forcing people to help her, she lets them."
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9538 msgid "PLOS (Public Library of Science)"
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9544 "PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit that publishes a library of "
9545 "academic journals and other scientific literature. Founded in 2000 in the "
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9557 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging content "
9558 "creators an author processing charge to be featured in the journal"
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9563 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 7, 2016"
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9568 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Louise Page, publisher"
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9574 "The Public Library of Science (PLOS) began in 2000 when three leading "
9575 "scientists—Harold E. Varmus, Patrick O. Brown, and Michael Eisen—started an "
9576 "online petition. They were calling for scientists to stop submitting papers "
9577 "to journals that didn’t make the full text of their papers freely available "
9578 "immediately or within six months. Although tens of thousands signed the "
9579 "petition, most did not follow through. In August 2001, Patrick and Michael "
9580 "announced that they would start their own nonprofit publishing operation to "
9581 "do just what the petition promised. With start-up grant support from the "
9582 "Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, PLOS was launched to provide new "
9583 "open-access journals for biomedicine, with research articles being released "
9584 "under Attribution (CC BY) licenses."
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9590 "Traditionally, academic publishing begins with an author submitting a "
9591 "manuscript to a publisher. After in-house technical and ethical "
9592 "considerations, the article is then peer-reviewed to determine if the "
9593 "quality of the work is acceptable for publishing. Once accepted, the "
9594 "publisher takes the article through the process of copyediting, typesetting, "
9595 "and eventual publishing in a print or online publication. Traditional "
9596 "journal publishers recover costs and earn profit by charging a subscription "
9597 "fee to libraries or an access fee to users wanting to read the journal or "
9601 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9604 "For Louise Page, the current publisher of PLOS, this traditional model "
9605 "results in inequity. Access is restricted to those who can pay. Most "
9606 "research is funded through government-appointed agencies, that is, with "
9607 "public funds. It’s unjust that the public who funded the research would be "
9608 "required to pay again to access the results. Not everyone can afford the "
9609 "ever-escalating subscription fees publishers charge, especially when library "
9610 "budgets are being reduced. Restricting access to the results of scientific "
9611 "research slows the dissemination of this research and advancement of the "
9612 "field. It was time for a new model."
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9618 "That new model became known as open access. That is, free and open "
9619 "availability on the Internet. Open-access research articles are not behind a "
9620 "paywall and do not require a login. A key benefit of open access is that it "
9621 "allows people to freely use, copy, and distribute the articles, as they are "
9622 "primarily published under an Attribution (CC BY) license (which only "
9623 "requires the user to provide appropriate attribution). And more importantly, "
9624 "policy makers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, educators, and students around the "
9625 "world have free and timely access to the latest research immediately on "
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9632 "However, open access requires rethinking the business model of research "
9633 "publication. Rather than charge a subscription fee to access the journal, "
9634 "PLOS decided to turn the model on its head and charge a publication fee, "
9635 "known as an article-processing charge. This up-front fee, generally paid by "
9636 "the funder of the research or the author’s institution, covers the expenses "
9637 "such as editorial oversight, peer-review management, journal production, "
9638 "online hosting, and support for discovery. Fees are per article and are "
9639 "billed upon acceptance for publishing. There are no additional charges based "
9640 "on word length, figures, or other elements."
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9646 "Calculating the article-processing charge involves taking all the costs "
9647 "associated with publishing the journal and determining a cost per article "
9648 "that collectively recovers costs. For PLOS’s journals in biology, medicine, "
9649 "genetics, computational biology, neglected tropical diseases, and pathogens, "
9650 "the article-processing charge ranges from $2,250 to "
9651 "$2,900. Article-publication charges for PLOS ONE, a journal started in 2006, "
9652 "are just under $1,500."
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9658 "PLOS believes that lack of funds should not be a barrier to "
9659 "publication. Since its inception, PLOS has provided fee support for "
9660 "individuals and institutions to help authors who can’t afford the "
9661 "article-processing charges."
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9667 "Louise identifies marketing as one area of big difference between PLOS and "
9668 "traditional journal publishers. Traditional journals have to invest heavily "
9669 "in staff, buildings, and infrastructure to market their journal and convince "
9670 "customers to subscribe. Restricting access to subscribers means that tools "
9671 "for managing access control are necessary. They spend millions of dollars on "
9672 "access-control systems, staff to manage them, and sales staff. With PLOS’s "
9673 "open-access publishing, there’s no need for these massive expenses; the "
9674 "articles are free, open, and accessible to all upon "
9675 "publication. Additionally, traditional publishers tend to spend more on "
9676 "marketing to libraries, who ultimately pay the subscription fees. PLOS "
9677 "provides a better service for authors by promoting their research directly "
9678 "to the research community and giving the authors exposure. And this "
9679 "encourages other authors to submit their work for publication."
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9685 "For Louise, PLOS would not exist without the Attribution license (CC "
9686 "BY). This makes it very clear what rights are associated with the content "
9687 "and provides a safe way for researchers to make their work available while "
9688 "ensuring they get recognition (appropriate attribution). For PLOS, all of "
9689 "this aligns with how they think research content should be published and "
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9696 "PLOS also has a broad open-data policy. To get their research paper "
9697 "published, PLOS authors must also make their data available in a public "
9698 "repository and provide a data-availability statement."
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9704 "Business-operation costs associated with the open-access model still largely "
9705 "follow the existing publishing model. PLOS journals are online only, but the "
9706 "editorial, peer-review, production, typesetting, and publishing stages are "
9707 "all the same as for a traditional publisher. The editorial teams must be top "
9708 "notch. PLOS has to function as well as or better than other premier "
9709 "journals, as researchers have a choice about where to publish."
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9715 "Researchers are influenced by journal rankings, which reflect the place of a "
9716 "journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that "
9717 "journal, and the prestige associated with it. PLOS journals rank high, even "
9718 "though they are relatively new."
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9724 "The promotion and tenure of researchers are partially based how many times "
9725 "other researchers cite their articles. Louise says when researchers want to "
9726 "discover and read the work of others in their field, they go to an online "
9727 "aggregator or search engine, and not typically to a particular journal. The "
9728 "CC BY licensing of PLOS research articles ensures easy access for readers "
9729 "and generates more discovery and citations for authors."
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9735 "Louise believes that open access has been a huge success, progressing from a "
9736 "movement led by a small cadre of researchers to something that is now "
9737 "widespread and used in some form by every journal publisher. PLOS has had a "
9738 "big impact. In 2012 to 2014, they published more open-access articles than "
9739 "BioMed Central, the original open-access publisher, or anyone else."
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9745 "PLOS further disrupted the traditional journal-publishing model by "
9746 "pioneering the concept of a megajournal. The PLOS ONE megajournal, launched "
9747 "in 2006, is an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal that is much "
9748 "larger than a traditional journal, publishing thousands of articles per year "
9749 "and benefiting from economies of scale. PLOS ONE has a broad scope, covering "
9750 "science and medicine as well as social sciences and the humanities. The "
9751 "review and editorial process is less subjective. Articles are accepted for "
9752 "publication based on whether they are technically sound rather than "
9753 "perceived importance or relevance. This is very important in the current "
9754 "debate about the integrity and reproducibility of research because negative "
9755 "or null results can then be published as well, which are generally rejected "
9756 "by traditional journals. PLOS ONE, like all the PLOS journals, is online "
9757 "only with no print version. PLOS passes on the financial savings accrued "
9758 "through economies of scale to researchers and the public by lowering the "
9759 "article-processing charges, which are below that of other journals. PLOS ONE "
9760 "is the biggest journal in the world and has really set the bar for "
9761 "publishing academic journal articles on a large scale. Other publishers see "
9762 "the value of the PLOS ONE model and are now offering their own "
9763 "multidisciplinary forums for publishing all sound science."
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9769 "Louise outlined some other aspects of the research-journal business model "
9770 "PLOS is experimenting with, describing each as a kind of slider that could "
9771 "be adjusted to change current practice."
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9777 "One slider is time to publication. Time to publication may shorten as "
9778 "journals get better at providing quicker decisions to authors. However, "
9779 "there is always a trade-off with scale, as the bigger the volume of "
9780 "articles, the more time the approval process inevitably takes."
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9786 "Peer review is another part of the process that could change. It’s possible "
9787 "to redefine what peer review actually is, when to review, and what "
9788 "constitutes the final article for publication. Louise talked about the "
9789 "potential to shift to an open-review process, placing the emphasis on "
9790 "transparency rather than double-blind reviews. Louise thinks we’re moving "
9791 "into a direction where it’s actually beneficial for an author to know who is "
9792 "reviewing their paper and for the reviewer to know their review will be "
9793 "public. An open-review process can also ensure everyone gets credit; right "
9794 "now, credit is limited to the publisher and author."
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9800 "Louise says research with negative outcomes is almost as important as "
9801 "positive results. If journals published more research with negative "
9802 "outcomes, we’d learn from what didn’t work. It could also reduce how much "
9803 "the research wheel gets reinvented around the world."
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9809 "Another adjustable practice is the sharing of articles at early preprint "
9810 "stages. Publication of research in a peer-reviewed journal can take a long "
9811 "time because articles must undergo extensive peer review. The need to "
9812 "quickly circulate current results within a scientific community has led to a "
9813 "practice of distributing pre-print documents that have not yet undergone "
9814 "peer review. Preprints broaden the peer-review process, allowing authors to "
9815 "receive early feedback from a wide group of peers, which can help revise and "
9816 "prepare the article for submission. Offsetting the advantages of preprints "
9817 "are author concerns over ensuring their primacy of being first to come up "
9818 "with findings based on their research. Other researches may see findings the "
9819 "preprint author has not yet thought of. However, preprints help researchers "
9820 "get their discoveries out early and establish precedence. A big challenge is "
9821 "that researchers don’t have a lot of time to comment on preprints."
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9827 "What constitutes a journal article could also change. The idea of a research "
9828 "article as printed, bound, and in a library stack is outdated. Digital and "
9829 "online open up new possibilities, such as a living document evolving over "
9830 "time, inclusion of audio and video, and interactivity, like discussion and "
9831 "recommendations. Even the size of what gets published could change. With "
9832 "these changes the current form factor for what constitutes a research "
9833 "article would undergo transformation."
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9849 "As journals scale up, and new journals are introduced, more and more "
9850 "information is being pushed out to readers, making the experience feel like "
9851 "drinking from a fire hose. To help mitigate this, PLOS aggregates and "
9852 "curates content from PLOS journals and their network of blogs.<placeholder "
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9854 "Metrics, which helps users assess research most relevant to the field "
9855 "itself, based on indicators like usage, citations, social bookmarking and "
9856 "dissemination activity, media and blog coverage, discussions, and "
9857 "ratings.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Louise believes that the "
9858 "journal model could evolve to provide a more friendly and interactive user "
9859 "experience, including a way for readers to communicate with authors."
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9865 "The big picture for PLOS going forward is to combine and adjust these "
9866 "experimental practices in ways that continue to improve accessibility and "
9867 "dissemination of research, while ensuring its integrity and reliability. The "
9868 "ways they interlink are complex. The process of change and adjustment is "
9869 "not linear. PLOS sees itself as a very flexible publisher interested in "
9870 "exploring all the permutations research-publishing can take, with authors "
9871 "and readers who are open to experimentation."
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9877 "For PLOS, success is not about revenue. Success is about proving that "
9878 "scientific research can be communicated rapidly and economically at scale, "
9879 "for the benefit of researchers and society. The CC BY license makes it "
9880 "possible for PLOS to publish in a way that is unfettered, open, and fast, "
9881 "while ensuring that the authors get credit for their work. More than two "
9882 "million scientists, scholars, and clinicians visit PLOS every month, with "
9883 "more than 135,000 quality articles to peruse for free."
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9889 "Ultimately, for PLOS, its authors, and its readers, success is about making "
9890 "research discoverable, available, and reproducible for the advancement of "
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9899 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
9900 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7732
9902 "The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to art and "
9903 "history. Founded in 1800 in the Netherlands"
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9908 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl\"/>"
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9914 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: grants and government "
9915 "funding, charging for in-person version (museum admission), selling "
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9921 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 11, 2015"
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9927 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Lizzy Jongma, the data "
9928 "manager of the collections information department"
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9934 "The Rijksmuseum, a national museum in the Netherlands dedicated to art and "
9935 "history, has been housed in its current building since 1885. The monumental "
9936 "building enjoyed more than 125 years of intensive use before needing a "
9937 "thorough overhaul. In 2003, the museum was closed for renovations. Asbestos "
9938 "was found in the roof, and although the museum was scheduled to be closed "
9939 "for only three to four years, renovations ended up taking ten years. During "
9940 "this time, the collection was moved to a different part of Amsterdam, which "
9941 "created a physical distance with the curators. Out of necessity, they "
9942 "started digitally photographing the collection and creating metadata "
9943 "(information about each object to put into a database). With the renovations "
9944 "going on for so long, the museum became largely forgotten by the public. Out "
9945 "of these circumstances emerged a new and more open model for the museum."
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9951 "By the time Lizzy Jongma joined the Rijksmuseum in 2011 as a data manager, "
9952 "staff were fed up with the situation the museum was in. They also realized "
9953 "that even with the new and larger space, it still wouldn’t be able to show "
9954 "very much of the whole collection—eight thousand of over one million works "
9955 "representing just 1 percent. Staff began exploring ways to express "
9956 "themselves, to have something to show for all of the work they had been "
9957 "doing. The Rijksmuseum is primarily funded by Dutch taxpayers, so was there "
9958 "a way for the museum provide benefit to the public while it was closed? They "
9959 "began thinking about sharing Rijksmuseum’s collection using information "
9960 "technology. And they put up a card-catalog like database of the entire "
9961 "collection online."
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9967 "It was effective but a bit boring. It was just data. A hackathon they were "
9968 "invited to got them to start talking about events like that as having "
9969 "potential. They liked the idea of inviting people to do cool stuff with "
9970 "their collection. What about giving online access to digital representations "
9971 "of the one hundred most important pieces in the Rijksmuseum collection? That "
9972 "eventually led to why not put the whole collection online?"
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9977 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en\"/>"
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9983 "Then, Lizzy says, Europeana came along. Europeana is Europe’s digital "
9984 "library, museum, and archive for cultural heritage.<placeholder "
9985 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As an online portal to museum collections all "
9986 "across Europe, Europeana had become an important online platform. In October "
9987 "2010 Creative Commons released CC0 and its public-domain mark as tools "
9988 "people could use to identify works as free of known copyright. Europeana was "
9989 "the first major adopter, using CC0 to release metadata about their "
9990 "collection and the public domain mark for millions of digital works in their "
9991 "collection. Lizzy says the Rijksmuseum initially found this change in "
9992 "business practice a bit scary, but at the same time it stimulated even more "
9993 "discussion on whether the Rijksmuseum should follow suit."
9996 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9999 "They realized that they don’t <quote>own</quote> the collection and couldn’t "
10000 "realistically monitor and enforce compliance with the restrictive licensing "
10001 "terms they currently had in place. For example, many copies and versions of "
10002 "Vermeer’s Milkmaid (part of their collection) were already online, many of "
10003 "them of very poor quality. They could spend time and money policing its use, "
10004 "but it would probably be futile and wouldn’t make people stop using their "
10005 "images online. They ended up thinking it’s an utter waste of time to hunt "
10006 "down people who use the Rijksmuseum collection. And anyway, restricting "
10007 "access meant the people they were frustrating the most were schoolkids."
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10013 "In 2011 the Rijksmuseum began making their digital photos of works known to "
10014 "be free of copyright available online, using Creative Commons CC0 to place "
10015 "works in the public domain. A medium-resolution image was offered for free, "
10016 "but a high-resolution version cost forty euros. People started paying, but "
10017 "Lizzy says getting the money was frequently a nightmare, especially from "
10018 "overseas customers. The administrative costs often offset revenue, and "
10019 "income above costs was relatively low. In addition, having to pay for an "
10020 "image of a work in the public domain from a collection owned by the Dutch "
10021 "government (i.e., paid for by the public) was contentious and frustrating "
10022 "for some. Lizzy says they had lots of fierce debates about what to do."
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10028 "In 2013 the Rijksmuseum changed its business model. They Creative Commons "
10029 "licensed their highest-quality images and released them online for "
10030 "free. Digitization still cost money, however; they decided to define "
10031 "discrete digitization projects and find sponsors willing to fund each "
10032 "project. This turned out to be a successful strategy, generating high "
10033 "interest from sponsors and lower administrative effort for the "
10034 "Rijksmuseum. They started out making 150,000 high-quality images of their "
10035 "collection available, with the goal to eventually have the entire collection "
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10042 "Releasing these high-quality images for free reduced the number of "
10043 "poor-quality images that were proliferating. The high-quality image of "
10044 "Vermeer’s Milkmaid, for example, is downloaded two to three thousand times a "
10045 "month. On the Internet, images from a source like the Rijksmuseum are more "
10046 "trusted, and releasing them with a Creative Commons CC0 means they can "
10047 "easily be found in other platforms. For example, Rijksmuseum images are now "
10048 "used in thousands of Wikipedia articles, receiving ten to eleven million "
10049 "views per month. This extends Rijksmuseum’s reach far beyond the scope of "
10050 "its website. Sharing these images online creates what Lizzy calls the "
10051 "<quote>Mona Lisa effect,</quote> where a work of art becomes so famous that "
10052 "people want to see it in real life by visiting the actual museum."
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10058 "Every museum tends to be driven by the number of physical visitors. The "
10059 "Rijksmuseum is primarily publicly funded, receiving roughly 70 percent of "
10060 "its operating budget from the government. But like many museums, it must "
10061 "generate the rest of the funding through other means. The admission fee has "
10062 "long been a way to generate revenue generation, including for the "
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10069 "As museums create a digital presence for themselves and put up digital "
10070 "representations of their collection online, there’s frequently a worry that "
10071 "it will lead to a drop in actual physical visits. For the Rijksmuseum, this "
10072 "has not turned out to be the case. Lizzy told us the Rijksmuseum used to get "
10073 "about one million visitors a year before closing and now gets more than two "
10074 "million a year. Making the collection available online has generated "
10075 "publicity and acts as a form of marketing. The Creative Commons mark "
10076 "encourages reuse as well. When the image is found on protest leaflets, milk "
10077 "cartons, and children’s toys, people also see what museum the image comes "
10078 "from and this increases the museum’s visibility."
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10083 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio\"/>"
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10089 "In 2011 the Rijksmuseum received €1 million from the Dutch lottery to create "
10090 "a new web presence that would be different from any other museum’s. In "
10091 "addition to redesigning their main website to be mobile friendly and "
10092 "responsive to devices like the iPad, the Rijksmuseum also created the "
10093 "Rijksstudio, where users and artists could use and do various things with "
10094 "the Rijksmuseum collection.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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10100 "The Rijksstudio gives users access to over two hundred thousand high-quality "
10101 "digital representations of masterworks from the collection. Users can zoom "
10102 "in to any work and even clip small parts of images they like. Rijksstudio is "
10103 "a bit like Pinterest. You can <quote>like</quote> works and compile your "
10104 "personal favorites, and you can share them with friends or download them "
10105 "free of charge. All the images in the Rijksstudio are copyright and royalty "
10106 "free, and users are encouraged to use them as they like, for private or even "
10107 "commercial purposes."
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10113 "Users have created over 276,000 Rijksstudios, generating their own themed "
10114 "virtual exhibitions on a wide variety of topics ranging from tapestries to "
10115 "ugly babies and birds. Sets of images have also been created for educational "
10116 "purposes including use for school exams."
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10122 "Some contemporary artists who have works in the Rijksmuseum collection "
10123 "contacted them to ask why their works were not included in the "
10124 "Rijksstudio. The answer was that contemporary artists’ works are still bound "
10125 "by copyright. The Rijksmuseum does encourage contemporary artists to use a "
10126 "Creative Commons license for their works, usually a CC BY-SA license "
10127 "(Attribution-ShareAlike), or a CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) if they "
10128 "want to preclude commercial use. That way, their works can be made available "
10129 "to the public, but within limits the artists have specified."
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10136 "url=\"http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/175696771/fringe-kimono-silk-kimono-kimono-robe\"/>"
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10142 "The Rijksmuseum believes that art stimulates entrepreneurial activity. The "
10143 "line between creative and commercial can be blurry. As Lizzy says, even "
10144 "Rembrandt was commercial, making his livelihood from selling his "
10145 "paintings. The Rijksmuseum encourages entrepreneurial commercial use of the "
10146 "images in Rijksstudio. They’ve even partnered with the DIY marketplace Etsy "
10147 "to inspire people to sell their creations. One great example you can find on "
10148 "Etsy is a kimono designed by Angie Johnson, who used an image of an "
10149 "elaborate cabinet along with an oil painting by Jan Asselijn called The "
10150 "Threatened Swan.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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10156 "<ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award\"/>; the 2014 "
10157 "award: <ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award-2014\"/>; "
10158 "the 2015 award: <ulink "
10159 "url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award-2015\"/>"
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10166 "url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/142328--nominees-rijksstudio-award/creaties/ba595afe-452d-46bd-9c8c-48dcbdd7f0a4\"/>"
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10172 "In 2013 the Rijksmuseum organized their first high-profile design "
10173 "competition, known as the Rijksstudio Award.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
10174 "id=\"0\"/> With the call to action Make Your Own Masterpiece, the "
10175 "competition invites the public to use Rijksstudio images to make new "
10176 "creative designs. A jury of renowned designers and curators selects ten "
10177 "finalists and three winners. The final award comes with a prize of "
10178 "€10,000. The second edition in 2015 attracted a staggering 892 top-class "
10179 "entries. Some award winners end up with their work sold through the "
10180 "Rijksmuseum store, such as the 2014 entry featuring makeup based on a "
10181 "specific color scheme of a work of art.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
10182 "id=\"1\"/> The Rijksmuseum has been thrilled with the results. Entries "
10183 "range from the fun to the weird to the inspirational. The third "
10184 "international edition of the Rijksstudio Award started in September 2016."
10187 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10190 "For the next iteration of the Rijksstudio, the Rijksmuseum is considering an "
10191 "upload tool, for people to upload their own works of art, and enhanced "
10192 "social elements so users can interact with each other more."
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10198 "Going with a more open business model generated lots of publicity for the "
10199 "Rijksmuseum. They were one of the first museums to open up their collection "
10200 "(that is, give free access) with high-quality images. This strategy, along "
10201 "with the many improvements to the Rijksmuseum’s website, dramatically "
10202 "increased visits to their website from thirty-five thousand visits per month "
10203 "to three hundred thousand."
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10209 "The Rijksmuseum has been experimenting with other ways to invite the public "
10210 "to look at and interact with their collection. On an international day "
10211 "celebrating animals, they ran a successful bird-themed event. The museum put "
10212 "together a showing of two thousand works that featured birds and invited "
10213 "bird-watchers to identify the birds depicted. Lizzy notes that while museum "
10214 "curators know a lot about the works in their collections, they may not know "
10215 "about certain details in the paintings such as bird species. Over eight "
10216 "hundred different birds were identified, including a specific species of "
10217 "crane bird that was unknown to the scientific community at the time of the "
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10224 "For the Rijksmuseum, adopting an open business model was scary. They came "
10225 "up with many worst-case scenarios, imagining all kinds of awful things "
10226 "people might do with the museum’s works. But Lizzy says those fears did not "
10227 "come true because <quote>ninety-nine percent of people have respect for "
10228 "great art.</quote> Many museums think they can make a lot of money by "
10229 "selling things related to their collection. But in Lizzy’s experience, "
10230 "museums are usually bad at selling things, and sometimes efforts to generate "
10231 "a small amount of money block something much bigger—the real value that the "
10232 "collection has. For Lizzy, clinging to small amounts of revenue is being "
10233 "penny-wise but pound-foolish. For the Rijksmuseum, a key lesson has been to "
10234 "never lose sight of its vision for the collection. Allowing access to and "
10235 "use of their collection has generated great promotional value—far more than "
10236 "the previous practice of charging fees for access and use. Lizzy sums up "
10237 "their experience: <quote>Give away; get something in return. Generosity "
10238 "makes people happy to join you and help out.</quote>"
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10246 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
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10248 msgid "Shareable is an online magazine about sharing. Founded in 2009 in the U.S."
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10253 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.shareable.net\"/>"
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10259 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: grant funding, "
10260 "crowdfunding (project-based), donations, sponsorships"
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10265 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 24, 2016"
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10271 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Neal Gorenflo, cofounder "
10272 "and executive editor"
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10278 "In 2013, Shareable faced an impasse. The nonprofit online publication had "
10279 "helped start a sharing movement four years prior, but over time, they "
10280 "watched one part of the movement stray from its ideals. As giants like Uber "
10281 "and Airbnb gained ground, attention began to center on the <quote>sharing "
10282 "economy</quote> we know now—profit-driven, transactional, and loaded with "
10283 "venture-capital money. Leaders of corporate start-ups in this domain invited "
10284 "Shareable to advocate for them. The magazine faced a choice: ride the wave "
10285 "or stand on principle."
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10291 "As an organization, Shareable decided to draw a line in the sand. In 2013, "
10292 "the cofounder and executive editor Neal Gorenflo wrote an opinion piece in "
10293 "the PandoDaily that charted Shareable’s new critical stance on the Silicon "
10294 "Valley version of the sharing economy, while contrasting it with aspects of "
10295 "the real sharing economy like open-source software, participatory budgeting "
10296 "(where citizens decide how a public budget is spent), cooperatives, and "
10297 "more. He wrote, <quote>It’s not so much that collaborative consumption is "
10298 "dead, it’s more that it risks dying as it gets absorbed by the "
10299 "<quote>Borg.</quote></quote>"
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10305 "Neal said their public critique of the corporate sharing economy defined "
10306 "what Shareable was and is. He does not think the magazine would still be "
10307 "around had they chosen differently. <quote>We would have gotten another type "
10308 "of audience, but it would have spelled the end of us,</quote> he "
10309 "said. <quote>We are a small, mission-driven organization. We would never "
10310 "have been able to weather the criticism that Airbnb and Uber are getting "
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10317 "Interestingly, impassioned supporters are only a small sliver of Shareable’s "
10318 "total audience. Most are casual readers who come across a Shareable story "
10319 "because it happens to align with a project or interest they have. But "
10320 "choosing principles over the possibility of riding the coattails of the "
10321 "major corporate players in the sharing space saved Shareable’s "
10322 "credibility. Although they became detached from the corporate sharing "
10323 "economy, the online magazine became the voice of the <quote>real sharing "
10324 "economy</quote> and continued to grow their audience."
10327 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10330 "Shareable is a magazine, but the content they publish is a means to "
10331 "furthering their role as a leader and catalyst of a movement. Shareable "
10332 "became a leader in the movement in 2009. <quote>At that time, there was a "
10333 "sharing movement bubbling beneath the surface, but no one was connecting the "
10334 "dots,</quote> Neal said. <quote>We decided to step into that space and take "
10335 "on that role.</quote> The small team behind the nonprofit publication truly "
10336 "believed sharing could be central to solving some of the major problems "
10337 "human beings face—resource inequality, social isolation, and global warming."
10340 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
10341 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8077
10343 "They have worked hard to find ways to tell stories that show different "
10344 "metrics for success. <quote>We wanted to change the notion of what "
10345 "constitutes the good life,</quote> Neal said. While they started out with a "
10346 "very broad focus on sharing generally, today they emphasize stories about "
10347 "the physical commons like <quote>sharing cities</quote> (i.e., urban areas "
10348 "managed in a sustainable, cooperative way), as well as digital platforms "
10349 "that are run democratically. They particularly focus on how-to content that "
10350 "help their readers make changes in their own lives and communities."
10353 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
10354 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8089
10356 "More than half of Shareable’s stories are written by paid journalists that "
10357 "are contracted by the magazine. <quote>Particularly in content areas that "
10358 "are a priority for us, we really want to go deep and control the "
10359 "quality,</quote> Neal said. The rest of the content is either contributed by "
10360 "guest writers, often for free, or written by other publications from their "
10361 "network of content publishers. Shareable is a member of the Post Growth "
10362 "Alliance, which facilitates the sharing of content and audiences among a "
10363 "large and growing group of mostly nonprofits. Each organization gets a "
10364 "chance to present stories to the group, and the organizations can use and "
10365 "promote each other’s stories. Much of the content created by the network is "
10366 "licensed with Creative Commons."
10369 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10372 "All of Shareable’s original content is published under the Attribution "
10373 "license (CC BY), meaning it can be used for any purpose as long as credit is "
10374 "given to Shareable. Creative Commons licensing is aligned with Shareable’s "
10375 "vision, mission, and identity. That alone explains the organization’s "
10376 "embrace of the licenses for their content, but Neal also believes CC "
10377 "licensing helps them increase their reach. <quote>By using CC "
10378 "licensing,</quote> he said, <quote>we realized we could reach far more "
10379 "people through a formal and informal network of republishers or "
10380 "affiliates. That has definitely been the case. It’s hard for us to measure "
10381 "the reach of other media properties, but most of the outlets who republish "
10382 "our work have much bigger audiences than we do.</quote>"
10385 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10388 "In addition to their regular news and commentary online, Shareable has also "
10389 "experimented with book publishing. In 2012, they worked with a traditional "
10390 "publisher to release Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in an "
10391 "Age of Crisis. The CC-licensed book was available in print form for purchase "
10392 "or online for free. To this day, the book—along with their CC-licensed guide "
10393 "Policies for Shareable Cities—are two of the biggest generators of traffic "
10394 "on their website."
10397 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
10398 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8129
10400 "In 2016, Shareable self-published a book of curated Shareable stories called "
10401 "How to: Share, Save Money and Have Fun. The book was available for sale, but "
10402 "a PDF version of the book was available for free. Shareable plans to offer "
10403 "the book in upcoming fund-raising campaigns."
10406 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
10407 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8136
10409 "This recent book is one of many fund-raising experiments Shareable has "
10410 "conducted in recent years. Currently, Shareable is primarily funded by "
10411 "grants from foundations, but they are actively moving toward a more "
10412 "diversified model. They have organizational sponsors and are working to "
10413 "expand their base of individual donors. Ideally, they will eventually be a "
10414 "hundred percent funded by their audience. Neal believes being fully "
10415 "community-supported will better represent their vision of the world."
10418 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10421 "For Shareable, success is very much about their impact on the world. This is "
10422 "true for Neal, but also for everyone who works for Shareable. <quote>We "
10423 "attract passionate people,</quote> Neal said. At times, that means "
10424 "employees work so hard they burn out. Neal tries to stress to the Shareable "
10425 "team that another part of success is having fun and taking care of yourself "
10426 "while you do something you love. <quote>A central part of human beings is "
10427 "that we long to be on a great adventure with people we love,</quote> he "
10428 "said. <quote>We are a species who look over the horizon and imagine and "
10429 "create new worlds, but we also seek the comfort of hearth and home.</quote>"
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10433 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8159
10435 "In 2013, Shareable ran its first crowdfunding campaign to launch their "
10436 "Sharing Cities Network. Neal said at first they were on pace to fail "
10437 "spectacularly. They called in their advisers in a panic and asked for "
10438 "help. The advice they received was simple—<quote>Sit your ass in a chair and "
10439 "start making calls.</quote> That’s exactly what they did, and they ended up "
10440 "reaching their $50,000 goal. Neal said the campaign helped them reach new "
10441 "people, but the vast majority of backers were people in their existing base."
10444 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
10445 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8169
10447 "For Neal, this symbolized how so much of success comes down to "
10448 "relationships. Over time, Shareable has invested time and energy into the "
10449 "relationships they have forged with their readers and supporters. They have "
10450 "also invested resources into building relationships between their readers "
10454 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
10455 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8176
10457 "Shareable began hosting events in 2010. These events were designed to bring "
10458 "the sharing community together. But over time they realized they could reach "
10459 "far more people if they helped their readers to host their own "
10460 "events. <quote>If we wanted to go big on a conference, there was a huge risk "
10461 "and huge staffing needs, plus only a fraction of our community could travel "
10462 "to the event,</quote> Neal said. Enabling others to create their own events "
10463 "around the globe allowed them to scale up their work more effectively and "
10464 "reach far more people. Shareable has catalyzed three hundred different "
10465 "events reaching over twenty thousand people since implementing this strategy "
10466 "three years ago. Going forward, Shareable is focusing the network on "
10467 "creating and distributing content meant to spur local action. For instance, "
10468 "Shareable will publish a new CC-licensed book in 2017 filled with ideas for "
10469 "their network to implement."
10472 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10475 "Neal says Shareable stumbled upon this strategy, but it seems to perfectly "
10476 "encapsulate just how the commons is supposed to work. Rather than a "
10477 "one-size-fits-all approach, Shareable puts the tools out there for people "
10478 "take the ideas and adapt them to their own communities."
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10486 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
10487 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8204
10489 "Siyavula is a for-profit educational-technology company that creates "
10490 "textbooks and integrated learning experiences. Founded in 2012 in South "
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10496 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.siyavula.com\"/>"
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10502 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for custom "
10503 "services, sponsorships"
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10508 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: April 5, 2016"
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10513 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Mark Horner, CEO"
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10519 "Openness is a key principle for Siyavula. They believe that every learner "
10520 "and teacher should have access to high-quality educational resources, as "
10521 "this forms the basis for long-term growth and development. Siyavula has been "
10522 "a pioneer in creating high-quality open textbooks on mathematics and science "
10523 "subjects for grades 4 to 12 in South Africa."
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10529 "In terms of creating an open business model that involves Creative Commons, "
10530 "Siyavula—and its founder, Mark Horner—have been around the block a few "
10531 "times. Siyavula has significantly shifted directions and strategies to "
10532 "survive and prosper. Mark says it’s been very organic."
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10538 "It all started in 2002, when Mark and several other colleagues at the "
10539 "University of Cape Town in South Africa founded the Free High School Science "
10540 "Texts project. Most students in South Africa high schools didn’t have access "
10541 "to high-quality, comprehensive science and math textbooks, so Mark and his "
10542 "colleagues set out to write them and make them freely available."
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10547 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl\"/>"
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10553 "As physicists, Mark and his colleagues were advocates of open-source "
10554 "software. To make the books open and free, they adopted the Free Software "
10555 "Foundation’s GNU Free Documentation License.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
10556 "id=\"0\"/> They chose LaTeX, a typesetting program used to publish "
10557 "scientific documents, to author the books. Over a period of five years, the "
10558 "Free High School Science Texts project produced math and physical-science "
10559 "textbooks for grades 10 to 12."
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10565 "In 2007, the Shuttleworth Foundation offered funding support to make the "
10566 "textbooks available for trial use at more schools. Surveys before and after "
10567 "the textbooks were adopted showed there were no substantial criticisms of "
10568 "the textbooks’ pedagogical content. This pleased both the authors and "
10569 "Shuttleworth; Mark remains incredibly proud of this accomplishment."
10572 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10575 "But the development of new textbooks froze at this stage. Mark shifted his "
10576 "focus to rural schools, which didn’t have textbooks at all, and looked into "
10577 "the printing and distribution options. A few sponsors came on board but not "
10578 "enough to meet the need."
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10583 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.capetowndeclaration.org\"/>"
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10589 "In 2007, Shuttleworth and the Open Society Institute convened a group of "
10590 "open-education activists for a small but lively meeting in Cape Town. One "
10591 "result was the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, a statement of "
10592 "principles, strategies, and commitment to help the open-education movement "
10593 "grow.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Shuttleworth also invited "
10594 "Mark to run a project writing open content for all subjects for K–12 in "
10595 "English. That project became Siyavula."
10598 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10601 "They wrote six original textbooks. A small publishing company offered "
10602 "Shuttleworth the option to buy out the publisher’s existing K–9 content for "
10603 "every subject in South African schools in both English and Afrikaans. A deal "
10604 "was struck, and all the acquired content was licensed with Creative Commons, "
10605 "significantly expanding the collection beyond the six original books."
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10611 "Mark wanted to build out the remaining curricula collaboratively through "
10612 "communities of practice—that is, with fellow educators and writers. Although "
10613 "sharing is fundamental to teaching, there can be a few challenges when you "
10614 "create educational resources collectively. One concern is legal. It is "
10615 "standard practice in education to copy diagrams and snippets of text, but of "
10616 "course this doesn’t always comply with copyright law. Another concern is "
10617 "transparency. Sharing what you’ve authored means everyone can see it and "
10618 "opens you up to criticism. To alleviate these concerns, Mark adopted a "
10619 "team-based approach to authoring and insisted the curricula be based "
10620 "entirely on resources with Creative Commons licenses, thereby ensuring they "
10621 "were safe to share and free from legal repercussions."
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10626 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://cnx.org\"/>"
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10632 "Not only did Mark want the resources to be shareable, he wanted all teachers "
10633 "to be able to remix and edit the content. Mark and his team had to come up "
10634 "with an open editable format and provide tools for editing. They ended up "
10635 "putting all the books they’d acquired and authored on a platform called "
10636 "Connexions.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Siyavula trained many "
10637 "teachers to use Connexions, but it proved to be too complex and the "
10638 "textbooks were rarely edited."
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10644 "Then the Shuttleworth Foundation decided to completely restructure its work "
10645 "as a foundation into a fellowship model (for reasons completely unrelated to "
10646 "Siyavula). As part of that transition in 2009–10, Mark inherited Siyavula as "
10647 "an independent entity and took ownership over it as a Shuttleworth fellow."
10650 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10653 "Mark and his team experimented with several different strategies. They "
10654 "tried creating an authoring and hosting platform called Full Marks so that "
10655 "teachers could share assessment items. They tried creating a service called "
10656 "Open Press, where teachers could ask for open educational resources to be "
10657 "aggregated into a package and printed for them. These services never really "
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10664 "Then the South African government approached Siyavula with an interest in "
10665 "printing out the original six Free High School Science Texts (math and "
10666 "physical-science textbooks for grades 10 to 12) for all high school "
10667 "students in South Africa. Although at this point Siyavula was a bit "
10668 "discouraged by open educational resources, they saw this as a big "
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10675 "They began to conceive of the six books as having massive marketing "
10676 "potential for Siyavula. Printing Siyavula books for every kid in South "
10677 "Africa would give their brand huge exposure and could drive vast amounts of "
10678 "traffic to their website. In addition to print books, Siyavula could also "
10679 "make the books available on their website, making it possible for learners "
10680 "to access them using any device—computer, tablet, or mobile phone."
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10686 "Mark and his team began imagining what they could develop beyond what was in "
10687 "the textbooks as a service they charge for. One key thing you can’t do well "
10688 "in a printed textbook is demonstrate solutions. Typically, a one-line answer "
10689 "is given at the end of the book but nothing on the process for arriving at "
10690 "that solution. Mark and his team developed practice items and detailed "
10691 "solutions, giving learners plenty of opportunity to test out what they’ve "
10692 "learned. Furthermore, an algorithm could adapt these practice items to the "
10693 "individual needs of each learner. They called this service Intelligent "
10694 "Practice and embedded links to it in the open textbooks."
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10700 "The costs for using Intelligent Practice were set very low, making it "
10701 "accessible even to those with limited financial means. Siyavula was going "
10702 "for large volumes and wide-scale use rather than an expensive product "
10703 "targeting only the high end of the market."
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10709 "The government distributed the books to 1.5 million students, but there was "
10710 "an unexpected wrinkle: the books were delivered late. Rather than wait, "
10711 "schools who could afford it provided students with a different textbook. The "
10712 "Siyavula books were eventually distributed, but with well-off schools mainly "
10713 "using a different book, the primary market for Siyavula’s Intelligent "
10714 "Practice service inadvertently became low-income learners."
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10720 "Siyavula’s site did see a dramatic increase in traffic. They got five "
10721 "hundred thousand visitors per month to their math site and the same number "
10722 "to their science site. Two-fifths of the traffic was reading on a "
10723 "<quote>feature phone</quote> (a nonsmartphone with no apps). People on basic "
10724 "phones were reading math and science on a two-inch screen at all hours of "
10725 "the day. To Mark, it was quite amazing and spoke to a need they were "
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10732 "At first, the Intelligent Practice services could only be paid using a "
10733 "credit card. This proved problematic, especially for those in the low-income "
10734 "demographic, as credit cards were not prevalent. Mark says Siyavula got a "
10735 "harsh business-model lesson early on. As he describes it, it’s not just "
10736 "about product, but how you sell it, who the market is, what the price is, "
10737 "and what the barriers to entry are."
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10743 "Mark describes this as the first version of Siyavula’s business model: open "
10744 "textbooks serving as marketing material and driving traffic to your site, "
10745 "where you can offer a related service and convert some people into a paid "
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10752 "For Mark a key decision for Siyavula’s business was to focus on how they can "
10753 "add value on top of their basic service. They’ll charge only if they are "
10754 "adding unique value. The actual content of the textbook isn’t unique at all, "
10755 "so Siyavula sees no value in locking it down and charging for it. Mark "
10756 "contrasts this with traditional publishers who charge over and over again "
10757 "for the same content without adding value."
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10763 "Version two of Siyavula’s business model was a big, ambitious idea—scale "
10764 "up. They also decided to sell the Intelligent Practice service to schools "
10765 "directly. Schools can subscribe on a per-student, per-subject basis. A "
10766 "single subscription gives a learner access to a single subject, including "
10767 "practice content from every grade available for that subject. Lower "
10768 "subscription rates are provided when there are over two hundred students, "
10769 "and big schools have a price cap. A 40 percent discount is offered to "
10770 "schools where both the science and math departments subscribe."
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10776 "Teachers get a dashboard that allows them to monitor the progress of an "
10777 "entire class or view an individual learner’s results. They can see the "
10778 "questions that learners are working on, identify areas of difficulty, and be "
10779 "more strategic in their teaching. Students also have their own personalized "
10780 "dashboard, where they can view the sections they’ve practiced, how many "
10781 "points they’ve earned, and how their performance is improving."
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10787 "Based on the success of this effort, Siyavula decided to substantially "
10788 "increase the production of open educational resources so they could provide "
10789 "the Intelligent Practice service for a wider range of books. Grades 10 to 12 "
10790 "math and science books were reworked each year, and new books created for "
10791 "grades 4 to 6 and later grades 7 to 9."
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10796 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.siyavula.com/products-primary-school.html\"/>"
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10802 "In partnership with, and sponsored by, the Sasol Inzalo Foundation, Siyavula "
10803 "produced a series of natural sciences and technology workbooks for grades 4 "
10804 "to 6 called Thunderbolt Kids that uses a fun comic-book style.<placeholder "
10805 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It’s a complete curriculum that also comes with "
10806 "teacher’s guides and other resources."
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10812 "Through this experience, Siyavula learned they could get sponsors to help "
10813 "fund openly licensed textbooks. It helped that Siyavula had by this time "
10814 "nailed the production model. It cost roughly $150,000 to produce a book in "
10815 "two languages. Sponsors liked the social-benefit aspect of textbooks "
10816 "unlocked via a Creative Commons license. They also liked the exposure their "
10817 "brand got. For roughly $150,000, their logo would be visible on books "
10818 "distributed to over one million students."
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10824 "The Siyavula books that are reviewed, approved, and branded by the "
10825 "government are freely and openly available on Siyavula’s website under an "
10826 "Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) —NoDerivs means that these books "
10827 "cannot be modified. Non-government-branded books are available under an "
10828 "Attribution license (CC BY), allowing others to modify and redistribute the "
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10835 "Although the South African government paid to print and distribute hard "
10836 "copies of the books to schoolkids, Siyavula itself received no funding from "
10837 "the government. Siyavula initially tried to convince the government to "
10838 "provide them with five rand per book (about US35¢). With those funds, Mark "
10839 "says that Siyavula could have run its entire operation, built a "
10840 "community-based model for producing more books, and provide Intelligent "
10841 "Practice for free to every child in the country. But after a lengthy "
10842 "negotiation, the government said no."
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10848 "Using Siyavula books generated huge savings for the government. Providing "
10849 "students with a traditionally published grade 12 science or math textbook "
10850 "costs around 250 rand per book (about US$18). Providing the Siyavula "
10851 "version cost around 36 rand (about $2.60), a savings of over 200 rand per "
10852 "book. But none of those savings were passed on to Siyavula. In retrospect, "
10853 "Mark thinks this may have turned out in their favor as it allowed them to "
10854 "remain independent from the government."
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10860 "Just as Siyavula was planning to scale up the production of open textbooks "
10861 "even more, the South African government changed its textbook policy. To save "
10862 "costs, the government declared there would be only one authorized textbook "
10863 "for each grade and each subject. There was no guarantee that Siyavula’s "
10864 "would be chosen. This scared away potential sponsors."
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10870 "Rather than producing more textbooks, Siyavula focused on improving its "
10871 "Intelligent Practice technology for its existing books. Mark calls this "
10872 "version three of Siyavula’s business model—focusing on the technology that "
10873 "provides the revenue-generating service and generating more users of this "
10874 "service. Version three got a significant boost in 2014 with an investment by "
10875 "the Omidyar Network (the philanthropic venture started by eBay founder "
10876 "Pierre Omidyar and his spouse), and continues to be the model Siyavula uses "
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10883 "Mark says sales are way up, and they are really nailing Intelligent "
10884 "Practice. Schools continue to use their open textbooks. The "
10885 "government-announced policy that there would be only one textbook per "
10886 "subject turned out to be highly contentious and is in limbo."
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10892 "Siyavula is exploring a range of enhancements to their business model. These "
10893 "include charging a small amount for assessment services provided over the "
10894 "phone, diversifying their market to all English-speaking countries in "
10895 "Africa, and setting up a consortium that makes Intelligent Practice free to "
10896 "all kids by selling the nonpersonal data Intelligent Practice collects."
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10902 "Siyavula is a for-profit business but one with a social mission. Their "
10903 "shareholders’ agreement lists lots of requirements around openness for "
10904 "Siyavula, including stipulations that content always be put under an open "
10905 "license and that they can’t charge for something that people volunteered to "
10906 "do for them. They believe each individual should have access to the "
10907 "resources and support they need to achieve the education they "
10908 "deserve. Having educational resources openly licensed with Creative Commons "
10909 "means they can fulfill their social mission, on top of which they can build "
10910 "revenue-generating services to sustain the ongoing operation of Siyavula. In "
10911 "terms of open business models, Mark and Siyavula may have been around the "
10912 "block a few times, but both he and the company are stronger for it."
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10923 "SparkFun is an online electronics retailer specializing in open "
10924 "hardware. Founded in 2003 in the U.S."
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10935 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
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10941 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 29, 2016"
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10946 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Nathan Seidle, founder"
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10952 "SparkFun founder and former CEO Nathan Seidle has a picture of himself "
10953 "holding up a clone of a SparkFun product in an electronics market in China, "
10954 "with a huge grin on his face. He was traveling in China when he came across "
10955 "their LilyPad wearable technology being made by someone else. His reaction "
10959 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10962 "<quote>Being copied is the greatest earmark of flattery and success,</quote> "
10963 "Nathan said. <quote>I thought it was so cool that they were selling to a "
10964 "market we were never going to get access to otherwise. It was evidence of "
10965 "our impact on the world.</quote>"
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10971 "This worldview runs through everything SparkFun does. SparkFun is an "
10972 "electronics manufacturer. The company sells its products directly to the "
10973 "public online, and it bundles them with educational tools to sell to schools "
10974 "and teachers. SparkFun applies Creative Commons licenses to all of its "
10975 "schematics, images, tutorial content, and curricula, so anyone can make "
10976 "their products on their own. Being copied is part of the design."
10979 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10982 "Nathan believes open licensing is good for the world. <quote>It touches on "
10983 "our natural human instinct to share,</quote> he said. But he also strongly "
10984 "believes it makes SparkFun better at what they do. They encourage copying, "
10985 "and their products are copied at a very fast rate, often within ten to "
10986 "twelve weeks of release. This forces the company to compete on something "
10987 "other than product design, or what most commonly consider their intellectual "
10991 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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10994 "<quote>We compete on business principles,</quote> Nathan said. "
10995 "<quote>Claiming your territory with intellectual property allows you to get "
10996 "comfy and rest on your laurels. It gives you a safety net. We took away that "
10997 "safety net.</quote>"
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11003 "The result is an intense company-wide focus on product development and "
11004 "improvement. <quote>Our products are so much better than they were five "
11005 "years ago,</quote> Nathan said. <quote>We used to just sell products. Now "
11006 "it’s a product plus a video, a seventeen-page hookup guide, and example "
11007 "firmware on three different platforms to get you up and running faster. We "
11008 "have gotten better because we had to in order to compete. As painful as it "
11009 "is for us, it’s better for the customers.</quote>"
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11015 "SparkFun parts are available on eBay for lower prices. But people come "
11016 "directly to SparkFun because SparkFun makes their lives easier. The example "
11017 "code works; there is a service number to call; they ship replacement parts "
11018 "the day they get a service call. They invest heavily in service and "
11019 "support. <quote>I don’t believe businesses should be competing with IP "
11020 "[intellectual property] barriers,</quote> Nathan said. <quote>This is the "
11021 "stuff they should be competing on.</quote>"
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11027 "SparkFun’s company history began in Nathan’s college dorm room. He spent a "
11028 "lot of time experimenting with and building electronics, and he realized "
11029 "there was a void in the market. <quote>If you wanted to place an order for "
11030 "something,</quote> he said, <quote>you first had to search far and wide to "
11031 "find it, and then you had to call or fax someone.</quote> In 2003, during "
11032 "his third year of college, he registered <ulink "
11033 "url=\"http://sparkfun.com\"/> and started reselling products out of his "
11034 "bedroom. After he graduated, he started making and selling his own products."
11037 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11040 "Once he started designing his own products, he began putting the software "
11041 "and schematics online to help with technical support. After doing some "
11042 "research on licensing options, he chose Creative Commons licenses because he "
11043 "was drawn to the <quote>human-readable deeds</quote> that explain the "
11044 "licensing terms in simple terms. SparkFun still uses CC licenses for all of "
11045 "the schematics and firmware for the products they create."
11048 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11049 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8626
11051 "The company has grown from a solo project to a corporation with 140 "
11052 "employees. In 2015, SparkFun earned $33 million in revenue. Selling "
11053 "components and widgets to hobbyists, professionals, and artists remains a "
11054 "major part of SparkFun’s business. They sell their own products, but they "
11055 "also partner with Arduino (also profiled in this book) by manufacturing "
11056 "boards for resale using Arduino’s brand."
11059 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11060 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8635
11062 "SparkFun also has an educational department dedicated to creating a hands-on "
11063 "curriculum to teach students about electronics using prototyping "
11064 "parts. Because SparkFun has always been dedicated to enabling others to "
11065 "re-create and fix their products on their own, the more recent focus on "
11066 "introducing young people to technology is a natural extension of their core "
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11073 "<quote>We have the burden and opportunity to educate the next generation of "
11074 "technical citizens,</quote> Nathan said. <quote>Our goal is to affect the "
11075 "lives of three hundred and fifty thousand high school students by "
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11082 "The Creative Commons license underlying all of SparkFun’s products is "
11083 "central to this mission. The license not only signals a willingness to "
11084 "share, but it also expresses a desire for others to get in and tinker with "
11085 "their products, both to learn and to make their products better. SparkFun "
11086 "uses the Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA), which is a "
11087 "<quote>copyleft</quote> license that allows people to do anything with the "
11088 "content as long as they provide credit and make any adaptations available "
11089 "under the same licensing terms."
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11095 "From the beginning, Nathan has tried to create a work environment at "
11096 "SparkFun that he himself would want to work in. The result is what appears "
11097 "to be a pretty fun workplace. The U.S. company is based in Boulder, "
11098 "Colorado. They have an eighty-thousand-square-foot facility (approximately "
11099 "seventy-four-hundred square meters), where they design and manufacture their "
11100 "products. They offer public tours of the space several times a week, and "
11101 "they open their doors to the public for a competition once a year."
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11107 "The public event, called the Autonomous Vehicle Competition, brings in a "
11108 "thousand to two thousand customers and other technology enthusiasts from "
11109 "around the area to race their own self-created bots against each other, "
11110 "participate in training workshops, and socialize. From a business "
11111 "perspective, Nathan says it’s a terrible idea. But they don’t hold the event "
11112 "for business reasons. <quote>The reason we do it is because I get to travel "
11113 "and have interactions with our customers all the time, but most of our "
11114 "employees don’t,</quote> he said. <quote>This event gives our employees the "
11115 "opportunity to get face-to-face contact with our customers.</quote> The "
11116 "event infuses their work with a human element, which makes it more "
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11123 "Nathan has worked hard to imbue a deeper meaning into the work SparkFun "
11124 "does. The company is, of course, focused on being fiscally responsible, but "
11125 "they are ultimately driven by something other than money. <quote>Profit is "
11126 "not the goal; it is the outcome of a well-executed plan,</quote> Nathan "
11127 "said. <quote>We focus on having a bigger impact on the world.</quote> Nathan "
11128 "believes they get some of the brightest and most amazing employees because "
11129 "they aren’t singularly focused on the bottom line."
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11135 "The company is committed to transparency and shares all of its financials "
11136 "with its employees. They also generally strive to avoid being another "
11137 "soulless corporation. They actively try to reveal the humans behind the "
11138 "company, and they work to ensure people coming to their site don’t find only "
11139 "unchanging content."
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11145 "SparkFun’s customer base is largely made up of industrious electronics "
11146 "enthusiasts. They have customers who are regularly involved in the company’s "
11147 "customer support, independently responding to questions in forums and "
11148 "product-comment sections. Customers also bring product ideas to the "
11149 "company. SparkFun regularly sifts through suggestions from customers and "
11150 "tries to build on them where they can. <quote>From the beginning, we have "
11151 "been listening to the community,</quote> Nathan said. <quote>Customers "
11152 "would identify a pain point, and we would design something to address "
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11159 "However, this sort of customer engagement does not always translate to "
11160 "people actively contributing to SparkFun’s projects. The company has a "
11161 "public repository of software code for each of its devices online. On a "
11162 "particularly active project, there will only be about two dozen people "
11163 "contributing significant improvements. The vast majority of projects are "
11164 "relatively untouched by the public. <quote>There is a theory that if you "
11165 "open-source it, they will come,</quote> Nathan said. <quote>That’s not "
11166 "really true.</quote>"
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11172 "Rather than focusing on cocreation with their customers, SparkFun instead "
11173 "focuses on enabling people to copy, tinker, and improve products on their "
11174 "own. They heavily invest in tutorials and other material designed to help "
11175 "people understand how the products work so they can fix and improve things "
11176 "independently. <quote>What gives me joy is when people take open-source "
11177 "layouts and then build their own circuit boards from our designs,</quote> "
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11184 "Obviously, opening up the design of their products is a necessary step if "
11185 "their goal is to empower the public. Nathan also firmly believes it makes "
11186 "them more money because it requires them to focus on how to provide maximum "
11187 "value. Rather than designing a new product and protecting it in order to "
11188 "extract as much money as possible from it, they release the keys necessary "
11189 "for others to build it themselves and then spend company time and resources "
11190 "on innovation and service. From a short-term perspective, SparkFun may lose "
11191 "a few dollars when others copy their products. But in the long run, it makes "
11192 "them a more nimble, innovative business. In other words, it makes them the "
11193 "kind of company they set out to be."
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11201 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
11202 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8751
11204 "TeachAIDS is a nonprofit that creates educational materials designed to "
11205 "teach people around the world about HIV and AIDS. Founded in 2005 in the "
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11211 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://teachaids.org\"/>"
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11216 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: sponsorships"
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11221 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 24, 2016"
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11227 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Piya Sorcar, the CEO, and "
11228 "Shuman Ghosemajumder, the chair"
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11234 "TeachAIDS is an unconventional media company with a conventional revenue "
11235 "model. Like most media companies, they are subsidized by "
11236 "advertising. Corporations pay to have their logos appear on the educational "
11237 "materials TeachAIDS distributes."
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11243 "But unlike most media companies, Teach-AIDS is a nonprofit organization with "
11244 "a purely social mission. TeachAIDS is dedicated to educating the global "
11245 "population about HIV and AIDS, particularly in parts of the world where "
11246 "education efforts have been historically unsuccessful. Their educational "
11247 "content is conveyed through interactive software, using methods based on the "
11248 "latest research about how people learn. TeachAIDS serves content in more "
11249 "than eighty countries around the world. In each instance, the content is "
11250 "translated to the local language and adjusted to conform to local norms and "
11251 "customs. All content is free and made available under a Creative Commons "
11255 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11258 "TeachAIDS is a labor of love for founder and CEO Piya Sorcar, who earns a "
11259 "salary of one dollar per year from the nonprofit. The project grew out of "
11260 "research she was doing while pursuing her doctorate at Stanford "
11261 "University. She was reading reports about India, noting it would be the next "
11262 "hot zone of people living with HIV. Despite international and national "
11263 "entities pouring in hundreds of millions of dollars on HIV-prevention "
11264 "efforts, the reports showed knowledge levels were still low. People were "
11265 "unaware of whether the virus could be transmitted through coughing and "
11266 "sneezing, for instance. Supported by an interdisciplinary team of experts at "
11267 "Stanford, Piya conducted similar studies, which corroborated the previous "
11268 "research. They found that the primary cause of the limited understanding was "
11269 "that HIV, and issues relating to it, were often considered too taboo to "
11270 "discuss comprehensively. The other major problem was that most of the "
11271 "education on this topic was being taught through television advertising, "
11272 "billboards, and other mass-media campaigns, which meant people were only "
11273 "receiving bits and pieces of information."
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11279 "In late 2005, Piya and her team used research-based design to create new "
11280 "educational materials and worked with local partners in India to help "
11281 "distribute them. As soon as the animated software was posted online, Piya’s "
11282 "team started receiving requests from individuals and governments who were "
11283 "interested in bringing this model to more countries. <quote>We realized "
11284 "fairly quickly that educating large populations about a topic that was "
11285 "considered taboo would be challenging. We began by identifying optimal local "
11286 "partners and worked toward creating an effective, culturally appropriate "
11287 "education,</quote> Piya said."
11290 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11293 "Very shortly after the initial release, Piya’s team decided to spin the "
11294 "endeavor into an independent nonprofit out of Stanford University. They also "
11295 "decided to use Creative Commons licenses on the materials."
11298 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11301 "Given their educational mission, TeachAIDS had an obvious interest in seeing "
11302 "the materials as widely shared as possible. But they also needed to preserve "
11303 "the integrity of the medical information in the content. They chose the "
11304 "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (CC BY-NC-ND), which essentially "
11305 "gives the public the right to distribute only verbatim copies of the "
11306 "content, and for noncommercial purposes. <quote>We wanted attribution for "
11307 "TeachAIDS, and we couldn’t stand by derivatives without vetting "
11308 "them,</quote> the cofounder and chair Shuman Ghosemajumder said. <quote>It "
11309 "was almost a no-brainer to go with a CC license because it was a "
11310 "plug-and-play solution to this exact problem. It has allowed us to scale our "
11311 "materials safely and quickly worldwide while preserving our content and "
11312 "protecting us at the same time.</quote>"
11315 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11318 "Choosing a license that does not allow adaptation of the content was an "
11319 "outgrowth of the careful precision with which TeachAIDS crafts their "
11320 "content. The organization invests heavily in research and testing to "
11321 "determine the best method of conveying the information. <quote>Creating "
11322 "high-quality content is what matters most to us,</quote> Piya "
11323 "said. <quote>Research drives everything we do.</quote>"
11326 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11329 "One important finding was that people accept the message best when it comes "
11330 "from familiar voices they trust and admire. To achieve this, TeachAIDS "
11331 "researches cultural icons that would best resonate with their target "
11332 "audiences and recruits them to donate their likenesses and voices for use in "
11333 "the animated software. The celebrities involved vary for each localized "
11334 "version of the materials."
11337 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11340 "Localization is probably the single-most important aspect of the way "
11341 "TeachAIDS creates its content. While each regional version builds from the "
11342 "same core scientific materials, they pour a lot of resources into "
11343 "customizing the content for a particular population. Because they use a CC "
11344 "license that does not allow the public to adapt the content, TeachAIDS "
11345 "retains careful control over the localization process. The content is "
11346 "translated into the local language, but there are also changes in substance "
11347 "and format to reflect cultural differences. This process results in minor "
11348 "changes, like choosing different idioms based on the local language, and "
11349 "significant changes, like creating gendered versions for places where people "
11350 "are more likely to accept information from someone of the same gender."
11353 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11356 "The localization process relies heavily on volunteers. Their volunteer base "
11357 "is deeply committed to the cause, and the organization has had better luck "
11358 "controlling the quality of the materials when they tap volunteers instead of "
11359 "using paid translators. For quality control, TeachAIDS has three separate "
11360 "volunteer teams translate the materials from English to the local language "
11361 "and customize the content based on local customs and norms. Those three "
11362 "versions are then analyzed and combined into a single master "
11363 "translation. TeachAIDS has additional teams of volunteers then translate "
11364 "that version back into English to see how well it lines up with the original "
11365 "materials. They repeat this process until they reach a translated version "
11366 "that meets their standards. For the Tibetan version, they went through this "
11367 "cycle eleven times."
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11373 "TeachAIDS employs full-time employees, contractors, and volunteers, all in "
11374 "different capacities and organizational configurations. They are careful to "
11375 "use people from diverse backgrounds to create the materials, including "
11376 "teachers, students, and doctors, as well as individuals experienced in "
11377 "working in the NGO space. This diversity and breadth of knowledge help "
11378 "ensure their materials resonate with people from all walks of life. "
11379 "Additionally, TeachAIDS works closely with film writers and directors to "
11380 "help keep the concepts entertaining and easy to understand. The inclusive, "
11381 "but highly controlled, creative process is undertaken entirely by people who "
11382 "are specifically brought on to help with a particular project, rather than "
11383 "ongoing staff. The final product they create is designed to require zero "
11384 "training for people to implement in practice. <quote>In our research, we "
11385 "found we can’t depend on people passing on the information correctly, even "
11386 "if they have the best of intentions,</quote> Piya said. <quote>We need "
11387 "materials where you can push play and they will work.</quote>"
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11393 "Piya’s team was able to produce all of these versions over several years "
11394 "with a head count that never exceeded eight full-time employees. The "
11395 "organization is able to reduce costs by relying heavily on volunteers and "
11396 "in-kind donations. Nevertheless, the nonprofit needed a sustainable revenue "
11397 "model to subsidize content creation and physical distribution of the "
11398 "materials. Charging even a low price was simply not an "
11399 "option. <quote>Educators from various nonprofits around the world were just "
11400 "creating their own materials using whatever they could find for free "
11401 "online,</quote> Shuman said. <quote>The only way to persuade them to use our "
11402 "highly effective model was to make it completely free.</quote>"
11405 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11408 "Like many content creators offering their work for free, they settled on "
11409 "advertising as a funding model. But they were extremely careful not to let "
11410 "the advertising compromise their credibility or undermine the heavy "
11411 "investment they put into creating quality content. Sponsors of the content "
11412 "have no ability to influence the substance of the content, and they cannot "
11413 "even create advertising content. Sponsors only get the right to have their "
11414 "logo appear before and after the educational content. All of the content "
11415 "remains branded as TeachAIDS."
11418 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11421 "TeachAIDS is careful not to seek funding to cover the costs of a specific "
11422 "project. Instead, sponsorships are structured as unrestricted donations to "
11423 "the nonprofit. This gives the nonprofit more stability, but even more "
11424 "importantly, it enables them to subsidize projects being localized for an "
11425 "area with no sponsors. <quote>If we just created versions based on where we "
11426 "could get sponsorships, we would only have materials for wealthier "
11427 "countries,</quote> Shuman said."
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11433 "As of 2016, TeachAIDS has dozens of sponsors. <quote>When we go into a new "
11434 "country, various companies hear about us and reach out to us,</quote> Piya "
11435 "said. <quote>We don’t have to do much to find or attract them.</quote> They "
11436 "believe the sponsorships are easy to sell because they offer so much value "
11437 "to sponsors. TeachAIDS sponsorships give corporations the chance to reach "
11438 "new eyeballs with their brand, but at a much lower cost than other "
11439 "advertising channels. The audience for TeachAIDS content also tends to skew "
11440 "young, which is often a desirable demographic for brands. Unlike traditional "
11441 "advertising, the content is not time-sensitive, so an investment in a "
11442 "sponsorship can benefit a brand for many years to come."
11445 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11448 "Importantly, the value to corporate sponsors goes beyond commercial "
11449 "considerations. As a nonprofit with a clearly articulated social mission, "
11450 "corporate sponsorships are donations to a cause. <quote>This is something "
11451 "companies can be proud of internally,</quote> Shuman said. Some companies "
11452 "have even built publicity campaigns around the fact that they have sponsored "
11453 "these initiatives."
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11459 "The core mission of TeachAIDS—ensuring global access to life-saving "
11460 "education—is at the root of everything the organization does. It underpins "
11461 "the work; it motivates the funders. The CC license on the materials they "
11462 "create furthers that mission, allowing them to safely and quickly scale "
11463 "their materials worldwide. <quote>The Creative Commons license has been a "
11464 "game changer for TeachAIDS,</quote> Piya said."
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11469 msgid "Tribe of Noise"
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11475 "Tribe of Noise is a for-profit online music platform serving the film, TV, "
11476 "video, gaming, and in-store-media industries. Founded in 2008 in the "
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11482 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.tribeofnoise.com\"/>"
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11487 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: January 26, 2016"
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11493 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Hessel van Oorschot, "
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11500 "In the early 2000s, Hessel van Oorschot was an entrepreneur running a "
11501 "business where he coached other midsize entrepreneurs how to create an "
11502 "online business. He also coauthored a number of workbooks for small- to "
11503 "medium-size enterprises to use to optimize their business for the "
11504 "Web. Through this early work, Hessel became familiar with the principles of "
11505 "open licensing, including the use of open-source software and Creative "
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11512 "In 2005, Hessel and Sandra Brandenburg launched a niche video-production "
11513 "initiative. Almost immediately, they ran into issues around finding and "
11514 "licensing music tracks. All they could find was standard, cold "
11515 "stock-music. They thought of looking up websites where you could license "
11516 "music directly from the musician without going through record labels or "
11517 "agents. But in 2005, the ability to directly license music from a rights "
11518 "holder was not readily available."
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11524 "They hired two lawyers to investigate further, and while they uncovered five "
11525 "or six examples, Hessel found the business models lacking. The lawyers "
11526 "expressed interest in being their legal team should they decide to pursue "
11527 "this as an entrepreneurial opportunity. Hessel says, <quote>When lawyers are "
11528 "interested in a venture like this, you might have something special.</quote> "
11529 "So after some more research, in early 2008, Hessel and Sandra decided to "
11530 "build a platform."
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11536 "Building a platform posed a real chicken-and-egg problem. The platform had "
11537 "to build an online community of music-rights holders and, at the same time, "
11538 "provide the community with information and ideas about how the new economy "
11539 "works. Community willingness to try new music business models requires a "
11540 "trust relationship."
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11546 "In July 2008, Tribe of Noise opened its virtual doors with a couple hundred "
11547 "musicians willing to use the CC BY-SA license (Attribution-ShareAlike) for a "
11548 "limited part of their repertoire. The two entrepreneurs wanted to take the "
11549 "pain away for media makers who wanted to license music and solve the "
11550 "problems the two had personally experienced finding this music."
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11555 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.instoremusicservice.com\"/>"
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11561 "As they were growing the community, Hessel got a phone call from a company "
11562 "that made in-store music playlists asking if they had enough music licensed "
11563 "with Creative Commons that they could use. Stores need quality, "
11564 "good-listening music but not necessarily hits, a bit like a radio show "
11565 "without the DJ. This opened a new opportunity for Tribe of Noise. They "
11566 "started their In-store Music Service, using music (licensed with CC BY-SA) "
11567 "uploaded by the Tribe of Noise community of musicians.<placeholder "
11568 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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11574 "In most countries, artists, authors, and musicians join a collecting society "
11575 "that manages the licensing and helps collect the royalties. Copyright "
11576 "collecting societies in the European Union usually hold monopolies in their "
11577 "respective national markets. In addition, they require their members to "
11578 "transfer exclusive administration rights to them of all of their works. "
11579 "This complicates the picture for Tribe of Noise, who wants to represent "
11580 "artists, or at least a portion of their repertoire. Hessel and his legal "
11581 "team reached out to collecting societies, starting with those in the "
11582 "Netherlands. What would be the best legal way forward that would respect the "
11583 "wishes of composers and musicians who’d be interested in trying out new "
11584 "models like the In-store Music Service? Collecting societies at first were "
11585 "hesitant and said no, but Tribe of Noise persisted arguing that they "
11586 "primarily work with unknown artists and provide them exposure in parts of "
11587 "the world where they don’t get airtime normally and a source of revenue—and "
11588 "this convinced them that it was OK. However, Hessel says, <quote>We are "
11589 "still fighting for a good cause every single day.</quote>"
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11595 "Instead of building a large sales force, Tribe of Noise partnered with big "
11596 "organizations who have lots of clients and can act as a kind of Tribe of "
11597 "Noise reseller. The largest telecom network in the Netherlands, for example, "
11598 "sells Tribe’s In-store Music Service subscriptions to their business "
11599 "clients, which include fashion retailers and fitness centers. They have a "
11600 "similar deal with the leading trade association representing hotels and "
11601 "restaurants in the country. Hessel hopes to <quote>copy and paste</quote> "
11602 "this service into other countries where collecting societies understand what "
11603 "you can do with Creative Commons. Outside of the Netherlands, early "
11604 "adoptions have happened in Scandinavia, Belgium, and the U.S."
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11610 "Tribe of Noise doesn’t pay the musicians up front; they get paid when their "
11611 "music ends up in Tribe of Noise’s in-store music channels. The musicians’ "
11612 "share is 42.5 percent. It’s not uncommon in a traditional model for the "
11613 "artist to get only 5 to 10 percent, so a share of over 40 percent is a "
11614 "significantly better deal. Here’s how they give an example on their "
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11620 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.tribeofnoise.com/info_instoremusic.php\"/>"
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11626 "A few of your songs [licensed with CC BY-SA], for example five in total, are "
11627 "selected for a bespoke in-store music channel broadcasting at a large "
11628 "retailer with 1,000 stores nationwide. In this case the overall playlist "
11629 "contains 350 songs so the musician’s share is 5/350 = 1.43%. The license fee "
11630 "agreed with this retailer is US$12 per month per play-out. So if 42.5% is "
11631 "shared with the Tribe musicians in this playlist and your share is 1.43%, "
11632 "you end up with US$12 * 1000 stores * 0.425 * 0.0143 = US$73 per "
11633 "month.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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11639 "Tribe of Noise has another model that does not involve Creative Commons. In "
11640 "a survey with members, most said they liked the exposure using Creative "
11641 "Commons gets them and the way it lets them reach out to others to share and "
11642 "remix. However, they had a bit of a mental struggle with Creative Commons "
11643 "licenses being perpetual. A lot of musicians have the mind-set that one day "
11644 "one of their songs may become an overnight hit. If that happened the CC "
11645 "BY-SA license would preclude them getting rich off the sale of that song."
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11651 "Hessel’s legal team took this feedback and created a second model and "
11652 "separate area of the platform called Tribe of Noise Pro. Songs uploaded to "
11653 "Tribe of Noise Pro aren’t Creative Commons licensed; Tribe of Noise has "
11654 "instead created a <quote>nonexclusive exploitation</quote> contract, similar "
11655 "to a Creative Commons license but allowing musicians to opt out whenever "
11656 "they want. When you opt out, Tribe of Noise agrees to take your music off "
11657 "the Tribe of Noise platform within one to two months. This lets the musician "
11658 "reuse their song for a better deal."
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11664 "Tribe of Noise Pro is primarily geared toward media makers who are looking "
11665 "for music. If they buy a license from this catalog, they don’t have to state "
11666 "the name of the creator; they just license the song for a specific "
11667 "amount. This is a big plus for media makers. And musicians can pull their "
11668 "repertoire at any time. Hessel sees this as a more direct and clean deal."
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11674 "Lots of Tribe of Noise musicians upload songs to both Tribe of Noise Pro and "
11675 "the community area of Tribe of Noises. There aren’t that many artists who "
11676 "upload only to Tribe of Noise Pro, which has a smaller repertoire of music "
11677 "than the community area."
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11683 "Hessel sees the two as complementary. Both are needed for the model to "
11684 "work. With a whole generation of musicians interested in the sharing "
11685 "economy, the community area of Tribe of Noise is where they can build trust, "
11686 "create exposure, and generate money. And after that, musicians may become "
11687 "more interested in exploring other models like Tribe of Noise Pro."
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11693 "Every musician who joins Tribe of Noise gets their own home page and free "
11694 "unlimited Web space to upload as much of their own music as they like. Tribe "
11695 "of Noise is also a social network; fellow musicians and professionals can "
11696 "vote for, comment on, and like your music. Community managers interact with "
11697 "and support members, and music supervisors pick and choose from the uploaded "
11698 "songs for in-store play or to promote them to media producers. Members "
11699 "really like having people working for the platform who truly engage with "
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11706 "Another way Tribe of Noise creates community and interest is with contests, "
11707 "which are organized in partnership with Tribe of Noise clients. The client "
11708 "specifies what they want, and any member can submit a song. Contests usually "
11709 "involve prizes, exposure, and money. In addition to building member "
11710 "engagement, contests help members learn how to work with clients: listening "
11711 "to them, understanding what they want, and creating a song to meet that "
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11718 "Tribe of Noise now has twenty-seven thousand members from 192 countries, and "
11719 "many are exploring do-it-yourself models for generating revenue. Some came "
11720 "from music labels and publishers, having gone through the traditional way of "
11721 "music licensing and now seeing if this new model makes sense for "
11722 "them. Others are young musicians, who grew up with a DIY mentality and see "
11723 "little reason to sign with a third party or hand over some of the "
11724 "control. Still a small but growing group of Tribe members are pursuing a "
11725 "hybrid model by licensing some of their songs under CC BY-SA and opting in "
11726 "others with collecting societies like ASCAP or BMI."
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11732 "It’s not uncommon for performance-rights organizations, record labels, or "
11733 "music publishers to sign contracts with musicians based on exclusivity. Such "
11734 "an arrangement prevents those musicians from uploading their music to Tribe "
11735 "of Noise. In the United States, you can have a collecting society handle "
11736 "only some of your tracks, whereas in many countries in Europe, a collecting "
11737 "society prefers to represent your entire repertoire (although the European "
11738 "Commission is making some changes). Tribe of Noise deals with this issue all "
11739 "the time and gives you a warning whenever you upload a song. If collecting "
11740 "societies are willing to be open and flexible and do the most they can for "
11741 "their members, then they can consider organizations like Tribe of Noise as a "
11742 "nice add-on, generating more exposure and revenue for the musicians they "
11743 "represent. So far, Tribe of Noise has been able to make all this work "
11744 "without litigation."
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11750 "For Hessel the key to Tribe of Noise’s success is trust. The fact that "
11751 "Creative Commons licenses work the same way all over the world and have been "
11752 "translated into all languages really helps build that trust. Tribe of Noise "
11753 "believes in creating a model where they work together with musicians. They "
11754 "can only do that if they have a live and kicking community, with people who "
11755 "think that the Tribe of Noise team has their best interests in "
11756 "mind. Creative Commons makes it possible to create a new business model for "
11757 "music, a model that’s based on trust."
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11762 msgid "Wikimedia Foundation"
11765 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
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11768 "The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia "
11769 "and its sister projects. Founded in 2003 in the U.S."
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11774 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://wikimediafoundation.org\"/>"
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11779 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: donations"
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11784 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 18, 2015"
11787 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
11788 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9233
11790 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Luis Villa, former Chief "
11791 "Officer of Community Engagement, and Stephen LaPorte, legal counsel"
11794 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11796 msgid "Nearly every person with an online presence knows Wikipedia."
11799 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11802 "In many ways, it is the preeminent open project: The online encyclopedia is "
11803 "created entirely by volunteers. Anyone in the world can edit the "
11804 "articles. All of the content is available for free to anyone online. All of "
11805 "the content is released under a Creative Commons license that enables people "
11806 "to reuse and adapt it for any purpose."
11809 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11810 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9253
11812 "As of December 2016, there were more than forty-two million articles in the "
11813 "295 language editions of the online encyclopedia, according to—what "
11814 "else?—the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia."
11817 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11820 "The Wikimedia Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that owns "
11821 "the Wikipedia domain name and hosts the site, along with many other related "
11822 "sites like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The foundation employs about two "
11823 "hundred and eighty people, who all work to support the projects it "
11824 "hosts. But the true heart of Wikipedia and its sister projects is its "
11825 "community. The numbers of people in the community are variable, but about "
11826 "seventy-five thousand volunteers edit and improve Wikipedia articles every "
11827 "month. Volunteers are organized in a variety of ways across the globe, "
11828 "including formal Wikimedia chapters (mostly national), groups focused on a "
11829 "particular theme, user groups, and many thousands who are not connected to a "
11830 "particular organization."
11833 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11836 "As Wikimedia legal counsel Stephen LaPorte told us, <quote>There is a common "
11837 "saying that Wikipedia works in practice but not in theory.</quote> While it "
11838 "undoubtedly has its challenges and flaws, Wikipedia and its sister projects "
11839 "are a striking testament to the power of human collaboration."
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11845 "Because of its extraordinary breadth and scope, it does feel a bit like a "
11846 "unicorn. Indeed, there is nothing else like Wikipedia. Still, much of what "
11847 "makes the projects successful—community, transparency, a strong mission, "
11848 "trust—are consistent with what it takes to be successfully Made with "
11849 "Creative Commons more generally. With Wikipedia, everything just happens at "
11850 "an unprecedented scale."
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11856 "The story of Wikipedia has been told many times. For our purposes, it is "
11857 "enough to know the experiment started in 2001 at a small scale, inspired by "
11858 "the crazy notion that perhaps a truly open, collaborative project could "
11859 "create something meaningful. At this point, Wikipedia is so ubiquitous and "
11860 "ingrained in our digital lives that the fact of its existence seems less "
11861 "remarkable. But outside of software, Wikipedia is perhaps the single most "
11862 "stunning example of successful community cocreation. Every day, seven "
11863 "thousand new articles are created on Wikipedia, and nearly fifteen thousand "
11864 "edits are made every hour."
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11870 "The nature of the content the community creates is ideal for asynchronous "
11871 "cocreation. <quote>An encyclopedia is something where incremental community "
11872 "improvement really works,</quote> Luis Villa, former Chief Officer of "
11873 "Community Engagement, told us. The rules and processes that govern "
11874 "cocreation on Wikipedia and its sister projects are all community-driven and "
11875 "vary by language edition. There are entire books written on the intricacies "
11876 "of their systems, but generally speaking, there are very few exceptions to "
11877 "the rule that anyone can edit any article, even without an account on their "
11878 "system. The extensive peer-review process includes elaborate systems to "
11879 "resolve disputes, methods for managing particularly controversial subject "
11880 "areas, talk pages explaining decisions, and much, much more. The Wikimedia "
11881 "Foundation’s decision to leave governance of the projects to the community "
11882 "is very deliberate. <quote>We look at the things that the community can do "
11883 "well, and we want to let them do those things,</quote> Stephen told "
11884 "us. Instead, the foundation focuses its time and resources on what the "
11885 "community cannot do as effectively, like the software engineering that "
11886 "supports the technical infrastructure of the sites. In 2015-16, about half "
11887 "of the foundation’s budget went to direct support for the Wikimedia sites."
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11893 "Some of that is directed at servers and general IT support, but the "
11894 "foundation also invests a significant amount on architecture designed to "
11895 "help the site function as effectively as possible. <quote>There is a "
11896 "constantly evolving system to keep the balance in place to avoid Wikipedia "
11897 "becoming the world’s biggest graffiti wall,</quote> Luis said. Depending on "
11898 "how you measure it, somewhere between 90 to 98 percent of edits to Wikipedia "
11899 "are positive. Some portion of that success is attributable to the tools "
11900 "Wikimedia has in place to try to incentivize good actors. <quote>The secret "
11901 "to having any healthy community is bringing back the right people,</quote> "
11902 "Luis said. <quote>Vandals tend to get bored and go away. That is partially "
11903 "our model working, and partially just human nature.</quote> Most of the "
11904 "time, people want to do the right thing."
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11910 "Wikipedia not only relies on good behavior within its community and on its "
11911 "sites, but also by everyone else once the content leaves Wikipedia. All of "
11912 "the text of Wikipedia is available under an Attribution-ShareAlike license "
11913 "(CC BY-SA), which means it can be used for any purpose and modified so long "
11914 "as credit is given and anything new is shared back with the public under the "
11915 "same license. In theory, that means anyone can copy the content and start a "
11916 "new Wikipedia. But as Stephen explained, <quote>Being open has only made "
11917 "Wikipedia bigger and stronger. The desire to protect is not always what is "
11918 "best for everyone.</quote>"
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11925 "url=\"http://gimletmedia.com/episode/14-the-art-of-making-and-fixing-mistakes/\"/>"
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11931 "Of course, the primary reason no one has successfully co-opted Wikipedia is "
11932 "that copycat efforts do not have the Wikipedia community to sustain what "
11933 "they do. Wikipedia is not simply a source of up-to-the-minute content on "
11934 "every given topic—it is also a global patchwork of humans working together "
11935 "in a million different ways, in a million different capacities, for a "
11936 "million different reasons. While many have tried to guess what makes "
11937 "Wikipedia work as well it does, the fact is there is no single "
11938 "explanation. <quote>In a movement as large as ours, there is an incredible "
11939 "diversity of motivations,</quote> Stephen said. For example, there is one "
11940 "editor of the English Wikipedia edition who has corrected a single "
11941 "grammatical error in articles more than forty-eight thousand "
11942 "times.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Only a fraction of Wikipedia "
11943 "users are also editors. But editing is not the only way to contribute to "
11944 "Wikipedia. <quote>Some donate text, some donate images, some donate "
11945 "financially,</quote> Stephen told us. <quote>They are all "
11946 "contributors.</quote>"
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11952 "But the vast majority of us who use Wikipedia are not contributors; we are "
11953 "passive readers. The Wikimedia Foundation survives primarily on individual "
11954 "donations, with about $15 as the average. Because Wikipedia is one of the "
11955 "ten most popular websites in terms of total page views, donations from a "
11956 "small portion of that audience can translate into a lot of money. In the "
11957 "2015-16 fiscal year, they received more than $77 million from more than five "
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11964 "The foundation has a fund-raising team that works year-round to raise money, "
11965 "but the bulk of their revenue comes in during the December campaign in "
11966 "Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United "
11967 "States. They engage in extensive user testing and research to maximize the "
11968 "reach of their fund-raising campaigns. Their basic fund-raising message is "
11969 "simple: We provide our readers and the world immense value, so give "
11970 "back. Every little bit helps. With enough eyeballs, they are right."
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11976 "The vision of the Wikimedia Foundation is a world in which every single "
11977 "human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. They work to "
11978 "realize this vision by empowering people around the globe to create "
11979 "educational content made freely available under an open license or in the "
11980 "public domain. Stephen and Luis said the mission, which is rooted in the "
11981 "same philosophy behind Creative Commons, drives everything the foundation "
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11988 "The philosophy behind the endeavor also enables the foundation to be "
11989 "financially sustainable. It instills trust in their readership, which is "
11990 "critical for a revenue strategy that relies on reader donations. It also "
11991 "instills trust in their community."
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11997 "Any given edit on Wikipedia could be motivated by nearly an infinite number "
11998 "of reasons. But the social mission of the project is what binds the global "
11999 "community together. <quote>Wikipedia is an example of how a mission can "
12000 "motivate an entire movement,</quote> Stephen told us."
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12006 "Of course, what results from that movement is one of the Internet’s great "
12007 "public resources. <quote>The Internet has a lot of businesses and stores, "
12008 "but it is missing the digital equivalent of parks and open public "
12009 "spaces,</quote> Stephen said. <quote>Wikipedia has found a way to be that "
12010 "open public space.</quote>"
12013 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><title>
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12083 "Commons. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014."
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12095 "For more information, see <ulink "
12096 "url=\"http://bollier.org/blog/democratic-money-and-capital-commons\"/>."
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12123 "<ulink url=\"http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/\"/> (licensed under CC "
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12130 "Capra, Fritjof, and Ugo Mattei. The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in "
12131 "Tune with Nature and Community. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2015."
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12138 "Landscape. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006."
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12144 "———. Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from "
12145 "Technology. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2006."
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12152 "for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons. Translated by LabGov "
12153 "(LABoratory for the GOVernance of Commons). Bologna, Italy: City of Bologna, "
12155 "url=\"http://www.labgov.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/Bologna-Regulation-on-collaboration-between-citizens-and-the-city-for-the-cure-and-regeneration-of-urban-commons1.pdf\"/>."
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12159 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9516
12161 "Cole, Daniel H. <quote>Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the "
12162 "Natural Commons for the Knowledge Commons.</quote> Chap. 2 in Frischmann, "
12163 "Madison, and Strandburg, Governing Knowledge Commons."
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12169 "Creative Commons. 2015 State of the Commons. Mountain View, CA: Creative "
12170 "Commons, 2015. <ulink url=\"http://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/\"/>."
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12176 "Doctorow, Cory. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet "
12177 "Age. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2014."
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12183 "Eckhardt, Giana, and Fleura Bardhi. <quote>The Sharing Economy Isn’t about "
12184 "Sharing at All.</quote> Harvard Business Review, January 28, 2015. <ulink "
12185 "url=\"http://hbr.org/2015/01/the-sharing-economy-isnt-about-sharing-at-all\"/>."
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12191 "Elliott, Patricia W., and Daryl H. Hepting, eds. (2015). Free Knowledge: "
12192 "Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery. Regina, SK: University "
12193 "of Regina Press, 2015. <ulink "
12194 "url=\"http://uofrpress.ca/publications/Free-Knowledge\"/> (licensed under CC "
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12202 "Hoover. New York: Portfolio, 2014."
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12208 "Farley, Joshua, and Ida Kubiszewski. <quote>The Economics of Information in "
12209 "a Post-Carbon Economy.</quote> Chap. 11 in Elliott and Hepting, Free "
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12216 "Foster, William Landes, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen. <quote>Ten "
12217 "Nonprofit Funding Models.</quote> Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring "
12219 "url=\"http://ssir.org/articles/entry/ten_nonprofit_funding_models\"/>."
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12225 "Frischmann, Brett M. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared "
12226 "Resources. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012."
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12232 "Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg, "
12233 "eds. Governing Knowledge Commons. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014."
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12237 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9567
12239 "Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. "
12240 "Strandburg. <quote>Governing Knowledge Commons.</quote> Chap. 1 in "
12241 "Frischmann, Madison, and Strandburg, Governing Knowledge Commons."
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12245 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9572
12247 "Gansky, Lisa. The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing. Reprint with "
12248 "new epilogue. New York: Portfolio, 2012."
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12252 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9576
12254 "Grant, Adam. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. New "
12255 "York: Viking, 2013."
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12261 "Haiven, Max. Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity "
12262 "and the Commons. New York: Zed Books, 2014."
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12268 "Harris, Malcom, ed. Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the "
12269 "Age of Crisis. With Neal Gorenflo. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2012."
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12275 "Hermida, Alfred. Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters. Toronto: "
12276 "Doubleday Canada, 2014."
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12282 "Hyde, Lewis. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. New York: "
12283 "Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010."
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12289 "———. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. 2nd Vintage "
12290 "Books edition. New York: Vintage Books, 2007."
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12296 "Kelley, Tom, and David Kelley. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Potential "
12297 "within Us All. New York: Crown, 2013."
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12303 "Kelly, Marjorie. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution; "
12304 "Journeys to a Generative Economy. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2012."
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12311 "Discovered. New York: Workman, 2014."
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12318 "Creative. New York: Workman, 2012."
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12324 "Kramer, Bryan. Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy. New "
12325 "York: Morgan James, 2016."
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12331 "Lee, David. <quote>Inside Medium: An Attempt to Bring Civility to the "
12332 "Internet.</quote> BBC News, March 3, 2016. <ulink "
12333 "url=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35709680\"/>"
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12339 "Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid "
12340 "Economy. New York: Penguin Press, 2008."
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12346 "Menzies, Heather. Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good: A Memoir and "
12347 "Manifesto. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014."
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12353 "Mason, Paul. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. New York: Farrar, Straus "
12354 "and Giroux, 2015."
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12360 "New York Times Customer Insight Group. The Psychology of Sharing: Why Do "
12361 "People Share Online? New York: New York Times Customer Insight Group, 2011. "
12362 "<ulink url=\"http://www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf\"/>."
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12368 "Osterwalder, Alex, and Yves Pigneur. Business Model Generation. Hoboken, "
12369 "NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010. A preview of the book is available at <ulink "
12370 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation\"/>."
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12376 "Osterwalder, Alex, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda, and Adam Smith. Value "
12377 "Proposition Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2014. A preview of the "
12378 "book is available at <ulink "
12379 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design\"/>."
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12385 "Palmer, Amanda. The Art of Asking: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let "
12386 "People Help. New York: Grand Central, 2014."
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12392 "Pekel, Joris. Democratising the Rijksmuseum: Why Did the Rijksmuseum Make "
12393 "Available Their Highest Quality Material without Restrictions, and What Are "
12394 "the Results? The Hague, Netherlands: Europeana Foundation, 2014. <ulink "
12395 "url=\"http://pro.europeana.eu/publication/democratising-the-rijksmuseum\"/> "
12396 "(licensed under CC BY-SA)."
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12402 "Ramos, José Maria, ed. The City as Commons: A Policy Reader. Melbourne, "
12403 "Australia: Commons Transition Coalition, 2016. <ulink "
12404 "url=\"http://www.academia.edu/27143172/The_City_as_Commons_a_Policy_Reader\"/> "
12405 "(licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
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12411 "Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open "
12412 "Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Rev. ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly "
12413 "Media, 2001. See esp. <quote>The Magic Cauldron.</quote> <ulink "
12414 "url=\"http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/\"/>."
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12420 "Ries, Eric. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous "
12421 "Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown "
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12428 "Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the "
12429 "Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. New York: Palgrave "
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12441 "Rushkoff, Douglas. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the "
12442 "Enemy of Prosperity. New York: Portfolio, 2016."
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12448 "Sandel, Michael J. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. New "
12449 "York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012."
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12455 "Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into "
12456 "Collaborators. London, England: Penguin Books, 2010."
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12462 "Slee, Tom. What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy. New York: OR "
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12469 "Stephany, Alex. The Business of Sharing: Making in the New Sharing "
12470 "Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015."
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12476 "Stepper, John. Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life. New York: "
12477 "Ikigai Press, 2015."
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12483 "Sull, Donald, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a "
12484 "Complex World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015."
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12490 "Sundararajan, Arun. The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise "
12491 "of Crowd-Based Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016."
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12496 msgid "Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds. New York: Anchor Books, 2005."
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12502 "Tapscott, Don, and Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology "
12503 "Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Toronto: "
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12510 "Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. With Mark "
12511 "Reiter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006."
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12517 "Tkacz, Nathaniel. Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. Chicago: "
12518 "University of Chicago Press, 2015."
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12524 "Van Abel, Bass, Lucas Evers, Roel Klaassen, and Peter Troxler, eds. Open "
12525 "Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, "
12526 "with Creative Commons Netherlands; Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for "
12527 "Design and Fashion; and the Waag Society, 2011. <ulink "
12528 "url=\"http://opendesignnow.org\"/> (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)."
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12534 "Van den Hoff, Ronald. Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society "
12535 "3.0. Utrecht, the Netherlands: Society 3.0 Foundation, 2014. <ulink "
12536 "url=\"http://society30.com/get-the-book/\"/> (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
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12540 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9758
12542 "Von Hippel, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. London: MIT Press, 2005. <ulink "
12543 "url=\"http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm\"/> (licensed under CC "
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12550 "Whitehurst, Jim. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and "
12551 "Performance. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015."
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12555 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9768
12556 msgid "Acknowledgments"
12559 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12560 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9770
12562 "We extend special thanks to Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley, the Creative "
12563 "Commons Board, and all of our Creative Commons colleagues for "
12564 "enthusiastically supporting our work. Special gratitude to the William and "
12565 "Flora Hewlett Foundation for the initial seed funding that got us started on "
12569 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12570 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9777
12572 "Huge appreciation to all the Made with Creative Commons interviewees for "
12573 "sharing their stories with us. You make the commons come alive. Thanks for "
12577 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12578 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9782
12580 "We interviewed more than the twenty-four organizations profiled in this "
12581 "book. We extend special thanks to Gooru, OERu, Sage Bionetworks, and Medium "
12582 "for sharing their stories with us. While not featured as case studies in "
12583 "this book, you all are equally interesting, and we encourage our readers to "
12584 "visit your sites and explore your work."
12587 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12588 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9790
12590 "This book was made possible by the generous support of 1,687 Kickstarter "
12591 "backers listed below. We especially acknowledge our many Kickstarter "
12592 "co-editors who read early drafts of our work and provided invaluable "
12593 "feedback. Heartfelt thanks to all of you."
12596 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12597 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9796
12599 "Co-editor Kickstarter backers (alphabetically by first name): Abraham "
12600 "Taherivand, Alan Graham, Alfredo Louro, Anatoly Volynets, Aurora Thornton, "
12601 "Austin Tolentino, Ben Sheridan, Benedikt Foit, Benjamin Costantini, Bernd "
12602 "Nurnberger, Bernhard Seefeld, Bethanye Blount, Bradford Benn, Bryan Mock, "
12603 "Carmen Garcia Wiedenhoeft, Carolyn Hinchliff, Casey Milford, Cat Cooper, "
12604 "Chip McIntosh, Chris Thorne, Chris Weber, Chutika Udomsinn, Claire Wardle, "
12605 "Claudia Cristiani, Cody Allard, Colleen Cressman, Craig Thomler, Creative "
12606 "Commons Uruguay, Curt McNamara, Dan Parson, Daniel Dominguez, Daniel Morado, "
12607 "Darius Irvin, Dave Taillefer, David Lewis, David Mikula, David Varnes, David "
12608 "Wiley, Deborah Nas, Diderik van Wingerden, Dirk Kiefer, Dom Lane, Domi "
12609 "Enders, Douglas Van Houweling, Dylan Field, Einar Joergensen, Elad Wieder, "
12610 "Elie Calhoun, Erika Reid, Evtim Papushev, Fauxton Software, Felix "
12611 "Maximiliano Obes, Ferdies Food Lab, Gatien de Broucker, Gaurav Kapil, Gavin "
12612 "Romig-Koch, George Baier IV, George De Bruin, Gianpaolo Rando, Glenn Otis "
12613 "Brown, Govindarajan Umakanthan, Graham Bird, Graham Freeman, Hamish MacEwan, "
12614 "Harry Kaczka, Humble Daisy, Ian Capstick, Iris Brest, James Cloos, Jamie "
12615 "Stevens, Jamil Khatib, Jane Finette, Jason Blasso, Jason E. Barkeloo, Jay M "
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12694 "Candace Robertson, Carl Morris, Carl Perry, Carl Rigney, Carles Mateu, "
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12697 "Carolyn Rude, Carrie Cousins, Carrie Watkins, Casey Hunt, Casey Milford, "
12698 "Casey Powell Shorthouse, Cat Cooper, Cecilie Maria, Cedric Howe, Cefn Hoile, "
12699 "@ShrimpingIt, Celia Muller, Ces Keller, Chad Anderson, Charles Butler, "
12700 "Charles Carstensen, Charles Chi Thoi Le, Charles Kobbe, Charles S. Tritt, "
12701 "Charles Stanhope, Charlotte Ong-Wisener, Chealsye Bowley, Chelle Destefano, "
12702 "Chenpang Chou, Cheryl Corte, Cheryl Todd, Chip Dickerson, Chip McIntosh, "
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12705 "Niewiarowski, Chris Opperwall, Chris Stieha, Chris Thorne, Chris Weber, "
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12885 "Theunissen, Nigel Robertson, Nikki Thompson, Nikko Marie, Nikola Chernev, "
12886 "Nils Lavesson, Noah Blumenson-Cook, Noah Fang, Noah Kardos-Fein, Noah "
12887 "Meyerhans, Noel Hanigan, Noel Hart, Norrie Mailer, O.P. Gobée, Ohad Mayblum, "
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12897 "Keller, Paul Rowe, Paul Timpson, Paul Walker, Pavel Dostál, Peeter Sällström "
12898 "Randsalu, Peggy Frith, Pen-Yuan Hsing, Penny Pearson, Per Åström, Perry "
12899 "Jetter, Péter Fankhauser, Peter Hirtle, Peter Humphries, Peter Jenkins, "
12900 "Peter Langmar, Peter le Roux, Peter Marinari, Peter Mengelers, Peter "
12901 "O’Brien, Peter Pinch, Peter S. Crosby, Peter Wells, Petr Fristedt, Petr "
12902 "Viktorin, Petronella Jeurissen, Phil Flickinger, Philip Chung, Philip "
12903 "Pangrac, Philip R. Skaggs Jr., Philip Young, Philippa Lorne Channer, "
12904 "Philippe Vandenbroeck, Pierluigi Luisi, Pierre Suter, Pieter-Jan Pauwels, "
12905 "Playground Inc., Pomax, Popenoe, Pouhiou Noenaute, Prilutskiy Kirill, "
12906 "Print3Dreams Ltd., Quentin Coispeau, R. Smith, Race DiLoreto, Rachel Mercer, "
12907 "Rafael Scapin, Rafaela Kunz, Rain Doggerel, Raine Lourie, Rajiv Jhangiani, "
12908 "Ralph Chapoteau, Randall Kirby, Randy Brians, Raphaël Alexandre, Raphaël "
12909 "Schröder, Rasmus Jensen, Rayn Drahps, Rayna Stamboliyska, Rebecca Godar, "
12910 "Rebecca Lendl, Rebecca Weir, Regina Tschud, Remi Dino, Ric Herrero, Rich "
12911 "McCue, Richard <quote>TalkToMeGuy</quote> Olson, Richard Best, Richard "
12912 "Blumberg, Richard Fannon, Richard Heying, Richard Karnesky, Richard Kelly, "
12913 "Richard Littauer, Richard Sobey, Richard White, Richard Winchell, Rik "
12914 "ToeWater, Rita Lewis, Rita Wood, Riyadh Al Balushi, Rob Balder, Rob Berkley, "
12915 "Rob Bertholf, Rob Emanuele, Rob McAuliffe, Rob McKaughan, Rob Tillie, Rob "
12916 "Utter, Rob Vincent, Robert Gaffney, Robert Jones, Robert Kelly, Robert "
12917 "Lawlis, Robert McDonald, Robert Orzanna, Robert Paterson Hunter, Robert "
12918 "R. Daniel Jr., Robert Ryan-Silva, Robert Thompson, Robert Wagoner, Roberto "
12919 "Selvaggio, Robin DeRosa, Robin Rist Kildal, Rodrigo Castilhos, Roger Bacon, "
12920 "Roger Saner, Roger So, Roger Solé, Roger Tregear, Roland Tanglao, Rolf and "
12921 "Mari von Walthausen, Rolf Egstad, Rolf Schaller, Ron Zuijlen, Ronald "
12922 "Bissell, Ronald van den Hoff, Ronda Snow, Rory Landon Aronson, Ross Findlay, "
12923 "Ross Pruden, Ross Williams, Rowan Skewes, Roy Ivy III, Ruben Flores, Rupert "
12924 "Hitzenberger, Rusi Popov, Russ Antonucci, Russ Spollin, Russell Brand, Rute "
12925 "Correia, Ruth Ann Carpenter, Ruth White, Ryan Mentock, Ryan Merkley, Ryan "
12926 "Price, Ryan Sasaki, Ryan Singer, Ryan Voisin, Ryan Weir, S Searle, Salem Bin "
12927 "Kenaid, Salomon Riedo, Sam Hokin, Sam Twidale, Samantha Levin, "
12928 "Samantha-Jayne Chapman, Samarth Agarwal, Sami Al-AbdRabbuh, Samuel "
12929 "A. Rebelsky, Samuel Goëta, Samuel Hauser, Samuel Landete, Samuel Oliveira "
12930 "Cersosimo, Samuel Tait, Sandra Fauconnier, Sandra Markus, Sandy Bjar, Sandy "
12931 "ONeil, Sang-Phil Ju, Sanjay Basu, Santiago Garcia, Sara Armstrong, Sara "
12932 "Lucca, Sara Rodriguez Marin, Sarah Brand, Sarah Cove, Sarah Curran, Sarah "
12933 "Gold, Sarah McGovern, Sarah Smith, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Sasha Moss, Sasha "
12934 "VanHoven, Saul Gasca, Scott Abbott, Scott Akerman, Scott Beattie, Scott "
12935 "Bruinooge, Scott Conroy, Scott Gillespie, Scott Williams, Sean Anderson, "
12936 "Sean Johnson, Sean Lim, Sean Wickett, Seb Schmoller, Sebastiaan Bekker, "
12937 "Sebastiaan ter Burg, Sebastian Makowiecki, Sebastian Meyer, Sebastian "
12938 "Schweizer, Sebastian Sigloch, Sebastien Huchet, Seokwon Yang, Sergey "
12939 "Chernyshev, Sergey Storchay, Sergio Cardoso, Seth Drebitko, Seth Gover, Seth "
12940 "Lepore, Shannon Turner, Sharon Clapp, Shauna Redmond, Shawn Gaston, Shawn "
12941 "Martin, Shay Knohl, Shelby Hatfield, Sheldon (Vila) Widuch, Sheona Thomson, "
12942 "Si Jie, Sicco van Sas, Siena Oristaglio, Simon Glover, Simon John King, "
12943 "Simon Klose, Simon Law, Simon Linder, Simon Moffitt, Solomon Kahn, Solomon "
12944 "Simon, Soujanna Sarkar, Stanislav Trifonov, Stefan Dumont, Stefan Jansson, "
12945 "Stefan Langer, Stefan Lindblad, Stefano Guidotti, Stefano Luzardi, Stephan "
12946 "Meißl, Stéphane Wojewoda, Stephanie Pereira, Stephen Gates, Stephen Murphey, "
12947 "Stephen Pearce, Stephen Rose, Stephen Suen, Stephen Walli, Stevan Matheson, "
12948 "Steve Battle, Steve Fisches, Steve Fitzhugh, Steve Guen-gerich, Steve "
12949 "Ingram, Steve Kroy, Steve Midgley, Steve Rhine, Steven Kasprzyk, Steven "
12950 "Knudsen, Steven Melvin, Stig-Jørund B. Ö. Arnesen, Stuart Drewer, Stuart "
12951 "Maxwell, Stuart Reich, Subhendu Ghosh, Sujal Shah, Sune Bøegh, Susan Chun, "
12952 "Susan R Grossman, Suzie Wiley, Sven Fielitz, Swan/Starts, Sylvain Carle, "
12953 "Sylvain Chery, Sylvia Green, Sylvia van Bruggen, Szabolcs Berecz, "
12954 "T. L. Mason, Tanbir Baeg, Tanya Hart, Tara Tiger Brown, Tara Westover, Tarmo "
12955 "Toikkanen, Tasha Turner Lennhoff, Tathagat Varma, Ted Timmons, Tej Dhawan, "
12956 "Teresa Gonczy, Terry Hook, Theis Madsen, Theo M. Scholl, Theresa Bernardo, "
12957 "Thibault Badenas, Thomas Bacig, Thomas Boehnlein, Thomas Bøvith, Thomas "
12958 "Chang, Thomas Hartman, Thomas Kent, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Philipp-Edmonds, "
12959 "Thomas Thrush, Thomas Werkmeister, Tieg Zaharia, Tieu Thuy Nguyen, Tim "
12960 "Chambers, Tim Cook, Tim Evers, Tim Nichols, Tim Stahmer, Timothée Planté, "
12961 "Timothy Arfsten, Timothy Hinchliff, Timothy Vollmer, Tina Coffman, Tisza "
12962 "Gergő, Tobias Schonwetter, Todd Brown, Todd Pousley, Todd Sattersten, Tom "
12963 "Bamford, Tom Caswell, Tom Goren, Tom Kent, Tom MacWright, Tom Maillioux, Tom "
12964 "Merkli, Tom Merritt, Tom Myers, Tom Olijhoek, Tom Rubin, Tommaso De Benetti, "
12965 "Tommy Dahlen, Tony Ciak, Tony Nwachukwu, Torsten Skomp, Tracey Depellegrin, "
12966 "Tracey Henton, Tracey James, Traci Long DeForge, Trent Yarwood, Trevor "
12967 "Hogue, Trey Blalock, Trey Hunner, Tryggvi Björgvinsson, Tumuult, Tushar Roy, "
12968 "Tyler Occhiogrosso, Udo Blenkhorn, Uri Sivan, Vanja Bobas, Vantharith Oum, "
12969 "Vaughan jenkins, Veethika Mishra, Vic King, Vickie Goode, Victor DePina, "
12970 "Victor Grigas, Victoria Klassen, Victorien Elvinger, VIGA Manufacture, Vikas "
12971 "Shah, Vinayak S.Kaujalgi, Vincent O’Leary, Violette Paquet, Virginia "
12972 "Gentilini, Virginia Kopelman, Vitor Menezes, Vivian Marthell, Wayne "
12973 "Mackintosh, Wendy Keenan, Werner Wiethege, Wesley Derbyshire, Widar Hellwig, "
12974 "Willa Köerner, William Bettridge-Radford, William Jefferson, William "
12975 "Marshall, William Peter Nash, William Ray, William Robins, Willow Rosenberg, "
12976 "Winie Evers, Wolfgang Renninger, Xavier Antoviaque, Xavier Hugonet, Xavier "
12977 "Moisant, Xueqi Li, Yancey Strickler, Yann Heurtaux, Yasmine Hajjar, Yu-Hsian "
12978 "Sun, Yves Deruisseau, Zach Chandler, Zak Zebrowski, Zane Amiralis and Joshua "
12979 "de Haan, ZeMarmot Open Movie"