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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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137 "This book is published under a CC BY-SA license, which means that you can "
138 "copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the content for any "
139 "purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit, provide "
140 "a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, "
141 "transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your "
142 "contributions under the same license as the original. License details: "
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149 "Made With Creative Commons is published with the kind support of Creative "
150 "Commons and backers of our crowdfunding-campaign on the Kickstarter.com "
151 "platform."
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157 "> “I don’t know a whole lot about nonfiction journalism. . . > The way that "
158 "I think about these things, and in terms of what I can do > is. . . essays "
159 "like this are occasions to watch somebody reasonably > bright but also "
160 "reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at > far more length "
161 "about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have > a chance to in our "
162 "daily lives.” > > > > &mdash; *David Foster Wallace*"
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167 msgid "## Foreword"
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172 msgid ""
173 "Three years ago, just after I was hired as CEO of Creative Commons, I met "
174 "with Cory Doctorow in the hotel bar of Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. As one of "
175 "CC’s most well-known proponents—one who has also had a successful career as "
176 "a writer who shares his work using CC—I told him I thought CC had a role in "
177 "defining and advancing open business models. He kindly disagreed, and called "
178 "the pursuit of viable business models through CC “a red herring.”"
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184 "He was, in a way, completely correct—those who make things with Creative "
185 "Commons have ulterior motives, as Paul Stacey explains in this book: "
186 "“Regardless of legal status, they all have a social mission. Their primary "
187 "reason for being is to make the world a better place, not to profit. Money "
188 "is a means to a social end, not the end itself.”"
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194 "In the case study about Cory Doctorow, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson cites Cory’s "
195 "words from his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: “Entering the arts "
196 "because you want to get rich is like buying lottery tickets because you want "
197 "to get rich. It might work, but it almost certainly won’t. Though, of "
198 "course, someone always wins the lottery.”"
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204 "Today, copyright is like a lottery ticket—everyone has one, and almost "
205 "nobody wins. What they don’t tell you is that if you choose to share your "
206 "work, the returns can be significant and long-lasting. This book is filled "
207 "with stories of those who take much greater risks than the two dollars we "
208 "pay for a lottery ticket, and instead reap the rewards that come from "
209 "pursuing their passions and living their values."
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215 "So it’s not about the money. Also: it is. Finding the means to continue to "
216 "create and share often requires some amount of income. Max Temkin of Cards "
217 "Against Humanity says it best in their case study: “We don’t make jokes and "
218 "games to make money—we make money so we can make more jokes and games.”"
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224 "Creative Commons’ focus is on building a vibrant, usable commons, powered by "
225 "collaboration and gratitude. Enabling communities of collaboration is at the "
226 "heart of our strategy. With that in mind, Creative Commons began this book "
227 "project. Led by Paul and Sarah, the project set out to define and advance "
228 "the best open business models. Paul and Sarah were the ideal authors to "
229 "write Made with Creative Commons."
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235 "Paul dreams of a future where new models of creativity and innovation "
236 "overpower the inequality and scarcity that today define the worst parts of "
237 "capitalism. He is driven by the power of human connections between "
238 "communities of creators. He takes a longer view than most, and it’s made him "
239 "a better educator, an insightful researcher, and also a skilled gardener. He "
240 "has a calm, cool voice that conveys a passion that inspires his colleagues "
241 "and community."
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247 "Sarah is the best kind of lawyer—a true advocate who believes in the good of "
248 "people, and the power of collective acts to change the world. Over the past "
249 "year I’ve seen Sarah struggle with the heartbreak that comes from investing "
250 "so much into a political campaign that didn’t end as she’d hoped. Today, "
251 "she’s more determined than ever to live with her values right out on her "
252 "sleeve. I can always count on Sarah to push Creative Commons to focus on our "
253 "impact—to make the main thing the main thing. She’s practical, detail-"
254 "oriented, and clever. There’s no one on my team that I enjoy debating more."
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260 "As coauthors, Paul and Sarah complement each other perfectly. They "
261 "researched, analyzed, argued, and worked as a team, sometimes together and "
262 "sometimes independently. They dove into the research and writing with "
263 "passion and curiosity, and a deep respect for what goes into building the "
264 "commons and sharing with the world. They remained open to new ideas, "
265 "including the possibility that their initial theories would need refinement "
266 "or might be completely wrong. That’s courageous, and it has made for a "
267 "better book that is insightful, honest, and useful."
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273 "From the beginning, CC wanted to develop this project with the principles "
274 "and values of open collaboration. The book was funded, developed, "
275 "researched, and written in the open. It is being shared openly under a CC BY-"
276 "SA license for anyone to use, remix, or adapt with attribution. It is, in "
277 "itself, an example of an open business model."
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283 "For 31 days in August of 2015, Sarah took point to organize and execute a "
284 "Kickstarter campaign to generate the core funding for the book. The "
285 "remainder was provided by CC’s generous donors and supporters. In the end, "
286 "it became one of the most successful book projects on Kickstarter, smashing "
287 "through two stretch goals and engaging over 1,600 donors—the majority of "
288 "them new supporters of Creative Commons."
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294 "Paul and Sarah worked openly throughout the project, publishing the plans, "
295 "drafts, case studies, and analysis, early and often, and they engaged "
296 "communities all over the world to help write this book. As their opinions "
297 "diverged and their interests came into focus, they divided their voices and "
298 "decided to keep them separate in the final product. Working in this way "
299 "requires both humility and self-confidence, and without question it has made "
300 "Made with Creative Commons a better project."
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306 "Those who work and share in the commons are not typical creators. They are "
307 "part of something greater than themselves, and what they offer us all is a "
308 "profound gift. What they receive in return is gratitude and a community."
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314 "Jonathan Mann, who is profiled in this book, writes a song a day. When I "
315 "reached out to ask him to write a song for our Kickstarter (and to offer "
316 "himself up as a Kickstarter benefit), he agreed immediately. Why would he "
317 "agree to do that? Because the commons has collaboration at its core, and "
318 "community as a key value, and because the CC licenses have helped so many to "
319 "share in the ways that they choose with a global audience."
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325 "Sarah writes, “Endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons thrive when "
326 "community is built around what they do. This may mean a community "
327 "collaborating together to create something new, or it may simply be a "
328 "collection of like-minded people who get to know each other and rally around "
329 "common interests or beliefs. To a certain extent, simply being Made with "
330 "Creative Commons automatically brings with it some element of community, by "
331 "helping connect you to like-minded others who recognize and are drawn to the "
332 "values symbolized by using CC.” Amanda Palmer, the other musician profiled "
333 "in the book, would surely add this from her case study: “There is no more "
334 "satisfying end goal than having someone tell you that what you do is "
335 "genuinely of value to them.”"
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341 "This is not a typical business book. For those looking for a recipe or a "
342 "roadmap, you might be disappointed. But for those looking to pursue a social "
343 "end, to build something great through collaboration, or to join a powerful "
344 "and growing global community, they’re sure to be satisfied. Made with "
345 "Creative Commons offers a world-changing set of clearly articulated values "
346 "and principles, some essential tools for exploring your own business "
347 "opportunities, and two dozen doses of pure inspiration."
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353 "In a 1996 Stanford Law Review article “The Zones of Cyberspace”, CC founder "
354 "Lawrence Lessig wrote, “Cyberspace is a place. People live there. They "
355 "experience all the sorts of things that they experience in real space, "
356 "there. For some, they experience more. They experience this not as isolated "
357 "individuals, playing some high tech computer game; they experience it in "
358 "groups, in communities, among strangers, among people they come to know, and "
359 "sometimes like.”"
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365 "I’m incredibly proud that Creative Commons is able to publish this book for "
366 "the many communities that we have come to know and like. I’m grateful to "
367 "Paul and Sarah for their creativity and insights, and to the global "
368 "communities that have helped us bring it to you. As CC board member "
369 "Johnathan Nightingale often says, “It’s all made of people.”"
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374 msgid "That’s the true value of things that are Made with Creative Commons."
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380 msgid "*Ryan Merkley*\n"
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391 msgid "## Introduction"
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396 msgid ""
397 "This book shows the world how sharing can be good for business—but with a "
398 "twist."
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404 "We began the project intending to explore how creators, organizations, and "
405 "businesses make money to sustain what they do when they share their work "
406 "using Creative Commons licenses. Our goal was not to identify a formula for "
407 "business models that use Creative Commons but instead gather fresh ideas and "
408 "dynamic examples that spark new, innovative models and help others follow "
409 "suit by building on what already works. At the onset, we framed our "
410 "investigation in familiar business terms. We created a blank “open business "
411 "model canvas,” an interactive online tool that would help people design and "
412 "analyze their business model."
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418 "Through the generous funding of Kickstarter backers, we set about this "
419 "project first by identifying and selecting a diverse group of creators, "
420 "organizations, and businesses who use Creative Commons in an integral way—"
421 "what we call being Made with Creative Commons. We interviewed them and wrote "
422 "up their stories. We analyzed what we heard and dug deep into the literature."
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428 "But as we did our research, something interesting happened. Our initial way "
429 "of framing the work did not match the stories we were hearing."
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435 "Those we interviewed were not typical businesses selling to consumers and "
436 "seeking to maximize profits and the bottom line. Instead, they were sharing "
437 "to make the world a better place, creating relationships and community "
438 "around the works being shared, and generating revenue not for unlimited "
439 "growth but to sustain the operation."
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445 "They often didn’t like hearing what they do described as an open business "
446 "model. Their endeavor was something more than that. Something different. "
447 "Something that generates not just economic value but social and cultural "
448 "value. Something that involves human connection. Being Made with Creative "
449 "Commons is not “business as usual.”"
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455 "We had to rethink the way we conceived of this project. And it didn’t happen "
456 "overnight. From the fall of 2015 through 2016, we documented our thoughts in "
457 "blog posts on Medium and with regular updates to our Kickstarter backers. We "
458 "shared drafts of case studies and analysis with our Kickstarter cocreators, "
459 "who provided invaluable edits, feedback, and advice. Our thinking changed "
460 "dramatically over the course of a year and a half."
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466 "Throughout the process, the two of us have often had very different ways of "
467 "understanding and describing what we were learning. Learning from each other "
468 "has been one of the great joys of this work, and, we hope, something that "
469 "has made the final product much richer than it ever could have been if "
470 "either of us undertook this project alone. We have preserved our voices "
471 "throughout, and you’ll be able to sense our different but complementary "
472 "approaches as you read through our different sections."
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478 "While we recommend that you read the book from start to finish, each section "
479 "reads more or less independently. The book is structured into two main parts."
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485 "Part one, the overview, begins with a big-picture framework written by Paul. "
486 "He provides some historical context for the digital commons, describing the "
487 "three ways society has managed resources and shared wealth—the commons, the "
488 "market, and the state. He advocates for thinking beyond business and market "
489 "terms and eloquently makes the case for sharing and enlarging the digital "
490 "commons."
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496 "The overview continues with Sarah’s chapter, as she considers what it means "
497 "to be successfully Made with Creative Commons. While making money is one "
498 "piece of the pie, there is also a set of public-minded values and the kind "
499 "of human connections that make sharing truly meaningful. This section "
500 "outlines the ways the creators, organizations, and businesses we interviewed "
501 "bring in revenue, how they further the public interest and live out their "
502 "values, and how they foster connections with the people with whom they share."
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508 "And to end part one, we have a short section that explains the different "
509 "Creative Commons licenses. We talk about the misconception that the more "
510 "restrictive licenses—the ones that are closest to the all-rights-reserved "
511 "model of traditional copyright—are the only ways to make money."
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517 "Part two of the book is made up of the twenty-four stories of the creators, "
518 "businesses, and organizations we interviewed. While both of us participated "
519 "in the interviews, we divided up the writing of these profiles."
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525 "Of course, we are pleased to make the book available using a Creative "
526 "Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Please copy, distribute, translate, "
527 "localize, and build upon this work."
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533 "Writing this book has transformed and inspired us. The way we now look at "
534 "and think about what it means to be Made with Creative Commons has "
535 "irrevocably changed. We hope this book inspires you and your enterprise to "
536 "use Creative Commons and in so doing contribute to the transformation of our "
537 "economy and world for the better."
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543 msgid "*Paul and Sarah *\n"
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548 msgid "# The Big Picture"
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553 msgid "## The New World of Digital Commons"
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558 msgid "Paul Stacey"
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564 "Jonathan Rowe eloquently describes the commons as “the air and oceans, the "
565 "web of species, wilderness and flowing water—all are parts of the commons. "
566 "So are language and knowledge, sidewalks and public squares, the stories of "
567 "childhood and the processes of democracy. Some parts of the commons are "
568 "gifts of nature, others the product of human endeavor. Some are new, such "
569 "as the Internet; others are as ancient as soil and calligraphy.”1"
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575 "In Made with Creative Commons, we focus on our current era of digital "
576 "commons, a commons of human-produced works. This commons cuts across a broad "
577 "range of areas including cultural heritage, education, research, technology, "
578 "art, design, literature, entertainment, business, and data. Human-produced "
579 "works in all these areas are increasingly digital. The Internet is a kind of "
580 "global, digital commons. The individuals, organizations, and businesses we "
581 "profile in our case studies use Creative Commons to share their resources "
582 "online over the Internet."
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588 "The commons is not just about shared resources, however. It’s also about the "
589 "social practices and values that manage them. A resource is a noun, but to "
590 "common—to put the resource into the commons—is a verb.2 The creators, "
591 "organizations, and businesses we profile are all engaged with commoning. "
592 "Their use of Creative Commons involves them in the social practice of "
593 "commoning, managing resources in a collective manner with a community of "
594 "users.3 Commoning is guided by a set of values and norms that balance the "
595 "costs and benefits of the enterprise with those of the community. Special "
596 "regard is given to equitable access, use, and sustainability."
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600 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:348
601 msgid "### The Commons, the Market, and the State"
602 msgstr ""
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606 msgid ""
607 "Historically, there have been three ways to manage resources and share "
608 "wealth: the commons (managed collectively), the state (i.e., the "
609 "government), and the market—with the last two being the dominant forms "
610 "today.4"
611 msgstr ""
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615 msgid ""
616 "The organizations and businesses in our case studies are unique in the way "
617 "they participate in the commons while still engaging with the market and/or "
618 "state. The extent of engagement with market or state varies. Some operate "
619 "primarily as a commons with minimal or no reliance on the market or state.5 "
620 "Others are very much a part of the market or state, depending on them for "
621 "financial sustainability. All operate as hybrids, blending the norms of the "
622 "commons with those of the market or state."
623 msgstr ""
624
625 #. type: Plain text
626 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:364
627 msgid ""
628 "Fig. 1. is a depiction of how an enterprise can have varying levels of "
629 "engagement with commons, state, and market."
630 msgstr ""
631
632 #. type: Plain text
633 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:373
634 msgid ""
635 "Some of our case studies are simply commons and market enterprises with "
636 "little or no engagement with the state. A depiction of those case studies "
637 "would show the state sphere as tiny or even absent. Other case studies are "
638 "primarily market-based with only a small engagement with the commons. A "
639 "depiction of those case studies would show the market sphere as large and "
640 "the commons sphere as small. The extent to which an enterprise sees itself "
641 "as being primarily of one type or another affects the balance of norms by "
642 "which they operate."
643 msgstr ""
644
645 #. type: Plain text
646 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:381
647 msgid ""
648 "All our case studies generate money as a means of livelihood and "
649 "sustainability. Money is primarily of the market. Finding ways to generate "
650 "revenue while holding true to the core values of the commons (usually "
651 "expressed in mission statements) is challenging. To manage interaction and "
652 "engagement between the commons and the market requires a deft touch, a "
653 "strong sense of values, and the ability to blend the best of both."
654 msgstr ""
655
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657 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:387
658 msgid ""
659 "The state has an important role to play in fostering the use and adoption of "
660 "the commons. State programs and funding can deliberately contribute to and "
661 "build the commons. Beyond money, laws and regulations regarding property, "
662 "copyright, business, and finance can all be designed to foster the commons."
663 msgstr ""
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668 "![](Pictures/10000201000008000000045C30360249076453E6.png){width=\"6.5in\" "
669 "height=\"3.5417in\"}"
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674 msgid ""
675 "It’s helpful to understand how the commons, market, and state manage "
676 "resources differently, and not just for those who consider themselves "
677 "primarily as a commons. For businesses or governmental organizations who "
678 "want to engage in and use the commons, knowing how the commons operates will "
679 "help them understand how best to do so. Participating in and using the "
680 "commons the same way you do the market or state is not a strategy for "
681 "success."
682 msgstr ""
683
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685 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:400
686 msgid "### The Four Aspects of a Resource"
687 msgstr ""
688
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691 msgid ""
692 "As part of her Nobel Prize–winning work, Elinor Ostrom developed a framework "
693 "for analyzing how natural resources are managed in a commons.6 Her framework "
694 "considered things like the biophysical characteristics of common resources, "
695 "the community’s actors and the interactions that take place between them, "
696 "rules-in-use, and outcomes. That framework has been simplified and "
697 "generalized to apply to the commons, the market, and the state for this "
698 "chapter."
699 msgstr ""
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703 msgid ""
704 "To compare and contrast the ways in which the commons, market, and state "
705 "work, let’s consider four aspects of resource management: resource "
706 "characteristics, the people involved and the process they use, the norms and "
707 "rules they develop to govern use, and finally actual resource use along with "
708 "outcomes of that use (see Fig. 2)."
709 msgstr ""
710
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714 "![](Pictures/10000201000007D0000007D0ACF13F8B71EAF0B9.png){width=\"6.5in\" "
715 "height=\"6.5in\"}"
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720 msgid "#### Characteristics"
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722
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725 msgid ""
726 "Resources have particular characteristics or attributes that affect the way "
727 "they can be used. Some resources are natural; others are human produced. And—"
728 "significantly for today’s commons—resources can be physical or digital, "
729 "which affects a resource’s inherent potential."
730 msgstr ""
731
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734 msgid ""
735 "Physical resources exist in limited supply. If I have a physical resource "
736 "and give it to you, I no longer have it. When a resource is removed and "
737 "used, the supply becomes scarce or depleted. Scarcity can result in "
738 "competing rivalry for the resource. Made with Creative Commons enterprises "
739 "are usually digitally based but some of our case studies also produce "
740 "resources in physical form. The costs of producing and distributing a "
741 "physical good usually require them to engage with the market."
742 msgstr ""
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746 msgid ""
747 "Physical resources are depletable, exclusive, and rivalrous. Digital "
748 "resources, on the other hand, are nondepletable, nonexclusive, and "
749 "nonrivalrous. If I share a digital resource with you, we both have the "
750 "resource. Giving it to you does not mean I no longer have it. Digital "
751 "resources can be infinitely stored, copied, and distributed without becoming "
752 "depleted, and at close to zero cost. Abundance rather than scarcity is an "
753 "inherent characteristic of digital resources."
754 msgstr ""
755
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758 msgid ""
759 "The nondepletable, nonexclusive, and nonrivalrous nature of digital "
760 "resources means the rules and norms for managing them can (and ought to) be "
761 "different from how physical resources are managed. However, this is not "
762 "always the case. Digital resources are frequently made artificially scarce. "
763 "Placing digital resources in the commons makes them free and abundant."
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769 "Our case studies frequently manage hybrid resources, which start out as "
770 "digital with the possibility of being made into a physical resource. The "
771 "digital file of a book can be printed on paper and made into a physical "
772 "book. A computer-rendered design for furniture can be physically "
773 "manufactured in wood. This conversion from digital to physical invariably "
774 "has costs. Often the digital resources are managed in a free and open way, "
775 "but money is charged to convert a digital resource into a physical one."
776 msgstr ""
777
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780 msgid ""
781 "Beyond this idea of physical versus digital, the commons, market, and state "
782 "conceive of resources differently (see Fig. 3). The market sees resources as "
783 "private goods—commodities for sale—from which value is extracted. The state "
784 "sees resources as public goods that provide value to state citizens. The "
785 "commons sees resources as common goods, providing a common wealth extending "
786 "beyond state boundaries, to be passed on in undiminished or enhanced form to "
787 "future generations."
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792 msgid "#### People and processes"
793 msgstr ""
794
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797 msgid ""
798 "In the commons, the market, and the state, different people and processes "
799 "are used to manage resources. The processes used define both who has a say "
800 "and how a resource is managed."
801 msgstr ""
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805 msgid ""
806 "In the state, a government of elected officials is responsible for managing "
807 "resources on behalf of the public. The citizens who produce and use those "
808 "resources are not directly involved; instead, that responsibility is given "
809 "over to the government. State ministries and departments staffed with public "
810 "servants set budgets, implement programs, and manage resources based on "
811 "government priorities and procedures."
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817 "In the market, the people involved are producers, buyers, sellers, and "
818 "consumers. Businesses act as intermediaries between those who produce "
819 "resources and those who consume or use them. Market processes seek to "
820 "extract as much monetary value from resources as possible. In the market, "
821 "resources are managed as commodities, frequently mass-produced, and sold to "
822 "consumers on the basis of a cash transaction."
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828 "In contrast to the state and market, resources in a commons are managed more "
829 "directly by the people involved.7 Creators of human produced resources can "
830 "put them in the commons by personal choice. No permission from state or "
831 "market is required. Anyone can participate in the commons and determine for "
832 "themselves the extent to which they want to be involved—as a contributor, "
833 "user, or manager. The people involved include not only those who create and "
834 "use resources but those affected by outcome of use. Who you are affects your "
835 "say, actions you can take, and extent of decision making. In the commons, "
836 "the community as a whole manages the resources. Resources put into the "
837 "commons using Creative Commons require users to give the original creator "
838 "credit. Knowing the person behind a resource makes the commons less "
839 "anonymous and more personal."
840 msgstr ""
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844 msgid ""
845 "![](Pictures/10000201000009C40000065D9EC4F530BD4DFBE0.png){width=\"6.5in\" "
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851 msgid "#### Norms and rules"
852 msgstr ""
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856 msgid ""
857 "The social interactions between people, and the processes used by the state, "
858 "market, and commons, evolve social norms and rules. These norms and rules "
859 "define permissions, allocate entitlements, and resolve disputes."
860 msgstr ""
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864 msgid ""
865 "State authority is governed by national constitutions. Norms related to "
866 "priorities and decision making are defined by elected officials and "
867 "parliamentary procedures. State rules are expressed through policies, "
868 "regulations, and laws. The state influences the norms and rules of the "
869 "market and commons through the rules it passes."
870 msgstr ""
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875 "Market norms are influenced by economics and competition for scarce "
876 "resources. Market rules follow property, business, and financial laws "
877 "defined by the state."
878 msgstr ""
879
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882 msgid ""
883 "As with the market, a commons can be influenced by state policies, "
884 "regulations, and laws. But the norms and rules of a commons are largely "
885 "defined by the community. They weigh individual costs and benefits against "
886 "the costs and benefits to the whole community. Consideration is given not "
887 "just to economic efficiency but also to equity and sustainability.9"
888 msgstr ""
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892 msgid "#### Goals"
893 msgstr ""
894
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897 msgid ""
898 "The combination of the aspects we’ve discussed so far—the resource’s "
899 "inherent characteristics, people and processes, and norms and rules—shape "
900 "how resources are used. Use is also influenced by the different goals the "
901 "state, market, and commons have."
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907 "In the market, the focus is on maximizing the utility of a resource. What "
908 "we pay for the goods we consume is seen as an objective measure of the "
909 "utility they provide. The goal then becomes maximizing total monetary value "
910 "in the economy.10 Units consumed translates to sales, revenue, profit, and "
911 "growth, and these are all ways to measure goals of the market."
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917 "The state aims to use and manage resources in a way that balances the "
918 "economy with the social and cultural needs of its citizens. Health care, "
919 "education, jobs, the environment, transportation, security, heritage, and "
920 "justice are all facets of a healthy society, and the state applies its "
921 "resources toward these aims. State goals are reflected in quality of life "
922 "measures."
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927 msgid ""
928 "In the commons, the goal is maximizing access, equity, distribution, "
929 "participation, innovation, and sustainability. You can measure success by "
930 "looking at how many people access and use a resource; how users are "
931 "distributed across gender, income, and location; if a community to extend "
932 "and enhance the resources is being formed; and if the resources are being "
933 "used in innovative ways for personal and social good."
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939 "As hybrid combinations of the commons with the market or state, the success "
940 "and sustainability of all our case study enterprises depends on their "
941 "ability to strategically utilize and balance these different aspects of "
942 "managing resources."
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947 msgid "### A Short History of the Commons"
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952 msgid ""
953 "Using the commons to manage resources is part of a long historical "
954 "continuum. However, in contemporary society, the market and the state "
955 "dominate the discourse on how resources are best managed. Rarely is the "
956 "commons even considered as an option. The commons has largely disappeared "
957 "from consciousness and consideration. There are no news reports or speeches "
958 "about the commons."
959 msgstr ""
960
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963 msgid ""
964 "But the more than 1.1 billion resources licensed with Creative Commons "
965 "around the world are indications of a grassroots move toward the commons. "
966 "The commons is making a resurgence. To understand the resilience of the "
967 "commons and its current renewal, it’s helpful to know something of its "
968 "history."
969 msgstr ""
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973 msgid ""
974 "For centuries, indigenous people and preindustrialized societies managed "
975 "resources, including water, food, firewood, irrigation, fish, wild game, and "
976 "many other things collectively as a commons.11 There was no market, no "
977 "global economy. The state in the form of rulers influenced the commons but "
978 "by no means controlled it. Direct social participation in a commons was the "
979 "primary way in which resources were managed and needs met. (Fig. 4 "
980 "illustrates the commons in relation to the state and the market.)"
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993 "This is followed by a long history of the state (a monarchy or ruler) "
994 "taking over the commons for their own purposes. This is called enclosure of "
995 "the commons.12 In olden days, “commoners” were evicted from the land, fences "
996 "and hedges erected, laws passed, and security set up to forbid access.13 "
997 "Gradually, resources became the property of the state and the state became "
998 "the primary means by which resources were managed. (See Fig. 5)."
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1003 msgid ""
1004 "Holdings of land, water, and game were distributed to ruling family and "
1005 "political appointees. Commoners displaced from the land migrated to cities. "
1006 "With the emergence of the industrial revolution, land and resources became "
1007 "commodities sold to businesses to support production. Monarchies evolved "
1008 "into elected parliaments. Commoners became labourers earning money operating "
1009 "the machinery of industry. Financial, business, and property laws were "
1010 "revised by governments to support markets, growth, and productivity. Over "
1011 "time ready access to market produced goods resulted in a rising standard of "
1012 "living, improved health, and education. Fig. 6 shows how today the market is "
1013 "the primary means by which resources are managed."
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1025 msgid ""
1026 "However, the world today is going through turbulent times. The benefits of "
1027 "the market have been offset by unequal distribution and overexploitation."
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1033 "Overexploitation was the topic of Garrett Hardin’s influential essay “The "
1034 "Tragedy of the Commons,” published in Science in 1968. Hardin argues that "
1035 "everyone in a commons seeks to maximize personal gain and will continue to "
1036 "do so even when the limits of the commons are reached. The commons is then "
1037 "tragically depleted to the point where it can no longer support anyone. "
1038 "Hardin’s essay became widely accepted as an economic truism and a "
1039 "justification for private property and free markets."
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1045 "However, there is one serious flaw with Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the "
1046 "Commons”—it’s fiction. Hardin did not actually study how real commons work. "
1047 "Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics for her work studying "
1048 "different commons all around the world. Ostrom’s work shows that natural "
1049 "resource commons can be successfully managed by local communities without "
1050 "any regulation by central authorities or without privatization. Government "
1051 "and privatization are not the only two choices. There is a third way: "
1052 "management by the people, where those that are directly impacted are "
1053 "directly involved. With natural resources, there is a regional locality. The "
1054 "people in the region are the most familiar with the natural resource, have "
1055 "the most direct relationship and history with it, and are therefore best "
1056 "situated to manage it. Ostrom’s approach to the governance of natural "
1057 "resources broke with convention; she recognized the importance of the "
1058 "commons as an alternative to the market or state for solving problems of "
1059 "collective action.14"
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1064 msgid ""
1065 "Hardin failed to consider the actual social dynamic of the commons. His "
1066 "model assumed that people in the commons act autonomously, out of pure self-"
1067 "interest, without interaction or consideration of others. But as Ostrom "
1068 "found, in reality, managing common resources together forms a community and "
1069 "encourages discourse. This naturally generates norms and rules that help "
1070 "people work collectively and ensure a sustainable commons. Paradoxically, "
1071 "while Hardin’s essay is called The Tragedy of the Commons it might more "
1072 "accurately be titled The Tragedy of the Market."
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1078 "Hardin’s story is based on the premise of depletable resources. Economists "
1079 "have focused almost exclusively on scarcity-based markets. Very little is "
1080 "known about how abundance works.15 The emergence of information technology "
1081 "and the Internet has led to an explosion in digital resources and new means "
1082 "of sharing and distribution. Digital resources can never be depleted. An "
1083 "absence of a theory or model for how abundance works, however, has led the "
1084 "market to make digital resources artificially scarce and makes it possible "
1085 "for the usual market norms and rules to be applied."
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1091 "When it comes to use of state funds to create digital goods, however, there "
1092 "is really no justification for artificial scarcity. The norm for state "
1093 "funded digital works should be that they are freely and openly available to "
1094 "the public that paid for them."
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1106 msgid "### The Digital Revolution"
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1112 "In the early days of computing, programmers and developers learned from each "
1113 "other by sharing software. In the 1980s, the free-software movement codified "
1114 "this practice of sharing into a set of principles and freedoms:"
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1119 msgid "The freedom to run a software program as you wish, for any purpose."
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1125 "The freedom to study how a software program works (because access to the "
1126 "source code has been freely given), and change it so it does your computing "
1127 "as you wish."
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1132 msgid "The freedom to redistribute copies."
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1137 msgid "The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.16"
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1143 "These principles and freedoms constitute a set of norms and rules that "
1144 "typify a digital commons."
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1149 msgid ""
1150 "In the late 1990s, to make the sharing of source code and collaboration more "
1151 "appealing to companies, the open-source-software initiative converted these "
1152 "principles into licenses and standards for managing access to and "
1153 "distribution of software. The benefits of open source—such as reliability, "
1154 "scalability, and quality verified by independent peer review—became widely "
1155 "recognized and accepted. Customers liked the way open source gave them "
1156 "control without being locked into a closed, proprietary technology. Free and "
1157 "open-source software also generated a network effect where the value of a "
1158 "product or service increases with the number of people using it.17 The "
1159 "dramatic growth of the Internet itself owes much to the fact that nobody has "
1160 "a proprietary lock on core Internet protocols."
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1165 msgid ""
1166 "While open-source software functions as a commons, many businesses and "
1167 "markets did build up around it. Business models based on the licenses and "
1168 "standards of open-source software evolved alongside organizations that "
1169 "managed software code on principles of abundance rather than scarcity. Eric "
1170 "Raymond’s essay “The Magic Cauldron” does a great job of analyzing the "
1171 "economics and business models associated with open-source software.18 These "
1172 "models can provide examples of sustainable approaches for those Made with "
1173 "Creative Commons."
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1179 "It isn’t just about an abundant availability of digital assets but also "
1180 "about abundance of participation. The growth of personal computing, "
1181 "information technology, and the Internet made it possible for mass "
1182 "participation in producing creative works and distributing them. Photos, "
1183 "books, music, and many other forms of digital content could now be readily "
1184 "created and distributed by almost anyone. Despite this potential for "
1185 "abundance, by default these digital works are governed by copyright laws. "
1186 "Under copyright, a digital work is the property of the creator, and by law "
1187 "others are excluded from accessing and using it without the creator’s "
1188 "permission."
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1194 "But people like to share. One of the ways we define ourselves is by sharing "
1195 "valuable and entertaining content. Doing so grows and nourishes "
1196 "relationships, seeks to change opinions, encourages action, and informs "
1197 "others about who we are and what we care about. Sharing lets us feel more "
1198 "involved with the world.19"
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1203 msgid "### The Birth of Creative Commons"
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1209 "In 2001, Creative Commons was created as a nonprofit to support all those "
1210 "who wanted to share digital content. A suite of Creative Commons licenses "
1211 "was modeled on those of open-source software but for use with digital "
1212 "content rather than software code. The licenses give everyone from "
1213 "individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, "
1214 "standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work."
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1220 "Creative Commons licenses have a three-layer design. The norms and rules of "
1221 "each license are first expressed in full legal language as used by lawyers. "
1222 "This layer is called the legal code. But since most creators and users are "
1223 "not lawyers, the licenses also have a commons deed, expressing the "
1224 "permissions in plain language, which regular people can read and quickly "
1225 "understand. It acts as a user-friendly interface to the legal-code layer "
1226 "beneath. The third layer is the machine-readable one, making it easy for the "
1227 "Web to know a work is Creative Commons–licensed by expressing permissions in "
1228 "a way that software systems, search engines, and other kinds of technology "
1229 "can understand.20 Taken together, these three layers ensure creators, users, "
1230 "and even the Web itself understand the norms and rules associated with "
1231 "digital content in a commons."
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1237 "In 2015, there were over one billion Creative Commons licensed works in a "
1238 "global commons. These works were viewed online 136 billion times. People "
1239 "are using Creative Commons licenses all around the world, in thirty-four "
1240 "languages. These resources include photos, artwork, research articles in "
1241 "journals, educational resources, music and other audio tracks, and videos."
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1247 "Individual artists, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers use Creative "
1248 "Commons, but so do museums, governments, creative industries, manufacturers, "
1249 "and publishers. Millions of websites use CC licenses, including major "
1250 "platforms like Wikipedia and Flickr and smaller ones like blogs.21 Users of "
1251 "Creative Commons are diverse and cut across many different sectors. (Our "
1252 "case studies were chosen to reflect that diversity.)"
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1258 "Some see Creative Commons as a way to share a gift with others, a way of "
1259 "getting known, or a way to provide social benefit. Others are simply "
1260 "committed to the norms associated with a commons. And for some, "
1261 "participation has been spurred by the free-culture movement, a social "
1262 "movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works. "
1263 "The free-culture movement sees a commons as providing significant benefits "
1264 "compared to restrictive copyright laws. This ethos of free exchange in a "
1265 "commons aligns the free-culture movement with the free and open-source "
1266 "software movement."
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1272 "Over time, Creative Commons has spawned a range of open movements, including "
1273 "open educational resources, open access, open science, and open data. The "
1274 "goal in every case has been to democratize participation and share digital "
1275 "resources at no cost, with legal permissions for anyone to freely access, "
1276 "use, and modify."
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1282 "The state is increasingly involved in supporting open movements. The Open "
1283 "Government Partnership was launched in 2011 to provide an international "
1284 "platform for governments to become more open, accountable, and responsive to "
1285 "citizens. Since then, it has grown from eight participating countries to "
1286 "seventy.22 In all these countries, government and civil society are working "
1287 "together to develop and implement ambitious open-government reforms. "
1288 "Governments are increasingly adopting Creative Commons to ensure works "
1289 "funded with taxpayer dollars are open and free to the public that paid for "
1290 "them."
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1295 msgid "### The Changing Market"
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1301 "Today’s market is largely driven by global capitalism. Law and financial "
1302 "systems are structured to support extraction, privatization, and corporate "
1303 "growth. A perception that the market is more efficient than the state has "
1304 "led to continual privatization of many public natural resources, utilities, "
1305 "services, and infrastructures.23 While this system has been highly efficient "
1306 "at generating consumerism and the growth of gross domestic product, the "
1307 "impact on human well-being has been mixed. Offsetting rising living "
1308 "standards and improvements to health and education are ever-increasing "
1309 "wealth inequality, social inequality, poverty, deterioration of our natural "
1310 "environment, and breakdowns of democracy.24"
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1316 "In light of these challenges there is a growing recognition that GDP growth "
1317 "should not be an end in itself, that development needs to be socially and "
1318 "economically inclusive, that environmental sustainability is a requirement "
1319 "not an option, and that we need to better balance the market, state and "
1320 "community.25"
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1326 "These realizations have led to a resurgence of interest in the commons as a "
1327 "means of enabling that balance. City governments like Bologna, Italy, are "
1328 "collaborating with their citizens to put in place regulations for the care "
1329 "and regeneration of urban commons.26 Seoul and Amsterdam call themselves "
1330 "“sharing cities,” looking to make sustainable and more efficient use of "
1331 "scarce resources. They see sharing as a way to improve the use of public "
1332 "spaces, mobility, social cohesion, and safety.27"
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1338 "The market itself has taken an interest in the sharing economy, with "
1339 "businesses like Airbnb providing a peer-to-peer marketplace for short-term "
1340 "lodging and Uber providing a platform for ride sharing. However, Airbnb and "
1341 "Uber are still largely operating under the usual norms and rules of the "
1342 "market, making them less like a commons and more like a traditional business "
1343 "seeking financial gain. Much of the sharing economy is not about the commons "
1344 "or building an alternative to a corporate-driven market economy; it’s about "
1345 "extending the deregulated free market into new areas of our lives.28 While "
1346 "none of the people we interviewed for our case studies would describe "
1347 "themselves as part of the sharing economy, there are in fact some "
1348 "significant parallels. Both the sharing economy and the commons make better "
1349 "use of asset capacity. The sharing economy sees personal residents and cars "
1350 "as having latent spare capacity with rental value. The equitable access of "
1351 "the commons broadens and diversifies the number of people who can use and "
1352 "derive value from an asset."
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1358 "One way Made with Creative Commons case studies differ from those of the "
1359 "sharing economy is their focus on digital resources. Digital resources "
1360 "function under different economic rules than physical ones. In a world where "
1361 "prices always seem to go up, information technology is an anomaly. Computer-"
1362 "processing power, storage, and bandwidth are all rapidly increasing, but "
1363 "rather than costs going up, costs are coming down. Digital technologies are "
1364 "getting faster, better, and cheaper. The cost of anything built on these "
1365 "technologies will always go down until it is close to zero.29"
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1371 "Those that are Made with Creative Commons are looking to leverage the unique "
1372 "inherent characteristics of digital resources, including lowering costs. The "
1373 "use of digital-rights-management technologies in the form of locks, "
1374 "passwords, and controls to prevent digital goods from being accessed, "
1375 "changed, replicated, and distributed is minimal or nonexistent. Instead, "
1376 "Creative Commons licenses are used to put digital content out in the "
1377 "commons, taking advantage of the unique economics associated with being "
1378 "digital. The aim is to see digital resources used as widely and by as many "
1379 "people as possible. Maximizing access and participation is a common goal. "
1380 "They aim for abundance over scarcity."
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1386 "The incremental cost of storing, copying, and distributing digital goods is "
1387 "next to zero, making abundance possible. But imagining a market based on "
1388 "abundance rather than scarcity is so alien to the way we conceive of "
1389 "economic theory and practice that we struggle to do so.30 Those that are "
1390 "Made with Creative Commons are each pioneering in this new landscape, "
1391 "devising their own economic models and practice."
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1397 "Some are looking to minimize their interactions with the market and operate "
1398 "as autonomously as possible. Others are operating largely as a business "
1399 "within the existing rules and norms of the market. And still others are "
1400 "looking to change the norms and rules by which the market operates."
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1406 "For an ordinary corporation, making social benefit a part of its operations "
1407 "is difficult, as it’s legally required to make decisions that financially "
1408 "benefit stockholders. But new forms of business are emerging. There are "
1409 "benefit corporations and social enterprises, which broaden their business "
1410 "goals from making a profit to making a positive impact on society, workers, "
1411 "the community, and the environment.31 Community-owned businesses, worker-"
1412 "owned businesses, cooperatives, guilds, and other organizational forms offer "
1413 "alternatives to the traditional corporation. Collectively, these alternative "
1414 "market entities are changing the rules and norms of the market.32"
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1420 "“A book on open business models” is how we described it in this book’s "
1421 "Kickstarter campaign. We used a handbook called Business Model Generation as "
1422 "our reference for defining just what a business model is. Developed over "
1423 "nine years using an “open process” involving 470 coauthors from forty-five "
1424 "countries, it is useful as a framework for talking about business models.33"
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1430 "It contains a “business model canvas,” which conceives of a business model "
1431 "as having nine building blocks.34 This blank canvas can serve as a tool for "
1432 "anyone to design their own business model. We remixed this business model "
1433 "canvas into an open business model canvas, adding three more building blocks "
1434 "relevant to hybrid market, commons enterprises: social good, Creative "
1435 "Commons license, and “type of open environment that the business fits in.”35 "
1436 "This enhanced canvas proved useful when we analyzed businesses and helped "
1437 "start-ups plan their economic model."
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1443 "In our case study interviews, many expressed discomfort over describing "
1444 "themselves as an open business model—the term business model suggested "
1445 "primarily being situated in the market. Where you sit on the commons-to-"
1446 "market spectrum affects the extent to which you see yourself as a business "
1447 "in the market. The more central to the mission shared resources and commons "
1448 "values are, the less comfort there is in describing yourself, or depicting "
1449 "what you do, as a business. Not all who have endeavors Made with Creative "
1450 "Commons use business speak; for some the process has been experimental, "
1451 "emergent, and organic rather than carefully planned using a predefined model."
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1457 "The creators, businesses, and organizations we profile all engage with the "
1458 "market to generate revenue in some way. The ways in which this is done vary "
1459 "widely. Donations, pay what you can, memberships, “digital for free but "
1460 "physical for a fee,” crowdfunding, matchmaking, value-add services, "
1461 "patrons . . . the list goes on and on. (Initial description of how to earn "
1462 "revenue available through reference note. For latest thinking see How to "
1463 "Bring In Money in the next section.) 36 There is no single magic bullet, and "
1464 "each endeavor has devised ways that work for them. Most make use of more "
1465 "than one way. Diversifying revenue streams lowers risk and provides multiple "
1466 "paths to sustainability."
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1471 msgid "### Benefits of the Digital Commons"
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1477 "While it may be clear why commons-based organizations want to interact and "
1478 "engage with the market (they need money to survive), it may be less obvious "
1479 "why the market would engage with the commons. The digital commons offers "
1480 "many benefits."
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1486 "The commons speeds dissemination. The free flow of resources in the commons "
1487 "offers tremendous economies of scale. Distribution is decentralized, with "
1488 "all those in the commons empowered to share the resources they have access "
1489 "to. Those that are Made with Creative Commons have a reduced need for sales "
1490 "or marketing. Decentralized distribution amplifies supply and know-how."
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1496 "The commons ensures access to all. The market has traditionally operated by "
1497 "putting resources behind a paywall requiring payment first before access. "
1498 "The commons puts resources in the open, providing access up front without "
1499 "payment. Those that are Made with Creative Commons make little or no use of "
1500 "digital rights management (DRM) to manage resources. Not using DRM frees "
1501 "them of the costs of acquiring DRM technology and staff resources to engage "
1502 "in the punitive practices associated with restricting access. The way the "
1503 "commons provides access to everyone levels the playing field and promotes "
1504 "inclusiveness, equity, and fairness."
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1510 "The commons maximizes participation. Resources in the commons can be used "
1511 "and contributed to by everyone. Using the resources of others, contributing "
1512 "your own, and mixing yours with others to create new works are all dynamic "
1513 "forms of participation made possible by the commons. Being Made with "
1514 "Creative Commons means you’re engaging as many users with your resources as "
1515 "possible. Users are also authoring, editing, remixing, curating, localizing, "
1516 "translating, and distributing. The commons makes it possible for people to "
1517 "directly participate in culture, knowledge building, and even democracy, and "
1518 "many other socially beneficial practices."
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1524 "The commons spurs innovation. Resources in the hands of more people who can "
1525 "use them leads to new ideas. The way commons resources can be modified, "
1526 "customized, and improved results in derivative works never imagined by the "
1527 "original creator. Some endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons "
1528 "deliberately encourage users to take the resources being shared and innovate "
1529 "them. Doing so moves research and development (R&D) from being solely inside "
1530 "the organization to being in the community.37 Community-based innovation "
1531 "will keep an organization or business on its toes. It must continue to "
1532 "contribute new ideas, absorb and build on top of the innovations of others, "
1533 "and steward the resources and the relationship with the community."
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1539 "The commons boosts reach and impact. The digital commons is global. "
1540 "Resources may be created for a local or regional need, but they go far and "
1541 "wide generating a global impact. In the digital world, there are no borders "
1542 "between countries. When you are Made with Creative Commons, you are often "
1543 "local and global at the same time: Digital designs being globally "
1544 "distributed but made and manufactured locally. Digital books or music being "
1545 "globally distributed but readings and concerts performed locally. The "
1546 "digital commons magnifies impact by connecting creators to those who use and "
1547 "build on their work both locally and globally."
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1553 "The commons is generative. Instead of extracting value, the commons adds "
1554 "value. Digitized resources persist without becoming depleted, and through "
1555 "use are improved, personalized, and localized. Each use adds value. The "
1556 "market focuses on generating value for the business and the customer. The "
1557 "commons generates value for a broader range of beneficiaries including the "
1558 "business, the customer, the creator, the public, and the commons itself. The "
1559 "generative nature of the commons means that it is more cost-effective and "
1560 "produces a greater return on investment. Value is not just measured in "
1561 "financial terms. Each new resource added to the commons provides value to "
1562 "the public and contributes to the overall value of the commons."
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1568 "The commons brings people together for a common cause. The commons vests "
1569 "people directly with the responsibility to manage the resources for the "
1570 "common good. The costs and benefits for the individual are balanced with the "
1571 "costs and benefits for the community and for future generations. Resources "
1572 "are not anonymous or mass produced. Their provenance is known and "
1573 "acknowledged through attribution and other means. Those that are Made with "
1574 "Creative Commons generate awareness and reputation based on their "
1575 "contributions to the commons. The reach, impact, and sustainability of those "
1576 "contributions rest largely on their ability to forge relationships and "
1577 "connections with those who use and improve them. By functioning on the "
1578 "basis of social engagement, not monetary exchange, the commons unifies "
1579 "people."
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1585 "The benefits of the commons are many. When these benefits align with the "
1586 "goals of individuals, communities, businesses in the market, or state "
1587 "enterprises, choosing to manage resources as a commons ought to be the "
1588 "option of choice."
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1593 msgid "### Our Case Studies"
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1599 "The creators, organizations, and businesses in our case studies operate as "
1600 "nonprofits, for-profits, and social enterprises. Regardless of legal status, "
1601 "they all have a social mission. Their primary reason for being is to make "
1602 "the world a better place, not to profit. Money is a means to a social end, "
1603 "not the end itself. They factor public interest into decisions, behavior, "
1604 "and practices. Transparency and trust are really important. Impact and "
1605 "success are measured against social aims expressed in mission statements, "
1606 "and are not just about the financial bottom line."
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1612 "The case studies are based on the narratives told to us by founders and key "
1613 "staff. Instead of solely using financials as the measure of success and "
1614 "sustainability, they emphasized their mission, practices, and means by which "
1615 "they measure success. Metrics of success are a blend of how social goals are "
1616 "being met and how sustainable the enterprise is."
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1622 "Our case studies are diverse, ranging from publishing to education and "
1623 "manufacturing. All of the organizations, businesses, and creators in the "
1624 "case studies produce digital resources. Those resources exist in many forms "
1625 "including books, designs, songs, research, data, cultural works, education "
1626 "materials, graphic icons, and video. Some are digital representations of "
1627 "physical resources. Others are born digital but can be made into physical "
1628 "resources."
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1634 "They are creating new resources, or using the resources of others, or mixing "
1635 "existing resources together to make something new. They, and their audience, "
1636 "all play a direct, participatory role in managing those resources, including "
1637 "their preservation, curation, distribution, and enhancement. Access and "
1638 "participation is open to all regardless of monetary means."
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1644 "And as users of Creative Commons licenses, they are automatically part of a "
1645 "global community. The new digital commons is global. Those we profiled come "
1646 "from nearly every continent in the world. To build and interact within this "
1647 "global community is conducive to success."
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1653 "Creative Commons licenses may express legal rules around the use of "
1654 "resources in a commons, but success in the commons requires more than "
1655 "following the letter of the law and acquiring financial means. Over and over "
1656 "we heard in our interviews how success and sustainability are tied to a set "
1657 "of beliefs, values, and principles that underlie their actions: Give more "
1658 "than you take. Be open and inclusive. Add value. Make visible what you are "
1659 "using from the commons, what you are adding, and what you are monetizing. "
1660 "Maximize abundance. Give attribution. Express gratitude. Develop trust; "
1661 "don’t exploit. Build relationship and community. Be transparent. Defend the "
1662 "commons."
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1668 "The new digital commons is here to stay. Made With Creative Commons case "
1669 "studies show how it’s possible to be part of this commons while still "
1670 "functioning within market and state systems. The commons generates benefits "
1671 "neither the market nor state can achieve on their own. Rather than the "
1672 "market or state dominating as primary means of resource management, a more "
1673 "balanced alternative is possible."
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1679 "Enterprise use of Creative Commons has only just begun. The case studies in "
1680 "this book are merely starting points. Each is changing and evolving over "
1681 "time. Many more are joining and inventing new models. This overview aims to "
1682 "provide a framework and language for thinking and talking about the new "
1683 "digital commons. The remaining sections go deeper providing further guidance "
1684 "and insights on how it works."
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1696 "Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013), 14."
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1702 "David Bollier, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of "
1703 "the Commons (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 176."
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1713 msgid "Ibid., 145."
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1718 msgid "Ibid., 175."
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1724 "Daniel H. Cole, “Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the Natural "
1725 "Commons for the Knowledge Commons,” in Governing Knowledge Commons, eds. "
1726 "Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg (New "
1727 "York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 53."
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1733 "Max Haiven, Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity "
1734 "and the Commons (New York: Zed Books, 2014), 93."
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1740 "Cole, “Learning from Lin,” in Frischmann, Madison, and Strandburg, Governing "
1741 "Knowledge Commons, 59."
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1748 "9. Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 175.\n"
1749 "10. Joshua Farley and Ida Kubiszewski, “The Economics of Information in\n"
1750 " a Post-Carbon Economy,” in Free Knowledge: Confronting the\n"
1751 " Commodification of Human Discovery, eds. Patricia W. Elliott and\n"
1752 " Daryl H. Hepting (Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2015),\n"
1753 " 201–4.\n"
1754 "11. Rowe, Our Common Wealth, 19; and Heather Menzies, Reclaiming the\n"
1755 " Commons for the Common Good: A Memoir and Manifesto (Gabriola\n"
1756 " Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 42–43.\n"
1757 "12. Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 55–78.\n"
1758 "13. Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei, The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal\n"
1759 " System in Tune with Nature and Community (Oakland, CA:\n"
1760 " Berrett-Koehler, 2015), 46–57; and Bollier, Think Like a\n"
1761 " Commoner, 88.\n"
1762 "14. Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J.\n"
1763 " Strandburg, “Governing Knowledge Commons,” in Frischmann, Madison,\n"
1764 " and Strandburg Governing Knowledge Commons, 12.\n"
1765 "15. Farley and Kubiszewski, “Economics of Information,” in Elliott and\n"
1766 " Hepting, Free Knowledge, 203.\n"
1767 "16. “What Is Free Software?” GNU Operating System, the Free Software\n"
1768 " Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Lab, accessed December 30,\n"
1769 " 2016, www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.\n"
1770 "17. Wikipedia, s.v. “Open-source software,” last modified November\n"
1771 " 22, 2016.\n"
1772 "18. Eric S. Raymond, “The Magic Cauldron,” in The Cathedral and the\n"
1773 " Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental\n"
1774 " Revolutionary, rev. ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2001),\n"
1775 " www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/.\n"
1776 "19. New York Times Customer Insight Group, The Psychology of Sharing:\n"
1777 " Why Do People Share Online? (New York: New York Times Customer\n"
1778 " Insight Group, 2011), www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf.\n"
1779 "20. “Licensing Considerations,” Creative Commons, accessed December 30,\n"
1780 " 2016, creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/.\n"
1781 "21. Creative Commons, 2015 State of the Commons (Mountain View, CA:\n"
1782 " Creative Commons, 2015), stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/.\n"
1783 "22. Wikipedia, s.v. “Open Government Partnership,” last modified\n"
1784 " September 24, 2016,\n"
1785 " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open\\_Government\\_Partnership.\n"
1786 "23. Capra and Mattei, Ecology of Law, 114.\n"
1787 "24. Ibid., 116.\n"
1788 "25. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, “Stockholm\n"
1789 " Statement” accessed February 15, 2017,\n"
1790 " sida.se/globalassets/sida/eng/press/stockholm-statement.pdf\n"
1791 "26. City of Bologna, Regulation on Collaboration between Citizens and\n"
1792 " the City for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons, trans.\n"
1793 " LabGov (LABoratory for the GOVernance of Commons) (Bologna, Italy:\n"
1794 " City of Bologna, 2014),\n"
1795 " 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.\n"
1796 "27. The Seoul Sharing City website is english.sharehub.kr; for Amsterdam\n"
1797 " Sharing City, go to www.sharenl.nl/amsterdam-sharing-city/.\n"
1798 "28. Tom Slee, What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy (New\n"
1799 " York: OR Books, 2015), 42.\n"
1800 "29. Chris Anderson, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by\n"
1801 " Giving Something for Nothing, Reprint with new preface. (New York:\n"
1802 " Hyperion, 2010), 78.\n"
1803 "30. Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of\n"
1804 " Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism\n"
1805 " (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 273.\n"
1806 "31. Gar Alperovitz, What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next\n"
1807 " American Revolution: Democratizing Wealth and Building a\n"
1808 " Community-Sustaining Economy from the Ground Up (White River\n"
1809 " Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013), 39.\n"
1810 "32. Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership\n"
1811 " Revolution; Journeys to a Generative Economy (San Francisco:\n"
1812 " Berrett-Koehler, 2012), 8–9.\n"
1813 "33. Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation\n"
1814 " (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010). A preview of the book is\n"
1815 " available at strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation.\n"
1816 "34. This business model canvas is available to download at\n"
1817 " strategyzer.com/canvas/business-model-canvas.\n"
1818 "35. We’ve made the “Open Business Model Canvas,” designed by the\n"
1819 " coauthor Paul Stacey, available online at\n"
1820 " docs.google.com/drawings/d/1QOIDa2qak7wZSSOa4Wv6qVMO77IwkKHN7CYyq0wHivs/edit.\n"
1821 " You can also find the accompanying Open Business Model Canvas\n"
1822 " Questions at\n"
1823 " docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kACK7TkoJgsM18HUWCbX9xuQ0Byna4plSVZXZGTtays/edit.\n"
1824 "36. A more comprehensive list of revenue streams is available in this\n"
1825 " post I wrote on Medium on March 6, 2016. “What Is an Open Business\n"
1826 " Model and How Can You Generate Revenue?”, available at\n"
1827 " medium.com/made-with-creative-commons/what-is-an-open-business-model-and-how-can-you-generate-revenue-5854d2659b15.\n"
1828 "37. Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating\n"
1829 " and Profiting from Technology (Boston: Harvard Business Review\n"
1830 " Press, 2006), 31–44.\n"
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1840 msgid "Sarah Hinchliff Pearson"
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1846 "When we began this project in August 2015, we set out to write a book about "
1847 "business models that involve Creative Commons licenses in some significant "
1848 "way—what we call being Made with Creative Commons. With the help of our "
1849 "Kickstarter backers, we chose twenty-four endeavors from all around the "
1850 "world that are Made with Creative Commons. The mix is diverse, from an "
1851 "individual musician to a university-textbook publisher to an electronics "
1852 "manufacturer. Some make their own content and share under Creative Commons "
1853 "licensing. Others are platforms for CC-licensed creative work made by "
1854 "others. Many sit somewhere in between, both using and contributing creative "
1855 "work that’s shared with the public. Like all who use the licenses, these "
1856 "endeavors share their work—whether it’s open data or furniture designs—in a "
1857 "way that enables the public not only to access it but also to make use of it."
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1863 "We analyzed the revenue models, customer segments, and value propositions of "
1864 "each endeavor. We searched for ways that putting their content under "
1865 "Creative Commons licenses helped boost sales or increase reach. Using "
1866 "traditional measures of economic success, we tried to map these business "
1867 "models in a way that meaningfully incorporated the impact of Creative "
1868 "Commons. In our interviews, we dug into the motivations, the role of CC "
1869 "licenses, modes of revenue generation, definitions of success."
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1875 "In fairly short order, we realized the book we set out to write was quite "
1876 "different from the one that was revealing itself in our interviews and "
1877 "research."
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1883 "It isn’t that we were wrong to think you can make money while using Creative "
1884 "Commons licenses. In many instances, CC can help make you more money. Nor "
1885 "were we wrong that there are business models out there that others who want "
1886 "to use CC licensing as part of their livelihood or business could replicate. "
1887 "What we didn’t realize was just how misguided it would be to write a book "
1888 "about being Made with Creative Commons using only a business lens."
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1894 "According to the seminal handbook Business Model Generation, a business "
1895 "model “describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and "
1896 "captures value.”1 Thinking about sharing in terms of creating and capturing "
1897 "value always felt inappropriately transactional and out of place, something "
1898 "we heard time and time again in our interviews. And as Cory Doctorow told us "
1899 "in our interview with him, “Business model can mean anything you want it to "
1900 "mean.”"
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1906 "Eventually, we got it. Being Made with Creative Commons is more than a "
1907 "business model. While we will talk about specific revenue models as one "
1908 "piece of our analysis (and in more detail in the case studies), we scrapped "
1909 "that as our guiding rubric for the book."
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1915 "Admittedly, it took me a long time to get there. When Paul and I divided up "
1916 "our writing after finishing the research, my charge was to distill "
1917 "everything we learned from the case studies and write up the practical "
1918 "lessons and takeaways. I spent months trying to jam what we learned into the "
1919 "business-model box, convinced there must be some formula for the way things "
1920 "interacted. But there is no formula. You’ll probably have to discard that "
1921 "way of thinking before you read any further."
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1927 "In every interview, we started from the same simple questions. Amid all the "
1928 "diversity among the creators, organizations, and businesses we profiled, "
1929 "there was one constant. Being Made with Creative Commons may be good for "
1930 "business, but that is not why they do it. Sharing work with Creative Commons "
1931 "is, at its core, a moral decision. The commercial and other self-interested "
1932 "benefits are secondary. Most decided to use CC licenses first and found a "
1933 "revenue model later. This was our first hint that writing a book solely "
1934 "about the impact of sharing on business might be a little off track."
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1940 "But we also started to realize something about what it means to be Made with "
1941 "Creative Commons. When people talked to us about how and why they used CC, "
1942 "it was clear that it meant something more than using a copyright license. It "
1943 "also represented a set of values. There is symbolism behind using CC, and "
1944 "that symbolism has many layers."
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1950 "At one level, being Made with Creative Commons expresses an affinity for the "
1951 "value of Creative Commons. While there are many different flavors of CC "
1952 "licenses and nearly infinite ways to be Made with Creative Commons, the "
1953 "basic value system is rooted in a fundamental belief that knowledge and "
1954 "creativity are building blocks of our culture rather than just commodities "
1955 "from which to extract market value. These values reflect a belief that the "
1956 "common good should always be part of the equation when we determine how to "
1957 "regulate our cultural outputs. They reflect a belief that everyone has "
1958 "something to contribute, and that no one can own our shared culture. They "
1959 "reflect a belief in the promise of sharing."
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1965 "Whether the public makes use of the opportunity to copy and adapt your work, "
1966 "sharing with a Creative Commons license is a symbol of how you want to "
1967 "interact with the people who consume your work. Whenever you create "
1968 "something, “all rights reserved” under copyright is automatic, so the "
1969 "copyright symbol (©) on the work does not necessarily come across as a "
1970 "marker of distrust or excessive protectionism. But using a CC license can be "
1971 "a symbol of the opposite—of wanting a real human relationship, rather than "
1972 "an impersonal market transaction. It leaves open the possibility of "
1973 "connection."
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1979 "Being Made with Creative Commons not only demonstrates values connected to "
1980 "CC and sharing. It also demonstrates that something other than profit drives "
1981 "what you do. In our interviews, we always asked what success looked like for "
1982 "them. It was stunning how rarely money was mentioned. Most have a deeper "
1983 "purpose and a different vision of success."
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1989 "The driving motivation varies depending on the type of endeavor. For "
1990 "individual creators, it is most often about personal inspiration. In some "
1991 "ways, this is nothing new. As Doctorow has written, “Creators usually start "
1992 "doing what they do for love.”2 But when you share your creative work under a "
1993 "CC license, that dynamic is even more pronounced. Similarly, for "
1994 "technological innovators, it is often less about creating a specific new "
1995 "thing that will make you rich and more about solving a specific problem you "
1996 "have. The creators of Arduino told us that the key question when creating "
1997 "something is “Do you as the creator want to use it? It has to have personal "
1998 "use and meaning.”"
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2004 "Many that are Made with Creative Commons have an express social mission that "
2005 "underpins everything they do. In many cases, sharing with Creative Commons "
2006 "expressly advances that social mission, and using the licenses can be the "
2007 "difference between legitimacy and hypocrisy. Noun Project co-founder Edward "
2008 "Boatman told us they could not have stated their social mission of sharing "
2009 "with a straight face if they weren’t willing to show the world that it was "
2010 "OK to share their content using a Creative Commons license."
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2016 "This dynamic is probably one reason why there are so many nonprofit examples "
2017 "of being Made with Creative Commons. The content is the result of a labor of "
2018 "love or a tool to drive social change, and money is like gas in the car, "
2019 "something that you need to keep going but not an end in itself. Being Made "
2020 "with Creative Commons is a different vision of a business or livelihood, "
2021 "where profit is not paramount, and producing social good and human "
2022 "connection are integral to success."
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2028 "Even if profit isn’t the end goal, you have to bring in money to be "
2029 "successfully Made with Creative Commons. At a bare minimum, you have to make "
2030 "enough money to keep the lights on."
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2036 "The costs of doing business vary widely for those made with CC, but there is "
2037 "generally a much lower threshold for sustainability than there used to be "
2038 "for any creative endeavor. Digital technology has made it easier than ever "
2039 "to create, and easier than ever to distribute. As Doctorow put it in his "
2040 "book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, “If analog dollars have turned "
2041 "into digital dimes (as the critics of ad-supported media have it), there is "
2042 "the fact that it’s possible to run a business that gets the same amount of "
2043 "advertising as its forebears at a fraction of the price.”"
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2049 "Some creation costs are the same as they always were. It takes the same "
2050 "amount of time and money to write a peer-reviewed journal article or paint a "
2051 "painting. Technology can’t change that. But other costs are dramatically "
2052 "reduced by technology, particularly in production-heavy domains like "
2053 "filmmaking.3 CC-licensed content and content in the public domain, as well "
2054 "as the work of volunteer collaborators, can also dramatically reduce costs "
2055 "if they’re being used as resources to create something new. And, of course, "
2056 "there is the reality that some content would be created whether or not the "
2057 "creator is paid because it is a labor of love."
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2063 "Distributing content is almost universally cheaper than ever. Once content "
2064 "is created, the costs to distribute copies digitally are essentially zero.4 "
2065 "The costs to distribute physical copies are still significant, but lower "
2066 "than they have been historically. And it is now much easier to print and "
2067 "distribute physical copies on-demand, which also reduces costs. Depending on "
2068 "the endeavor, there can be a whole host of other possible expenses like "
2069 "marketing and promotion, and even expenses associated with the various ways "
2070 "money is being made, like touring or custom training."
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2076 "It’s important to recognize that the biggest impact of technology on "
2077 "creative endeavors is that creators can now foot the costs of creation and "
2078 "distribution themselves. People now often have a direct route to their "
2079 "potential public without necessarily needing intermediaries like record "
2080 "labels and book publishers. Doctorow wrote, “If you’re a creator who never "
2081 "got the time of day from one of the great imperial powers, this is your "
2082 "time. Where once you had no means of reaching an audience without the "
2083 "assistance of the industry-dominating megacompanies, now you have hundreds "
2084 "of ways to do it without them.”5 Previously, distribution of creative work "
2085 "involved the costs associated with sustaining a monolithic entity, now "
2086 "creators can do the work themselves. That means the financial needs of "
2087 "creative endeavors can be a lot more modest."
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2093 "Whether for an individual creator or a larger endeavor, it usually isn’t "
2094 "enough to break even if you want to make what you’re doing a livelihood. "
2095 "You need to build in some support for the general operation. This extra bit "
2096 "looks different for everyone, but importantly, in nearly all cases for those "
2097 "Made with Creative Commons, the definition of “enough money” looks a lot "
2098 "different than it does in the world of venture capital and stock options. It "
2099 "is more about sustainability and less about unlimited growth and profit. "
2100 "SparkFun founder Nathan Seidle told us, “Business model is a really "
2101 "grandiose word for it. It is really just about keeping the operation going "
2102 "day to day.”"
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2108 "This book is a testament to the notion that it is possible to make money "
2109 "while using CC licenses and CC-licensed content, but we are still very much "
2110 "at an experimental stage. The creators, organizations, and businesses we "
2111 "profile in this book are blazing the trail and adapting in real time as they "
2112 "pursue this new way of operating."
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2118 "There are, however, plenty of ways in which CC licensing can be good for "
2119 "business in fairly predictable ways. The first is how it helps solve "
2120 "“problem zero.”"
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2131 "Once you create or collect your content, the next step is finding users, "
2132 "customers, fans—in other words, your people. As Amanda Palmer wrote, “It has "
2133 "to start with the art. The songs had to touch people initially, and mean "
2134 "something, for anything to work at all.”6 There isn’t any magic to finding "
2135 "your people, and there is certainly no formula. Your work has to connect "
2136 "with people and offer them some artistic and/or utilitarian value. In some "
2137 "ways, this is easier than ever. Online we are not limited by shelf space, so "
2138 "there is room for every obscure interest, taste, and need imaginable. This "
2139 "is what Chris Anderson dubbed the Long Tail, where consumption becomes less "
2140 "about mainstream mass “hits” and more about micromarkets for every "
2141 "particular niche. As Anderson wrote, “We are all different, with different "
2142 "wants and needs, and the Internet now has a place for all of them in the way "
2143 "that physical markets did not.”7 We are no longer limited to what appeals to "
2144 "the masses."
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2150 "While finding “your people” online is theoretically easier than in the "
2151 "analog world, as a practical matter it can still be difficult to actually "
2152 "get noticed. The Internet is a firehose of content, one that only grows "
2153 "larger by the minute. As a content creator, not only are you competing for "
2154 "attention against more content creators than ever before, you are competing "
2155 "against creativity generated outside the market as well.8 Anderson wrote, "
2156 "“The greatest change of the past decade has been the shift in time people "
2157 "spend consuming amateur content instead of professional content.”9 To top it "
2158 "all off, you have to compete against the rest of their lives, too—“friends, "
2159 "family, music playlists, soccer games, and nights on the town.”10 Somehow, "
2160 "some way, you have to get noticed by the right people."
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2166 "When you come to the Internet armed with an all-rights-reserved mentality "
2167 "from the start, you are often restricting access to your work before there "
2168 "is even any demand for it. In many cases, requiring payment for your work is "
2169 "part of the traditional copyright system. Even a tiny cost has a big effect "
2170 "on demand. It’s called the penny gap—the large difference in demand between "
2171 "something that is available at the price of one cent versus the price of "
2172 "zero.11 That doesn’t mean it is wrong to charge money for your content. It "
2173 "simply means you need to recognize the effect that doing so will have on "
2174 "demand. The same principle applies to restricting access to copy the work. "
2175 "If your problem is how to get discovered and find “your people,” prohibiting "
2176 "people from copying your work and sharing it with others is "
2177 "counterproductive."
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2183 "Of course, it’s not that being discovered by people who like your work will "
2184 "make you rich—far from it. But as Cory Doctorow says, “Recognition is one of "
2185 "many necessary preconditions for artistic success.”12"
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2189 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1424
2190 msgid ""
2191 "Choosing not to spend time and energy restricting access to your work and "
2192 "policing infringement also builds goodwill. Lumen Learning, a for-profit "
2193 "company that publishes online educational materials, made an early decision "
2194 "not to prevent students from accessing their content, even in the form of a "
2195 "tiny paywall, because it would negatively impact student success in a way "
2196 "that would undermine the social mission behind what they do. They believe "
2197 "this decision has generated an immense amount of goodwill within the "
2198 "community."
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2204 "It is not just that restricting access to your work may undermine your "
2205 "social mission. It also may alienate the people who most value your creative "
2206 "work. If people like your work, their natural instinct will be to share it "
2207 "with others. But as David Bollier wrote, “Our natural human impulses to "
2208 "imitate and share—the essence of culture—have been criminalized.”13"
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2214 "The fact that copying can carry criminal penalties undoubtedly deters "
2215 "copying it, but copying with the click of a button is too easy and "
2216 "convenient to ever fully stop it. Try as the copyright industry might to "
2217 "persuade us otherwise, copying a copyrighted work just doesn’t feel like "
2218 "stealing a loaf of bread. And, of course, that’s because it isn’t. Sharing "
2219 "a creative work has no impact on anyone else’s ability to make use of it."
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2223 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1453
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2225 "If you take some amount of copying and sharing your work as a given, you can "
2226 "invest your time and resources elsewhere, rather than wasting them on "
2227 "playing a cat and mouse game with people who want to copy and share your "
2228 "work. Lizzy Jongma from the Rijksmuseum said, “We could spend a lot of money "
2229 "trying to protect works, but people are going to do it anyway. And they "
2230 "will use bad-quality versions.” Instead, they started releasing high-"
2231 "resolution digital copies of their collection into the public domain and "
2232 "making them available for free on their website. For them, sharing was a "
2233 "form of quality control over the copies that were inevitably being shared "
2234 "online. Doing this meant forgoing the revenue they previously got from "
2235 "selling digital images. But Lizzy says that was a small price to pay for all "
2236 "of the opportunities that sharing unlocked for them."
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2241 msgid ""
2242 "Being Made with Creative Commons means you stop thinking about ways to "
2243 "artificially make your content scarce, and instead leverage it as the "
2244 "potentially abundant resource it is.14 When you see information abundance as "
2245 "a feature, not a bug, you start thinking about the ways to use the idling "
2246 "capacity of your content to your advantage. As my friend and colleague Eric "
2247 "Steuer once said, “Using CC licenses shows you get the Internet.”"
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2253 "Cory Doctorow says it costs him nothing when other people make copies of his "
2254 "work, and it opens the possibility that he might get something in return.15 "
2255 "Similarly, the makers of the Arduino boards knew it was impossible to stop "
2256 "people from copying their hardware, so they decided not to even try and "
2257 "instead look for the benefits of being open. For them, the result is one of "
2258 "the most ubiquitous pieces of hardware in the world, with a thriving online "
2259 "community of tinkerers and innovators that have done things with their work "
2260 "they never could have done otherwise."
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2262
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2264 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1473
2265 msgid ""
2266 "There are all kinds of way to leverage the power of sharing and remix to "
2267 "your benefit. Here are a few."
2268 msgstr ""
2269
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2271 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1475
2272 msgid "#### Use CC to grow a larger audience"
2273 msgstr ""
2274
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2276 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1485
2277 msgid ""
2278 "Putting a Creative Commons license on your content won’t make it "
2279 "automatically go viral, but eliminating legal barriers to copying the work "
2280 "certainly can’t hurt the chances that your work will be shared. The CC "
2281 "license symbolizes that sharing is welcome. It can act as a little tap on "
2282 "the shoulder to those who come across the work—a nudge to copy the work if "
2283 "they have any inkling of doing so. All things being equal, if one piece of "
2284 "content has a sign that says Share and the other says Don’t Share (which is "
2285 "what “©” means), which do you think people are more likely to share?"
2286 msgstr ""
2287
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2289 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1492
2290 msgid ""
2291 "The Conversation is an online news site with in-depth articles written by "
2292 "academics who are experts on particular topics. All of the articles are CC-"
2293 "licensed, and they are copied and reshared on other sites by design. This "
2294 "proliferating effect, which they track, is a central part of the value to "
2295 "their academic authors who want to reach as many readers as possible."
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2297
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2299 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1504
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2301 "The idea that more eyeballs equates with more success is a form of the max "
2302 "strategy, adopted by Google and other technology companies. According to "
2303 "Google’s Eric Schmidt, the idea is simple: “Take whatever it is you are "
2304 "doing and do it at the max in terms of distribution. The other way of saying "
2305 "this is that since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well "
2306 "put things everywhere.”16 This strategy is what often motivates companies to "
2307 "make their products and services free (i.e., no cost), but the same logic "
2308 "applies to making content freely shareable. Because CC-licensed content is "
2309 "free (as in cost) and can be freely copied, CC licensing makes it even more "
2310 "accessible and likely to spread."
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2316 "If you are successful in reaching more users, readers, listeners, or other "
2317 "consumers of your work, you can start to benefit from the bandwagon effect. "
2318 "The simple fact that there are other people consuming or following your work "
2319 "spurs others to want to do the same.17 This is, in part, because we simply "
2320 "have a tendency to engage in herd behavior, but it is also because a large "
2321 "following is at least a partial indicator of quality or usefulness.18"
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2326 msgid "#### Use CC to get attribution and name recognition"
2327 msgstr ""
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2330 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1529
2331 msgid ""
2332 "Every Creative Commons license requires that credit be given to the author, "
2333 "and that reusers supply a link back to the original source of the material. "
2334 "CC0, not a license but a tool used to put work in the public domain, does "
2335 "not make attribution a legal requirement, but many communities still give "
2336 "credit as a matter of best practices and social norms. In fact, it is social "
2337 "norms, rather than the threat of legal enforcement, that most often motivate "
2338 "people to provide attribution and otherwise comply with the CC license terms "
2339 "anyway. This is the mark of any well-functioning community, within both the "
2340 "marketplace and the society at large.19 CC licenses reflect a set of wishes "
2341 "on the part of creators, and in the vast majority of circumstances, people "
2342 "are naturally inclined to follow those wishes. This is particularly the case "
2343 "for something as straightforward and consistent with basic notions of "
2344 "fairness as providing credit."
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2348 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1540
2349 msgid ""
2350 "The fact that the name of the creator follows a CC-licensed work makes the "
2351 "licenses an important means to develop a reputation or, in corporate speak, "
2352 "a brand. The drive to associate your name with your work is not just based "
2353 "on commercial motivations, it is fundamental to authorship. Knowledge "
2354 "Unlatched is a nonprofit that helps to subsidize the print production of CC-"
2355 "licensed academic texts by pooling contributions from libraries around the "
2356 "United States. The CEO, Frances Pinter, says that the Creative Commons "
2357 "license on the works has a huge value to authors because reputation is the "
2358 "most important currency for academics. Sharing with CC is a way of having "
2359 "the most people see and cite your work."
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2363 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1552
2364 msgid ""
2365 "Attribution can be about more than just receiving credit. It can also be "
2366 "about establishing provenance. People naturally want to know where content "
2367 "came from—the source of a work is sometimes just as interesting as the work "
2368 "itself. Opendesk is a platform for furniture designers to share their "
2369 "designs. Consumers who like those designs can then get matched with local "
2370 "makers who turn the designs into real-life furniture. The fact that I, "
2371 "sitting in the middle of the United States, can pick out a design created by "
2372 "a designer in Tokyo and then use a maker within my own community to "
2373 "transform the design into something tangible is part of the power of their "
2374 "platform. The provenance of the design is a special part of the product."
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2376
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2378 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1560
2379 msgid ""
2380 "Knowing the source of a work is also critical to ensuring its credibility. "
2381 "Just as a trademark is designed to give consumers a way to identify the "
2382 "source and quality of a particular good and service, knowing the author of a "
2383 "work gives the public a way to assess its credibility. In a time when online "
2384 "discourse is plagued with misinformation, being a trusted information source "
2385 "is more valuable than ever."
2386 msgstr ""
2387
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2389 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1562
2390 msgid "#### Use CC-licensed content as a marketing tool"
2391 msgstr ""
2392
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2394 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1569
2395 msgid ""
2396 "As we will cover in more detail later, many endeavors that are Made with "
2397 "Creative Commons make money by providing a product or service other than the "
2398 "CC-licensed work. Sometimes that other product or service is completely "
2399 "unrelated to the CC content. Other times it’s a physical copy or live "
2400 "performance of the CC content. In all cases, the CC content can attract "
2401 "people to your other product or service."
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2406 msgid ""
2407 "Knowledge Unlatched’s Pinter told us she has seen time and again how "
2408 "offering CC-licensed content—that is, digitally for free—actually increases "
2409 "sales of the printed goods because it functions as a marketing tool. We see "
2410 "this phenomenon regularly with famous artwork. The Mona Lisa is likely the "
2411 "most recognizable painting on the planet. Its ubiquity has the effect of "
2412 "catalyzing interest in seeing the painting in person, and in owning physical "
2413 "goods with the image. Abundant copies of the content often entice more "
2414 "demand, not blunt it. Another example came with the advent of the radio. "
2415 "Although the music industry did not see it coming (and fought it!), free "
2416 "music on the radio functioned as advertising for the paid version people "
2417 "bought in music stores.20 Free can be a form of promotion."
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2423 "In some cases, endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons do not even "
2424 "need dedicated marketing teams or marketing budgets. Cards Against Humanity "
2425 "is a CC-licensed card game available as a free download. And because of this "
2426 "(thanks to the CC license on the game), the creators say it is one of the "
2427 "best-marketed games in the world, and they have never spent a dime on "
2428 "marketing. The textbook publisher OpenStax has also avoided hiring a "
2429 "marketing team. Their products are free, or cheaper to buy in the case of "
2430 "physical copies, which makes them much more attractive to students who then "
2431 "demand them from their universities. They also partner with service "
2432 "providers who build atop the CC-licensed content and, in turn, spend money "
2433 "and resources marketing those services (and by extension, the OpenStax "
2434 "textbooks)."
2435 msgstr ""
2436
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2439 msgid "#### Use CC to enable hands-on engagement with your work"
2440 msgstr ""
2441
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2444 msgid ""
2445 "The great promise of Creative Commons licensing is that it signifies an "
2446 "embrace of remix culture. Indeed, this is the great promise of digital "
2447 "technology. The Internet opened up a whole new world of possibilities for "
2448 "public participation in creative work."
2449 msgstr ""
2450
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2452 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1613
2453 msgid ""
2454 "Four of the six CC licenses enable reusers to take apart, build upon, or "
2455 "otherwise adapt the work. Depending on the context, adaptation can mean "
2456 "wildly different things—translating, updating, localizing, improving, "
2457 "transforming. It enables a work to be customized for particular needs, uses, "
2458 "people, and communities, which is another distinct value to offer the "
2459 "public.21 Adaptation is more game changing in some contexts than others. "
2460 "With educational materials, the ability to customize and update the content "
2461 "is critically important for its usefulness. For photography, the ability to "
2462 "adapt a photo is less important."
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2464
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2466 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1625
2467 msgid ""
2468 "This is a way to counteract a potential downside of the abundance of free "
2469 "and open content described above. As Anderson wrote in Free, “People often "
2470 "don’t care as much about things they don’t pay for, and as a result they "
2471 "don’t think as much about how they consume them.”22 If even the tiny act of "
2472 "volition of paying one penny for something changes our perception of that "
2473 "thing, then surely the act of remixing it enhances our perception "
2474 "exponentially.23 We know that people will pay more for products they had a "
2475 "part in creating.24 And we know that creating something, no matter what "
2476 "quality, brings with it a type of creative satisfaction that can never be "
2477 "replaced by consuming something created by someone else.25"
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2479
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2481 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1633
2482 msgid ""
2483 "Actively engaging with the content helps us avoid the type of aimless "
2484 "consumption that anyone who has absentmindedly scrolled through their social-"
2485 "media feeds for an hour knows all too well. In his book, Cognitive Surplus, "
2486 "Clay Shirky says, “To participate is to act as if your presence matters, as "
2487 "if, when you see something or hear something, your response is part of the "
2488 "event.”26 Opening the door to your content can get people more deeply tied "
2489 "to your work."
2490 msgstr ""
2491
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2493 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1635
2494 msgid "#### Use CC to differentiate yourself"
2495 msgstr ""
2496
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2498 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1647
2499 msgid ""
2500 "Operating under a traditional copyright regime usually means operating under "
2501 "the rules of establishment players in the media. Business strategies that "
2502 "are embedded in the traditional copyright system, like using digital rights "
2503 "management (DRM) and signing exclusivity contracts, can tie the hands of "
2504 "creators, often at the expense of the creator’s best interest.27 Being Made "
2505 "with Creative Commons means you can function without those barriers and, in "
2506 "many cases, use the increased openness as a competitive advantage. David "
2507 "Harris from OpenStax said they specifically pursue strategies they know that "
2508 "traditional publishers cannot. “Don’t go into a market and play by the "
2509 "incumbent rules,” David said. “Change the rules of engagement.”"
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2511
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2513 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1649
2514 msgid "### Making Money"
2515 msgstr ""
2516
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2518 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1664
2519 msgid ""
2520 "Like any moneymaking endeavor, those that are Made with Creative Commons "
2521 "have to generate some type of value for their audience or customers. "
2522 "Sometimes that value is subsidized by funders who are not actually "
2523 "beneficiaries of that value. Funders, whether philanthropic institutions, "
2524 "governments, or concerned individuals, provide money to the organization out "
2525 "of a sense of pure altruism. This is the way traditional nonprofit funding "
2526 "operates.28 But in many cases, the revenue streams used by endeavors that "
2527 "are Made with Creative Commons are directly tied to the value they generate, "
2528 "where the recipient is paying for the value they receive like any standard "
2529 "market transaction. In still other cases, rather than the quid pro quo "
2530 "exchange of money for value that typically drives market transactions, the "
2531 "recipient gives money out of a sense of reciprocity."
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2533
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2535 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1672
2536 msgid ""
2537 "Most who are Made with Creative Commons use a variety of methods to bring in "
2538 "revenue, some market-based and some not. One common strategy is using grant "
2539 "funding for content creation when research-and-development costs are "
2540 "particularly high, and then finding a different revenue stream (or streams) "
2541 "for ongoing expenses. As Shirky wrote, “The trick is in knowing when markets "
2542 "are an optimal way of organizing interactions and when they are not.”29"
2543 msgstr ""
2544
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2546 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1679
2547 msgid ""
2548 "Our case studies explore in more detail the various revenue-generating "
2549 "mechanisms used by the creators, organizations, and businesses we "
2550 "interviewed. There is nuance hidden within the specific ways each of them "
2551 "makes money, so it is a bit dangerous to generalize too much about what we "
2552 "learned. Nonetheless, zooming out and viewing things from a higher level of "
2553 "abstraction can be instructive."
2554 msgstr ""
2555
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2557 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1681
2558 msgid "#### Market-based revenue streams"
2559 msgstr ""
2560
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2562 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1688
2563 msgid ""
2564 "In the market, the central question when determining how to bring in revenue "
2565 "is what value people are willing to pay for.30 By definition, if you are "
2566 "Made with Creative Commons, the content you provide is available for free "
2567 "and not a market commodity. Like the ubiquitous freemium business model, any "
2568 "possible market transaction with a consumer of your content has to be based "
2569 "on some added value you provide.31"
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2571
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2573 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1702
2574 msgid ""
2575 "In many ways, this is the way of the future for all content-driven "
2576 "endeavors. In the market, value lives in things that are scarce. Because the "
2577 "Internet makes a universe of content available to all of us for free, it is "
2578 "difficult to get people to pay for content online. The struggling newspaper "
2579 "industry is a testament to this fact. This is compounded by the fact that at "
2580 "least some amount of copying is probably inevitable. That means you may end "
2581 "up competing with free versions of your own content, whether you condone it "
2582 "or not.32 If people can easily find your content for free, getting people to "
2583 "buy it will be difficult, particularly in a context where access to content "
2584 "is more important than owning it. In Free, Anderson wrote, “Copyright "
2585 "protection schemes, whether coded into either law or software, are simply "
2586 "holding up a price against the force of gravity.”"
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2588
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2591 msgid ""
2592 "Of course, this doesn’t mean that content-driven endeavors have no future in "
2593 "the traditional marketplace. In Free, Anderson explains how when one product "
2594 "or service becomes free, as information and content largely have in the "
2595 "digital age, other things become more valuable. “Every abundance creates a "
2596 "new scarcity,” he wrote. You just have to find some way other than the "
2597 "content to provide value to your audience or customers. As Anderson says, "
2598 "“It’s easy to compete with Free: simply offer something better or at least "
2599 "different from the free version.”33"
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2604 msgid ""
2605 "In light of this reality, in some ways endeavors that are Made with Creative "
2606 "Commons are at a level playing field with all content-based endeavors in the "
2607 "digital age. In fact, they may even have an advantage because they can use "
2608 "the abundance of content to derive revenue from something scarce. They can "
2609 "also benefit from the goodwill that stems from the values behind being Made "
2610 "with Creative Commons."
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2612
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2614 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1724
2615 msgid ""
2616 "For content creators and distributors, there are nearly infinite ways to "
2617 "provide value to the consumers of your work, above and beyond the value that "
2618 "lives within your free digital content. Often, the CC-licensed content "
2619 "functions as a marketing tool for the paid product or service."
2620 msgstr ""
2621
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2624 msgid "Here are the most common high-level categories."
2625 msgstr ""
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2628 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1728
2629 msgid ""
2630 "#### Providing a custom service to consumers of your work *\\[MARKET-BASED"
2631 "\\]*"
2632 msgstr ""
2633
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2635 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1737
2636 msgid ""
2637 "In this age of information abundance, we don’t lack for content. The trick "
2638 "is finding content that matches our needs and wants, so customized services "
2639 "are particularly valuable. As Anderson wrote, “Commodity information "
2640 "(everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information "
2641 "(you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be expensive.”34 "
2642 "This can be anything from the artistic and cultural consulting services "
2643 "provided by Ártica to the custom-song business of Jonathan “Song-A-Day” Mann."
2644 msgstr ""
2645
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2647 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1739
2648 msgid "#### Charging for the physical copy *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2649 msgstr ""
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2652 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1760
2653 msgid ""
2654 "In his book about maker culture, Anderson characterizes this model as giving "
2655 "away the bits and selling the atoms (where bits refers to digital content "
2656 "and atoms refer to a physical object).35 This is particularly successful in "
2657 "domains where the digital version of the content isn’t as valuable as the "
2658 "analog version, like book publishing where a significant subset of people "
2659 "still prefer reading something they can hold in their hands. Or in domains "
2660 "where the content isn’t useful until it is in physical form, like furniture "
2661 "designs. In those situations, a significant portion of consumers will pay "
2662 "for the convenience of having someone else put the physical version together "
2663 "for them. Some endeavors squeeze even more out of this revenue stream by "
2664 "using a Creative Commons license that only allows noncommercial uses, which "
2665 "means no one else can sell physical copies of their work in competition with "
2666 "them. This strategy of reserving commercial rights can be particularly "
2667 "important for items like books, where every printed copy of the same work is "
2668 "likely to be the same quality, so it is harder to differentiate one "
2669 "publishing service from another. On the other hand, for items like furniture "
2670 "or electronics, the provider of the physical goods can compete with other "
2671 "providers of the same works based on quality, service, or other traditional "
2672 "business principles."
2673 msgstr ""
2674
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2676 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1762
2677 msgid "#### Charging for the in-person version *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2678 msgstr ""
2679
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2682 msgid ""
2683 "As anyone who has ever gone to a concert will tell you, experiencing "
2684 "creativity in person is a completely different experience from consuming a "
2685 "digital copy on your own. Far from acting as a substitute for face-to-face "
2686 "interaction, CC-licensed content can actually create demand for the in-"
2687 "person version of experience. You can see this effect when people go view "
2688 "original art in person or pay to attend a talk or training course."
2689 msgstr ""
2690
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2693 msgid "#### Selling merchandise *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2694 msgstr ""
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2698 msgid ""
2699 "In many cases, people who like your work will pay for products demonstrating "
2700 "a connection to your work. As a child of the 1980s, I can personally attest "
2701 "to the power of a good concert T-shirt. This can also be an important "
2702 "revenue stream for museums and galleries."
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2708 "Sometimes the way to find a market-based revenue stream is by providing "
2709 "value to people other than those who consume your CC-licensed content. In "
2710 "these revenue streams, the free content is being subsidized by an entirely "
2711 "different category of people or businesses. Often, those people or "
2712 "businesses are paying to access your main audience. The fact that the "
2713 "content is free increases the size of the audience, which in turn makes the "
2714 "offer more valuable to the paying customers. This is a variation of a "
2715 "traditional business model built on free called multi-sided platforms.36 "
2716 "Access to your audience isn’t the only thing people are willing to pay for—"
2717 "there are other services you can provide as well."
2718 msgstr ""
2719
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2721 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1790
2722 msgid "#### Charging advertisers or sponsors *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2723 msgstr ""
2724
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2726 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1801
2727 msgid ""
2728 "The traditional model of subsidizing free content is advertising. In this "
2729 "version of multi-sided platforms, advertisers pay for the opportunity to "
2730 "reach the set of eyeballs the content creators provide in the form of their "
2731 "audience.37 The Internet has made this model more difficult because the "
2732 "number of potential channels available to reach those eyeballs has become "
2733 "essentially infinite.38 Nonetheless, it remains a viable revenue stream for "
2734 "many content creators, including those who are Made with Creative Commons. "
2735 "Often, instead of paying to display advertising, the advertiser pays to be "
2736 "an official sponsor of particular content or projects, or of the overall "
2737 "endeavor."
2738 msgstr ""
2739
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2741 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1803
2742 msgid "#### Charging your content creators *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2743 msgstr ""
2744
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2746 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1813
2747 msgid ""
2748 "Another type of multisided platform is where the content creators themselves "
2749 "pay to be featured on the platform. Obviously, this revenue stream is only "
2750 "available to those who rely on work created, at least in part, by others. "
2751 "The most well-known version of this model is the “author-processing charge” "
2752 "of open-access journals like those published by the Public Library of "
2753 "Science, but there are other variations. The Conversation is primarily "
2754 "funded by a university-membership model, where universities pay to have "
2755 "their faculties participate as writers of the content on the Conversation "
2756 "website."
2757 msgstr ""
2758
2759 #. type: Plain text
2760 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1815
2761 msgid "#### Charging a transaction fee *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2762 msgstr ""
2763
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2765 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1825
2766 msgid ""
2767 "This is a version of a traditional business model based on brokering "
2768 "transactions between parties.39 Curation is an important element of this "
2769 "model. Platforms like the Noun Project add value by wading through CC-"
2770 "licensed content to curate a high-quality set and then derive revenue when "
2771 "creators of that content make transactions with customers. Other platforms "
2772 "make money when service providers transact with their customers; for "
2773 "example, Opendesk makes money every time someone on their site pays a maker "
2774 "to make furniture based on one of the designs on the platform."
2775 msgstr ""
2776
2777 #. type: Plain text
2778 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1827
2779 msgid "#### Providing a service to your creators *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2780 msgstr ""
2781
2782 #. type: Plain text
2783 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1834
2784 msgid ""
2785 "As mentioned above, endeavors can make money by providing customized "
2786 "services to their users. Platforms can undertake a variation of this service "
2787 "model directed at the creators that provide the content they feature. The "
2788 "data platforms Figure.NZ and Figshare both capitalize on this model by "
2789 "providing paid tools to help their users make the data they contribute to "
2790 "the platform more discoverable and reusable."
2791 msgstr ""
2792
2793 #. type: Plain text
2794 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1836
2795 msgid "#### Licensing a trademark *\\[MARKET-BASED\\]*"
2796 msgstr ""
2797
2798 #. type: Plain text
2799 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1845
2800 msgid ""
2801 "Finally, some that are Made with Creative Commons make money by selling use "
2802 "of their trademarks. Well known brands that consumers associate with "
2803 "quality, credibility, or even an ethos can license that trademark to "
2804 "companies that want to take advantage of that goodwill. By definition, "
2805 "trademarks are scarce because they represent a particular source of a good "
2806 "or service. Charging for the ability to use that trademark is a way of "
2807 "deriving revenue from something scarce while taking advantage of the "
2808 "abundance of CC content."
2809 msgstr ""
2810
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2812 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1847
2813 msgid "#### Reciprocity-based revenue streams"
2814 msgstr ""
2815
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2817 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1852
2818 msgid ""
2819 "Even if we set aside grant funding, we found that the traditional economic "
2820 "framework of understanding the market failed to fully capture the ways the "
2821 "endeavors we analyzed were making money. It was not simply about monetizing "
2822 "scarcity."
2823 msgstr ""
2824
2825 #. type: Plain text
2826 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1862
2827 msgid ""
2828 "Rather than devising a scheme to get people to pay money in exchange for "
2829 "some direct value provided to them, many of the revenue streams were more "
2830 "about providing value, building a relationship, and then eventually finding "
2831 "some money that flows back out of a sense of reciprocity. While some look "
2832 "like traditional nonprofit funding models, they aren’t charity. The endeavor "
2833 "exchange value with people, just not necessarily synchronously or in a way "
2834 "that requires that those values be equal. As David Bollier wrote in Think "
2835 "Like a Commoner, “There is no self-serving calculation of whether the value "
2836 "given and received is strictly equal.”"
2837 msgstr ""
2838
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2840 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1868
2841 msgid ""
2842 "This should be a familiar dynamic—it is the way you deal with your friends "
2843 "and family. We give without regard for what and when we will get back. David "
2844 "Bollier wrote, “Reciprocal social exchange lies at the heart of human "
2845 "identity, community and culture. It is a vital brain function that helps the "
2846 "human species survive and evolve.”"
2847 msgstr ""
2848
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2850 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1873
2851 msgid ""
2852 "What is rare is to incorporate this sort of relationship into an endeavor "
2853 "that also engages with the market.40 We almost can’t help but think of "
2854 "relationships in the market as being centered on an even-steven exchange of "
2855 "value.41"
2856 msgstr ""
2857
2858 #. type: Plain text
2859 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1875
2860 msgid "#### Memberships and individual donations *\\[RECIPROCITY-BASED\\]*"
2861 msgstr ""
2862
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2864 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1887
2865 msgid ""
2866 "While memberships and donations are traditional nonprofit funding models, in "
2867 "the Made with Creative Commons context, they are directly tied to the "
2868 "reciprocal relationship that is cultivated with the beneficiaries of their "
2869 "work. The bigger the pool of those receiving value from the content, the "
2870 "more likely this strategy will work, given that only a small percentage of "
2871 "people are likely to contribute. Since using CC licenses can grease the "
2872 "wheels for content to reach more people, this strategy can be more effective "
2873 "for endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons. The greater the argument "
2874 "that the content is a public good or that the entire endeavor is furthering "
2875 "a social mission, the more likely this strategy is to succeed."
2876 msgstr ""
2877
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2879 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1889
2880 msgid "#### The pay-what-you-want model *\\[RECIPROCITY-BASED\\]*"
2881 msgstr ""
2882
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2884 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1899
2885 msgid ""
2886 "In the pay-what-you-want model, the beneficiary of Creative Commons content "
2887 "is invited to give—at any amount they can and feel is appropriate, based on "
2888 "the public and personal value they feel is generated by the open content. "
2889 "Critically, these models are not touted as “buying” something free. They are "
2890 "similar to a tip jar. People make financial contributions as an act of "
2891 "gratitude. These models capitalize on the fact that we are naturally "
2892 "inclined to give money for things we value in the marketplace, even in "
2893 "situations where we could find a way to get it for free."
2894 msgstr ""
2895
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2897 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1901
2898 msgid "#### Crowdfunding *\\[RECIPROCITY-BASED\\]*"
2899 msgstr ""
2900
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2902 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1916
2903 msgid ""
2904 "Crowdfunding models are based on recouping the costs of creating and "
2905 "distributing content before the content is created. If the endeavor is Made "
2906 "with Creative Commons, anyone who wants the work in question could simply "
2907 "wait until it’s created and then access it for free. That means, for this "
2908 "model to work, people have to care about more than just receiving the work. "
2909 "They have to want you to succeed. Amanda Palmer credits the success of her "
2910 "crowdfunding on Kickstarter and Patreon to the years she spent building her "
2911 "community and creating a connection with her fans. She wrote in The Art of "
2912 "Asking, “Good art is made, good art is shared, help is offered, ears are "
2913 "bent, emotions are exchanged, the compost of real, deep connection is "
2914 "sprayed all over the fields. Then one day, the artist steps up and asks for "
2915 "something. And if the ground has been fertilized enough, the audience says, "
2916 "without hesitation: of course.”"
2917 msgstr ""
2918
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2920 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1923
2921 msgid ""
2922 "Other types of crowdfunding rely on a sense of responsibility that a "
2923 "particular community may feel. Knowledge Unlatched pools funds from major U."
2924 "S. libraries to subsidize CC-licensed academic work that will be, by "
2925 "definition, available to everyone for free. Libraries with bigger budgets "
2926 "tend to give more out of a sense of commitment to the library community and "
2927 "to the idea of open access generally."
2928 msgstr ""
2929
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2931 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1925
2932 msgid "### Making Human Connections"
2933 msgstr ""
2934
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2936 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1938
2937 msgid ""
2938 "Regardless of how they made money, in our interviews, we repeatedly heard "
2939 "language like “persuading people to buy” and “inviting people to pay.” We "
2940 "heard it even in connection with revenue streams that sit squarely within "
2941 "the market. Cory Doctorow told us, “I have to convince my readers that the "
2942 "right thing to do is to pay me.” The founders of the for-profit company "
2943 "Lumen Learning showed us the letter they send to those who opt not to pay "
2944 "for the services they provide in connection with their CC-licensed "
2945 "educational content. It isn’t a cease-and-desist letter; it’s an invitation "
2946 "to pay because it’s the right thing to do. This sort of behavior toward "
2947 "what could be considered nonpaying customers is largely unheard of in the "
2948 "traditional marketplace. But it seems to be part of the fabric of being Made "
2949 "with Creative Commons."
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2951
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2953 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1945
2954 msgid ""
2955 "Nearly every endeavor we profiled relied, at least in part, on people being "
2956 "invested in what they do. The closer the Creative Commons content is to "
2957 "being “the product,” the more pronounced this dynamic has to be. Rather "
2958 "than simply selling a product or service, they are making ideological, "
2959 "personal, and creative connections with the people who value what they do."
2960 msgstr ""
2961
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2963 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1949
2964 msgid ""
2965 "It took me a very long time to see how this avoidance of thinking about what "
2966 "they do in pure market terms was deeply tied to being Made with Creative "
2967 "Commons."
2968 msgstr ""
2969
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2971 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1953
2972 msgid ""
2973 "I came to the research with preconceived notions about what Creative Commons "
2974 "is and what it means to be Made with Creative Commons. It turned out I was "
2975 "wrong on so many counts."
2976 msgstr ""
2977
2978 #. type: Plain text
2979 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1962
2980 msgid ""
2981 "Obviously, being Made with Creative Commons means using Creative Commons "
2982 "licenses. That much I knew. But in our interviews, people spoke of so much "
2983 "more than copyright permissions when they explained how sharing fit into "
2984 "what they do. I was thinking about sharing too narrowly, and as a result, I "
2985 "was missing vast swaths of the meaning packed within Creative Commons. "
2986 "Rather than parsing the specific and narrow role of the copyright license in "
2987 "the equation, it is important not to disaggregate the rest of what comes "
2988 "with sharing. You have to widen the lens."
2989 msgstr ""
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2992 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1974
2993 msgid ""
2994 "Being Made with Creative Commons is not just about the simple act of "
2995 "licensing a copyrighted work under a set of standardized terms, but also "
2996 "about community, social good, contributing ideas, expressing a value system, "
2997 "working together. These components of sharing are hard to cultivate if you "
2998 "think about what you do in purely market terms. Decent social behavior isn’t "
2999 "as intuitive when we are doing something that involves monetary exchange. It "
3000 "takes a conscious effort to foster the context for real sharing, based not "
3001 "strictly on impersonal market exchange, but on connections with the people "
3002 "with whom you share—connections with you, with your work, with your values, "
3003 "with each other."
3004 msgstr ""
3005
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3007 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1979
3008 msgid ""
3009 "The rest of this section will explore some of the common strategies that "
3010 "creators, companies, and organizations use to remind us that there are "
3011 "humans behind every creative endeavor. To remind us we have obligations to "
3012 "each other. To remind us what sharing really looks like."
3013 msgstr ""
3014
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3016 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1981
3017 msgid "#### Be human"
3018 msgstr ""
3019
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3021 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:1988
3022 msgid ""
3023 "Humans are social animals, which means we are naturally inclined to treat "
3024 "each other well.42 But the further removed we are from the person with whom "
3025 "we are interacting, the less caring our behavior will be. While the "
3026 "Internet has democratized cultural production, increased access to "
3027 "knowledge, and connected us in extraordinary ways, it can also make it easy "
3028 "forget we are dealing with another human."
3029 msgstr ""
3030
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3032 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2000
3033 msgid ""
3034 "To counteract the anonymous and impersonal tendencies of how we operate "
3035 "online, individual creators and corporations who use Creative Commons "
3036 "licenses work to demonstrate their humanity. For some, this means pouring "
3037 "their lives out on the page. For others, it means showing their creative "
3038 "process, giving a glimpse into how they do what they do. As writer Austin "
3039 "Kleon wrote, “Our work doesn’t speak for itself. Human beings want to know "
3040 "where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories "
3041 "you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and "
3042 "what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they "
3043 "understand about your work affects how they value it.”43"
3044 msgstr ""
3045
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3048 msgid ""
3049 "A critical component to doing this effectively is not worrying about being a "
3050 "“brand.” That means not being afraid to be vulnerable. Amanda Palmer says, "
3051 "“When you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect with them. "
3052 "You’re too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.” Not everyone is "
3053 "suited to live life as an open book like Palmer, and that’s OK. There are a "
3054 "lot of ways to be human. The trick is just avoiding pretense and the "
3055 "temptation to artificially craft an image. People don’t just want the "
3056 "glossy version of you. They can’t relate to it, at least not in a meaningful "
3057 "way."
3058 msgstr ""
3059
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3061 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2019
3062 msgid ""
3063 "This advice is probably even more important for businesses and organizations "
3064 "because we instinctively conceive of them as nonhuman (though in the United "
3065 "States, corporations are people!). When corporations and organizations make "
3066 "the people behind them more apparent, it reminds people that they are "
3067 "dealing with something other than an anonymous corporate entity. In business-"
3068 "speak, this is about “humanizing your interactions” with the public.44 But "
3069 "it can’t be a gimmick. You can’t fake being human."
3070 msgstr ""
3071
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3073 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2021
3074 msgid "#### Be open and accountable"
3075 msgstr ""
3076
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3078 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2031
3079 msgid ""
3080 "Transparency helps people understand who you are and why you do what you do, "
3081 "but it also inspires trust. Max Temkin of Cards Against Humanity told us, "
3082 "“One of the most surprising things you can do in capitalism is just be "
3083 "honest with people.” That means sharing the good and the bad. As Amanda "
3084 "Palmer wrote, “You can fix almost anything by authentically "
3085 "communicating.”45 It isn’t about trying to satisfy everyone or trying to "
3086 "sugarcoat mistakes or bad news, but instead about explaining your rationale "
3087 "and then being prepared to defend it when people are critical.46"
3088 msgstr ""
3089
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3091 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2044
3092 msgid ""
3093 "Being accountable does not mean operating on consensus. According to James "
3094 "Surowiecki, consensus-driven groups tend to resort to lowest-common-"
3095 "denominator solutions and avoid the sort of candid exchange of ideas that "
3096 "cultivates healthy collaboration.47 Instead, it can be as simple as asking "
3097 "for input and then giving context and explanation about decisions you make, "
3098 "even if soliciting feedback and inviting discourse is time-consuming. If you "
3099 "don’t go through the effort to actually respond to the input you receive, it "
3100 "can be worse than not inviting input in the first place.48 But when you get "
3101 "it right, it can guarantee the type of diversity of thought that helps "
3102 "endeavors excel. And it is another way to get people involved and invested "
3103 "in what you do."
3104 msgstr ""
3105
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3107 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2046
3108 msgid "#### Design for the good actors"
3109 msgstr ""
3110
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3112 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2059
3113 msgid ""
3114 "Traditional economics assumes people make decisions based solely on their "
3115 "own economic self-interest.49 Any relatively introspective human knows this "
3116 "is a fiction—we are much more complicated beings with a whole range of "
3117 "needs, emotions, and motivations. In fact, we are hardwired to work together "
3118 "and ensure fairness.50 Being Made with Creative Commons requires an "
3119 "assumption that people will largely act on those social motivations, "
3120 "motivations that would be considered “irrational” in an economic sense. As "
3121 "Knowledge Unlatched’s Pinter told us, “It is best to ignore people who try "
3122 "to scare you about free riding. That fear is based on a very shallow view of "
3123 "what motivates human behavior.” There will always be people who will act in "
3124 "purely selfish ways, but endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons "
3125 "design for the good actors."
3126 msgstr ""
3127
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3129 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2068
3130 msgid ""
3131 "The assumption that people will largely do the right thing can be a self-"
3132 "fulfilling prophecy. Shirky wrote in Cognitive Surplus, “Systems that assume "
3133 "people will act in ways that create public goods, and that give them "
3134 "opportunities and rewards for doing so, often let them work together better "
3135 "than neoclassical economics would predict.”51 When we acknowledge that "
3136 "people are often motivated by something other than financial self-interest, "
3137 "we design our endeavors in ways that encourage and accentuate our social "
3138 "instincts."
3139 msgstr ""
3140
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3142 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2078
3143 msgid ""
3144 "Rather than trying to exert control over people’s behavior, this mode of "
3145 "operating requires a certain level of trust. We might not realize it, but "
3146 "our daily lives are already built on trust. As Surowiecki wrote in The "
3147 "Wisdom of Crowds, “It’s impossible for a society to rely on law alone to "
3148 "make sure citizens act honestly and responsibly. And it’s impossible for any "
3149 "organization to rely on contracts alone to make sure that its managers and "
3150 "workers live up to their obligation.” Instead, we largely trust that people—"
3151 "mostly strangers—will do what they are supposed to do.52 And most often, "
3152 "they do."
3153 msgstr ""
3154
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3156 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2080
3157 msgid "#### Treat humans like, well, humans"
3158 msgstr ""
3159
3160 #. type: Plain text
3161 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2089
3162 msgid ""
3163 "For creators, treating people as humans means not treating them like fans. "
3164 "As Kleon says, “If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.”53 Even if you "
3165 "happen to be one of the few to reach celebrity levels of fame, you are "
3166 "better off remembering that the people who follow your work are human, too. "
3167 "Cory Doctorow makes a point to answer every single email someone sends him. "
3168 "Amanda Palmer spends vast quantities of time going online to communicate "
3169 "with her public, making a point to listen just as much as she talks.54"
3170 msgstr ""
3171
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3173 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2094
3174 msgid ""
3175 "The same idea goes for businesses and organizations. Rather than automating "
3176 "its customer service, the music platform Tribe of Noise makes a point to "
3177 "ensure its employees have personal, one-on-one interaction with users."
3178 msgstr ""
3179
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3181 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2106
3182 msgid ""
3183 "When we treat people like humans, they typically return the gift in kind. "
3184 "It’s called karma. But social relationships are fragile. It is all too easy "
3185 "to destroy them if you make the mistake of treating people as anonymous "
3186 "customers or free labor.55 Platforms that rely on content from contributors "
3187 "are especially at risk of creating an exploitative dynamic. It is important "
3188 "to find ways to acknowledge and pay back the value that contributors "
3189 "generate. That does not mean you can solve this problem by simply paying "
3190 "contributors for their time or contributions. As soon as we introduce money "
3191 "into a relationship—at least when it takes a form of paying monetary value "
3192 "in exchange for other value—it can dramatically change the dynamic.56"
3193 msgstr ""
3194
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3196 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2108
3197 msgid "#### State your principles and stick to them"
3198 msgstr ""
3199
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3201 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2118
3202 msgid ""
3203 "Being Made with Creative Commons makes a statement about who you are and "
3204 "what you do. The symbolism is powerful. Using Creative Commons licenses "
3205 "demonstrates adherence to a particular belief system, which generates "
3206 "goodwill and connects like-minded people to your work. Sometimes people will "
3207 "be drawn to endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons as a way of "
3208 "demonstrating their own commitment to the Creative Commons value system, "
3209 "akin to a political statement. Other times people will identify and feel "
3210 "connected with an endeavor’s separate social mission. Often both."
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3212
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3215 msgid ""
3216 "The expression of your values doesn’t have to be implicit. In fact, many of "
3217 "the people we interviewed talked about how important it is to state your "
3218 "guiding principles up front. Lumen Learning attributes a lot of their "
3219 "success to having been outspoken about the fundamental values that guide "
3220 "what they do. As a for-profit company, they think their expressed commitment "
3221 "to low-income students and open licensing has been critical to their "
3222 "credibility in the OER (open educational resources) community in which they "
3223 "operate."
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3228 msgid ""
3229 "When your end goal is not about making a profit, people trust that you "
3230 "aren’t just trying to extract value for your own gain. People notice when "
3231 "you have a sense of purpose that transcends your own self-interest.57 It "
3232 "attracts committed employees, motivates contributors, and builds trust."
3233 msgstr ""
3234
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3237 msgid "#### Build a community"
3238 msgstr ""
3239
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3241 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2145
3242 msgid ""
3243 "Endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons thrive when community is built "
3244 "around what they do. This may mean a community collaborating together to "
3245 "create something new, or it may simply be a collection of like-minded people "
3246 "who get to know each other and rally around common interests or beliefs.58 "
3247 "To a certain extent, simply being Made with Creative Commons automatically "
3248 "brings with it some element of community, by helping connect you to like-"
3249 "minded others who recognize and are drawn to the values symbolized by using "
3250 "CC."
3251 msgstr ""
3252
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3254 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2157
3255 msgid ""
3256 "To be sustainable, though, you have to work to nurture community. People "
3257 "have to care—about you and each other. One critical piece to this is "
3258 "fostering a sense of belonging. As Jono Bacon writes in The Art of "
3259 "Community, “If there is no belonging, there is no community.” For Amanda "
3260 "Palmer and her band, that meant creating an accepting and inclusive "
3261 "environment where people felt a part of their “weird little family.”59 For "
3262 "organizations like Red Hat, that means connecting around common beliefs or "
3263 "goals. As the CEO Jim Whitehurst wrote in The Open Organization, “Tapping "
3264 "into passion is especially important in building the kinds of participative "
3265 "communities that drive open organizations.”60"
3266 msgstr ""
3267
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3269 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2169
3270 msgid ""
3271 "Communities that collaborate together take deliberate planning. Surowiecki "
3272 "wrote, “It takes a lot of work to put the group together. It’s difficult to "
3273 "ensure that people are working in the group’s interest and not in their own. "
3274 "And when there’s a lack of trust between the members of the group (which "
3275 "isn’t surprising given that they don’t really know each other), considerable "
3276 "energy is wasted trying to determine each other’s bona fides.”61 Building "
3277 "true community requires giving people within the community the power to "
3278 "create or influence the rules that govern the community.62 If the rules are "
3279 "created and imposed in a top-down manner, people feel like they don’t have a "
3280 "voice, which in turn leads to disengagement."
3281 msgstr ""
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3285 msgid ""
3286 "Community takes work, but working together, or even simply being connected "
3287 "around common interests or values, is in many ways what sharing is about."
3288 msgstr ""
3289
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3291 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2175
3292 msgid "#### Give more to the commons than you take"
3293 msgstr ""
3294
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3296 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2186
3297 msgid ""
3298 "Conventional wisdom in the marketplace dictates that people should try to "
3299 "extract as much money as possible from resources. This is essentially what "
3300 "defines so much of the so-called sharing economy. In an article on the "
3301 "Harvard Business Review website called “The Sharing Economy Isn’t about "
3302 "Sharing at All,” authors Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi explained how the "
3303 "anonymous market-driven trans-actions in most sharing-economy businesses are "
3304 "purely about monetizing access.63 As Lisa Gansky put it in her book The "
3305 "Mesh, the primary strategy of the sharing economy is to sell the same "
3306 "product multiple times, by selling access rather than ownership.64 That is "
3307 "not sharing."
3308 msgstr ""
3309
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3311 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2198
3312 msgid ""
3313 "Sharing requires adding as much or more value to the ecosystem than you "
3314 "take. You can’t simply treat open content as a free pool of resources from "
3315 "which to extract value. Part of giving back to the ecosystem is contributing "
3316 "content back to the public under CC licenses. But it doesn’t have to just be "
3317 "about creating content; it can be about adding value in other ways. The "
3318 "social blogging platform Medium provides value to its community by "
3319 "incentivizing good behavior, and the result is an online space with "
3320 "remarkably high-quality user-generated content and limited trolling.65 "
3321 "Opendesk contributes to its community by committing to help its designers "
3322 "make money, in part by actively curating and displaying their work on its "
3323 "platform effectively."
3324 msgstr ""
3325
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3327 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2206
3328 msgid ""
3329 "In all cases, it is important to openly acknowledge the amount of value you "
3330 "add versus that which you draw on that was created by others. Being "
3331 "transparent about this builds credibility and shows you are a contributing "
3332 "player in the commons. When your endeavor is making money, that also means "
3333 "apportioning financial compensation in a way that reflects the value "
3334 "contributed by others, providing more to contributors when the value they "
3335 "add outweighs the value provided by you."
3336 msgstr ""
3337
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3340 msgid "#### Involve people in what you do"
3341 msgstr ""
3342
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3344 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2220
3345 msgid ""
3346 "Thanks to the Internet, we can tap into the talents and expertise of people "
3347 "around the globe. Chris Anderson calls it the Long Tail of talent.66 But to "
3348 "make collaboration work, the group has to be effective at what it is doing, "
3349 "and the people within the group have to find satisfaction from being "
3350 "involved.67 This is easier to facilitate for some types of creative work "
3351 "than it is for others. Groups tied together online collaborate best when "
3352 "people can work independently and asynchronously, and particularly for "
3353 "larger groups with loose ties, when contributors can make simple "
3354 "improvements without a particularly heavy time commitment.68"
3355 msgstr ""
3356
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3358 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2229
3359 msgid ""
3360 "As the success of Wikipedia demonstrates, editing an online encyclopedia is "
3361 "exactly the sort of activity that is perfect for massive co-creation because "
3362 "small, incremental edits made by a diverse range of people acting on their "
3363 "own are immensely valuable in the aggregate. Those same sorts of small "
3364 "contributions would be less useful for many other types of creative work, "
3365 "and people are inherently less motivated to contribute when it doesn’t "
3366 "appear that their efforts will make much of a difference.69"
3367 msgstr ""
3368
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3370 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2246
3371 msgid ""
3372 "It is easy to romanticize the opportunities for global cocreation made "
3373 "possible by the Internet, and, indeed, the successful examples of it are "
3374 "truly incredible and inspiring. But in a wide range of circumstances—perhaps "
3375 "more often than not—community cocreation is not part of the equation, even "
3376 "within endeavors built on CC content. Shirky wrote, “Sometimes the value of "
3377 "professional work trumps the value of amateur sharing or a feeling of "
3378 "belonging.70 The textbook publisher OpenStax, which distributes all of its "
3379 "material for free under CC licensing, is an example of this dynamic. Rather "
3380 "than tapping the community to help cocreate their college textbooks, they "
3381 "invest a significant amount of time and money to develop professional "
3382 "content. For individual creators, where the creative work is the basis for "
3383 "what they do, community cocreation is only rarely a part of the picture. "
3384 "Even musician Amanda Palmer, who is famous for her openness and involvement "
3385 "with her fans, said, “The only department where I wasn’t open to input was "
3386 "the writing, the music itself.”71"
3387 msgstr ""
3388
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3390 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2257
3391 msgid ""
3392 "While we tend to immediately think of cocreation and remixing when we hear "
3393 "the word collaboration, you can also involve others in your creative process "
3394 "in more informal ways, by sharing half-baked ideas and early drafts, and "
3395 "interacting with the public to incubate ideas and get feedback. So-called "
3396 "“making in public” opens the door to letting people feel more invested in "
3397 "your creative work.72 And it shows a nonterritorial approach to ideas and "
3398 "information. Stephen Covey (of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame) "
3399 "calls this the abundance mentality—treating ideas like something plentiful—"
3400 "and it can create an environment where collaboration flourishes.73"
3401 msgstr ""
3402
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3404 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2266
3405 msgid ""
3406 "There is no one way to involve people in what you do. They key is finding a "
3407 "way for people to contribute on their terms, compelled by their own "
3408 "motivations.74 What that looks like varies wildly depending on the project. "
3409 "Not every endeavor that is Made with Creative Commons can be Wikipedia, but "
3410 "every endeavor can find ways to invite the public into what they do. The "
3411 "goal for any form of collaboration is to move away from thinking of "
3412 "consumers as passive recipients of your content and transition them into "
3413 "active participants.75"
3414 msgstr ""
3415
3416 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
3417 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3418 msgid ""
3419 "Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation (Hoboken, NJ: "
3420 "John Wiley and Sons, 2010), 14. A preview of the book is available at "
3421 "strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation."
3422 msgstr ""
3423
3424 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
3425 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3426 msgid ""
3427 "Cory Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet "
3428 "Age (San Francisco, CA: McSweeney’s, 2014) 68."
3429 msgstr ""
3430
3431 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
3432 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3433 msgid "Ibid., 55."
3434 msgstr ""
3435
3436 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
3437 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3438 msgid ""
3439 "Chris Anderson, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving "
3440 "Something for Nothing, reprint with new preface (New York: Hyperion, 2010), "
3441 "224."
3442 msgstr ""
3443
3444 #. type: Bullet: '5. '
3445 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3446 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 44."
3447 msgstr ""
3448
3449 #. type: Bullet: '6. '
3450 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3451 msgid ""
3452 "Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let "
3453 "People Help (New York: Grand Central, 2014), 121."
3454 msgstr ""
3455
3456 #. type: Bullet: '7. '
3457 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3458 msgid ""
3459 "Chris Anderson, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution (New York: Signal, "
3460 "2012), 64."
3461 msgstr ""
3462
3463 #. type: Bullet: '8. '
3464 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2369
3465 msgid ""
3466 "David Bollier, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of "
3467 "the Commons (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 70."
3468 msgstr ""
3469
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3473 msgid ""
3474 "9. Anderson, Makers, 66.\n"
3475 "10. Bryan Kramer, Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy\n"
3476 " (New York: Morgan James, 2016), 10.\n"
3477 "11. Anderson, Free, 62.\n"
3478 "12. Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 38.\n"
3479 "13. Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 68.\n"
3480 "14. Anderson, Free, 86.\n"
3481 "15. Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 144.\n"
3482 "16. Anderson, Free, 123.\n"
3483 "17. Ibid., 132.\n"
3484 "18. Ibid., 70.\n"
3485 "19. James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (New York: Anchor Books,\n"
3486 " 2005), 124. Surowiecki says, “The measure of success of laws and\n"
3487 " contracts is how rarely they are invoked.”\n"
3488 "20. Anderson, Free, 44.\n"
3489 "21. Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 23.\n"
3490 "22. Anderson, Free, 67.\n"
3491 "23. Ibid., 58.\n"
3492 "24. Anderson, Makers, 71.\n"
3493 "25. Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into\n"
3494 " Collaborators (London: Penguin Books, 2010), 78.\n"
3495 "26. Ibid., 21.\n"
3496 "27. Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 43.\n"
3497 "28. William Landes Foster, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen, “Ten\n"
3498 " Nonprofit Funding Models,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring\n"
3499 " 2009, ssir.org/articles/entry/ten\\_nonprofit\\_funding\\_models.\n"
3500 "29. Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 111.\n"
3501 "30. Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 30.\n"
3502 "31. Jim Whitehurst, The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and\n"
3503 " Performance (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015), 202.\n"
3504 "32. Anderson, Free, 71.\n"
3505 "33. Ibid., 231.\n"
3506 "34. Ibid., 97.\n"
3507 "35. Anderson, Makers, 107.\n"
3508 "36. Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 89.\n"
3509 "37. Ibid., 92.\n"
3510 "38. Anderson, Free, 142.\n"
3511 "39. Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 32.\n"
3512 "40. Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 150.\n"
3513 "41. Ibid., 134.\n"
3514 "42. Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our\n"
3515 " Decisions, rev. ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), 109.\n"
3516 "43. Austin Kleon, Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and\n"
3517 " Get Discovered (New York: Workman, 2014), 93.\n"
3518 "44. Kramer, Shareology, 76.\n"
3519 "45. Palmer, Art of Asking, 252.\n"
3520 "46. Whitehurst, Open Organization, 145.\n"
3521 "47. Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 203.\n"
3522 "48. Whitehurst, Open Organization, 80.\n"
3523 "49. Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 25.\n"
3524 "50. Ibid., 31.\n"
3525 "51. Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 112.\n"
3526 "52. Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 124.\n"
3527 "53. Kleon, Show Your Work, 127.\n"
3528 "54. Palmer, Art of Asking, 121.\n"
3529 "55. Ariely, Predictably Irrational, 87.\n"
3530 "56. Ibid., 105.\n"
3531 "57. Ibid., 36.\n"
3532 "58. Jono Bacon, The Art of Community, 2nd ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly\n"
3533 " Media, 2012), 36.\n"
3534 "59. Palmer, Art of Asking, 98.\n"
3535 "60. Whitehurst, Open Organization, 34.\n"
3536 "61. Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 200.\n"
3537 "62. Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 29.\n"
3538 "63. Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi, “The Sharing Economy Isn’t about\n"
3539 " Sharing at All,” Harvard Business Review (website), January 28,\n"
3540 " 2015, hbr.org/2015/01/the-sharing-economy-isnt-about-sharing-at-all.\n"
3541 "64. Lisa Gansky, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing,\n"
3542 " reprint with new epilogue (New York: Portfolio, 2012).\n"
3543 "65. David Lee, “Inside Medium: An Attempt to Bring Civility to the\n"
3544 " Internet,” BBC News, March 3, 2016,\n"
3545 " www.bbc.com/news/technology-35709680.\n"
3546 "66. Anderson, Makers, 148.\n"
3547 "67. Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 164.\n"
3548 "68. Whitehurst, foreword to Open Organization.\n"
3549 "69. Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 144.\n"
3550 "70. Ibid., 154.\n"
3551 "71. Palmer, Art of Asking, 163.\n"
3552 "72. Anderson, Makers, 173.\n"
3553 "73. Tom Kelley and David Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the\n"
3554 " Potential within Us All (New York: Crown, 2013), 82.\n"
3555 "74. Whitehurst, foreword to Open Organization.\n"
3556 "75. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of\n"
3557 " Collaborative Consumption (New York: Harper Business, 2010), 188.\n"
3558 msgstr ""
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3562 msgid "## The Creative Commons Licenses"
3563 msgstr ""
3564
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3567 msgid ""
3568 "All of the Creative Commons licenses grant a basic set of permissions. At a "
3569 "minimum, a CC- licensed work can be copied and shared in its original form "
3570 "for noncommercial purposes so long as attribution is given to the creator. "
3571 "There are six licenses in the CC license suite that build on that basic set "
3572 "of permissions, ranging from the most restrictive (allowing only those basic "
3573 "permissions to share unmodified copies for noncommercial purposes) to the "
3574 "most permissive (reusers can do anything they want with the work, even for "
3575 "commercial purposes, as long as they give the creator credit). The licenses "
3576 "are built on copyright and do not cover other types of rights that creators "
3577 "might have in their works, like patents or trademarks."
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3582 msgid "Here are the six licenses:"
3583 msgstr ""
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3595 "The Attribution license (CC BY) lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and "
3596 "build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the "
3597 "original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. "
3598 "Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials."
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3611 "The Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA) lets others remix, tweak, and "
3612 "build upon your work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit "
3613 "you and license their new creations under identical terms. This license is "
3614 "often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new "
3615 "works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will "
3616 "also allow commercial use."
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3629 "The Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) allows for redistribution, "
3630 "commercial and noncommercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged with "
3631 "credit to you."
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3644 "The Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC) lets others remix, tweak, "
3645 "and build upon your work noncommercially. Although their new works must also "
3646 "acknowledge you, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the "
3647 "same terms."
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3660 "The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA) lets others "
3661 "remix, tweak, and build upon your work noncommercially, as long as they "
3662 "credit you and license their new creations under the same terms."
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3675 "The Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (CC BY-NC-ND) is the most "
3676 "restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your "
3677 "works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t "
3678 "change them or use them commercially."
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3684 "In addition to these six licenses, Creative Commons has two public-domain "
3685 "tools—one for creators and the other for those who manage collections of "
3686 "existing works by authors whose terms of copyright have expired:"
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3699 "CC0 enables authors and copyright owners to dedicate their works to the "
3700 "worldwide public domain (“no rights reserved”)."
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3713 "The Creative Commons Public Domain Mark facilitates the labeling and "
3714 "discovery of works that are already free of known copyright restrictions."
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3720 "In our case studies, some use just one Creative Commons license, others use "
3721 "several. Attribution (found in thirteen case studies) and Attribution-"
3722 "ShareAlike (found in eight studies) were the most common, with the other "
3723 "licenses coming up in four or so case studies, including the public-domain "
3724 "tool CC0. Some of the organizations we profiled offer both digital content "
3725 "and software: by using open-source-software licenses for the software code "
3726 "and Creative Commons licenses for digital content, they amplify their "
3727 "involvement with and commitment to sharing."
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3732 msgid ""
3733 "There is a popular misconception that the three NonCommercial licenses "
3734 "offered by CC are the only options for those who want to make money off "
3735 "their work. As we hope this book makes clear, there are many ways to make "
3736 "endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons sustainable. Reserving "
3737 "commercial rights is only one of those ways. It is certainly true that a "
3738 "license that allows others to make commercial use of your work (CC BY, CC BY-"
3739 "SA, and CC BY-ND) forecloses some traditional revenue streams. If you apply "
3740 "an Attribution (CC BY) license to your book, you can’t force a film company "
3741 "to pay you royalties if they turn your book into a feature-length film, or "
3742 "prevent another company from selling physical copies of your work."
3743 msgstr ""
3744
3745 #. type: Plain text
3746 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2486
3747 msgid ""
3748 "The decision to choose a NonCommercial and/or NoDerivs license comes down to "
3749 "how much you need to retain control over the creative work. The "
3750 "NonCommercial and NoDerivs licenses are ways of reserving some significant "
3751 "portion of the exclusive bundle of rights that copyright grants to creators. "
3752 "In some cases, reserving those rights is important to how you bring in "
3753 "revenue. In other cases, creators use a NonCommercial or NoDerivs license "
3754 "because they can’t give up on the dream of hitting the creative jackpot. The "
3755 "music platform Tribe of Noise told us the NonCommercial licenses were "
3756 "popular among their users because people still held out the dream of having "
3757 "a major record label discover their work."
3758 msgstr ""
3759
3760 #. type: Plain text
3761 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2491
3762 msgid ""
3763 "Other times the decision to use a more restrictive license is due to a "
3764 "concern about the integrity of the work. For example, the nonprofit "
3765 "TeachAIDS uses a NoDerivs license for its educational materials because the "
3766 "medical subject matter is particularly important to get right."
3767 msgstr ""
3768
3769 #. type: Plain text
3770 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2501
3771 msgid ""
3772 "There is no one right way. The NonCommercial and NoDerivs restrictions "
3773 "reflect the values and preferences of creators about how their creative work "
3774 "should be reused, just as the ShareAlike license reflects a different set of "
3775 "values, one that is less about controlling access to their own work and more "
3776 "about ensuring that whatever gets created with their work is available to "
3777 "all on the same terms. Since the beginning of the commons, people have been "
3778 "setting up structures that helped regulate the way in which shared resources "
3779 "were used. The CC licenses are an attempt to standardize norms across all "
3780 "domains."
3781 msgstr ""
3782
3783 #. type: Plain text
3784 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2503
3785 msgid "Note"
3786 msgstr ""
3787
3788 #. type: Plain text
3789 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2507
3790 msgid ""
3791 "For more about the licenses including examples and tips on sharing your work "
3792 "in the digital commons, start with the Creative Commons page called “Share "
3793 "Your Work” at"
3794 msgstr ""
3795
3796 #. type: Plain text
3797 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2509
3798 msgid "creativecommons.org/share-your-work/."
3799 msgstr ""
3800
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3802 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2512
3803 msgid "# The Case Studies"
3804 msgstr ""
3805
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3807 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2520
3808 msgid ""
3809 "The twenty-four case studies in this section were chosen from hundreds of "
3810 "nominations received from Kickstarter backers, Creative Commons staff, and "
3811 "the global Creative Commons community. We selected eighty potential "
3812 "candidates that represented a mix of industries, content types, revenue "
3813 "streams, and parts of the world. Twelve of the case studies were selected "
3814 "from that group based on votes cast by Kickstarter backers, and the other "
3815 "twelve were selected by us."
3816 msgstr ""
3817
3818 #. type: Plain text
3819 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2526
3820 msgid ""
3821 "We did background research and conducted interviews for each case study, "
3822 "based on the same set of basic questions about the endeavor. The idea for "
3823 "each case study is to tell the story about the endeavor and the role sharing "
3824 "plays within it, largely the way in which it was told to us by those we "
3825 "interviewed."
3826 msgstr ""
3827
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3829 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2528
3830 msgid "## Arduino"
3831 msgstr ""
3832
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3834 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2531
3835 msgid ""
3836 "Arduino is a for-profit open-source electronics platform and computer "
3837 "hardware and software company. Founded in 2005 in Italy."
3838 msgstr ""
3839
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3841 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2533
3842 msgid "www.arduino.cc"
3843 msgstr ""
3844
3845 #. type: Plain text
3846 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2537
3847 msgid ""
3848 "Revenue model: charging for physical copies (sales of boards, modules, "
3849 "shields, and kits), licensing a trademark (fees paid by those who want to "
3850 "sell Arduino products using their name)"
3851 msgstr ""
3852
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3854 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2539
3855 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3222
3856 msgid "Interview date: February 4, 2016"
3857 msgstr ""
3858
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3860 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2541
3861 msgid "Interviewees: David Cuartielles and Tom Igoe, cofounders"
3862 msgstr ""
3863
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3866 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3226
3867 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3581
3868 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3786
3869 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4026
3870 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4263
3871 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4671
3872 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4883
3873 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5110
3874 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5348
3875 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5783
3876 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6027
3877 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6416
3878 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7060
3879 msgid "Profile written by Paul Stacey"
3880 msgstr ""
3881
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3883 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2555
3884 msgid ""
3885 "In 2005, at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in northern Italy, "
3886 "teachers and students needed an easy way to use electronics and programming "
3887 "to quickly prototype design ideas. As musicians, artists, and designers, "
3888 "they needed a platform that didn’t require engineering expertise. A group of "
3889 "teachers and students, including Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, "
3890 "Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis, built a platform that combined different "
3891 "open technologies. They called it Arduino. The platform integrated software, "
3892 "hardware, microcontrollers, and electronics. All aspects of the platform "
3893 "were openly licensed: hardware designs and documentation with the "
3894 "Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA), and software with the GNU "
3895 "General Public License."
3896 msgstr ""
3897
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3899 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2563
3900 msgid ""
3901 "Arduino boards are able to read inputs—light on a sensor, a finger on a "
3902 "button, or a Twitter message—and turn it into outputs—activating a motor, "
3903 "turning on an LED, publishing something online. You send a set of "
3904 "instructions to the microcontroller on the board by using the Arduino "
3905 "programming language and Arduino software (based on a piece of open-source "
3906 "software called Processing, a programming tool used to make visual art)."
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3912 "“The reasons for making Arduino open source are complicated,” Tom says. "
3913 "Partly it was about supporting flexibility. The open-source nature of "
3914 "Arduino empowers users to modify it and create a lot of different "
3915 "variations, adding on top of what the founders build. David says this “ended "
3916 "up strengthening the platform far beyond what we had even thought of "
3917 "building.”"
3918 msgstr ""
3919
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3922 msgid ""
3923 "For Tom another factor was the impending closure of the Ivrea design school. "
3924 "He’d seen other organizations close their doors and all their work and "
3925 "research just disappear. Open-sourcing ensured that Arduino would outlive "
3926 "the Ivrea closure. Persistence is one thing Tom really likes about open "
3927 "source. If key people leave, or a company shuts down, an open-source product "
3928 "lives on. In Tom’s view, “Open sourcing makes it easier to trust a product.”"
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3934 "With the school closing, David and some of the other Arduino founders "
3935 "started a consulting firm and multidisciplinary design studio they called "
3936 "Tinker, in London. Tinker designed products and services that bridged the "
3937 "digital and the physical, and they taught people how to use new technologies "
3938 "in creative ways. Revenue from Tinker was invested in sustaining and "
3939 "enhancing Arduino."
3940 msgstr ""
3941
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3945 "For Tom, part of Arduino’s success is because the founders made themselves "
3946 "the first customer of their product. They made products they themselves "
3947 "personally wanted. It was a matter of “I need this thing,” not “If we make "
3948 "this, we’ll make a lot of money.” Tom notes that being your own first "
3949 "customer makes you more confident and convincing at selling your product."
3950 msgstr ""
3951
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3954 msgid ""
3955 "Arduino’s business model has evolved over time—and Tom says model is a "
3956 "grandiose term for it. Originally, they just wanted to make a few boards and "
3957 "get them out into the world. They started out with two hundred boards, sold "
3958 "them, and made a little profit. They used that to make another thousand, "
3959 "which generated enough revenue to make five thousand. In the early days, "
3960 "they simply tried to generate enough funding to keep the venture going day "
3961 "to day. When they hit the ten thousand mark, they started to think about "
3962 "Arduino as a company. By then it was clear you can open-source the design "
3963 "but still manufacture the physical product. As long as it’s a quality "
3964 "product and sold at a reasonable price, people will buy it."
3965 msgstr ""
3966
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3970 "Arduino now has a worldwide community of makers—students, hobbyists, "
3971 "artists, programmers, and professionals. Arduino provides a wiki called "
3972 "Playground (a wiki is where all users can edit and add pages, contributing "
3973 "to and benefiting from collective research). People share code, circuit "
3974 "diagrams, tutorials, DIY instructions, and tips and tricks, and show off "
3975 "their projects. In addition, there’s a multilanguage discussion forum where "
3976 "users can get help using Arduino, discuss topics like robotics, and make "
3977 "suggestions for new Arduino product designs. As of January 2017, 324,928 "
3978 "members had made 2,989,489 posts on 379,044 topics. The worldwide community "
3979 "of makers has contributed an incredible amount of accessible knowledge "
3980 "helpful to novices and experts alike."
3981 msgstr ""
3982
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3984 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2625
3985 msgid ""
3986 "Transitioning Arduino from a project to a company was a big step. Other "
3987 "businesses who made boards were charging a lot of money for them. Arduino "
3988 "wanted to make theirs available at a low price to people across a wide range "
3989 "of industries. As with any business, pricing was key. They wanted prices "
3990 "that would get lots of customers but were also high enough to sustain the "
3991 "business."
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3993
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3997 "For a business, getting to the end of the year and not being in the red is a "
3998 "success. Arduino may have an open-licensing strategy, but they are still a "
3999 "business, and all the things needed to successfully run one still apply. "
4000 "David says, “If you do those other things well, sharing things in an open-"
4001 "source way can only help you.”"
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4006 msgid ""
4007 "While openly licensing the designs, documentation, and software ensures "
4008 "longevity, it does have risks. There’s a possibility that others will create "
4009 "knockoffs, clones, and copies. The CC BY-SA license means anyone can produce "
4010 "copies of their boards, redesign them, and even sell boards that copy the "
4011 "design. They don’t have to pay a license fee to Arduino or even ask "
4012 "permission. However, if they republish the design of the board, they have to "
4013 "give attribution to Arduino. If they change the design, they must release "
4014 "the new design using the same Creative Commons license to ensure that the "
4015 "new version is equally free and open."
4016 msgstr ""
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4021 "Tom and David say that a lot of people have built companies off of Arduino, "
4022 "with dozens of Arduino derivatives out there. But in contrast to closed "
4023 "business models that can wring money out of the system over many years "
4024 "because there is no competition, Arduino founders saw competition as keeping "
4025 "them honest, and aimed for an environment of collaboration. A benefit of "
4026 "open over closed is the many new ideas and designs others have contributed "
4027 "back to the Arduino ecosystem, ideas and designs that Arduino and the "
4028 "Arduino community use and incorporate into new products."
4029 msgstr ""
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4033 msgid ""
4034 "Over time, the range of Arduino products has diversified, changing and "
4035 "adapting to new needs and challenges. In addition to simple entry level "
4036 "boards, new products have been added ranging from enhanced boards that "
4037 "provide advanced functionality and faster performance, to boards for "
4038 "creating Internet of Things applications, wearables, and 3-D printing. The "
4039 "full range of official Arduino products includes boards, modules (a smaller "
4040 "form-factor of classic boards), shields (elements that can be plugged onto a "
4041 "board to give it extra features), and kits.1"
4042 msgstr ""
4043
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4046 msgid ""
4047 "Arduino’s focus is on high-quality boards, well-designed support materials, "
4048 "and the building of community; this focus is one of the keys to their "
4049 "success. And being open lets you build a real community. David says "
4050 "Arduino’s community is a big strength and something that really does matter—"
4051 "in his words, “It’s good business.” When they started, the Arduino team had "
4052 "almost entirely no idea how to build a community. They started by conducting "
4053 "numerous workshops, working directly with people using the platform to make "
4054 "sure the hardware and software worked the way it was meant to work and "
4055 "solved people’s problems. The community grew organically from there."
4056 msgstr ""
4057
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4059 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2681
4060 msgid ""
4061 "A key decision for Arduino was trademarking the name. The founders needed a "
4062 "way to guarantee to people that they were buying a quality product from a "
4063 "company committed to open-source values and knowledge sharing. Trademarking "
4064 "the Arduino name and logo expresses that guarantee and helps customers "
4065 "easily identify their products, and the products sanctioned by them. If "
4066 "others want to sell boards using the Arduino name and logo, they have to pay "
4067 "a small fee to Arduino. This allows Arduino to scale up manufacturing and "
4068 "distribution while at the same time ensuring the Arduino brand isn’t hurt by "
4069 "low-quality copies."
4070 msgstr ""
4071
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4073 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2689
4074 msgid ""
4075 "Current official manufacturers are Smart Projects in Italy, SparkFun in the "
4076 "United States, and Dog Hunter in Taiwan/China. These are the only "
4077 "manufacturers that are allowed to use the Arduino logo on their boards. "
4078 "Trademarking their brand provided the founders with a way to protect "
4079 "Arduino, build it out further, and fund software and tutorial development. "
4080 "The trademark-licensing fee for the brand became Arduino’s revenue-"
4081 "generating model."
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4083
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4085 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2696
4086 msgid ""
4087 "How far to open things up wasn’t always something the founders perfectly "
4088 "agreed on. David, who was always one to advocate for opening things up more, "
4089 "had some fears about protecting the Arduino name, thinking people would be "
4090 "mad if they policed their brand. There was some early backlash with a "
4091 "project called Freeduino, but overall, trademarking and branding has been a "
4092 "critical tool for Arduino."
4093 msgstr ""
4094
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4097 msgid ""
4098 "David encourages people and businesses to start by sharing everything as a "
4099 "default strategy, and then think about whether there is anything that really "
4100 "needs to be protected and why. There are lots of good reasons to not open up "
4101 "certain elements. This strategy of sharing everything is certainly the "
4102 "complete opposite of how today’s world operates, where nothing is shared. "
4103 "Tom suggests a business formalize which elements are based on open sharing "
4104 "and which are closed. An Arduino blog post from 2013 entitled “Send In the "
4105 "Clones,” by one of the founders Massimo Banzi, does a great job of "
4106 "explaining the full complexities of how trademarking their brand has played "
4107 "out, distinguishing between official boards and those that are clones, "
4108 "derivatives, compatibles, and counterfeits.2"
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4110
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4113 msgid ""
4114 "For David, an exciting aspect of Arduino is the way lots of people can use "
4115 "it to adapt technology in many different ways. Technology is always making "
4116 "more things possible but doesn’t always focus on making it easy to use and "
4117 "adapt. This is where Arduino steps in. Arduino’s goal is “making things that "
4118 "help other people make things.”"
4119 msgstr ""
4120
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4123 msgid ""
4124 "Arduino has been hugely successful in making technology and electronics "
4125 "reach a larger audience. For Tom, Arduino has been about “the "
4126 "democratization of technology.” Tom sees Arduino’s open-source strategy as "
4127 "helping the world get over the idea that technology has to be protected. Tom "
4128 "says, “Technology is a literacy everyone should learn.”"
4129 msgstr ""
4130
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4132 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2725
4133 msgid ""
4134 "Ultimately, for Arduino, going open has been good business—good for product "
4135 "development, good for distribution, good for pricing, and good for "
4136 "manufacturing."
4137 msgstr ""
4138
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4141 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3765
4142 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4005
4143 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4242
4144 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4862
4145 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5087
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4147 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5573
4148 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6006
4149 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6233
4150 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6674
4151 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7241
4152 msgid "Web links"
4153 msgstr ""
4154
4155 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
4156 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2730
4157 msgid "www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Products"
4158 msgstr ""
4159
4160 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
4161 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2730
4162 msgid "blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/"
4163 msgstr ""
4164
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4167 msgid "## Ártica"
4168 msgstr ""
4169
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4171 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2736
4172 msgid ""
4173 "Ártica provides online courses and consulting services focused on how to use "
4174 "digital technology to share knowledge and enable collaboration in arts and "
4175 "culture. Founded in 2011 in Uruguay."
4176 msgstr ""
4177
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4179 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2738
4180 msgid "www.articaonline.com"
4181 msgstr ""
4182
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4184 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2740
4185 msgid "Revenue model: charging for custom services"
4186 msgstr ""
4187
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4190 msgid "Interview date: March 9, 2016"
4191 msgstr ""
4192
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4195 msgid "Interviewees: Mariana Fossatti and Jorge Gemetto, cofounders"
4196 msgstr ""
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4200 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2896
4201 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3051
4202 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3392
4203 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4502
4204 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5590
4205 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6257
4206 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6694
4207 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6872
4208 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7260
4209 msgid "Profile written by Sarah Hinchliff Pearson"
4210 msgstr ""
4211
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4214 msgid ""
4215 "The story of Mariana Fossatti and Jorge Gemetto’s business, Ártica, is the "
4216 "ultimate example of DIY. Not only are they successful entrepreneurs, the "
4217 "niche in which their small business operates is essentially one they built "
4218 "themselves."
4219 msgstr ""
4220
4221 #. type: Plain text
4222 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2753
4223 msgid "Their dream jobs didn’t exist, so they created them."
4224 msgstr ""
4225
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4228 msgid ""
4229 "In 2011, Mariana was a sociologist working for an international organization "
4230 "to develop research and online education about rural-development issues. "
4231 "Jorge was a psychologist, also working in online education. Both were "
4232 "bloggers and heavy users of social media, and both had a passion for arts "
4233 "and culture. They decided to take their skills in digital technology and "
4234 "online learning and apply them to a topic area they loved. They launched "
4235 "Ártica, an online business that provides education and consulting for people "
4236 "and institutions creating artistic and cultural projects on the Internet."
4237 msgstr ""
4238
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4240 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2774
4241 msgid ""
4242 "Ártica feels like a uniquely twenty-first century business. The small "
4243 "company has a global online presence with no physical offices. Jorge and "
4244 "Mariana live in Uruguay, and the other two full-time employees, who Jorge "
4245 "and Mariana have never actually met in person, live in Spain. They started "
4246 "by creating a MOOC (massive open online course) about remix culture and "
4247 "collaboration in the arts, which gave them a direct way to reach an "
4248 "international audience, attracting students from across Latin America and "
4249 "Spain. In other words, it is the classic Internet story of being able to "
4250 "directly tap into an audience without relying upon gatekeepers or "
4251 "intermediaries."
4252 msgstr ""
4253
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4255 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2783
4256 msgid ""
4257 "Ártica offers personalized education and consulting services, and helps "
4258 "clients implement projects. All of these services are customized. They call "
4259 "it an “artisan” process because of the time and effort it takes to adapt "
4260 "their work for the particular needs of students and clients. “Each student "
4261 "or client is paying for a specific solution to his or her problems and "
4262 "questions,” Mariana said. Rather than sell access to their content, they "
4263 "provide it for free and charge for the personalized services."
4264 msgstr ""
4265
4266 #. type: Plain text
4267 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2790
4268 msgid ""
4269 "When they started, they offered a smaller number of courses designed to "
4270 "attract large audiences. “Over the years, we realized that online "
4271 "communities are more specific than we thought,” Mariana said. Ártica now "
4272 "provides more options for classes and has lower enrollment in each course. "
4273 "This means they can provide more attention to individual students and offer "
4274 "classes on more specialized topics."
4275 msgstr ""
4276
4277 #. type: Plain text
4278 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2796
4279 msgid ""
4280 "Online courses are their biggest revenue stream, but they also do more than "
4281 "a dozen consulting projects each year, ranging from digitization to event "
4282 "planning to marketing campaigns. Some are significant in scope, particularly "
4283 "when they work with cultural institutions, and some are smaller projects "
4284 "commissioned by individual artists."
4285 msgstr ""
4286
4287 #. type: Plain text
4288 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2802
4289 msgid ""
4290 "Ártica also seeks out public and private funding for specific projects. "
4291 "Sometimes, even if they are unsuccessful in subsidizing a project like a new "
4292 "course or e-book, they will go ahead because they believe in it. They take "
4293 "the stance that every new project leads them to something new, every new "
4294 "resource they create opens new doors."
4295 msgstr ""
4296
4297 #. type: Plain text
4298 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2816
4299 msgid ""
4300 "Ártica relies heavily on their free Creative Commons–licensed content to "
4301 "attract new students and clients. Everything they create—online education, "
4302 "blog posts, videos—is published under an Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC "
4303 "BY-SA). “We use a ShareAlike license because we want to give the greatest "
4304 "freedom to our students and readers, and we also want that freedom to be "
4305 "viral,” Jorge said. For them, giving others the right to reuse and remix "
4306 "their content is a fundamental value. “How can you offer an online "
4307 "educational service without giving permission to download, make and keep "
4308 "copies, or print the educational resources?” Jorge said. “If we want to do "
4309 "the best for our students—those who trust in us to the point that they are "
4310 "willing to pay online without face-to-face contact—we have to offer them a "
4311 "fair and ethical agreement.”"
4312 msgstr ""
4313
4314 #. type: Plain text
4315 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2822
4316 msgid ""
4317 "They also believe sharing their ideas and expertise openly helps them build "
4318 "their reputation and visibility. People often share and cite their work. A "
4319 "few years ago, a publisher even picked up one of their e-books and "
4320 "distributed printed copies. Ártica views reuse of their work as a way to "
4321 "open up new opportunities for their business."
4322 msgstr ""
4323
4324 #. type: Plain text
4325 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2831
4326 msgid ""
4327 "This belief that openness creates new opportunities reflects another belief—"
4328 "in serendipity. When describing their process for creating content, they "
4329 "spoke of all of the spontaneous and organic ways they find inspiration. "
4330 "“Sometimes, the collaborative process starts with a conversation between us, "
4331 "or with friends from other projects,” Jorge said. “That can be the first "
4332 "step for a new blog post or another simple piece of content, which can "
4333 "evolve to a more complex product in the future, like a course or a book.”"
4334 msgstr ""
4335
4336 #. type: Plain text
4337 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2839
4338 msgid ""
4339 "Rather than planning their work in advance, they let their creative process "
4340 "be dynamic. “This doesn’t mean that we don’t need to work hard in order to "
4341 "get good professional results, but the design process is more flexible,” "
4342 "Jorge said. They share early and often, and they adjust based on what they "
4343 "learn, always exploring and testing new ideas and ways of operating. In many "
4344 "ways, for them, the process is just as important as the final product."
4345 msgstr ""
4346
4347 #. type: Plain text
4348 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2845
4349 msgid ""
4350 "People and relationships are also just as important, sometimes more. “In the "
4351 "educational and cultural business, it is more important to pay attention to "
4352 "people and process, rather than content or specific formats or materials,” "
4353 "Mariana said. “Materials and content are fluid. The important thing is the "
4354 "relationships.”"
4355 msgstr ""
4356
4357 #. type: Plain text
4358 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2849
4359 msgid ""
4360 "Ártica believes in the power of the network. They seek to make connections "
4361 "with people and institutions across the globe so they can learn from them "
4362 "and share their knowledge."
4363 msgstr ""
4364
4365 #. type: Plain text
4366 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2860
4367 msgid ""
4368 "At the core of everything Ártica does is a set of values. “Good content is "
4369 "not enough,” Jorge said. “We also think that it is very important to take a "
4370 "stand for some things in the cultural sector.” Mariana and Jorge are "
4371 "activists. They defend free culture (the movement promoting the freedom to "
4372 "modify and distribute creative work) and work to demonstrate the "
4373 "intersection between free culture and other social-justice movements. Their "
4374 "efforts to involve people in their work and enable artists and cultural "
4375 "institutions to better use technology are all tied closely to their belief "
4376 "system. Ultimately, what drives their work is a mission to democratize art "
4377 "and culture."
4378 msgstr ""
4379
4380 #. type: Plain text
4381 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2868
4382 msgid ""
4383 "Of course, Ártica also has to make enough money to cover its expenses. "
4384 "Human resources are, by far, their biggest expense. They tap a network of "
4385 "collaborators on a case-by-case basis and hire contractors for specific "
4386 "projects. Whenever possible, they draw from artistic and cultural resources "
4387 "in the commons, and they rely on free software. Their operation is small, "
4388 "efficient, and sustainable, and because of that, it is a success."
4389 msgstr ""
4390
4391 #. type: Plain text
4392 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2874
4393 msgid ""
4394 "“There are lots of people offering online courses,” Jorge said. “But it is "
4395 "easy to differentiate us. We have an approach that is very specific and "
4396 "personal.” Ártica’s model is rooted in the personal at every level. For "
4397 "Mariana and Jorge, success means doing what brings them personal meaning and "
4398 "purpose, and doing it sustainably and collaboratively."
4399 msgstr ""
4400
4401 #. type: Plain text
4402 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2880
4403 msgid ""
4404 "In their work with younger artists, Mariana and Jorge try to emphasize that "
4405 "this model of success is just as valuable as the picture of success we get "
4406 "from the media. “If they seek only the traditional type of success, they "
4407 "will get frustrated,” Mariana said. “We try to show them another image of "
4408 "what it looks like.”"
4409 msgstr ""
4410
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4412 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2882
4413 msgid "## Blender Institute"
4414 msgstr ""
4415
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4417 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2885
4418 msgid ""
4419 "The Blender Institute is an animation studio that creates 3-D films using "
4420 "Blender software. Founded in 2006 in the Netherlands."
4421 msgstr ""
4422
4423 #. type: Plain text
4424 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2887
4425 msgid "www.blender.org"
4426 msgstr ""
4427
4428 #. type: Plain text
4429 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2890
4430 msgid ""
4431 "Revenue model: crowdfunding (subscription-based), charging for physical "
4432 "copies, selling merchandise"
4433 msgstr ""
4434
4435 #. type: Plain text
4436 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2892
4437 msgid "Interview date: March 8, 2016"
4438 msgstr ""
4439
4440 #. type: Plain text
4441 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2894
4442 msgid "Interviewee: Francesco Siddi, production coordinator"
4443 msgstr ""
4444
4445 #. type: Plain text
4446 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2905
4447 msgid ""
4448 "For Ton Roosendaal, the creator of Blender software and its related "
4449 "entities, sharing is practical. Making their 3-D content creation software "
4450 "available under a free software license has been integral to its development "
4451 "and popularity. Using that software to make movies that were licensed with "
4452 "Creative Commons pushed that development even further. Sharing enables "
4453 "people to participate and to interact with and build upon the technology and "
4454 "content they create in a way that benefits Blender and its community in "
4455 "concrete ways."
4456 msgstr ""
4457
4458 #. type: Plain text
4459 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2914
4460 msgid ""
4461 "Each open-movie project Blender runs produces a host of openly licensed "
4462 "outputs, not just the final film itself but all of the source material as "
4463 "well. The creative process also enhances the development of the Blender "
4464 "software because the technical team responds directly to the needs of the "
4465 "film production team, creating tools and features that make their lives "
4466 "easier. And, of course, each project involves a long, rewarding process for "
4467 "the creative and technical community working together."
4468 msgstr ""
4469
4470 #. type: Plain text
4471 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2920
4472 msgid ""
4473 "Rather than just talking about the theoretical benefits of sharing and free "
4474 "culture, Ton is very much about doing and making free culture. Blender’s "
4475 "production coordinator Francesco Siddi told us, “Ton believes if you don’t "
4476 "make content using your tools, then you’re not doing anything.”"
4477 msgstr ""
4478
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4480 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2930
4481 msgid ""
4482 "Blender’s history begins in the late 1990s, when Ton created the Blender "
4483 "software. Originally, the software was an in-house resource for his "
4484 "animation studio based in the Netherlands. Investors became interested in "
4485 "the software, so he began marketing the software to the public, offering a "
4486 "free version in addition to a paid version. Sales were disappointing, and "
4487 "his investors gave up on the endeavor in the early 2000s. He made a deal "
4488 "with investors—if he could raise enough money, he could then make the "
4489 "Blender software available under the GNU General Public License."
4490 msgstr ""
4491
4492 #. type: Plain text
4493 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2940
4494 msgid ""
4495 "This was long before Kickstarter and other online crowdfunding sites "
4496 "existed, but Ton ran his own version of a crowdfunding campaign and quickly "
4497 "raised the money he needed. The Blender software became freely available for "
4498 "anyone to use. Simply applying the General Public License to the software, "
4499 "however, was not enough to create a thriving community around it. Francesco "
4500 "told us, “Software of this complexity relies on people and their vision of "
4501 "how people work together. Ton is a fantastic community builder and manager, "
4502 "and he put a lot of work into fostering a community of developers so that "
4503 "the project could live.”"
4504 msgstr ""
4505
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4507 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2947
4508 msgid ""
4509 "Like any successful free and open-source software project, Blender developed "
4510 "quickly because the community could make fixes and improvements. “Software "
4511 "should be free and open to hack,” Francesco said. “Otherwise, everyone is "
4512 "doing the same thing in the dark for ten years.” Ton set up the Blender "
4513 "Foundation to oversee and steward the software development and maintenance."
4514 msgstr ""
4515
4516 #. type: Plain text
4517 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2956
4518 msgid ""
4519 "After a few years, Ton began looking for new ways to push development of the "
4520 "software. He came up with the idea of creating CC-licensed films using the "
4521 "Blender software. Ton put a call online for all interested and skilled "
4522 "artists. Francesco said the idea was to get the best artists available, put "
4523 "them in a building together with the best developers, and have them work "
4524 "together. They would not only produce high-quality openly licensed content, "
4525 "they would improve the Blender software in the process."
4526 msgstr ""
4527
4528 #. type: Plain text
4529 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2963
4530 msgid ""
4531 "They turned to crowdfunding to subsidize the costs of the project. They had "
4532 "about twenty people working full-time for six to ten months, so the costs "
4533 "were significant. Francesco said that when their crowdfunding campaign "
4534 "succeeded, people were astounded. “The idea that making money was possible "
4535 "by producing CC-licensed material was mind-blowing to people,” he said. "
4536 "“They were like, ‘I have to see it to believe it.’”"
4537 msgstr ""
4538
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4540 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2969
4541 msgid ""
4542 "The first film, which was released in 2006, was an experiment. It was so "
4543 "successful that Ton decided to set up the Blender Institute, an entity "
4544 "dedicated to hosting open-movie projects. The Blender Institute’s next "
4545 "project was an even bigger success. The film, Big Buck Bunny, went viral, "
4546 "and its animated characters were picked up by marketers."
4547 msgstr ""
4548
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4550 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2980
4551 msgid ""
4552 "Francesco said that, over time, the Blender Institute projects have gotten "
4553 "bigger and more prominent. That means the filmmaking process has become more "
4554 "complex, combining technical experts and artists who focus on storytelling. "
4555 "Francesco says the process is almost on an industrial scale because of the "
4556 "number of moving parts. This requires a lot of specialized assistance, but "
4557 "the Blender Institute has no problem finding the talent it needs to help on "
4558 "projects. “Blender hardly does any recruiting for film projects because the "
4559 "talent emerges naturally,” Francesco said. “So many people want to work with "
4560 "us, and we can’t always hire them because of budget constraints.”"
4561 msgstr ""
4562
4563 #. type: Plain text
4564 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2988
4565 msgid ""
4566 "Blender has had a lot of success raising money from its community over the "
4567 "years. In many ways, the pitch has gotten easier to make. Not only is "
4568 "crowdfunding simply more familiar to the public, but people know and trust "
4569 "Blender to deliver, and Ton has developed a reputation as an effective "
4570 "community leader and visionary for their work. “There is a whole community "
4571 "who sees and understands the benefit of these projects,” Francesco said."
4572 msgstr ""
4573
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4575 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:2995
4576 msgid ""
4577 "While these benefits of each open-movie project make a compelling pitch for "
4578 "crowdfunding campaigns, Francesco told us the Blender Institute has found "
4579 "some limitations in the standard crowdfunding model where you propose a "
4580 "specific project and ask for funding. “Once a project is over, everyone goes "
4581 "home,” he said. “It is great fun, but then it ends. That is a problem.”"
4582 msgstr ""
4583
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4585 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3009
4586 msgid ""
4587 "To make their work more sustainable, they needed a way to receive ongoing "
4588 "support rather than on a project-by-project basis. Their solution is Blender "
4589 "Cloud, a subscription-style crowdfunding model akin to the online "
4590 "crowdfunding platform, Patreon. For about ten euros each month, subscribers "
4591 "get access to download everything the Blender Institute produces—software, "
4592 "art, training, and more. All of the assets are available under an "
4593 "Attribution license (CC BY) or placed in the public domain (CC0), but they "
4594 "are initially made available only to subscribers. Blender Cloud enables "
4595 "subscribers to follow Blender’s movie projects as they develop, sharing "
4596 "detailed information and content used in the creative process. Blender Cloud "
4597 "also has extensive training materials and libraries of characters and other "
4598 "assets used in various projects."
4599 msgstr ""
4600
4601 #. type: Plain text
4602 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3014
4603 msgid ""
4604 "The continuous financial support provided by Blender Cloud subsidizes five "
4605 "to six full-time employees at the Blender Institute. Francesco says their "
4606 "goal is to grow their subscriber base. “This is our freedom,” he told us, "
4607 "“and for artists, freedom is everything.”"
4608 msgstr ""
4609
4610 #. type: Plain text
4611 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3021
4612 msgid ""
4613 "Blender Cloud is the primary revenue stream of the Blender Institute. The "
4614 "Blender Foundation is funded primarily by donations, and that money goes "
4615 "toward software development and maintenance. The revenue streams of the "
4616 "Institute and Foundation are deliberately kept separate. Blender also has "
4617 "other revenue streams, such as the Blender Store, where people can purchase "
4618 "DVDs, T-shirts, and other Blender products."
4619 msgstr ""
4620
4621 #. type: Plain text
4622 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3026
4623 msgid ""
4624 "Ton has worked on projects relating to his Blender software for nearly "
4625 "twenty years. Throughout most of that time, he has been committed to making "
4626 "the software and the content produced with the software free and open. "
4627 "Selling a license has never been part of the business model."
4628 msgstr ""
4629
4630 #. type: Plain text
4631 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3034
4632 msgid ""
4633 "Since 2006, he has been making films available along with all of their "
4634 "source material. He says he has hardly ever seen people stepping into "
4635 "Blender’s shoes and trying to make money off of their content. Ton believes "
4636 "this is because the true value of what they do is in the creative and "
4637 "production process. “Even when you share everything, all your original "
4638 "sources, it still takes a lot of talent, skills, time, and budget to "
4639 "reproduce what you did,” Ton said."
4640 msgstr ""
4641
4642 #. type: Plain text
4643 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3036
4644 msgid "For Ton and Blender, it all comes back to doing."
4645 msgstr ""
4646
4647 #. type: Plain text
4648 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3038
4649 msgid "## Cards Against Humanity"
4650 msgstr ""
4651
4652 #. type: Plain text
4653 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3041
4654 msgid ""
4655 "Cards Against Humanity is a private, for-profit company that makes a popular "
4656 "party game by the same name. Founded in 2011 in the U.S."
4657 msgstr ""
4658
4659 #. type: Plain text
4660 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3043
4661 msgid "www.cardsagainsthumanity.com"
4662 msgstr ""
4663
4664 #. type: Plain text
4665 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3045
4666 msgid "Revenue model: charging for physical copies"
4667 msgstr ""
4668
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4670 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3047
4671 msgid "Interview date: February 3, 2016"
4672 msgstr ""
4673
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4675 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3049
4676 msgid "Interviewee: Max Temkin, cofounder"
4677 msgstr ""
4678
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4680 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3056
4681 msgid ""
4682 "If you ask cofounder Max Temkin, there is nothing particularly interesting "
4683 "about the Cards Against Humanity business model. “We make a product. We sell "
4684 "it for money. Then we spend less money than we make,” Max said."
4685 msgstr ""
4686
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4688 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3064
4689 msgid ""
4690 "He is right. Cards Against Humanity is a simple party game, modeled after "
4691 "the game Apples to Apples. To play, one player asks a question or fill-in-"
4692 "the-blank statement from a black card, and the other players submit their "
4693 "funniest white card in response. The catch is that all of the cards are "
4694 "filled with crude, gruesome, and otherwise awful things. For the right kind "
4695 "of people (“horrible people,” according to Cards Against Humanity "
4696 "advertising), this makes for a hilarious and fun game."
4697 msgstr ""
4698
4699 #. type: Plain text
4700 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3070
4701 msgid ""
4702 "The revenue model is simple. Physical copies of the game are sold for a "
4703 "profit. And it works. At the time of this writing, Cards Against Humanity is "
4704 "the number-one best-selling item out of all toys and games on Amazon. There "
4705 "are official expansion packs available, and several official themed packs "
4706 "and international editions as well."
4707 msgstr ""
4708
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4710 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3075
4711 msgid ""
4712 "But Cards Against Humanity is also available for free. Anyone can download a "
4713 "digital version of the game on the Cards Against Humanity website. More than "
4714 "one million people have downloaded the game since the company began tracking "
4715 "the numbers."
4716 msgstr ""
4717
4718 #. type: Plain text
4719 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3081
4720 msgid ""
4721 "The game is available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
4722 "(CC BY-NC-SA). That means, in addition to copying the game, anyone can "
4723 "create new versions of the game as long as they make it available under the "
4724 "same noncommercial terms. The ability to adapt the game is like an entire "
4725 "new game unto itself."
4726 msgstr ""
4727
4728 #. type: Plain text
4729 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3086
4730 msgid ""
4731 "All together, these factors—the crass tone of the game and company, the free "
4732 "download, the openness to fans remixing the game—give the game a massive "
4733 "cult following."
4734 msgstr ""
4735
4736 #. type: Plain text
4737 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3097
4738 msgid ""
4739 "Their success is not the result of a grand plan. Instead, Cards Against "
4740 "Humanity was the last in a long line of games and comedy projects that Max "
4741 "Temkin and his friends put together for their own amusement. As Max tells "
4742 "the story, they made the game so they could play it themselves on New Year’s "
4743 "Eve because they were too nerdy to be invited to other parties. The game was "
4744 "a hit, so they decided to put it up online as a free PDF. People started "
4745 "asking if they could pay to have the game printed for them, and eventually "
4746 "they decided to run a Kickstarter to fund the printing. They set their "
4747 "Kickstarter goal at \\$4,000—and raised \\$15,000. The game was officially "
4748 "released in May 2011."
4749 msgstr ""
4750
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4752 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3101
4753 msgid ""
4754 "The game caught on quickly, and it has only grown more popular over time. "
4755 "Max says the eight founders never had a meeting where they decided to make "
4756 "it an ongoing business. “It kind of just happened,” he said."
4757 msgstr ""
4758
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4760 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3106
4761 msgid ""
4762 "But this tale of a “happy accident” belies marketing genius. Just like the "
4763 "game, the Cards Against Humanity brand is irreverent and memorable. It is "
4764 "hard to forget a company that calls the FAQ on their website “Your dumb "
4765 "questions.”"
4766 msgstr ""
4767
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4769 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3118
4770 msgid ""
4771 "Like most quality satire, however, there is more to the joke than vulgarity "
4772 "and shock value. The company’s marketing efforts around Black Friday "
4773 "illustrate this particularly well. For those outside the United States, "
4774 "Black Friday is the term for the day after the Thanksgiving holiday, the "
4775 "biggest shopping day of the year. It is an incredibly important day for "
4776 "Cards Against Humanity, like it is for all U.S. retailers. Max said they "
4777 "struggled with what to do on Black Friday because they didn’t want to "
4778 "support what he called the “orgy of consumerism” the day has become, "
4779 "particularly since it follows a day that is about being grateful for what "
4780 "you have. In 2013, after deliberating, they decided to have an Everything "
4781 "Costs \\$5 More sale."
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4787 "“We sweated it out the night before Black Friday, wondering if our fans were "
4788 "going to hate us for it,” he said. “But it made us laugh so we went with it. "
4789 "People totally caught the joke.”"
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4795 "This sort of bold transparency delights the media, but more importantly, it "
4796 "engages their fans. “One of the most surprising things you can do in "
4797 "capitalism is just be honest with people,” Max said. “It shocks people that "
4798 "there is transparency about what you are doing.”"
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4804 "Max also likened it to a grand improv scene. “If we do something a little "
4805 "subversive and unexpected, the public wants to be a part of the joke.” One "
4806 "year they did a Give Cards Against Humanity \\$5 event, where people "
4807 "literally paid them five dollars for no reason. Their fans wanted to make "
4808 "the joke funnier by making it successful. They made \\$70,000 in a single "
4809 "day."
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4815 "This remarkable trust they have in their customers is what inspired their "
4816 "decision to apply a Creative Commons license to the game. Trusting your "
4817 "customers to reuse and remix your work requires a leap of faith. Cards "
4818 "Against Humanity obviously isn’t afraid of doing the unexpected, but there "
4819 "are lines even they do not want to cross. Before applying the license, Max "
4820 "said they worried that some fans would adapt the game to include all of the "
4821 "jokes they intentionally never made because they crossed that line. “It "
4822 "happened, and the world didn’t end,” Max said. “If that is the worst cost "
4823 "of using CC, I’d pay that a hundred times over because there are so many "
4824 "benefits.”"
4825 msgstr ""
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4829 msgid ""
4830 "Any successful product inspires its biggest fans to create remixes of it, "
4831 "but unsanctioned adaptations are more likely to fly under the radar. The "
4832 "Creative Commons license gives fans of Cards Against Humanity the freedom to "
4833 "run with the game and copy, adapt, and promote their creations openly. Today "
4834 "there are thousands of fan expansions of the game."
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4836
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4839 msgid ""
4840 "Max said, “CC was a no-brainer for us because it gets the most people "
4841 "involved. Making the game free and available under a CC license led to the "
4842 "unbelievable situation where we are one of the best-marketed games in the "
4843 "world, and we have never spent a dime on marketing.”"
4844 msgstr ""
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4849 "Of course, there are limits to what the company allows its customers to do "
4850 "with the game. They chose the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
4851 "because it restricts people from using the game to make money. It also "
4852 "requires that adaptations of the game be made available under the same "
4853 "licensing terms if they are shared publicly. Cards Against Humanity also "
4854 "polices its brand. “We feel like we’re the only ones who can use our brand "
4855 "and our game and make money off of it,” Max said. About 99.9 percent of the "
4856 "time, they just send an email to those making commercial use of the game, "
4857 "and that is the end of it. There have only been a handful of instances where "
4858 "they had to get a lawyer involved."
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4860
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4864 "Just as there is more than meets the eye to the Cards Against Humanity "
4865 "business model, the same can be said of the game itself. To be playable, "
4866 "every white card has to work syntactically with enough black cards. The "
4867 "eight creators invest an incredible amount of work into creating new cards "
4868 "for the game. “We have daylong arguments about commas,” Max said. “The "
4869 "slacker tone of the cards gives people the impression that it is easy to "
4870 "write them, but it is actually a lot of work and quibbling.”"
4871 msgstr ""
4872
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4874 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3185
4875 msgid ""
4876 "That means cocreation with their fans really doesn’t work. The company has a "
4877 "submission mechanism on their website, and they get thousands of "
4878 "suggestions, but it is very rare that a submitted card is adopted. Instead, "
4879 "the eight initial creators remain the primary authors of expansion decks and "
4880 "other new products released by the company. Interestingly, the creativity "
4881 "of their customer base is really only an asset to the company once their "
4882 "original work is created and published when people make their own "
4883 "adaptations of the game."
4884 msgstr ""
4885
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4887 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3191
4888 msgid ""
4889 "For all of their success, the creators of Cards Against Humanity are only "
4890 "partially motivated by money. Max says they have always been interested in "
4891 "the Walt Disney philosophy of financial success. “We don’t make jokes and "
4892 "games to make money—we make money so we can make more jokes and games,” he "
4893 "said."
4894 msgstr ""
4895
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4898 msgid ""
4899 "In fact, the company has given more than \\$4 million to various charities "
4900 "and causes. “Cards is not our life plan,” Max said. “We all have other "
4901 "interests and hobbies. We are passionate about other things going on in our "
4902 "lives. A lot of the activism we have done comes out of us taking things from "
4903 "the rest of our lives and channeling some of the excitement from the game "
4904 "into it.”"
4905 msgstr ""
4906
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4908 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3204
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4910 "Seeing money as fuel rather than the ultimate goal is what has enabled them "
4911 "to embrace Creative Commons licensing without reservation. CC licensing "
4912 "ended up being a savvy marketing move for the company, but nonetheless, "
4913 "giving up exclusive control of your work necessarily means giving up some "
4914 "opportunities to extract more money from customers."
4915 msgstr ""
4916
4917 #. type: Plain text
4918 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3209
4919 msgid ""
4920 "“It’s not right for everyone to release everything under CC licensing,” Max "
4921 "said. “If your only goal is to make a lot of money, then CC is not best "
4922 "strategy. This kind of business model, though, speaks to your values, and "
4923 "who you are and why you’re making things.”"
4924 msgstr ""
4925
4926 #. type: Plain text
4927 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3211
4928 msgid "## The Conversation"
4929 msgstr ""
4930
4931 #. type: Plain text
4932 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3215
4933 msgid ""
4934 "The Conversation is an independent source of news, sourced from the academic "
4935 "and research community and delivered direct to the public over the Internet. "
4936 "Founded in 2011 in Australia."
4937 msgstr ""
4938
4939 #. type: Plain text
4940 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3217
4941 msgid "theconversation.com"
4942 msgstr ""
4943
4944 #. type: Plain text
4945 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3220
4946 msgid ""
4947 "Revenue model: charging content creators (universities pay membership fees "
4948 "to have their faculties serve as writers), grant funding"
4949 msgstr ""
4950
4951 #. type: Plain text
4952 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3224
4953 msgid "Interviewee: Andrew Jaspan, founder"
4954 msgstr ""
4955
4956 #. type: Plain text
4957 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3234
4958 msgid ""
4959 "Andrew Jaspan spent years as an editor of major newspapers including the "
4960 "Observer in London, the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, and the Age in Melbourne, "
4961 "Australia. He experienced firsthand the decline of newspapers, including the "
4962 "collapse of revenues, layoffs, and the constant pressure to reduce costs. "
4963 "After he left the Age in 2005, his concern for the future journalism didn’t "
4964 "go away. Andrew made a commitment to come up with an alternative model."
4965 msgstr ""
4966
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4968 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3240
4969 msgid ""
4970 "Around the time he left his job as editor of the Melbourne Age, Andrew "
4971 "wondered where citizens would get news grounded in fact and evidence rather "
4972 "than opinion or ideology. He believed there was still an appetite for "
4973 "journalism with depth and substance but was concerned about the increasing "
4974 "focus on the sensational and sexy."
4975 msgstr ""
4976
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4978 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3258
4979 msgid ""
4980 "While at the Age, he’d become friends with a vice-chancellor of a university "
4981 "in Melbourne who encouraged him to talk to smart people across campus—an "
4982 "astrophysicist, a Nobel laureate, earth scientists, economists . . . These "
4983 "were the kind of smart people he wished were more involved in informing the "
4984 "world about what is going on and correcting the errors that appear in media. "
4985 "However, they were reluctant to engage with mass media. Often, journalists "
4986 "didn’t understand what they said, or unilaterally chose what aspect of a "
4987 "story to tell, putting out a version that these people felt was wrong or "
4988 "mischaracterized. Newspapers want to attract a mass audience. Scholars want "
4989 "to communicate serious news, findings, and insights. It’s not a perfect "
4990 "match. Universities are massive repositories of knowledge, research, wisdom, "
4991 "and expertise. But a lot of that stays behind a wall of their own making—"
4992 "there are the walled garden and ivory tower metaphors, and in more literal "
4993 "terms, the paywall. Broadly speaking, universities are part of society but "
4994 "disconnected from it. They are an enormous public resource but not that good "
4995 "at presenting their expertise to the wider public."
4996 msgstr ""
4997
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4999 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3269
5000 msgid ""
5001 "Andrew believed he could to help connect academics back into the public "
5002 "arena, and maybe help society find solutions to big problems. He thought "
5003 "about pairing professional editors with university and research experts, "
5004 "working one-on-one to refine everything from story structure to headline, "
5005 "captions, and quotes. The editors could help turn something that is academic "
5006 "into something understandable and readable. And this would be a key "
5007 "difference from traditional journalism—the subject matter expert would get a "
5008 "chance to check the article and give final approval before it is published. "
5009 "Compare this with reporters just picking and choosing the quotes and writing "
5010 "whatever they want."
5011 msgstr ""
5012
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5014 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3280
5015 msgid ""
5016 "The people he spoke to liked this idea, and Andrew embarked on raising money "
5017 "and support with the help of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial "
5018 "Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne, Monash "
5019 "University, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of "
5020 "Western Australia. These founding partners saw the value of an independent "
5021 "information channel that would also showcase the talent and knowledge of the "
5022 "university and research sector. With their help, in 2011, the Conversation, "
5023 "was launched as an independent news site in Australia. Everything published "
5024 "in the Conversation is openly licensed with Creative Commons."
5025 msgstr ""
5026
5027 #. type: Plain text
5028 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3289
5029 msgid ""
5030 "The Conversation is founded on the belief that underpinning a functioning "
5031 "democracy is access to independent, high-quality, informative journalism. "
5032 "The Conversation’s aim is for people to have a better understanding of "
5033 "current affairs and complex issues—and hopefully a better quality of public "
5034 "discourse. The Conversation sees itself as a source of trusted information "
5035 "dedicated to the public good. Their core mission is simple: to provide "
5036 "readers with a reliable source of evidence-based information."
5037 msgstr ""
5038
5039 #. type: Plain text
5040 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3302
5041 msgid ""
5042 "Andrew worked hard to reinvent a methodology for creating reliable, credible "
5043 "content. He introduced strict new working practices, a charter, and codes of "
5044 "conduct.1 These include fully disclosing who every author is (with their "
5045 "relevant expertise); who is funding their research; and if there are any "
5046 "potential or real conflicts of interest. Also important is where the content "
5047 "originates, and even though it comes from the university and research "
5048 "community, it still needs to be fully disclosed. The Conversation does not "
5049 "sit behind a paywall. Andrew believes access to information is an issue of "
5050 "equality—everyone should have access, like access to clean water. The "
5051 "Conversation is committed to an open and free Internet. Everyone should have "
5052 "free access to their content, and be able to share it or republish it."
5053 msgstr ""
5054
5055 #. type: Plain text
5056 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3313
5057 msgid ""
5058 "Creative Commons help with these goals; articles are published with the "
5059 "Attribution- NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND). They’re freely available for "
5060 "others to republish elsewhere as long as attribution is given and the "
5061 "content is not edited. Over five years, more than twenty-two thousand sites "
5062 "have republished their content. The Conversation website gets about 2.9 "
5063 "million unique views per month, but through republication they have thirty-"
5064 "five million readers. This couldn’t have been done without the Creative "
5065 "Commons license, and in Andrew’s view, Creative Commons is central to "
5066 "everything the Conversation does."
5067 msgstr ""
5068
5069 #. type: Plain text
5070 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3320
5071 msgid ""
5072 "When readers come across the Conversation, they seem to like what they find "
5073 "and recommend it to their friends, peers, and networks. Readership has grown "
5074 "primarily through word of mouth. While they don’t have sales and marketing, "
5075 "they do promote their work through social media (including Twitter and "
5076 "Facebook), and by being an accredited supplier to Google News."
5077 msgstr ""
5078
5079 #. type: Plain text
5080 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3328
5081 msgid ""
5082 "It’s usual for the founders of any company to ask themselves what kind of "
5083 "company it should be. It quickly became clear to the founders of the "
5084 "Conversation that they wanted to create a public good rather than make money "
5085 "off of information. Most media companies are working to aggregate as many "
5086 "eyeballs as possible and sell ads. The Conversation founders didn’t want "
5087 "this model. It takes no advertising and is a not-for-profit venture."
5088 msgstr ""
5089
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5091 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3337
5092 msgid ""
5093 "There are now different editions of the Conversation for Africa, the United "
5094 "Kingdom, France, and the United States, in addition to the one for "
5095 "Australia. All five editions have their own editorial mastheads, advisory "
5096 "boards, and content. The Conversation’s global virtual newsroom has roughly "
5097 "ninety staff working with thirty-five thousand academics from over sixteen "
5098 "hundred universities around the world. The Conversation would like to be "
5099 "working with university scholars from even more parts of the world."
5100 msgstr ""
5101
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5103 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3344
5104 msgid ""
5105 "Additionally, each edition has its own set of founding partners, strategic "
5106 "partners, and funders. They’ve received funding from foundations, "
5107 "corporates, institutions, and individual donations, but the Conversation is "
5108 "shifting toward paid memberships by universities and research institutions "
5109 "to sustain operations. This would safeguard the current service and help "
5110 "improve coverage and features."
5111 msgstr ""
5112
5113 #. type: Plain text
5114 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3350
5115 msgid ""
5116 "When professors from member universities write an article, there is some "
5117 "branding of the university associated with the article. On the Conversation "
5118 "website, paying university members are listed as “members and funders.” "
5119 "Early participants may be designated as “founding members,” with seats on "
5120 "the editorial advisory board."
5121 msgstr ""
5122
5123 #. type: Plain text
5124 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3358
5125 msgid ""
5126 "Academics are not paid for their contributions, but they get free editing "
5127 "from a professional (four to five hours per piece, on average). They also "
5128 "get access to a large audience. Every author and member university has "
5129 "access to a special analytics dashboard where they can check the reach of an "
5130 "article. The metrics include what people are tweeting, the comments, "
5131 "countries the readership represents, where the article is being republished, "
5132 "and the number of readers per article."
5133 msgstr ""
5134
5135 #. type: Plain text
5136 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3364
5137 msgid ""
5138 "The Conversation plans to expand the dashboard to show not just reach but "
5139 "impact. This tracks activities, behaviors, and events that occurred as a "
5140 "result of publication, including things like a scholar being asked to go on "
5141 "a show to discuss their piece, give a talk at a conference, collaborate, "
5142 "submit a journal paper, and consult a company on a topic."
5143 msgstr ""
5144
5145 #. type: Plain text
5146 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3368
5147 msgid ""
5148 "These reach and impact metrics show the benefits of membership. With the "
5149 "Conversation, universities can engage with the public and show why they’re "
5150 "of value."
5151 msgstr ""
5152
5153 #. type: Plain text
5154 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3374
5155 msgid ""
5156 "With its tagline, “Academic Rigor, Journalistic Flair,” the Conversation "
5157 "represents a new form of journalism that contributes to a more informed "
5158 "citizenry and improved democracy around the world. Its open business model "
5159 "and use of Creative Commons show how it’s possible to generate both a public "
5160 "good and operational revenue at the same time."
5161 msgstr ""
5162
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5165 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4485
5166 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5764
5167 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7409
5168 msgid "Web link"
5169 msgstr ""
5170
5171 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
5172 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3378
5173 msgid "theconversation.com/us/charter"
5174 msgstr ""
5175
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5177 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3380
5178 msgid "## Cory Doctorow"
5179 msgstr ""
5180
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5182 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3383
5183 msgid ""
5184 "Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer, activist, blogger, and "
5185 "journalist. Based in the U.S."
5186 msgstr ""
5187
5188 #. type: Plain text
5189 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3385
5190 msgid "craphound.com and boingboing.net"
5191 msgstr ""
5192
5193 #. type: Plain text
5194 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3388
5195 msgid ""
5196 "Revenue model: charging for physical copies (book sales), pay-what-you-want, "
5197 "selling translation rights to books"
5198 msgstr ""
5199
5200 #. type: Plain text
5201 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3390
5202 msgid "Interview date: January 12, 2016"
5203 msgstr ""
5204
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5206 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3399
5207 msgid ""
5208 "Cory Doctorow hates the term “business model,” and he is adamant that he is "
5209 "not a brand. “To me, branding is the idea that you can take a thing that has "
5210 "certain qualities, remove the qualities, and go on selling it,” he said. "
5211 "“I’m not out there trying to figure out how to be a brand. I’m doing this "
5212 "thing that animates me to work crazy insane hours because it’s the most "
5213 "important thing I know how to do.”"
5214 msgstr ""
5215
5216 #. type: Plain text
5217 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3403
5218 msgid ""
5219 "Cory calls himself an entrepreneur. He likes to say his success came from "
5220 "making stuff people happened to like and then getting out of the way of them "
5221 "sharing it."
5222 msgstr ""
5223
5224 #. type: Plain text
5225 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3412
5226 msgid ""
5227 "He is a science fiction writer, activist, blogger, and journalist. "
5228 "Beginning with his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, in 2003, "
5229 "his work has been published under a Creative Commons license. Cory is "
5230 "coeditor of the popular CC-licensed site Boing Boing, where he writes about "
5231 "technology, politics, and intellectual property. He has also written several "
5232 "nonfiction books, including the most recent Information Doesn’t Want to Be "
5233 "Free, about the ways in which creators can make a living in the Internet age."
5234 msgstr ""
5235
5236 #. type: Plain text
5237 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3416
5238 msgid ""
5239 "Cory primarily makes money by selling physical books, but he also takes on "
5240 "paid speaking gigs and is experimenting with pay-what-you-want models for "
5241 "his work."
5242 msgstr ""
5243
5244 #. type: Plain text
5245 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3431
5246 msgid ""
5247 "While Cory’s extensive body of fiction work has a large following, he is "
5248 "just as well known for his activism. He is an outspoken opponent of "
5249 "restrictive copyright and digital-rights-management (DRM) technology used to "
5250 "lock up content because he thinks both undermine creators and the public "
5251 "interest. He is currently a special adviser at the Electronic Frontier "
5252 "Foundation, where he is involved in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. law that "
5253 "protects DRM. Cory says his political work doesn’t directly make him money, "
5254 "but if he gave it up, he thinks he would lose credibility and, more "
5255 "importantly, lose the drive that propels him to create. “My political work "
5256 "is a different expression of the same artistic-political urge,” he said. “I "
5257 "have this suspicion that if I gave up the things that didn’t make me money, "
5258 "the genuineness would leach out of what I do, and the quality that causes "
5259 "people to like what I do would be gone.”"
5260 msgstr ""
5261
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5263 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3442
5264 msgid ""
5265 "Cory has been financially successful, but money is not his primary "
5266 "motivation. At the start of his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, he "
5267 "stresses how important it is not to become an artist if your goal is to get "
5268 "rich. “Entering the arts because you want to get rich is like buying lottery "
5269 "tickets because you want to get rich,” he wrote. “It might work, but it "
5270 "almost certainly won’t. Though, of course, someone always wins the lottery.” "
5271 "He acknowledges that he is one of the lucky few to “make it,” but he says he "
5272 "would be writing no matter what. “I am compelled to write,” he wrote. “Long "
5273 "before I wrote to keep myself fed and sheltered, I was writing to keep "
5274 "myself sane.”"
5275 msgstr ""
5276
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5279 msgid ""
5280 "Just as money is not his primary motivation to create, money is not his "
5281 "primary motivation to share. For Cory, sharing his work with Creative "
5282 "Commons is a moral imperative. “It felt morally right,” he said of his "
5283 "decision to adopt Creative Commons licenses. “I felt like I wasn’t "
5284 "contributing to the culture of surveillance and censorship that has been "
5285 "created to try to stop copying.” In other words, using CC licenses "
5286 "symbolizes his worldview."
5287 msgstr ""
5288
5289 #. type: Plain text
5290 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3458
5291 msgid ""
5292 "He also feels like there is a solid commercial basis for licensing his work "
5293 "with Creative Commons. While he acknowledges he hasn’t been able to do a "
5294 "controlled experiment to compare the commercial benefits of licensing with "
5295 "CC against reserving all rights, he thinks he has sold more books using a CC "
5296 "license than he would have without it. Cory says his goal is to convince "
5297 "people they should pay him for his work. “I started by not calling them "
5298 "thieves,” he said."
5299 msgstr ""
5300
5301 #. type: Plain text
5302 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3469
5303 msgid ""
5304 "Cory started using CC licenses soon after they were first created. At the "
5305 "time his first novel came out, he says the science fiction genre was overrun "
5306 "with people scanning and downloading books without permission. When he and "
5307 "his publisher took a closer look at who was doing that sort of thing online, "
5308 "they realized it looked a lot like book promotion. “I knew there was a "
5309 "relationship between having enthusiastic readers and having a successful "
5310 "career as a writer,” he said. “At the time, it took eighty hours to OCR a "
5311 "book, which is a big effort. I decided to spare them the time and energy, "
5312 "and give them the book for free in a format destined to spread.”"
5313 msgstr ""
5314
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5316 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3475
5317 msgid ""
5318 "Cory admits the stakes were pretty low for him when he first adopted "
5319 "Creative Commons licenses. He only had to sell two thousand copies of his "
5320 "book to break even. People often said he was only able to use CC licenses "
5321 "successfully at that time because he was just starting out. Now they say he "
5322 "can only do it because he is an established author."
5323 msgstr ""
5324
5325 #. type: Plain text
5326 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3482
5327 msgid ""
5328 "The bottom line, Cory says, is that no one has found a way to prevent people "
5329 "from copying the stuff they like. Rather than fighting the tide, Cory makes "
5330 "his work intrinsically shareable. “Getting the hell out of the way for "
5331 "people who want to share their love of you with other people sounds obvious, "
5332 "but it’s remarkable how many people don’t do it,” he said."
5333 msgstr ""
5334
5335 #. type: Plain text
5336 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3495
5337 msgid ""
5338 "Making his work available under Creative Commons licenses enables him to "
5339 "view his biggest fans as his ambassadors. “Being open to fan activity makes "
5340 "you part of the conversation about what fans do with your work and how they "
5341 "interact with it,” he said. Cory’s own website routinely highlights cool "
5342 "things his audience has done with his work. Unlike corporations like Disney "
5343 "that tend to have a hands-off relationship with their fan activity, he has a "
5344 "symbiotic relationship with his audience. “Engaging with your audience "
5345 "can’t guarantee you success,” he said. “And Disney is an example of being "
5346 "able to remain aloof and still being the most successful company in the "
5347 "creative industry in history. But I figure my likelihood of being Disney is "
5348 "pretty slim, so I should take all the help I can get.”"
5349 msgstr ""
5350
5351 #. type: Plain text
5352 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3508
5353 msgid ""
5354 "His first book was published under the most restrictive Creative Commons "
5355 "license, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND). It allows only "
5356 "verbatim copying for noncommercial purposes. His later work is published "
5357 "under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA), which "
5358 "gives people the right to adapt his work for noncommercial purposes but only "
5359 "if they share it back under the same license terms. Before releasing his "
5360 "work under a CC license that allows adaptations, he always sells the right "
5361 "to translate the book to other languages to a commercial publisher first. He "
5362 "wants to reach new potential buyers in other parts of the world, and he "
5363 "thinks it is more difficult to get people to pay for translations if there "
5364 "are fan translations already available for free."
5365 msgstr ""
5366
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5368 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3520
5369 msgid ""
5370 "In his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, Cory likens his philosophy "
5371 "to thinking like a dandelion. Dandelions produce thousands of seeds each "
5372 "spring, and they are blown into the air going in every direction. The "
5373 "strategy is to maximize the number of blind chances the dandelion has for "
5374 "continuing its genetic line. Similarly, he says there are lots of people out "
5375 "there who may want to buy creative work or compensate authors for it in some "
5376 "other way. “The more places your work can find itself, the greater the "
5377 "likelihood that it will find one of those would-be customers in some "
5378 "unsuspected crack in the metaphorical pavement,” he wrote. “The copies that "
5379 "others make of my work cost me nothing, and present the possibility that "
5380 "I’ll get something.”"
5381 msgstr ""
5382
5383 #. type: Plain text
5384 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3529
5385 msgid ""
5386 "Applying a CC license to his work increases the chances it will be shared "
5387 "more widely around the Web. He avoids DRM—and openly opposes the practice—"
5388 "for similar reasons. DRM has the effect of tying a work to a particular "
5389 "platform. This digital lock, in turn, strips the authors of control over "
5390 "their own work and hands that control over to the platform. He calls it "
5391 "Cory’s First Law: “Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to "
5392 "you and won’t give you the key, that lock isn’t there for your benefit.”"
5393 msgstr ""
5394
5395 #. type: Plain text
5396 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3538
5397 msgid ""
5398 "Cory operates under the premise that artists benefit when there are more, "
5399 "rather than fewer, places where people can access their work. The Internet "
5400 "has opened up those avenues, but DRM is designed to limit them. “On the one "
5401 "hand, we can credibly make our work available to a widely dispersed "
5402 "audience,” he said. “On the other hand, the intermediaries we historically "
5403 "sold to are making it harder to go around them.” Cory continually looks for "
5404 "ways to reach his audience without relying upon major platforms that will "
5405 "try to take control over his work."
5406 msgstr ""
5407
5408 #. type: Plain text
5409 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3547
5410 msgid ""
5411 "Cory says his e-book sales have been lower than those of his competitors, "
5412 "and he attributes some of that to the CC license making the work available "
5413 "for free. But he believes people are willing to pay for content they like, "
5414 "even when it is available for free, as long as it is easy to do. He was "
5415 "extremely successful using Humble Bundle, a platform that allows people to "
5416 "pay what they want for DRM-free versions of a bundle of a particular "
5417 "creator’s work. He is planning to try his own pay-what-you-want experiment "
5418 "soon."
5419 msgstr ""
5420
5421 #. type: Plain text
5422 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3556
5423 msgid ""
5424 "Fans are particularly willing to pay when they feel personally connected to "
5425 "the artist. Cory works hard to create that personal connection. One way he "
5426 "does this is by personally answering every single email he gets. “If you "
5427 "look at the history of artists, most die in penury,” he said. “That reality "
5428 "means that for artists, we have to find ways to support ourselves when "
5429 "public tastes shift, when copyright stops producing. Future-proofing your "
5430 "artistic career in many ways means figuring out how to stay connected to "
5431 "those people who have been touched by your work.”"
5432 msgstr ""
5433
5434 #. type: Plain text
5435 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3562
5436 msgid ""
5437 "Cory’s realism about the difficulty of making a living in the arts does not "
5438 "reflect pessimism about the Internet age. Instead, he says the fact that it "
5439 "is hard to make a living as an artist is nothing new. What is new, he writes "
5440 "in his book, “is how many ways there are to make things, and to get them "
5441 "into other people’s hands and minds.”"
5442 msgstr ""
5443
5444 #. type: Plain text
5445 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3564
5446 msgid "It has never been easier to think like a dandelion."
5447 msgstr ""
5448
5449 #. type: Plain text
5450 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3566
5451 msgid "## Figshare"
5452 msgstr ""
5453
5454 #. type: Plain text
5455 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3571
5456 msgid ""
5457 "Figshare is a for-profit company offering an online repository where "
5458 "researchers can preserve and share the output of their research, including "
5459 "figures, data sets, images, and videos. Founded in 2011 in the UK."
5460 msgstr ""
5461
5462 #. type: Plain text
5463 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3573
5464 msgid "figshare.com"
5465 msgstr ""
5466
5467 #. type: Plain text
5468 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3575
5469 msgid "Revenue model: platform providing paid services to creators"
5470 msgstr ""
5471
5472 #. type: Plain text
5473 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3577
5474 msgid "Interview date: January 28, 2016"
5475 msgstr ""
5476
5477 #. type: Plain text
5478 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3579
5479 msgid "Interviewee: Mark Hahnel, founder"
5480 msgstr ""
5481
5482 #. type: Plain text
5483 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3590
5484 msgid ""
5485 "Figshare’s mission is to change the face of academic publishing through "
5486 "improved dissemination, discoverability, and reusability of scholarly "
5487 "research. Figshare is a repository where users can make all the output of "
5488 "their research available—from posters and presentations to data sets and code"
5489 "—in a way that’s easy to discover, cite, and share. Users can upload any "
5490 "file format, which can then be previewed in a Web browser. Research output "
5491 "is disseminated in a way that the current scholarly-publishing model does "
5492 "not allow."
5493 msgstr ""
5494
5495 #. type: Plain text
5496 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3594
5497 msgid ""
5498 "Figshare founder Mark Hahnel often gets asked: How do you make money? How do "
5499 "we know you’ll be here in five years? Can you, as a for-profit venture, be "
5500 "trusted? Answers have evolved over time."
5501 msgstr ""
5502
5503 #. type: Plain text
5504 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3602
5505 msgid ""
5506 "Mark traces the origins of Figshare back to when he was a graduate student "
5507 "getting his PhD in stem cell biology. His research involved working with "
5508 "videos of stem cells in motion. However, when he went to publish his "
5509 "research, there was no way for him to also publish the videos, figures, "
5510 "graphs, and data sets. This was frustrating. Mark believed publishing his "
5511 "complete research would lead to more citations and be better for his career."
5512 msgstr ""
5513
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5515 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3608
5516 msgid ""
5517 "Mark does not consider himself an advanced software programmer. "
5518 "Fortunately, things like cloud-based computing and wikis had become "
5519 "mainstream, and he believed it ought to be possible to put all his research "
5520 "online and share it with anyone. So he began working on a solution."
5521 msgstr ""
5522
5523 #. type: Plain text
5524 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3612
5525 msgid ""
5526 "There were two key needs: licenses to make the data citable, and persistent "
5527 "identifiers— URL links that always point back to the original object "
5528 "ensuring the research is citable for the long term."
5529 msgstr ""
5530
5531 #. type: Plain text
5532 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3619
5533 msgid ""
5534 "Mark chose Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to meet the need for a "
5535 "persistent identifier. In the DOI system, an object’s metadata is stored as "
5536 "a series of numbers in the DOI name. Referring to an object by its DOI is "
5537 "more stable than referring to it by its URL, because the location of an "
5538 "object (the web page or URL) can often change. Mark partnered with DataCite "
5539 "for the provision of DOIs for research data."
5540 msgstr ""
5541
5542 #. type: Plain text
5543 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3625
5544 msgid ""
5545 "As for licenses, Mark chose Creative Commons. The open-access and open-"
5546 "science communities were already using and recommending Creative Commons. "
5547 "Based on what was happening in those communities and Mark’s dialogue with "
5548 "peers, he went with CC0 (in the public domain) for data sets and CC BY "
5549 "(Attribution) for figures, videos, and data sets."
5550 msgstr ""
5551
5552 #. type: Plain text
5553 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3630
5554 msgid ""
5555 "So Mark began using DOIs and Creative Commons for his own research work. He "
5556 "had a science blog where he wrote about it and made all his data open. "
5557 "People started commenting on his blog that they wanted to do the same. So he "
5558 "opened it up for them to use, too."
5559 msgstr ""
5560
5561 #. type: Plain text
5562 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3637
5563 msgid ""
5564 "People liked the interface and simple upload process. People started asking "
5565 "if they could also share theses, grant proposals, and code. Inclusion of "
5566 "code raised new licensing issues, as Creative Commons licenses are not used "
5567 "for software. To allow the sharing of software code, Mark chose the MIT "
5568 "license, but GNU and Apache licenses can also be used."
5569 msgstr ""
5570
5571 #. type: Plain text
5572 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3643
5573 msgid ""
5574 "Mark sought investment to make this into a scalable product. After a few "
5575 "unsuccessful funding pitches, UK-based Digital Science expressed interest "
5576 "but insisted on a more viable business model. They made an initial "
5577 "investment, and together they came up with a freemium-like business model."
5578 msgstr ""
5579
5580 #. type: Plain text
5581 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3653
5582 msgid ""
5583 "Under the freemium model, academics upload their research to Figshare for "
5584 "storage and sharing for free. Each research object is licensed with Creative "
5585 "Commons and receives a DOI link. The premium option charges researchers a "
5586 "fee for gigabytes of private storage space, and for private online space "
5587 "designed for a set number of research collaborators, which is ideal for "
5588 "larger teams and geographically dispersed research groups. Figshare sums up "
5589 "its value proposition to researchers as “You retain ownership. You license "
5590 "it. You get credit. We just make sure it persists.”"
5591 msgstr ""
5592
5593 #. type: Plain text
5594 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3661
5595 msgid ""
5596 "In January 2012, Figshare was launched. (The fig in Figshare stands for "
5597 "figures.) Using investment funds, Mark made significant improvements to "
5598 "Figshare. For example, researchers could quickly preview their research "
5599 "files within a browser without having to download them first or require "
5600 "third-party software. Journals who were still largely publishing articles as "
5601 "static noninteractive PDFs became interested in having Figshare provide that "
5602 "functionality for them."
5603 msgstr ""
5604
5605 #. type: Plain text
5606 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3673
5607 msgid ""
5608 "Figshare diversified its business model to include services for journals. "
5609 "Figshare began hosting large amounts of data for the journals’ online "
5610 "articles. This additional data improved the quality of the articles. "
5611 "Outsourcing this service to Figshare freed publishers from having to develop "
5612 "this functionality as part of their own infrastructure. Figshare-hosted data "
5613 "also provides a link back to the article, generating additional click-"
5614 "through and readership—a benefit to both journal publishers and researchers. "
5615 "Figshare now provides research-data infrastructure for a wide variety of "
5616 "publishers including Wiley, Springer Nature, PLOS, and Taylor and Francis, "
5617 "to name a few, and has convinced them to use Creative Commons licenses for "
5618 "the data."
5619 msgstr ""
5620
5621 #. type: Plain text
5622 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3681
5623 msgid ""
5624 "Governments allocate significant public funds to research. In parallel with "
5625 "the launch of Figshare, governments around the world began requesting the "
5626 "research they fund be open and accessible. They mandated that researchers "
5627 "and academic institutions better manage and disseminate their research "
5628 "outputs. Institutions looking to comply with this new mandate became "
5629 "interested in Figshare. Figshare once again diversified its business model, "
5630 "adding services for institutions."
5631 msgstr ""
5632
5633 #. type: Plain text
5634 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3689
5635 msgid ""
5636 "Figshare now offers a range of fee-based services to institutions, including "
5637 "their own minibranded Figshare space (called Figshare for Institutions) that "
5638 "securely hosts research data of institutions in the cloud. Services include "
5639 "not just hosting but data metrics, data dissemination, and user-group "
5640 "administration. Figshare’s workflow, and the services they offer for "
5641 "institutions, take into account the needs of librarians and administrators, "
5642 "as well as of the researchers."
5643 msgstr ""
5644
5645 #. type: Plain text
5646 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3700
5647 msgid ""
5648 "As with researchers and publishers, Fig-share encouraged institutions to "
5649 "share their research with CC BY (Attribution) and their data with CC0 (into "
5650 "the public domain). Funders who require researchers and institutions to use "
5651 "open licensing believe in the social responsibilities and benefits of making "
5652 "research accessible to all. Publishing research in this open way has come "
5653 "to be called open access. But not all funders specify CC BY; some "
5654 "institutions want to offer their researchers a choice, including less "
5655 "permissive licenses like CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial), CC BY-SA "
5656 "(Attribution-ShareAlike), or CC BY-ND (Attribution-NoDerivs)."
5657 msgstr ""
5658
5659 #. type: Plain text
5660 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3708
5661 msgid ""
5662 "For Mark this created a conflict. On the one hand, the principles and "
5663 "benefits of open science are at the heart of Figshare, and Mark believes CC "
5664 "BY is the best license for this. On the other hand, institutions were saying "
5665 "they wouldn’t use Figshare unless it offered a choice in licenses. He "
5666 "initially refused to offer anything beyond CC0 and CC BY, but after seeing "
5667 "an open-source CERN project offer all Creative Commons licenses without any "
5668 "negative repercussions, he decided to follow suit."
5669 msgstr ""
5670
5671 #. type: Plain text
5672 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3715
5673 msgid ""
5674 "Mark is thinking of doing a Figshare study that tracks research "
5675 "dissemination according to Creative Commons license, and gathering metrics "
5676 "on views, citations, and downloads. You could see which license generates "
5677 "the biggest impact. If the data showed that CC BY is more impactful, Mark "
5678 "believes more and more researchers and institutions will make it their "
5679 "license of choice."
5680 msgstr ""
5681
5682 #. type: Plain text
5683 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3724
5684 msgid ""
5685 "Figshare has an Application Programming Interface (API) that makes it "
5686 "possible for data to be pulled from Figshare and used in other applications. "
5687 "As an example, Mark shared a Figshare data set showing the journal "
5688 "subscriptions that higher-education institutions in the United Kingdom paid "
5689 "to ten major publishers.1 Figshare’s API enables that data to be pulled into "
5690 "an app developed by a completely different researcher that converts the data "
5691 "into a visually interesting graph, which any viewer can alter by changing "
5692 "any of the variables.2"
5693 msgstr ""
5694
5695 #. type: Plain text
5696 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3734
5697 msgid ""
5698 "The free version of Figshare has built a community of academics, who through "
5699 "word of mouth and presentations have promoted and spread awareness of "
5700 "Figshare. To amplify and reward the community, Figshare established an "
5701 "Advisor program, providing those who promoted Figshare with hoodies and T-"
5702 "shirts, early access to new features, and travel expenses when they gave "
5703 "presentations outside of their area. These Advisors also helped Mark on what "
5704 "license to use for software code and whether to offer universities an option "
5705 "of using Creative Commons licenses."
5706 msgstr ""
5707
5708 #. type: Plain text
5709 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3744
5710 msgid ""
5711 "Mark says his success is partly about being in the right place at the right "
5712 "time. He also believes that the diversification of Figshare’s model over "
5713 "time has been key to success. Figshare now offers a comprehensive set of "
5714 "services to researchers, publishers, and institutions.3 If he had relied "
5715 "solely on revenue from premium subscriptions, he believes Figshare would "
5716 "have struggled. In Figshare’s early days, their primary users were early-"
5717 "career and late-career academics. It has only been because funders mandated "
5718 "open licensing that Figshare is now being used by the mainstream."
5719 msgstr ""
5720
5721 #. type: Plain text
5722 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3751
5723 msgid ""
5724 "Today Figshare has 26 million–plus page views, 7.5 million–plus downloads, "
5725 "800,000–plus user uploads, 2 million–plus articles, 500,000-plus "
5726 "collections, and 5,000–plus projects. Sixty percent of their traffic comes "
5727 "from Google. A sister company called Altmetric tracks the use of Figshare by "
5728 "others, including Wikipedia and news sources."
5729 msgstr ""
5730
5731 #. type: Plain text
5732 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3763
5733 msgid ""
5734 "Figshare uses the revenue it generates from the premium subscribers, journal "
5735 "publishers, and institutions to fund and expand what it can offer to "
5736 "researchers for free. Figshare has publicly stuck to its principles—keeping "
5737 "the free service free and requiring the use of CC BY and CC0 from the start—"
5738 "and from Mark’s perspective, this is why people trust Figshare. Mark sees "
5739 "new competitors coming forward who are just in it for money. If Figshare was "
5740 "only in it for the money, they wouldn’t care about offering a free version. "
5741 "Figshare’s principles and advocacy for openness are a key differentiator. "
5742 "Going forward, Mark sees Figshare not only as supporting open access to "
5743 "research but also enabling people to collaborate and make new discoveries."
5744 msgstr ""
5745
5746 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
5747 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3769
5748 msgid ""
5749 "figshare.com/articles/Journal\\_subscription\\_costs\\_FOIs\\_to\\_UK"
5750 "\\_universities/1186832"
5751 msgstr ""
5752
5753 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
5754 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3769
5755 msgid ""
5756 "retr0.shinyapps.io/journal\\_costs/?"
5757 "year=2014&inst=19,22,38,42,59,64,80,95,136"
5758 msgstr ""
5759
5760 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
5761 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3769
5762 msgid "figshare.com/features"
5763 msgstr ""
5764
5765 #. type: Plain text
5766 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3771
5767 msgid "## Figure.NZ"
5768 msgstr ""
5769
5770 #. type: Plain text
5771 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3775
5772 msgid ""
5773 "Figure.NZ is a nonprofit charity that makes an online data platform designed "
5774 "to make data reusable and easy to understand. Founded in 2012 in New Zealand."
5775 msgstr ""
5776
5777 #. type: Plain text
5778 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3777
5779 msgid "figure.nz"
5780 msgstr ""
5781
5782 #. type: Plain text
5783 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3780
5784 msgid ""
5785 "Revenue model: platform providing paid services to creators, donations, "
5786 "sponsorships"
5787 msgstr ""
5788
5789 #. type: Plain text
5790 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3782
5791 msgid "Interview date: May 3, 2016"
5792 msgstr ""
5793
5794 #. type: Plain text
5795 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3784
5796 msgid "Interviewee: Lillian Grace, founder"
5797 msgstr ""
5798
5799 #. type: Plain text
5800 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3803
5801 msgid ""
5802 "In the paper Harnessing the Economic and Social Power of Data presented at "
5803 "the New Zealand Data Futures Forum in 2014,1 Figure.NZ founder Lillian Grace "
5804 "said there are thousands of valuable and relevant data sets freely available "
5805 "to us right now, but most people don’t use them. She used to think this "
5806 "meant people didn’t care about being informed, but she’s come to see that "
5807 "she was wrong. Almost everyone wants to be informed about issues that matter—"
5808 "not only to them, but also to their families, their communities, their "
5809 "businesses, and their country. But there’s a big difference between "
5810 "availability and accessibility of information. Data is spread across "
5811 "thousands of sites and is held within databases and spreadsheets that "
5812 "require both time and skill to engage with. To use data when making a "
5813 "decision, you have to know what specific question to ask, identify a source "
5814 "that has collected the data, and manipulate complex tools to extract and "
5815 "visualize the information within the data set. Lillian established Figure.NZ "
5816 "to make data truly accessible to all, with a specific focus on New Zealand."
5817 msgstr ""
5818
5819 #. type: Plain text
5820 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3812
5821 msgid ""
5822 "Lillian had the idea for Figure.NZ in February 2012 while working for the "
5823 "New Zealand Institute, a think tank concerned with improving economic "
5824 "prosperity, social well-being, environmental quality, and environmental "
5825 "productivity for New Zealand and New Zealanders. While giving talks to "
5826 "community and business groups, Lillian realized “every single issue we "
5827 "addressed would have been easier to deal with if more people understood the "
5828 "basic facts.” But understanding the basic facts sometimes requires data and "
5829 "research that you often have to pay for."
5830 msgstr ""
5831
5832 #. type: Plain text
5833 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3824
5834 msgid ""
5835 "Lillian began to imagine a website that lifted data up to a visual form that "
5836 "could be easily understood and freely accessed. Initially launched as Wiki "
5837 "New Zealand, the original idea was that people could contribute their data "
5838 "and visuals via a wiki. However, few people had graphs that could be used "
5839 "and shared, and there were no standards or consistency around the data and "
5840 "the visuals. Realizing the wiki model wasn’t working, Lillian brought the "
5841 "process of data aggregation, curation, and visual presentation in-house, and "
5842 "invested in the technology to help automate some of it. Wiki New Zealand "
5843 "became Figure.NZ, and efforts were reoriented toward providing services to "
5844 "those wanting to open their data and present it visually."
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5850 "Here’s how it works. Figure.NZ sources data from other organizations, "
5851 "including corporations, public repositories, government departments, and "
5852 "academics. Figure.NZ imports and extracts that data, and then validates and "
5853 "standardizes it—all with a strong eye on what will be best for users. They "
5854 "then make the data available in a series of standardized forms, both human- "
5855 "and machine-readable, with rich metadata about the sources, the licenses, "
5856 "and data types. Figure.NZ has a chart-designing tool that makes simple bar, "
5857 "line, and area graphs from any data source. The graphs are posted to the "
5858 "Figure.NZ website, and they can also be exported in a variety of formats for "
5859 "print or online use. Figure.NZ makes its data and graphs available using the "
5860 "Attribution (CC BY) license. This allows others to reuse, revise, remix, "
5861 "and redistribute Figure.NZ data and graphs as long as they give attribution "
5862 "to the original source and to Figure.NZ."
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5868 "Lillian characterizes the initial decision to use Creative Commons as "
5869 "naively fortunate. It was first recommended to her by a colleague. Lillian "
5870 "spent time looking at what Creative Commons offered and thought it looked "
5871 "good, was clear, and made common sense. It was easy to use and easy for "
5872 "others to understand. Over time, she’s come to realize just how fortunate "
5873 "and important that decision turned out to be. New Zealand’s government has "
5874 "an open-access and licensing framework called NZGOAL, which provides "
5875 "guidance for agencies when they release copyrighted and noncopyrighted work "
5876 "and material.2 It aims to standardize the licensing of works with government "
5877 "copyright and how they can be reused, and it does this with Creative Commons "
5878 "licenses. As a result, 98 percent of all government-agency data is Creative "
5879 "Commons licensed, fitting in nicely with Figure.NZ’s decision."
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5885 "Lillian thinks current ideas of what a business is are relatively new, only "
5886 "a hundred years old or so. She’s convinced that twenty years from now, we "
5887 "will see new and different models for business. Figure.NZ is set up as a "
5888 "nonprofit charity. It is purpose-driven but also strives to pay people well "
5889 "and thinks like a business. Lillian sees the charity-nonprofit status as an "
5890 "essential element for the mission and purpose of Figure.NZ. She believes "
5891 "Wikipedia would not work if it were for profit, and similarly, Figure.NZ’s "
5892 "nonprofit status assures people who have data and people who want to use it "
5893 "that they can rely on Figure.NZ’s motives. People see them as a trusted "
5894 "wrangler and source."
5895 msgstr ""
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5899 msgid ""
5900 "Although Figure.NZ is a social enterprise that openly licenses their data "
5901 "and graphs for everyone to use for free, they have taken care not to be "
5902 "perceived as a free service all around the table. Lillian believes hundreds "
5903 "of millions of dollars are spent by the government and organizations to "
5904 "collect data. However, very little money is spent on taking that data and "
5905 "making it accessible, understandable, and useful for decision making. "
5906 "Government uses some of the data for policy, but Lillian believes that it is "
5907 "underutilized and the potential value is much larger. Figure.NZ is focused "
5908 "on solving that problem. They believe a portion of money allocated to "
5909 "collecting data should go into making sure that data is useful and generates "
5910 "value. If the government wants citizens to understand why certain decisions "
5911 "are being made and to be more aware about what the government is doing, why "
5912 "not transform the data it collects into easily understood visuals? It could "
5913 "even become a way for a government or any organization to differentiate, "
5914 "market, and brand itself."
5915 msgstr ""
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5920 "Figure.NZ spends a lot of time seeking to understand the motivations of data "
5921 "collectors and to identify the channels where it can provide value. Every "
5922 "part of their business model has been focused on who is going to get value "
5923 "from the data and visuals."
5924 msgstr ""
5925
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5927 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3899
5928 msgid ""
5929 "Figure.NZ has multiple lines of business. They provide commercial services "
5930 "to organizations that want their data publicly available and want to use "
5931 "Figure.NZ as their publishing platform. People who want to publish open data "
5932 "appreciate Figure.NZ’s ability to do it faster, more easily, and better than "
5933 "they can. Customers are encouraged to help their users find, use, and make "
5934 "things from the data they make available on Figure.NZ’s website. Customers "
5935 "control what is released and the license terms (although Figure.NZ "
5936 "encourages Creative Commons licensing). Figure.NZ also serves customers who "
5937 "want a specific collection of charts created—for example, for their website "
5938 "or annual report. Charging the organizations that want to make their data "
5939 "available enables Figure.NZ to provide their site free to all users, to "
5940 "truly democratize data."
5941 msgstr ""
5942
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5944 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3910
5945 msgid ""
5946 "Lillian notes that the current state of most data is terrible and often not "
5947 "well understood by the people who have it. This sometimes makes it difficult "
5948 "for customers and Figure.NZ to figure out what it would cost to import, "
5949 "standardize, and display that data in a useful way. To deal with this, "
5950 "Figure.NZ uses “high-trust contracts,” where customers allocate a certain "
5951 "budget to the task that Figure.NZ is then free to draw from, as long as "
5952 "Figure.NZ frequently reports on what they’ve produced so the customer can "
5953 "determine the value for money. This strategy has helped build trust and "
5954 "transparency about the level of effort associated with doing work that has "
5955 "never been done before."
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5961 "A second line of business is what Figure.NZ calls partners. ASB Bank and "
5962 "Statistics New Zealand are partners who back Figure.NZ’s efforts. As one "
5963 "example, with their support Figure.NZ has been able to create Business "
5964 "Figures, a special way for businesses to find useful data without having to "
5965 "know what questions to ask.3"
5966 msgstr ""
5967
5968 #. type: Plain text
5969 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3920
5970 msgid ""
5971 "Figure.NZ also has patrons.4 Patrons donate to topic areas they care about, "
5972 "directly enabling Figure.NZ to get data together to flesh out those areas. "
5973 "Patrons do not direct what data is included or excluded."
5974 msgstr ""
5975
5976 #. type: Plain text
5977 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3925
5978 msgid ""
5979 "Figure.NZ also accepts philanthropic donations, which are used to provide "
5980 "more content, extend technology, and improve services, or are targeted to "
5981 "fund a specific effort or provide in-kind support. As a charity, donations "
5982 "are tax deductible."
5983 msgstr ""
5984
5985 #. type: Plain text
5986 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3935
5987 msgid ""
5988 "Figure.NZ has morphed and grown over time. With data aggregation, curation, "
5989 "and visualizing services all in-house, Figure.NZ has developed a deep "
5990 "expertise in taking random styles of data, standardizing it, and making it "
5991 "useful. Lillian realized that Figure.NZ could easily become a warehouse of "
5992 "seventy people doing data. But for Lillian, growth isn’t always good. In her "
5993 "view, bigger often means less effective. Lillian set artificial constraints "
5994 "on growth, forcing the organization to think differently and be more "
5995 "efficient. Rather than in-house growth, they are growing and building "
5996 "external relationships."
5997 msgstr ""
5998
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6000 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3944
6001 msgid ""
6002 "Figure.NZ’s website displays visuals and data associated with a wide range "
6003 "of categories including crime, economy, education, employment, energy, "
6004 "environment, health, information and communications technology, industry, "
6005 "tourism, and many others. A search function helps users find tables and "
6006 "graphs. Figure.NZ does not provide analysis or interpretation of the data or "
6007 "visuals. Their goal is to teach people how to think, not think for them. "
6008 "Figure.NZ wants to create intuitive experiences, not user manuals."
6009 msgstr ""
6010
6011 #. type: Plain text
6012 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3956
6013 msgid ""
6014 "Figure.NZ believes data and visuals should be useful. They provide their "
6015 "customers with a data collection template and teach them why it’s important "
6016 "and how to use it. They’ve begun putting more emphasis on tracking what "
6017 "users of their website want. They also get requests from social media and "
6018 "through email for them to share data for a specific topic—for example, can "
6019 "you share data for water quality? If they have the data, they respond "
6020 "quickly; if they don’t, they try and identify the organizations that would "
6021 "have that data and forge a relationship so they can be included on Figure."
6022 "NZ’s site. Overall, Figure.NZ is seeking to provide a place for people to be "
6023 "curious about, access, and interpret data on topics they are interested in."
6024 msgstr ""
6025
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6027 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3964
6028 msgid ""
6029 "Lillian has a deep and profound vision for Figure.NZ that goes well beyond "
6030 "simply providing open-data services. She says things are different now. “We "
6031 "used to live in a world where it was really hard to share information "
6032 "widely. And in that world, the best future was created by having a few great "
6033 "leaders who essentially had access to the information and made decisions on "
6034 "behalf of others, whether it was on behalf of a country or companies."
6035 msgstr ""
6036
6037 #. type: Plain text
6038 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3968
6039 msgid ""
6040 "“But now we live in a world where it’s really easy to share information "
6041 "widely and also to communicate widely. In the world we live in now, the best "
6042 "future is the one where everyone can make well-informed decisions."
6043 msgstr ""
6044
6045 #. type: Plain text
6046 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3972
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6048 "“The use of numbers and data as a way of making well-informed decisions is "
6049 "one of the areas where there is the biggest gaps. We don’t really use "
6050 "numbers as a part of our thinking and part of our understanding yet."
6051 msgstr ""
6052
6053 #. type: Plain text
6054 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3982
6055 msgid ""
6056 "“Part of the reason is the way data is spread across hundreds of sites. In "
6057 "addition, for the most part, deep thinking based on data is constrained to "
6058 "experts because most people don’t have data literacy. There once was a time "
6059 "when many citizens in society couldn’t read or write. However, as a society, "
6060 "we’ve now come to believe that reading and writing skills should be "
6061 "something all citizens have. We haven’t yet adopted a similar belief around "
6062 "numbers and data literacy. We largely still believe that only a few "
6063 "specially trained people can analyze and think with numbers."
6064 msgstr ""
6065
6066 #. type: Plain text
6067 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3988
6068 msgid ""
6069 "“Figure.NZ may be the first organization to assert that everyone can use "
6070 "numbers in their thinking, and it’s built a technological platform along "
6071 "with trust and a network of relationships to make that possible. What you "
6072 "can see on Figure.NZ are tens of thousands of graphs, maps, and data."
6073 msgstr ""
6074
6075 #. type: Plain text
6076 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:3996
6077 msgid ""
6078 "“Figure.NZ sees this as a new kind of alphabet that can help people analyze "
6079 "what they see around them. A way to be thoughtful and informed about "
6080 "society. A means of engaging in conversation and shaping decision making "
6081 "that transcends personal experience. The long-term value and impact is "
6082 "almost impossible to measure, but the goal is to help citizens gain "
6083 "understanding and work together in more informed ways to shape the future.”"
6084 msgstr ""
6085
6086 #. type: Plain text
6087 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4003
6088 msgid ""
6089 "Lillian sees Figure.NZ’s model as having global potential. But for now, "
6090 "their focus is completely on making Figure.NZ work in New Zealand and to get "
6091 "the “network effect”— users dramatically increasing value for themselves and "
6092 "for others through use of their service. Creative Commons is core to making "
6093 "the network effect possible."
6094 msgstr ""
6095
6096 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
6097 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4010
6098 msgid ""
6099 "www.nzdatafutures.org.nz/sites/default/files/NZDFF\\_harness-the-power.pdf"
6100 msgstr ""
6101
6102 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
6103 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4010
6104 msgid ""
6105 "www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-"
6106 "government-open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/"
6107 msgstr ""
6108
6109 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
6110 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4010
6111 msgid "figure.nz/business/"
6112 msgstr ""
6113
6114 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
6115 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4010
6116 msgid "figure.nz/patrons/"
6117 msgstr ""
6118
6119 #. type: Plain text
6120 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4012
6121 msgid "## Knowledge Unlatched"
6122 msgstr ""
6123
6124 #. type: Plain text
6125 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4016
6126 msgid ""
6127 "Knowledge Unlatched is a not-for-profit community interest company that "
6128 "brings libraries together to pool funds to publish open-access books. "
6129 "Founded in 2012 in the UK."
6130 msgstr ""
6131
6132 #. type: Plain text
6133 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4018
6134 msgid "knowledgeunlatched.org"
6135 msgstr ""
6136
6137 #. type: Plain text
6138 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4020
6139 msgid "Revenue model: crowdfunding (specialized)"
6140 msgstr ""
6141
6142 #. type: Plain text
6143 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4022
6144 msgid "Interview date: February 26, 2016"
6145 msgstr ""
6146
6147 #. type: Plain text
6148 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4024
6149 msgid "Interviewee: Frances Pinter, founder"
6150 msgstr ""
6151
6152 #. type: Plain text
6153 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4040
6154 msgid ""
6155 "The serial entrepreneur Dr. Frances Pinter has been at the forefront of "
6156 "innovation in the publishing industry for nearly forty years. She founded "
6157 "the UK-based Knowledge Unlatched with a mission to enable open access to "
6158 "scholarly books. For Frances, the current scholarly- book-publishing system "
6159 "is not working for anyone, and especially not for monographs in the "
6160 "humanities and social sciences. Knowledge Unlatched is committed to changing "
6161 "this and has been working with libraries to create a sustainable alternative "
6162 "model for publishing scholarly books, sharing the cost of making monographs "
6163 "(released under a Creative Commons license) and savings costs over the long "
6164 "term. Since its launch, Knowledge Unlatched has received several awards, "
6165 "including the IFLA/Brill Open Access award in 2014 and a Curtin University "
6166 "Commercial Innovation Award for Innovation in Education in 2015."
6167 msgstr ""
6168
6169 #. type: Plain text
6170 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4045
6171 msgid ""
6172 "Dr. Pinter has been in academic publishing most of her career. About ten "
6173 "years ago, she became acquainted with the Creative Commons founder Lawrence "
6174 "Lessig and got interested in Creative Commons as a tool for both protecting "
6175 "content online and distributing it free to users."
6176 msgstr ""
6177
6178 #. type: Plain text
6179 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4050
6180 msgid ""
6181 "Not long after, she ran a project in Africa convincing publishers in Uganda "
6182 "and South Africa to put some of their content online for free using a "
6183 "Creative Commons license and to see what happened to print sales. Sales went "
6184 "up, not down."
6185 msgstr ""
6186
6187 #. type: Plain text
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6189 msgid ""
6190 "In 2008, Bloomsbury Academic, a new imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing in the "
6191 "United Kingdom, appointed her its founding publisher in London. As part of "
6192 "the launch, Frances convinced Bloomsbury to differentiate themselves by "
6193 "putting out monographs for free online under a Creative Commons license (BY-"
6194 "NC or BY-NC-ND, i.e., Attribution-NonCommercial or Attribution-NonCommercial-"
6195 "NoDerivs). This was seen as risky, as the biggest cost for publishers is "
6196 "getting a book to the stage where it can be printed. If everyone read the "
6197 "online book for free, there would be no print-book sales at all, and the "
6198 "costs associated with getting the book to print would be lost. Surprisingly, "
6199 "Bloomsbury found that sales of the print versions of these books were 10 to "
6200 "20 percent higher than normal. Frances found it intriguing that the "
6201 "Creative Commons–licensed free online book acts as a marketing vehicle for "
6202 "the print format."
6203 msgstr ""
6204
6205 #. type: Plain text
6206 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4071
6207 msgid ""
6208 "Frances began to look at customer interest in the three forms of the book: "
6209 "1) the Creative Commons–licensed free online book in PDF form, 2) the "
6210 "printed book, and 3) a digital version of the book on an aggregator platform "
6211 "with enhanced features. She thought of this as the “ice cream model”: the "
6212 "free PDF was vanilla ice cream, the printed book was an ice cream cone, and "
6213 "the enhanced e-book was an ice cream sundae."
6214 msgstr ""
6215
6216 #. type: Plain text
6217 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4078
6218 msgid ""
6219 "After a while, Frances had an epiphany—what if there was a way to get "
6220 "libraries to underwrite the costs of making these books up until they’re "
6221 "ready be printed, in other words, cover the fixed costs of getting to the "
6222 "first digital copy? Then you could either bring down the cost of the printed "
6223 "book, or do a whole bunch of interesting things with the printed book and e-"
6224 "book—the ice cream cone or sundae part of the model."
6225 msgstr ""
6226
6227 #. type: Plain text
6228 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4085
6229 msgid ""
6230 "This idea is similar to the article-processing charge some open-access "
6231 "journals charge researchers to cover publishing costs. Frances began to "
6232 "imagine a coalition of libraries paying for the prepress costs—a “book-"
6233 "processing charge”—and providing everyone in the world with an open-access "
6234 "version of the books released under a Creative Commons license."
6235 msgstr ""
6236
6237 #. type: Plain text
6238 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4094
6239 msgid ""
6240 "This idea really took hold in her mind. She didn’t really have a name for it "
6241 "but began talking about it and making presentations to see if there was "
6242 "interest. The more she talked about it, the more people agreed it had "
6243 "appeal. She offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who could come up with a "
6244 "good name for the idea. Her husband came up with Knowledge Unlatched, and "
6245 "after two years of generating interest, she decided to move forward and "
6246 "launch a community interest company (a UK term for not-for-profit social "
6247 "enterprises) in 2012."
6248 msgstr ""
6249
6250 #. type: Plain text
6251 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4097
6252 msgid ""
6253 "She describes the business model in a paper called Knowledge Unlatched: "
6254 "Toward an Open and Networked Future for Academic Publishing:"
6255 msgstr ""
6256
6257 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
6258 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4115
6259 msgid ""
6260 "Publishers offer titles for sale reflecting origination costs only via "
6261 "Knowledge Unlatched."
6262 msgstr ""
6263
6264 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
6265 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4115
6266 msgid ""
6267 "Individual libraries select titles either as individual titles or as "
6268 "collections (as they do from library suppliers now)."
6269 msgstr ""
6270
6271 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
6272 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4115
6273 msgid ""
6274 "Their selections are sent to Knowledge Unlatched specifying the titles to be "
6275 "purchased at the stated price(s)."
6276 msgstr ""
6277
6278 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
6279 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4115
6280 msgid ""
6281 "The price, called a Title Fee (set by publishers and negotiated by Knowledge "
6282 "Unlatched), is paid to publishers to cover the fixed costs of publishing "
6283 "each of the titles that were selected by a minimum number of libraries to "
6284 "cover the Title Fee."
6285 msgstr ""
6286
6287 #. type: Bullet: '5. '
6288 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4115
6289 msgid ""
6290 "Publishers make the selected titles available Open Access (on a Creative "
6291 "Commons or similar open license) and are then paid the Title Fee which is "
6292 "the total collected from the libraries."
6293 msgstr ""
6294
6295 #. type: Bullet: '6. '
6296 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4115
6297 msgid ""
6298 "Publishers make print copies, e-Pub, and other digital versions of selected "
6299 "titles available to member libraries at a discount that reflects their "
6300 "contribution to the Title Fee and incentivizes membership.1"
6301 msgstr ""
6302
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6304 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4123
6305 msgid ""
6306 "The first round of this model resulted in a collection of twenty-eight "
6307 "current titles from thirteen recognized scholarly publishers being "
6308 "unlatched. The target was to have two hundred libraries participate. The "
6309 "cost of the package per library was capped at \\$1,680, which was an average "
6310 "price of sixty dollars per book, but in the end they had nearly three "
6311 "hundred libraries sharing the costs, and the price per book came in at just "
6312 "under forty-three dollars."
6313 msgstr ""
6314
6315 #. type: Plain text
6316 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4132
6317 msgid ""
6318 "The open-access, Creative Commons versions of these twenty-eight books are "
6319 "still available online.4 Most books have been licensed with CC BY-NC or CC "
6320 "BY-NC-ND. Authors are the copyright holder, not the publisher, and negotiate "
6321 "choice of license as part of the publishing agreement. Frances has found "
6322 "that most authors want to retain control over the commercial and remix use "
6323 "of their work. Publishers list the book in their catalogs, and the "
6324 "noncommercial restriction in the Creative Commons license ensures authors "
6325 "continue to get royalties on sales of physical copies."
6326 msgstr ""
6327
6328 #. type: Plain text
6329 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4142
6330 msgid ""
6331 "There are three cost variables to consider for each round: the overall cost "
6332 "incurred by the publishers, total cost for each library to acquire all the "
6333 "books, and the individual price per book. The fee publishers charge for each "
6334 "title is a fixed charge, and Knowledge Unlatched calculates the total amount "
6335 "for all the books being unlatched at a time. The cost of an order for each "
6336 "library is capped at a maximum based on a minimum number of libraries "
6337 "participating. If the number of participating libraries exceeds the minimum, "
6338 "then the cost of the order and the price per book go down for each library."
6339 msgstr ""
6340
6341 #. type: Plain text
6342 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4155
6343 msgid ""
6344 "The second round, recently completed, unlatched seventy-eight books from "
6345 "twenty-six publishers. For this round, Frances was experimenting with the "
6346 "size and shape of the offerings. Books were being bundled into eight small "
6347 "packages separated by subject (including Anthropology, History, Literature, "
6348 "Media and Communications, and Politics), of around ten books per package. "
6349 "Three hundred libraries around the world have to commit to at least six of "
6350 "the eight packages to enable unlatching. The average cost per book was just "
6351 "under fifty dollars. The unlatching process took roughly ten months. It "
6352 "started with a call to publishers for titles, followed by having a library "
6353 "task force select the titles, getting authors’ permissions, getting the "
6354 "libraries to pledge, billing the libraries, and finally, unlatching."
6355 msgstr ""
6356
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6360 "The longest part of the whole process is getting libraries to pledge and "
6361 "commit funds. It takes about five months, as library buy-in has to fit "
6362 "within acquisition cycles, budget cycles, and library-committee meetings."
6363 msgstr ""
6364
6365 #. type: Plain text
6366 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4168
6367 msgid ""
6368 "Knowledge Unlatched informs and recruits libraries through social media, "
6369 "mailing lists, listservs, and library associations. Of the three hundred "
6370 "libraries that participated in the first round, 80 percent are also "
6371 "participating in the second round, and there are an additional eighty new "
6372 "libraries taking part. Knowledge Unlatched is also working not just with "
6373 "individual libraries but also library consortia, which has been getting even "
6374 "more libraries involved."
6375 msgstr ""
6376
6377 #. type: Plain text
6378 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4172
6379 msgid ""
6380 "Knowledge Unlatched is scaling up, offering 150 new titles in the second "
6381 "half of 2016. It will also offer backlist titles, and in 2017 will start to "
6382 "make journals open access too."
6383 msgstr ""
6384
6385 #. type: Plain text
6386 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4176
6387 msgid ""
6388 "Knowledge Unlatched deliberately chose monographs as the initial type of "
6389 "book to unlatch. Monographs are foundational and important, but also "
6390 "problematic to keep going in the standard closed publishing model."
6391 msgstr ""
6392
6393 #. type: Plain text
6394 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4184
6395 msgid ""
6396 "The cost for the publisher to get to a first digital copy of a monograph is "
6397 "\\$5,000 to \\$50,000. A good one costs in the \\$10,000 to \\$15,000 range. "
6398 "Monographs typically don’t sell a lot of copies. A publisher who in the past "
6399 "sold three thousand copies now typically sells only three hundred. That "
6400 "makes unlatching monographs a low risk for publishers. For the first round, "
6401 "it took five months to get thirteen publishers. For the second round, it "
6402 "took one month to get twenty-six."
6403 msgstr ""
6404
6405 #. type: Plain text
6406 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4193
6407 msgid ""
6408 "Authors don’t generally make a lot of royalties from monographs. Royalties "
6409 "range from zero dollars to 5 to 10 percent of receipts. The value to the "
6410 "author is the awareness it brings to them; when their book is being read, it "
6411 "increases their reputation. Open access through unlatching generates many "
6412 "more downloads and therefore awareness. (On the Knowledge Unlatched website, "
6413 "you can find interviews with the twenty-eight round-one authors describing "
6414 "their experience and the benefits of taking part.)5"
6415 msgstr ""
6416
6417 #. type: Plain text
6418 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4202
6419 msgid ""
6420 "Library budgets are constantly being squeezed, partly due to the inflation "
6421 "of journal subscriptions. But even without budget constraints, academic "
6422 "libraries are moving away from buying physical copies. An academic library "
6423 "catalog entry is typically a URL to wherever the book is hosted. Or if they "
6424 "have enough electronic storage space, they may download the digital file "
6425 "into their digital repository. Only secondarily do they consider getting a "
6426 "print book, and if they do, they buy it separately from the digital version."
6427 msgstr ""
6428
6429 #. type: Plain text
6430 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4209
6431 msgid ""
6432 "Knowledge Unlatched offers libraries a compelling economic argument. Many "
6433 "of the participating libraries would have bought a copy of the monograph "
6434 "anyway, but instead of paying \\$95 for a print copy or \\$150 for a digital "
6435 "multiple-use copy, they pay \\$50 to unlatch. It costs them less, and it "
6436 "opens the book to not just the participating libraries, but to the world."
6437 msgstr ""
6438
6439 #. type: Plain text
6440 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4219
6441 msgid ""
6442 "Not only do the economics make sense, but there is very strong alignment "
6443 "with library mandates. The participating libraries pay less than they would "
6444 "have in the closed model, and the open-access book is available to all "
6445 "libraries. While this means nonparticipating libraries could be seen as free "
6446 "riders, in the library world, wealthy libraries are used to paying more than "
6447 "poor libraries and accept that part of their money should be spent to "
6448 "support open access. “Free ride” is more like community responsibility. By "
6449 "the end of March 2016, the round-one books had been downloaded nearly eighty "
6450 "thousand times in 175 countries."
6451 msgstr ""
6452
6453 #. type: Plain text
6454 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4222
6455 msgid ""
6456 "For publishers, authors, and librarians, the Knowledge Unlatched model for "
6457 "monographs is a win-win-win."
6458 msgstr ""
6459
6460 #. type: Plain text
6461 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4231
6462 msgid ""
6463 "In the first round, Knowledge Unlatched’s overheads were covered by grants. "
6464 "In the second round, they aim to demonstrate the model is sustainable. "
6465 "Libraries and publishers will each pay a 7.5 percent service charge that "
6466 "will go toward Knowledge Unlatched’s running costs. With plans to scale up "
6467 "in future rounds, Frances figures they can fully recover costs when they are "
6468 "unlatching two hundred books at a time. Moving forward, Knowledge Unlatched "
6469 "is making investments in technology and processes. Future plans include "
6470 "unlatching journals and older books."
6471 msgstr ""
6472
6473 #. type: Plain text
6474 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4240
6475 msgid ""
6476 "Frances believes that Knowledge Unlatched is tapping into new ways of "
6477 "valuing academic content. It’s about considering how many people can find, "
6478 "access, and use your content without pay barriers. Knowledge Unlatched taps "
6479 "into the new possibilities and behaviors of the digital world. In the "
6480 "Knowledge Unlatched model, the content-creation process is exactly the same "
6481 "as it always has been, but the economics are different. For Frances, "
6482 "Knowledge Unlatched is connected to the past but moving into the future, an "
6483 "evolution rather than a revolution."
6484 msgstr ""
6485
6486 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
6487 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4248
6488 msgid "www.pinter.org.uk/pdfs/Toward\\_an\\_Open.pdf"
6489 msgstr ""
6490
6491 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
6492 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4248
6493 msgid "www.oapen.org"
6494 msgstr ""
6495
6496 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
6497 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4248
6498 msgid "www.hathitrust.org"
6499 msgstr ""
6500
6501 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
6502 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4248
6503 msgid "collections.knowledgeunlatched.org/collection-availability-1/"
6504 msgstr ""
6505
6506 #. type: Bullet: '5. '
6507 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4248
6508 msgid "www.knowledgeunlatched.org/featured-authors-section/"
6509 msgstr ""
6510
6511 #. type: Plain text
6512 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4250
6513 msgid "## Lumen Learning"
6514 msgstr ""
6515
6516 #. type: Plain text
6517 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4253
6518 msgid ""
6519 "Lumen Learning is a for-profit company helping educational institutions use "
6520 "open educational resources (OER). Founded in 2013 in the U.S."
6521 msgstr ""
6522
6523 #. type: Plain text
6524 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4255
6525 msgid "lumenlearning.com"
6526 msgstr ""
6527
6528 #. type: Plain text
6529 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4257
6530 msgid "Revenue model: charging for custom services, grant funding"
6531 msgstr ""
6532
6533 #. type: Plain text
6534 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4259
6535 msgid "Interview date: December 21, 2015"
6536 msgstr ""
6537
6538 #. type: Plain text
6539 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4261
6540 msgid "Interviewees: David Wiley and Kim Thanos, cofounders"
6541 msgstr ""
6542
6543 #. type: Plain text
6544 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4283
6545 msgid ""
6546 "Cofounded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education-"
6547 "technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning is dedicated to improving "
6548 "student success, bringing new ideas to pedagogy, and making education more "
6549 "affordable by facilitating adoption of open educational resources. In 2012, "
6550 "David and Kim partnered on a grant-funded project called the Kaleidoscope "
6551 "Open Course Initiative.1 It involved a set of fully open general-education "
6552 "courses across eight colleges predominantly serving at-risk students, with "
6553 "goals to dramatically reduce textbook costs and collaborate to improve the "
6554 "courses to help students succeed. David and Kim exceeded those goals: the "
6555 "cost of the required textbooks, replaced with OER, decreased to zero "
6556 "dollars, and average student-success rates improved by 5 to 10 percent when "
6557 "compared with previous years. After a second round of funding, a total of "
6558 "more than twenty-five institutions participated in and benefited from this "
6559 "project. It was career changing for David and Kim to see the impact this "
6560 "initiative had on low-income students. David and Kim sought further funding "
6561 "from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who asked them to define a plan "
6562 "to scale their work in a financially sustainable way. That is when they "
6563 "decided to create Lumen Learning."
6564 msgstr ""
6565
6566 #. type: Plain text
6567 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4292
6568 msgid ""
6569 "David and Kim went back and forth on whether it should be a nonprofit or "
6570 "for- profit. A nonprofit would make it a more comfortable fit with the "
6571 "education sector but meant they’d be constantly fund-raising and seeking "
6572 "grants from philanthropies. Also, grants usually require money to be used in "
6573 "certain ways for specific deliverables. If you learn things along the way "
6574 "that change how you think the grant money should be used, there often isn’t "
6575 "a lot of flexibility to do so."
6576 msgstr ""
6577
6578 #. type: Plain text
6579 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4300
6580 msgid ""
6581 "But as a for-profit, they’d have to convince educational institutions to pay "
6582 "for what Lumen had to offer. On the positive side, they’d have more control "
6583 "over what to do with the revenue and investment money; they could make "
6584 "decisions to invest the funds or use them differently based on the situation "
6585 "and shifting opportunities. In the end, they chose the for-profit status, "
6586 "with its different model for and approach to sustainability."
6587 msgstr ""
6588
6589 #. type: Plain text
6590 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4306
6591 msgid ""
6592 "Right from the start, David and Kim positioned Lumen Learning as a way to "
6593 "help institutions engage in open educational resources, or OER. OER are "
6594 "teaching, learning, and research materials, in all different media, that "
6595 "reside in the public domain or are released under an open license that "
6596 "permits free use and repurposing by others."
6597 msgstr ""
6598
6599 #. type: Plain text
6600 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4318
6601 msgid ""
6602 "Originally, Lumen did custom contracts for each institution. This was "
6603 "complicated and challenging to manage. However, through that process "
6604 "patterns emerged which allowed them to generalize a set of approaches and "
6605 "offerings. Today they don’t customize as much as they used to, and instead "
6606 "they tend to work with customers who can use their off-the-shelf options. "
6607 "Lumen finds that institutions and faculty are generally very good at seeing "
6608 "the value Lumen brings and are willing to pay for it. Serving disadvantaged "
6609 "learner populations has led Lumen to be very pragmatic; they describe what "
6610 "they offer in quantitative terms—with facts and figures—and in a way that is "
6611 "very student-focused. Lumen Learning helps colleges and universities—"
6612 msgstr ""
6613
6614 #. type: Bullet: '- '
6615 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4327
6616 msgid "replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment courses with OER;"
6617 msgstr ""
6618
6619 #. type: Bullet: '- '
6620 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4327
6621 msgid ""
6622 "provide enrolled students day one access to Lumen’s fully customizable OER "
6623 "course materials through the institution’s learning-management system;"
6624 msgstr ""
6625
6626 #. type: Bullet: '- '
6627 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4327
6628 msgid ""
6629 "measure improvements in student success with metrics like passing rates, "
6630 "persistence, and course completion; and"
6631 msgstr ""
6632
6633 #. type: Bullet: '- '
6634 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4327
6635 msgid ""
6636 "collaborate with faculty to make ongoing improvements to OER based on "
6637 "student success research."
6638 msgstr ""
6639
6640 #. type: Plain text
6641 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4333
6642 msgid ""
6643 "Lumen has developed a suite of open, Creative Commons–licensed courseware in "
6644 "more than sixty-five subjects. All courses are freely and publicly available "
6645 "right off their website. They can be copied and used by others as long as "
6646 "they provide attribution to Lumen Learning following the terms of the "
6647 "Creative Commons license."
6648 msgstr ""
6649
6650 #. type: Plain text
6651 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4339
6652 msgid ""
6653 "Then there are three types of bundled services that cost money. One option, "
6654 "which Lumen calls Candela courseware, offers integration with the "
6655 "institution’s learning-management system, technical and pedagogical support, "
6656 "and tracking of effectiveness. Candela courseware costs institutions ten "
6657 "dollars per enrolled student."
6658 msgstr ""
6659
6660 #. type: Plain text
6661 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4345
6662 msgid ""
6663 "A second option is Waymaker, which offers the services of Candela but adds "
6664 "personalized learning technologies, such as study plans, automated messages, "
6665 "and assessments, and helps instructors find and support the students who "
6666 "need it most. Waymaker courses cost twenty-five dollars per enrolled student."
6667 msgstr ""
6668
6669 #. type: Plain text
6670 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4352
6671 msgid ""
6672 "The third and emerging line of business for Lumen is providing guidance and "
6673 "support for institutions and state systems that are pursuing the development "
6674 "of complete OER degrees. Often called Z-Degrees, these programs eliminate "
6675 "textbook costs for students in all courses that make up the degree (both "
6676 "required and elective) by replacing commercial textbooks and other expensive "
6677 "resources with OER."
6678 msgstr ""
6679
6680 #. type: Plain text
6681 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4367
6682 msgid ""
6683 "Lumen generates revenue by charging for their value-added tools and services "
6684 "on top of their free courses, just as solar-power companies provide the "
6685 "tools and services that help people use a free resource—sunlight. And "
6686 "Lumen’s business model focuses on getting the institutions to pay, not the "
6687 "students. With projects they did prior to Lumen, David and Kim learned that "
6688 "students who have access to all course materials from day one have greater "
6689 "success. If students had to pay, Lumen would have to restrict access to "
6690 "those who paid. Right from the start, their stance was that they would not "
6691 "put their content behind a paywall. Lumen invests zero dollars in "
6692 "technologies and processes for restricting access—no digital rights "
6693 "management, no time bombs. While this has been a challenge from a business-"
6694 "model perspective, from an open-access perspective, it has generated immense "
6695 "goodwill in the community."
6696 msgstr ""
6697
6698 #. type: Plain text
6699 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4376
6700 msgid ""
6701 "In most cases, development of their courses is funded by the institution "
6702 "Lumen has a contract with. When creating new courses, Lumen typically works "
6703 "with the faculty who are teaching the new course. They’re often part of the "
6704 "institution paying Lumen, but sometimes Lumen has to expand the team and "
6705 "contract faculty from other institutions. First, the faculty identifies all "
6706 "of the course’s learning outcomes. Lumen then searches for, aggregates, and "
6707 "curates the best OER they can find that addresses those learning needs, "
6708 "which the faculty reviews."
6709 msgstr ""
6710
6711 #. type: Plain text
6712 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4386
6713 msgid ""
6714 "Sometimes faculty like the existing OER but not the way it is presented. "
6715 "The open licensing of existing OER allows Lumen to pick and choose from "
6716 "images, videos, and other media to adapt and customize the course. Lumen "
6717 "creates new content as they discover gaps in existing OER. Test-bank items "
6718 "and feedback for students on their progress are areas where new content is "
6719 "frequently needed. Once a course is created, Lumen puts it on their platform "
6720 "with all the attributions and links to the original sources intact, and any "
6721 "of Lumen’s new content is given an Attribution (CC BY) license."
6722 msgstr ""
6723
6724 #. type: Plain text
6725 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4392
6726 msgid ""
6727 "Using only OER made them experience firsthand how complex it could be to mix "
6728 "differently licensed work together. A common strategy with OER is to place "
6729 "the Creative Commons license and attribution information in the website’s "
6730 "footer, which stays the same for all pages. This doesn’t quite work, "
6731 "however, when mixing different OER together."
6732 msgstr ""
6733
6734 #. type: Plain text
6735 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4401
6736 msgid ""
6737 "Remixing OER often results in multiple attributions on every page of every "
6738 "course—text from one place, images from another, and videos from yet "
6739 "another. Some are licensed as Attribution (CC BY), others as Attribution-"
6740 "ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). If this information is put within the text of the "
6741 "course, faculty members sometimes try to edit it and students find it a "
6742 "distraction. Lumen dealt with this challenge by capturing the license and "
6743 "attribution information as metadata, and getting it to show up at the end of "
6744 "each page."
6745 msgstr ""
6746
6747 #. type: Plain text
6748 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4409
6749 msgid ""
6750 "Lumen’s commitment to open licensing and helping low-income students has led "
6751 "to strong relationships with institutions, open-education enthusiasts, and "
6752 "grant funders. People in their network generously increase the visibility of "
6753 "Lumen through presentations, word of mouth, and referrals. Sometimes the "
6754 "number of general inquiries exceed Lumen’s sales capacity."
6755 msgstr ""
6756
6757 #. type: Plain text
6758 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4420
6759 msgid ""
6760 "To manage demand and ensure the success of projects, their strategy is to be "
6761 "proactive and focus on what’s going on in higher education in different "
6762 "regions of the United States, watching out for things happening at the "
6763 "system level in a way that fits with what Lumen offers. A great example is "
6764 "the Virginia community college system, which is building out Z-Degrees. "
6765 "David and Kim say there are nine other U.S. states with similar system-"
6766 "level activity where Lumen is strategically focusing its efforts. Where "
6767 "there are projects that would require a lot of resources on Lumen’s part, "
6768 "they prioritize the ones that would impact the largest number of students."
6769 msgstr ""
6770
6771 #. type: Plain text
6772 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4428
6773 msgid ""
6774 "As a business, Lumen is committed to openness. There are two core "
6775 "nonnegotiables: Lumen’s use of CC BY, the most permissive of the Creative "
6776 "Commons licenses, for all the materials it creates; and day-one access for "
6777 "students. Having clear nonnegotiables allows them to then engage with the "
6778 "education community to solve for other challenges and work with institutions "
6779 "to identify new business models that achieve institution goals, while "
6780 "keeping Lumen healthy."
6781 msgstr ""
6782
6783 #. type: Plain text
6784 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4437
6785 msgid ""
6786 "Openness also means that Lumen’s OER must necessarily be nonexclusive and "
6787 "nonrivalrous. This represents several big challenges for the business model: "
6788 "Why should you invest in creating something that people will be reluctant to "
6789 "pay for? How do you ensure that the investment the diverse education "
6790 "community makes in OER is not exploited? Lumen thinks we all need to be "
6791 "clear about how we are benefiting from and contributing to the open "
6792 "community."
6793 msgstr ""
6794
6795 #. type: Plain text
6796 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4444
6797 msgid ""
6798 "In the OER sector, there are examples of corporations, and even "
6799 "institutions, acting as free riders. Some simply take and use open resources "
6800 "without paying anything or contributing anything back. Others give back the "
6801 "minimum amount so they can save face. Sustainability will require those "
6802 "using open resources to give back an amount that seems fair or even give "
6803 "back something that is generous."
6804 msgstr ""
6805
6806 #. type: Plain text
6807 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4453
6808 msgid ""
6809 "Lumen does track institutions accessing and using their free content. They "
6810 "proactively contact those institutions, with an estimate of how much their "
6811 "students are saving and encouraging them to switch to a paid model. Lumen "
6812 "explains the advantages of the paid model: a more interactive relationship "
6813 "with Lumen; integration with the institution’s learning-management system; a "
6814 "guarantee of support for faculty and students; and future sustainability "
6815 "with funding supporting the evolution and improvement of the OER they are "
6816 "using."
6817 msgstr ""
6818
6819 #. type: Plain text
6820 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4460
6821 msgid ""
6822 "Lumen works hard to be a good corporate citizen in the OER community. For "
6823 "David and Kim, a good corporate citizen gives more than they take, adds "
6824 "unique value, and is very transparent about what they are taking from "
6825 "community, what they are giving back, and what they are monetizing. Lumen "
6826 "believes these are the building blocks of a sustainable model and strives "
6827 "for a correct balance of all these factors."
6828 msgstr ""
6829
6830 #. type: Plain text
6831 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4465
6832 msgid ""
6833 "Licensing all the content they produce with CC BY is a key part of giving "
6834 "more value than they take. They’ve also worked hard at finding the right "
6835 "structure for their value-add and how to package it in a way that is "
6836 "understandable and repeatable."
6837 msgstr ""
6838
6839 #. type: Plain text
6840 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4475
6841 msgid ""
6842 "As of the fall 2016 term, Lumen had eighty-six different open courses, "
6843 "working relationships with ninety-two institutions, and more than seventy-"
6844 "five thousand student enrollments. Lumen received early start-up funding "
6845 "from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the "
6846 "Shuttleworth Foundation. Since then, Lumen has also attracted investment "
6847 "funding. Over the last three years, Lumen has been roughly 60 percent grant "
6848 "funded, 20 percent revenue earned, and 20 percent funded with angel capital. "
6849 "Going forward, their strategy is to replace grant funding with revenue."
6850 msgstr ""
6851
6852 #. type: Plain text
6853 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4483
6854 msgid ""
6855 "In creating Lumen Learning, David and Kim say they’ve landed on solutions "
6856 "they never imagined, and there is still a lot of learning taking place. For "
6857 "them, open business models are an emerging field where we are all learning "
6858 "through sharing. Their biggest recommendations for others wanting to pursue "
6859 "the open model are to make your commitment to open resources public, let "
6860 "people know where you stand, and don’t back away from it. It really is about "
6861 "trust."
6862 msgstr ""
6863
6864 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
6865 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4487
6866 msgid "lumenlearning.com/innovative-projects/"
6867 msgstr ""
6868
6869 #. type: Plain text
6870 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4489
6871 msgid "## Jonathan Mann"
6872 msgstr ""
6873
6874 #. type: Plain text
6875 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4492
6876 msgid ""
6877 "Jonathan Mann is a singer and songwriter who is most well known as the “Song "
6878 "A Day” guy. Based in the U.S."
6879 msgstr ""
6880
6881 #. type: Plain text
6882 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4494
6883 msgid "jonathanmann.net and jonathanmann.bandcamp.com"
6884 msgstr ""
6885
6886 #. type: Plain text
6887 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4498
6888 msgid ""
6889 "Revenue model: charging for custom services, pay-what-you-want, crowdfunding "
6890 "(subscription-based), charging for in-person version (speaking engagements "
6891 "and musical performances)"
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6895 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4500
6896 msgid "Interview date: February 22, 2016"
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6898
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6900 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4512
6901 msgid ""
6902 "Jonathan Mann thinks of his business model as “hustling”—seizing nearly "
6903 "every opportunity he sees to make money. The bulk of his income comes from "
6904 "writing songs under commission for people and companies, but he has a wide "
6905 "variety of income sources. He has supporters on the crowdfunding site "
6906 "Patreon. He gets advertising revenue from YouTube and Bandcamp, where he "
6907 "posts all of his music. He gives paid speaking engagements about creativity "
6908 "and motivation. He has been hired by major conferences to write songs "
6909 "summarizing what speakers have said in the conference sessions."
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6913 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4521
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6915 "His entrepreneurial spirit is coupled with a willingness to take action "
6916 "quickly. A perfect illustration of his ability to act fast happened in 2010, "
6917 "when he read that Apple was having a conference the following day to address "
6918 "a snafu related to the iPhone 4. He decided to write and post a song about "
6919 "the iPhone 4 that day, and the next day he got a call from the public "
6920 "relations people at Apple wanting to use and promote his video at the Apple "
6921 "conference. The song then went viral, and the experience landed him in Time "
6922 "magazine."
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6926 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4526
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6928 "Jonathan’s successful “hustling” is also about old-fashioned persistence. He "
6929 "is currently in his eighth straight year of writing one song each day. He "
6930 "holds the Guinness World Record for consecutive daily songwriting, and he is "
6931 "widely known as the “song-a-day guy.”"
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6935 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4534
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6937 "He fell into this role by, naturally, seizing a random opportunity a friend "
6938 "alerted him to seven years ago—an event called Fun-A-Day, where people are "
6939 "supposed to create a piece of art every day for thirty-one days straight. He "
6940 "was in need of a new project, so he decided to give it a try by writing and "
6941 "posting a song each day. He added a video component to the songs because he "
6942 "knew people were more likely to watch video online than simply listening to "
6943 "audio files."
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6947 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4548
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6949 "He had a really good time doing the thirty-one-day challenge, so he decided "
6950 "to see if he could continue it for one year. He never stopped. He has "
6951 "written and posted a new song literally every day, seven days a week, since "
6952 "he began the project in 2009. When he isn’t writing songs that he is hired "
6953 "to write by clients, he writes songs about whatever is on his mind that day. "
6954 "His songs are catchy and mostly lighthearted, but they often contain at "
6955 "least an undercurrent of a deeper theme or meaning. Occasionally, they are "
6956 "extremely personal, like the song he cowrote with his exgirlfriend "
6957 "announcing their breakup. Rain or shine, in sickness or health, Jonathan "
6958 "posts and writes a song every day. If he is on a flight or otherwise "
6959 "incapable of getting Internet access in time to meet the deadline, he will "
6960 "prepare ahead and have someone else post the song for him."
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6964 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4555
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6966 "Over time, the song-a-day gig became the basis of his livelihood. In the "
6967 "beginning, he made money one of two ways. The first was by entering a wide "
6968 "variety of contests and winning a handful. The second was by having the "
6969 "occasional song and video go some varying degree of viral, which would bring "
6970 "more eyeballs and mean that there were more people wanting him to write "
6971 "songs for them. Today he earns most of his money this way."
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6975 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4562
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6977 "His website explains his gig as “taking any message, from the super simple "
6978 "to the totally complicated, and conveying that message through a heartfelt, "
6979 "fun and quirky song.” He charges \\$500 to create a produced song and \\$300 "
6980 "for an acoustic song. He has been hired for product launches, weddings, "
6981 "conferences, and even Kickstarter campaigns like the one that funded the "
6982 "production of this book."
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6986 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4569
6987 msgid ""
6988 "Jonathan can’t recall when exactly he first learned about Creative Commons, "
6989 "but he began applying CC licenses to his songs and videos as soon as he "
6990 "discovered the option. “CC seems like such a no-brainer,” Jonathan said. “I "
6991 "don’t understand how anything else would make sense. It seems like such an "
6992 "obvious thing that you would want your work to be able to be shared.”"
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6994
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6996 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4577
6997 msgid ""
6998 "His songs are essentially marketing for his services, so obviously the "
6999 "further his songs spread, the better. Using CC licenses helps grease the "
7000 "wheels, letting people know that Jonathan allows and encourages them to "
7001 "copy, interact with, and remix his music. “If you let someone cover your "
7002 "song or remix it or use parts of it, that’s how music is supposed to work,” "
7003 "Jonathan said. “That is how music has worked since the beginning of time. "
7004 "Our me-me, mine-mine culture has undermined that.”"
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7008 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4583
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7010 "There are some people who cover his songs fairly regularly, and he would "
7011 "never shut that down. But he acknowledges there is a lot more he could do to "
7012 "build community. “There is all of this conventional wisdom about how to "
7013 "build an audience online, and I generally think I don’t do any of that,” "
7014 "Jonathan said."
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7018 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4591
7019 msgid ""
7020 "He does have a fan community he cultivates on Bandcamp, but it isn’t his "
7021 "major focus. “I do have a core audience that has stuck around for a really "
7022 "long time, some even longer than I’ve been doing song-a-day,” he said. "
7023 "“There is also a transitional aspect that drop in and get what they need and "
7024 "then move on.” Focusing less on community building than other artists makes "
7025 "sense given Jonathan’s primary income source of writing custom songs for "
7026 "clients."
7027 msgstr ""
7028
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7030 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4601
7031 msgid ""
7032 "Jonathan recognizes what comes naturally to him and leverages those skills. "
7033 "Through the practice of daily songwriting, he realized he has a gift for "
7034 "distilling complicated subjects into simple concepts and putting them to "
7035 "music. In his song “How to Choose a Master Password,” Jonathan explained the "
7036 "process of creating a secure password in a silly, simple song. He was hired "
7037 "to write the song by a client who handed him a long technical blog post from "
7038 "which to draw the information. Like a good (and rare) journalist, he "
7039 "translated the technical concepts into something understandable."
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7043 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4615
7044 msgid ""
7045 "When he is hired by a client to write a song, he first asks them to send a "
7046 "list of talking points and other information they want to include in the "
7047 "song. He puts all of that into a text file and starts moving things around, "
7048 "cutting and pasting until the message starts to come together. The first "
7049 "thing he tries to do is grok the core message and develop the chorus. Then "
7050 "he looks for connections or parts he can make rhyme. The entire process "
7051 "really does resemble good journalism, but of course the final product of his "
7052 "work is a song rather than news. “There is something about being challenged "
7053 "and forced to take information that doesn’t seem like it should be sung "
7054 "about or doesn’t seem like it lends itself to a song,” he said. “I find that "
7055 "creative challenge really satisfying. I enjoy getting lost in that process.”"
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7059 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4621
7060 msgid ""
7061 "Jonathan admits that in an ideal world, he would exclusively write the music "
7062 "he wanted to write, rather than what clients hire him to write. But his "
7063 "business model is about capitalizing on his strengths as a songwriter, and "
7064 "he has found a way to keep it interesting for himself."
7065 msgstr ""
7066
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7068 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4631
7069 msgid ""
7070 "Jonathan uses nearly every tool possible to make money from his art, but he "
7071 "does have lines he won’t cross. He won’t write songs about things he "
7072 "fundamentally does not believe in, and there are times he has turned down "
7073 "jobs on principle. He also won’t stray too much from his natural style. “My "
7074 "style is silly, so I can’t really accommodate people who want something "
7075 "super serious,” Jonathan said. “I do what I do very easily, and it’s part of "
7076 "who I am.” Jonathan hasn’t gotten into writing commercials for the same "
7077 "reasons; he is best at using his own unique style rather than mimicking "
7078 "others."
7079 msgstr ""
7080
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7082 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4638
7083 msgid ""
7084 "Jonathan’s song-a-day commitment exemplifies the power of habit and grit. "
7085 "Conventional wisdom about creative productivity, including advice in books "
7086 "like the best-seller The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, routinely emphasizes "
7087 "the importance of ritual and action. No amount of planning can replace the "
7088 "value of simple practice and just doing. Jonathan Mann’s work is a living "
7089 "embodiment of these principles."
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7091
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7093 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4644
7094 msgid ""
7095 "When he speaks about his work, he talks about how much the song-a-day "
7096 "process has changed him. Rather than seeing any given piece of work as "
7097 "precious and getting stuck on trying to make it perfect, he has become "
7098 "comfortable with just doing. If today’s song is a bust, tomorrow’s song "
7099 "might be better."
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7101
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7103 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4651
7104 msgid ""
7105 "Jonathan seems to have this mentality about his career more generally. He "
7106 "is constantly experimenting with ways to make a living while sharing his "
7107 "work as widely as possible, seeing what sticks. While he has major "
7108 "accomplishments he is proud of, like being in the Guinness World Records or "
7109 "having his song used by Steve Jobs, he says he never truly feels successful."
7110 msgstr ""
7111
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7113 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4655
7114 msgid ""
7115 "“Success feels like it’s over,” he said. “To a certain extent, a creative "
7116 "person is not ever going to feel completely satisfied because then so much "
7117 "of what drives you would be gone.”"
7118 msgstr ""
7119
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7121 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4657
7122 msgid "## Noun Project"
7123 msgstr ""
7124
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7126 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4661
7127 msgid ""
7128 "The Noun Project is a for-profit company offering an online platform to "
7129 "display visual icons from a global network of designers. Founded in 2010 in "
7130 "the U.S."
7131 msgstr ""
7132
7133 #. type: Plain text
7134 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4663
7135 msgid "thenounproject.com"
7136 msgstr ""
7137
7138 #. type: Plain text
7139 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4665
7140 msgid "Revenue model: charging a transaction fee, charging for custom services"
7141 msgstr ""
7142
7143 #. type: Plain text
7144 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4667
7145 msgid "Interview date: October 6, 2015"
7146 msgstr ""
7147
7148 #. type: Plain text
7149 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4669
7150 msgid "Interviewee: Edward Boatman, cofounder"
7151 msgstr ""
7152
7153 #. type: Plain text
7154 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4675
7155 msgid ""
7156 "The Noun Project creates and shares visual language. There are millions who "
7157 "use Noun Project symbols to simplify communication across borders, "
7158 "languages, and cultures."
7159 msgstr ""
7160
7161 #. type: Plain text
7162 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4682
7163 msgid ""
7164 "The original idea for the Noun Project came to cofounder Edward Boatman "
7165 "while he was a student in architecture design school. He’d always done a lot "
7166 "of sketches and started to draw what used to fascinate him as a child, like "
7167 "trains, sequoias, and bulldozers. He began thinking how great it would be if "
7168 "he had a simple image or small icon of every single object or concept on the "
7169 "planet."
7170 msgstr ""
7171
7172 #. type: Plain text
7173 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4688
7174 msgid ""
7175 "When Edward went on to work at an architecture firm, he had to make a lot of "
7176 "presentation boards for clients. But finding high-quality sources for "
7177 "symbols and icons was difficult. He couldn’t find any website that could "
7178 "provide them. Perhaps his idea for creating a library of icons could "
7179 "actually help people in similar situations."
7180 msgstr ""
7181
7182 #. type: Plain text
7183 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4695
7184 msgid ""
7185 "With his partner, Sofya Polyakov, he began collecting symbols for a website "
7186 "and writing a business plan. Inspiration came from the book Professor and "
7187 "the Madman, which chronicles the use of crowdsourcing to create the Oxford "
7188 "English Dictionary in 1870. Edward began to imagine crowdsourcing icons and "
7189 "symbols from volunteer designers around the world."
7190 msgstr ""
7191
7192 #. type: Plain text
7193 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4703
7194 msgid ""
7195 "Then Edward got laid off during the recession, which turned out to be a huge "
7196 "catalyst. He decided to give his idea a go, and in 2010 Edward and Sofya "
7197 "launched the Noun Project with a Kickstarter campaign, back when Kickstarter "
7198 "was in its infancy.1 They thought it’d be a good way to introduce the global "
7199 "web community to their idea. Their goal was to raise \\$1,500, but in twenty "
7200 "days they got over \\$14,000. They realized their idea had the potential to "
7201 "be something much bigger."
7202 msgstr ""
7203
7204 #. type: Plain text
7205 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4709
7206 msgid ""
7207 "They created a platform where symbols and icons could be uploaded, and "
7208 "Edward began recruiting talented designers to contribute their designs, a "
7209 "process he describes as a relatively easy sell. Lots of designers have old "
7210 "drawings just gathering “digital dust” on their hard drives. It’s easy to "
7211 "convince them to finally share them with the world."
7212 msgstr ""
7213
7214 #. type: Plain text
7215 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4717
7216 msgid ""
7217 "The Noun Project currently has about seven thousand designers from around "
7218 "the world. But not all submissions are accepted. The Noun Project’s quality-"
7219 "review process means that only the best works become part of its collection. "
7220 "They make sure to provide encouraging, constructive feedback whenever they "
7221 "reject a piece of work, which maintains and builds the relationship they "
7222 "have with their global community of designers."
7223 msgstr ""
7224
7225 #. type: Plain text
7226 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4722
7227 msgid ""
7228 "Creative Commons is an integral part of the Noun Project’s business model; "
7229 "this decision was inspired by Chris Anderson’s book Free: The Future of "
7230 "Radical Price, which introduced Edward to the idea that you could build a "
7231 "business model around free content."
7232 msgstr ""
7233
7234 #. type: Plain text
7235 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4734
7236 msgid ""
7237 "Edward knew he wanted to offer a free visual language while still providing "
7238 "some protection and reward for its contributors. There is a tension between "
7239 "those two goals, but for Edward, Creative Commons licenses bring this "
7240 "idealism and business opportunity together elegantly. He chose the "
7241 "Attribution (CC BY) license, which means people can download the icons for "
7242 "free and modify them and even use them commercially. The requirement to give "
7243 "attribution to the original creator ensures that the creator can build a "
7244 "reputation and get global recognition for their work. And if they simply "
7245 "want to offer an icon that people can use without having to give credit, "
7246 "they can use CC0 to put the work into the public domain."
7247 msgstr ""
7248
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7250 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4743
7251 msgid ""
7252 "Noun Project’s business model and means of generating revenue have evolved "
7253 "significantly over time. Their initial plan was to sell T-shirts with the "
7254 "icons on it, which in retrospect Edward says was a horrible idea. They did "
7255 "get a lot of email from people saying they loved the icons but asking if "
7256 "they could pay a fee instead of giving attribution. Ad agencies (among "
7257 "others) wanted to keep marketing and presentation materials clean and free "
7258 "of attribution statements. For Edward, “That’s when our lightbulb went off.”"
7259 msgstr ""
7260
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7262 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4749
7263 msgid ""
7264 "They asked their global network of designers whether they’d be open to "
7265 "receiving modest remuneration instead of attribution. Designers saw it as a "
7266 "win-win. The idea that you could offer your designs for free and have a "
7267 "global audience and maybe even make some money was pretty exciting for most "
7268 "designers."
7269 msgstr ""
7270
7271 #. type: Plain text
7272 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4761
7273 msgid ""
7274 "The Noun Project first adopted a model whereby using an icon without giving "
7275 "attribution would cost \\$1.99 per icon. The model’s second iteration added "
7276 "a subscription component, where there would be a monthly fee to access a "
7277 "certain number of icons—ten, fifty, a hundred, or five hundred. However, "
7278 "users didn’t like these hard-count options. They preferred to try out many "
7279 "similar icons to see which worked best before eventually choosing the one "
7280 "they wanted to use. So the Noun Project moved to an unlimited model, whereby "
7281 "users have unlimited access to the whole library for a flat monthly fee. "
7282 "This service is called NounPro and costs \\$9.99 per month. Edward says this "
7283 "model is working well—good for customers, good for creators, and good for "
7284 "the platform."
7285 msgstr ""
7286
7287 #. type: Plain text
7288 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4772
7289 msgid ""
7290 "Customers then began asking for an application-programming interface (API), "
7291 "which would allow Noun Project icons and symbols to be directly accessed "
7292 "from within other applications. Edward knew that the icons and symbols would "
7293 "be valuable in a lot of different contexts and that they couldn’t possibly "
7294 "know all of them in advance, so they built an API with a lot of flexibility. "
7295 "Knowing that most API applications would want to use the icons without "
7296 "giving attribution, the API was built with the aim of charging for its use. "
7297 "You can use what’s called the “Playground API” for free to test how it "
7298 "integrates with your application, but full implementation will require you "
7299 "to purchase the API Pro version."
7300 msgstr ""
7301
7302 #. type: Plain text
7303 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4776
7304 msgid ""
7305 "The Noun Project shares revenue with its international designers. For one-"
7306 "off purchases, the revenue is split 70 percent to the designer and 30 "
7307 "percent to Noun Project."
7308 msgstr ""
7309
7310 #. type: Plain text
7311 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4785
7312 msgid ""
7313 "The revenue from premium purchases (the subscription and API options) is "
7314 "split a little differently. At the end of each month, the total revenue from "
7315 "subscriptions is divided by Noun Project’s total number of downloads, "
7316 "resulting in a rate per download—for example, it could be \\$0.13 per "
7317 "download for that month. For each download, the revenue is split 40 percent "
7318 "to the designer and 60 percent to the Noun Project. (For API usage, it’s "
7319 "per use instead of per download.) Noun Project’s share is higher this time "
7320 "as it’s providing more service to the user."
7321 msgstr ""
7322
7323 #. type: Plain text
7324 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4790
7325 msgid ""
7326 "The Noun Project tries to be completely transparent about their royalty "
7327 "structure.2 They tend to over communicate with creators about it because "
7328 "building trust is the top priority."
7329 msgstr ""
7330
7331 #. type: Plain text
7332 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4796
7333 msgid ""
7334 "For most creators, contributing to the Noun Project is not a full-time job "
7335 "but something they do on the side. Edward categorizes monthly earnings for "
7336 "creators into three broad categories: enough money to buy beer; enough to "
7337 "pay the bills; and most successful of all, enough to pay the rent."
7338 msgstr ""
7339
7340 #. type: Plain text
7341 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4808
7342 msgid ""
7343 "Recently the Noun Project launched a new app called Lingo. Designers can use "
7344 "Lingo to organize not just their Noun Project icons and symbols but also "
7345 "their photos, illustrations, UX designs, et cetera. You simply drag any "
7346 "visual item directly into Lingo to save it. Lingo also works for teams so "
7347 "people can share visuals with each other and search across their combined "
7348 "collections. Lingo is free for personal use. A pro version for \\$9.99 per "
7349 "month lets you add guests. A team version for \\$49.95 per month allows up "
7350 "to twenty-five team members to collaborate, and to view, use, edit, and add "
7351 "new assets to each other’s collections. And if you subscribe to NounPro, "
7352 "you can access Noun Project from within Lingo."
7353 msgstr ""
7354
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7356 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4814
7357 msgid ""
7358 "The Noun Project gives a ton of value away for free. A very large percentage "
7359 "of their roughly one million members have a free account, but there are "
7360 "still lots of paid accounts coming from digital designers, advertising and "
7361 "design agencies, educators, and others who need to communicate ideas "
7362 "visually."
7363 msgstr ""
7364
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7366 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4819
7367 msgid ""
7368 "For Edward, “creating, sharing, and celebrating the world’s visual language” "
7369 "is the most important aspect of what they do; it’s their stated mission. It "
7370 "differentiates them from others who offer graphics, icons, or clip art."
7371 msgstr ""
7372
7373 #. type: Plain text
7374 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4826
7375 msgid ""
7376 "Noun Project creators agree. When surveyed on why they participate in the "
7377 "Noun Project, this is how designers rank their reasons: 1) to support the "
7378 "Noun Project mission, 2) to promote their own personal brand, and 3) to "
7379 "generate money. It’s striking to see that money comes third, and mission, "
7380 "first. If you want to engage a global network of contributors, it’s "
7381 "important to have a mission beyond making money."
7382 msgstr ""
7383
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7385 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4831
7386 msgid ""
7387 "In Edward’s view, Creative Commons is central to their mission of sharing "
7388 "and social good. Using Creative Commons makes the Noun Project’s mission "
7389 "genuine and has generated a lot of their initial traction and credibility. "
7390 "CC comes with a built-in community of users and fans."
7391 msgstr ""
7392
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7394 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4839
7395 msgid ""
7396 "Edward told us, “Don’t underestimate the power of a passionate community "
7397 "around your product or your business. They are going to go to bat for you "
7398 "when you’re getting ripped in the media. If you go down the road of choosing "
7399 "to work with Creative Commons, you’re taking the first step to building a "
7400 "great community and tapping into a really awesome community that comes with "
7401 "it. But you need to continue to foster that community through other "
7402 "initiatives and continue to nurture it.”"
7403 msgstr ""
7404
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7406 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4844
7407 msgid ""
7408 "The Noun Project nurtures their creators’ second motivation—promoting a "
7409 "personal brand—by connecting every icon and symbol to the creator’s name and "
7410 "profile page; each profile features their full collection. Users can also "
7411 "search the icons by the creator’s name."
7412 msgstr ""
7413
7414 #. type: Plain text
7415 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4852
7416 msgid ""
7417 "The Noun Project also builds community through Iconathons—hackathons for "
7418 "icons.2 In partnership with a sponsoring organization, the Noun Project "
7419 "comes up with a theme (e.g., sustainable energy, food bank, guerrilla "
7420 "gardening, human rights) and a list of icons that are needed, which "
7421 "designers are invited to create at the event. The results are vectorized, "
7422 "and added to the Noun Project using CC0 so they can be used by anyone for "
7423 "free."
7424 msgstr ""
7425
7426 #. type: Plain text
7427 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4860
7428 msgid ""
7429 "Providing a free version of their product that satisfies a lot of their "
7430 "customers’ needs has actually enabled the Noun Project to build the paid "
7431 "version, using a service-oriented model. The Noun Project’s success lies in "
7432 "creating services and content that are a strategic mix of free and paid "
7433 "while staying true to their mission—creating, sharing, and celebrating the "
7434 "world’s visual language. Integrating Creative Commons into their model has "
7435 "been key to that goal."
7436 msgstr ""
7437
7438 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
7439 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4866
7440 msgid ""
7441 "www.kickstarter.com/projects/tnp/building-a-free-collection-of-our-worlds-"
7442 "visual-sy/description"
7443 msgstr ""
7444
7445 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
7446 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4866
7447 msgid "thenounproject.com/handbook/royalties/\\#getting\\_paid"
7448 msgstr ""
7449
7450 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
7451 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4866
7452 msgid "thenounproject.com/iconathon/"
7453 msgstr ""
7454
7455 #. type: Plain text
7456 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4868
7457 msgid "## Open Data Institute"
7458 msgstr ""
7459
7460 #. type: Plain text
7461 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4872
7462 msgid ""
7463 "The Open Data Institute is an independent nonprofit that connects, equips, "
7464 "and inspires people around the world to innovate with data. Founded in 2012 "
7465 "in the UK."
7466 msgstr ""
7467
7468 #. type: Plain text
7469 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4874
7470 msgid "theodi.org"
7471 msgstr ""
7472
7473 #. type: Plain text
7474 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4877
7475 msgid ""
7476 "Revenue model: grant and government funding, charging for custom services, "
7477 "donations"
7478 msgstr ""
7479
7480 #. type: Plain text
7481 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4879
7482 msgid "Interview date: November 11, 2015"
7483 msgstr ""
7484
7485 #. type: Plain text
7486 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4881
7487 msgid "Interviewee: Jeni Tennison, technical director"
7488 msgstr ""
7489
7490 #. type: Plain text
7491 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4891
7492 msgid ""
7493 "Cofounded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the London-"
7494 "based Open Data Institute (ODI) offers data-related training, events, "
7495 "consulting services, and research. For ODI, Creative Commons licenses are "
7496 "central to making their own business model and their customers’ open. CC BY "
7497 "(Attribution), CC BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike), and CC0 (placed in the "
7498 "public domain) all play a critical role in ODI’s mission to help people "
7499 "around the world innovate with data."
7500 msgstr ""
7501
7502 #. type: Plain text
7503 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4901
7504 msgid ""
7505 "Data underpins planning and decision making across all aspects of society. "
7506 "Weather data helps farmers know when to plant their crops, flight time data "
7507 "from airplane companies helps us plan our travel, data on local housing "
7508 "informs city planning. When this data is not only accurate and timely, but "
7509 "open and accessible, it opens up new possibilities. Open data can be a "
7510 "resource businesses use to build new products and services. It can help "
7511 "governments measure progress, improve efficiency, and target investments. It "
7512 "can help citizens improve their lives by better understanding what is "
7513 "happening around them."
7514 msgstr ""
7515
7516 #. type: Plain text
7517 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4907
7518 msgid ""
7519 "The Open Data Institute’s 2012–17 business plan starts out by describing its "
7520 "vision to establish itself as a world-leading center and to research and be "
7521 "innovative with the opportunities created by the UK government’s open data "
7522 "policy. (The government was an early pioneer in open policy and open-data "
7523 "initiatives.) It goes on to say that the ODI wants to—"
7524 msgstr ""
7525
7526 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7527 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4914
7528 msgid ""
7529 "demonstrate the commercial value of open government data and how open-data "
7530 "policies affect this;"
7531 msgstr ""
7532
7533 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7534 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4914
7535 msgid "develop the economic benefits case and business models for open data;"
7536 msgstr ""
7537
7538 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7539 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4914
7540 msgid "help UK businesses use open data; and"
7541 msgstr ""
7542
7543 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7544 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4914
7545 msgid "show how open data can improve public services.1"
7546 msgstr ""
7547
7548 #. type: Plain text
7549 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4922
7550 msgid ""
7551 "ODI is very explicit about how it wants to make open business models, and "
7552 "defining what this means. Jeni Tennison, ODI’s technical director, puts it "
7553 "this way: “There is a whole ecosystem of open—open-source software, open "
7554 "government, open-access research—and a whole ecosystem of data. ODI’s work "
7555 "cuts across both, with an emphasis on where they overlap—with open data.” "
7556 "ODI’s particular focus is to show open data’s potential for revenue."
7557 msgstr ""
7558
7559 #. type: Plain text
7560 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4928
7561 msgid ""
7562 "As an independent nonprofit, ODI secured £10 million over five years from "
7563 "the UK government via Innovate UK, an agency that promotes innovation in "
7564 "science and technology. For this funding, ODI has to secure matching funds "
7565 "from other sources, some of which were met through a \\$4.75-million "
7566 "investment from the Omidyar Network."
7567 msgstr ""
7568
7569 #. type: Plain text
7570 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4934
7571 msgid ""
7572 "Jeni started out as a developer and technical architect for data.gov.uk, the "
7573 "UK government’s pioneering open-data initiative. She helped make data sets "
7574 "from government departments available as open data. She joined ODI in 2012 "
7575 "when it was just starting up, as one of six people. It now has a staff of "
7576 "about sixty."
7577 msgstr ""
7578
7579 #. type: Plain text
7580 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4941
7581 msgid ""
7582 "ODI strives to have half its annual budget come from the core UK government "
7583 "and Omidyar grants, and the other half from project-based research and "
7584 "commercial work. In Jeni’s view, having this balance of revenue sources "
7585 "establishes some stability, but also keeps them motivated to go out and "
7586 "generate these matching funds in response to market needs."
7587 msgstr ""
7588
7589 #. type: Plain text
7590 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4944
7591 msgid ""
7592 "On the commercial side, ODI generates funding through memberships, training, "
7593 "and advisory services."
7594 msgstr ""
7595
7596 #. type: Plain text
7597 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4955
7598 msgid ""
7599 "You can join the ODI as an individual or commercial member. Individual "
7600 "membership is pay-what-you-can, with options ranging from £1 to £100. "
7601 "Members receive a newsletter and related communications and a discount on "
7602 "ODI training courses and the annual summit, and they can display an ODI-"
7603 "supporter badge on their website. Commercial membership is divided into two "
7604 "tiers: small to medium size enterprises and nonprofits at £720 a year, and "
7605 "corporations and government organizations at £2,200 a year. Commercial "
7606 "members have greater opportunities to connect and collaborate, explore the "
7607 "benefits of open data, and unlock new business opportunities. (All members "
7608 "are listed on their website.)2"
7609 msgstr ""
7610
7611 #. type: Plain text
7612 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4967
7613 msgid ""
7614 "ODI provides standardized open data training courses in which anyone can "
7615 "enroll. The initial idea was to offer an intensive and academically oriented "
7616 "diploma in open data, but it quickly became clear there was no market for "
7617 "that. Instead, they offered a five-day-long public training course, which "
7618 "has subsequently been reduced to three days; now the most popular course is "
7619 "one day long. The fee, in addition to the time commitment, can be a barrier "
7620 "for participation. Jeni says, “Most of the people who would be able to pay "
7621 "don’t know they need it. Most who know they need it can’t pay.” Public-"
7622 "sector organizations sometimes give vouchers to their employees so they can "
7623 "attend as a form of professional development."
7624 msgstr ""
7625
7626 #. type: Plain text
7627 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4975
7628 msgid ""
7629 "ODI customizes training for clients as well, for which there is more demand. "
7630 "Custom training usually emerges through an established relationship with an "
7631 "organization. The training program is based on a definition of open-data "
7632 "knowledge as applicable to the organization and on the skills needed by "
7633 "their high-level executives, management, and technical staff. The training "
7634 "tends to generate high interest and commitment."
7635 msgstr ""
7636
7637 #. type: Plain text
7638 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4982
7639 msgid ""
7640 "Education about open data is also a part of ODI’s annual summit event, where "
7641 "curated presentations and speakers showcase the work of ODI and its members "
7642 "across the entire ecosystem. Tickets to the summit are available to the "
7643 "public, and hundreds of people and organizations attend and participate. In "
7644 "2014, there were four thematic tracks and over 750 attendees."
7645 msgstr ""
7646
7647 #. type: Plain text
7648 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4989
7649 msgid ""
7650 "In addition to memberships and training, ODI provides advisory services to "
7651 "help with technical-data support, technology development, change management, "
7652 "policies, and other areas. ODI has advised large commercial organizations, "
7653 "small businesses, and international governments; the focus at the moment is "
7654 "on government, but ODI is working to shift more toward commercial "
7655 "organizations."
7656 msgstr ""
7657
7658 #. type: Plain text
7659 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:4992
7660 msgid ""
7661 "On the commercial side, the following value propositions seem to resonate:"
7662 msgstr ""
7663
7664 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7665 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5007
7666 msgid ""
7667 "Data-driven insights. Businesses need data from outside their business to "
7668 "get more insight. Businesses can generate value and more effectively pursue "
7669 "their own goals if they open up their own data too. Big data is a hot topic."
7670 msgstr ""
7671
7672 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7673 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5007
7674 msgid ""
7675 "Open innovation. Many large-scale enterprises are aware they don’t innovate "
7676 "very well. One way they can innovate is to open up their data. ODI "
7677 "encourages them to do so even if it exposes problems and challenges. The key "
7678 "is to invite other people to help while still maintaining organizational "
7679 "autonomy."
7680 msgstr ""
7681
7682 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7683 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5007
7684 msgid ""
7685 "Corporate social responsibility. While this resonates with businesses, ODI "
7686 "cautions against having it be the sole reason for making data open. If a "
7687 "business is just thinking about open data as a way to be transparent and "
7688 "accountable, they can miss out on efficiencies and opportunities."
7689 msgstr ""
7690
7691 #. type: Plain text
7692 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5015
7693 msgid ""
7694 "During their early years, ODI wanted to focus solely on the United Kingdom. "
7695 "But in their first year, large delegations of government visitors from over "
7696 "fifty countries wanted to learn more about the UK government’s open-data "
7697 "practices and how ODI saw that translating into economic value. They were "
7698 "contracted as a service provider to international governments, which "
7699 "prompted a need to set up international ODI “nodes.”"
7700 msgstr ""
7701
7702 #. type: Plain text
7703 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5025
7704 msgid ""
7705 "Nodes are franchises of the ODI at a regional or city level. Hosted by "
7706 "existing (for-profit or not-for-profit) organizations, they operate locally "
7707 "but are part of the global network. Each ODI node adopts the charter, a set "
7708 "of guiding principles and rules under which ODI operates. They develop and "
7709 "deliver training, connect people and businesses through membership and "
7710 "events, and communicate open-data stories from their part of the world. "
7711 "There are twenty-seven different nodes across nineteen countries. ODI nodes "
7712 "are charged a small fee to be part of the network and to use the brand."
7713 msgstr ""
7714
7715 #. type: Plain text
7716 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5029
7717 msgid ""
7718 "ODI also runs programs to help start-ups in the UK and across Europe develop "
7719 "a sustainable business around open data, offering mentoring, advice, "
7720 "training, and even office space.3"
7721 msgstr ""
7722
7723 #. type: Plain text
7724 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5037
7725 msgid ""
7726 "A big part of ODI’s business model revolves around community building. "
7727 "Memberships, training, summits, consulting services, nodes, and start-up "
7728 "programs create an ever-growing network of open-data users and leaders. (In "
7729 "fact, ODI even operates something called an Open Data Leaders Network.) For "
7730 "ODI, community is key to success. They devote significant time and effort to "
7731 "build it, not just online but through face-to-face events."
7732 msgstr ""
7733
7734 #. type: Plain text
7735 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5043
7736 msgid ""
7737 "ODI has created an online tool that organizations can use to assess the "
7738 "legal, practical, technical, and social aspects of their open data. If it is "
7739 "of high quality, the organization can earn ODI’s Open Data Certificate, a "
7740 "globally recognized mark that signals that their open data is useful, "
7741 "reliable, accessible, discoverable, and supported.4"
7742 msgstr ""
7743
7744 #. type: Plain text
7745 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5048
7746 msgid ""
7747 "Separate from commercial activities, the ODI generates funding through "
7748 "research grants. Research includes looking at evidence on the impact of open "
7749 "data, development of open-data tools and standards, and how to deploy open "
7750 "data at scale."
7751 msgstr ""
7752
7753 #. type: Plain text
7754 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5053
7755 msgid ""
7756 "Creative Commons 4.0 licenses cover database rights and ODI recommends CC "
7757 "BY, CC BY-SA, and CC0 for data releases. ODI encourages publishers of data "
7758 "to use Creative Commons licenses rather than creating new “open licenses” of "
7759 "their own."
7760 msgstr ""
7761
7762 #. type: Plain text
7763 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5069
7764 msgid ""
7765 "For ODI, open is at the heart of what they do. They also release any "
7766 "software code they produce under open-source-software licenses, and "
7767 "publications and reports under CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses. ODI’s mission is "
7768 "to connect and equip people around the world so they can innovate with data. "
7769 "Disseminating stories, research, guidance, and code under an open license is "
7770 "essential for achieving that mission. It also demonstrates that it is "
7771 "perfectly possible to generate sustainable revenue streams that do not rely "
7772 "on restrictive licensing of content, data, or code. People pay to have ODI "
7773 "experts provide training to them, not for the content of the training; "
7774 "people pay for the advice ODI gives them, not for the methodologies they "
7775 "use. Producing open content, data, and source code helps establish "
7776 "credibility and creates leads for the paid services that they offer. "
7777 "According to Jeni, “The biggest lesson we have learned is that it is "
7778 "completely possible to be open, get customers, and make money.”"
7779 msgstr ""
7780
7781 #. type: Plain text
7782 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5073
7783 msgid ""
7784 "To serve as evidence of a successful open business model and return on "
7785 "investment, ODI has a public dashboard of key performance indicators. Here "
7786 "are a few metrics as of April 27, 2016:"
7787 msgstr ""
7788
7789 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7790 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5085
7791 msgid ""
7792 "Total amount of cash investments unlocked in direct investments in ODI, "
7793 "competition funding, direct contracts, and partnerships, and income that ODI "
7794 "nodes and ODI start-ups have generated since joining the ODI program: £44.5 "
7795 "million"
7796 msgstr ""
7797
7798 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7799 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5085
7800 msgid "Total number of active members and nodes across the globe: 1,350"
7801 msgstr ""
7802
7803 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7804 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5085
7805 msgid "Total sales since ODI began: £7.44 million"
7806 msgstr ""
7807
7808 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7809 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5085
7810 msgid ""
7811 "Total number of unique people reached since ODI began, in person and online: "
7812 "2.2 million"
7813 msgstr ""
7814
7815 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7816 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5085
7817 msgid "Total Open Data Certificates created: 151,000"
7818 msgstr ""
7819
7820 #. type: Bullet: '- '
7821 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5085
7822 msgid ""
7823 "Total number of people trained by ODI and its nodes since ODI began: 5,0805"
7824 msgstr ""
7825
7826 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
7827 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5094
7828 msgid ""
7829 "e642e8368e3bf8d5526e-464b4b70b4554c1a79566214d402739e.r6.cf3.rackcdn.com/odi-"
7830 "business-plan-may-release.pdf"
7831 msgstr ""
7832
7833 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
7834 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5094
7835 msgid "directory.theodi.org/members"
7836 msgstr ""
7837
7838 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
7839 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5094
7840 msgid ""
7841 "theodi.org/odi-startup-programme; theodi.org/open-data-incubator-for-europe"
7842 msgstr ""
7843
7844 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
7845 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5094
7846 msgid "certificates.theodi.org"
7847 msgstr ""
7848
7849 #. type: Bullet: '5. '
7850 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5094
7851 msgid "dashboards.theodi.org/company/all"
7852 msgstr ""
7853
7854 #. type: Plain text
7855 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5096
7856 msgid "## OpenDesk"
7857 msgstr ""
7858
7859 #. type: Plain text
7860 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5100
7861 msgid ""
7862 "Opendesk is a for-profit company offering an online platform that connects "
7863 "furniture designers around the world with customers and local makers who "
7864 "bring the designs to life. Founded in 2014 in the UK."
7865 msgstr ""
7866
7867 #. type: Plain text
7868 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5102
7869 msgid "www.opendesk.cc"
7870 msgstr ""
7871
7872 #. type: Plain text
7873 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5104
7874 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7054
7875 msgid "Revenue model: charging a transaction fee"
7876 msgstr ""
7877
7878 #. type: Plain text
7879 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5106
7880 msgid "Interview date: November 4, 2015"
7881 msgstr ""
7882
7883 #. type: Plain text
7884 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5108
7885 msgid "Interviewees: Nick Ierodiaconou and Joni Steiner, cofounders"
7886 msgstr ""
7887
7888 #. type: Plain text
7889 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5115
7890 msgid ""
7891 "Opendesk is an online platform that connects furniture designers around the "
7892 "world not just with customers but also with local registered makers who "
7893 "bring the designs to life. Opendesk and the designer receive a portion of "
7894 "every sale that is made by a maker."
7895 msgstr ""
7896
7897 #. type: Plain text
7898 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5130
7899 msgid ""
7900 "Cofounders Nick Ierodiaconou and Joni Steiner studied and worked as "
7901 "architects together. They also made goods. Their first client was Mint "
7902 "Digital, who had an interest in open licensing. Nick and Joni were exploring "
7903 "digital fabrication, and Mint’s interest in open licensing got them to "
7904 "thinking how the open-source world may interact and apply to physical goods. "
7905 "They sought to design something for their client that was also reproducible. "
7906 "As they put it, they decided to “ship the recipe, but not the goods.” They "
7907 "created the design using software, put it under an open license, and had it "
7908 "manufactured locally near the client. This was the start of the idea for "
7909 "Opendesk. The idea for Wikihouse—another open project dedicated to "
7910 "accessible housing for all—started as discussions around the same table. The "
7911 "two projects ultimately went on separate paths, with Wikihouse becoming a "
7912 "nonprofit foundation and Opendesk a for-profit company."
7913 msgstr ""
7914
7915 #. type: Plain text
7916 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5136
7917 msgid ""
7918 "When Nick and Joni set out to create Opendesk, there were a lot of questions "
7919 "about the viability of distributed manufacturing. No one was doing it in a "
7920 "way that was even close to realistic or competitive. The design community "
7921 "had the intent, but fulfilling this vision was still a long way away."
7922 msgstr ""
7923
7924 #. type: Plain text
7925 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5146
7926 msgid ""
7927 "And now this sector is emerging, and Nick and Joni are highly interested in "
7928 "the commercialization aspects of it. As part of coming up with a business "
7929 "model, they began investigating intellectual property and licensing options. "
7930 "It was a thorny space, especially for designs. Just what aspect of a design "
7931 "is copyrightable? What is patentable? How can allowing for digital sharing "
7932 "and distribution be balanced against the designer’s desire to still hold "
7933 "ownership? In the end, they decided there was no need to reinvent the wheel "
7934 "and settled on using Creative Commons."
7935 msgstr ""
7936
7937 #. type: Plain text
7938 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5152
7939 msgid ""
7940 "When designing the Opendesk system, they had two goals. They wanted anyone, "
7941 "anywhere in the world, to be able to download designs so that they could be "
7942 "made locally, and they wanted a viable model that benefited designers when "
7943 "their designs were sold. Coming up with a business model was going to be "
7944 "complex."
7945 msgstr ""
7946
7947 #. type: Plain text
7948 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5156
7949 msgid ""
7950 "They gave a lot of thought to three angles—the potential for social sharing, "
7951 "allowing designers to choose their license, and the impact these choices "
7952 "would have on the business model."
7953 msgstr ""
7954
7955 #. type: Plain text
7956 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5162
7957 msgid ""
7958 "In support of social sharing, Opendesk actively advocates for (but doesn’t "
7959 "demand) open licensing. And Nick and Joni are agnostic about which Creative "
7960 "Commons license is used; it’s up to the designer. They can be proprietary or "
7961 "choose from the full suite of Creative Commons licenses, deciding for "
7962 "themselves how open or closed they want to be."
7963 msgstr ""
7964
7965 #. type: Plain text
7966 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5167
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7968 "For the most part, designers love the idea of sharing content. They "
7969 "understand that you get positive feedback when you’re attributed, what Nick "
7970 "and Joni called “reputational glow.” And Opendesk does an awesome job "
7971 "profiling the designers.1"
7972 msgstr ""
7973
7974 #. type: Plain text
7975 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5172
7976 msgid ""
7977 "While designers are largely OK with personal sharing, there is a concern "
7978 "that someone will take the design and manufacture the furniture in bulk, "
7979 "with the designer not getting any benefits. So most Opendesk designers "
7980 "choose the Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC)."
7981 msgstr ""
7982
7983 #. type: Plain text
7984 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5181
7985 msgid ""
7986 "Anyone can download a design and make it themselves, provided it’s for "
7987 "noncommercial use — and there have been many, many downloads. Or users can "
7988 "buy the product from Opendesk, or from a registered maker in Opendesk’s "
7989 "network, for on-demand personal fabrication. The network of Opendesk makers "
7990 "currently is made up of those who do digital fabrication using a computer-"
7991 "controlled CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machining device that cuts shapes "
7992 "out of wooden sheets according to the specifications in the design file."
7993 msgstr ""
7994
7995 #. type: Plain text
7996 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5189
7997 msgid ""
7998 "Makers benefit from being part of Opendesk’s network. Making furniture for "
7999 "local customers is paid work, and Opendesk generates business for them. Joni "
8000 "said, “Finding a whole network and community of makers was pretty easy "
8001 "because we built a site where people could write in about their "
8002 "capabilities. Building the community by learning from the maker community is "
8003 "how we have moved forward.” Opendesk now has relationships with hundreds of "
8004 "makers in countries all around the world.2"
8005 msgstr ""
8006
8007 #. type: Plain text
8008 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5193
8009 msgid ""
8010 "The makers are a critical part of the Opendesk business model. Their model "
8011 "builds off the makers’ quotes. Here’s how it’s expressed on Opendesk’s "
8012 "website:"
8013 msgstr ""
8014
8015 #. type: Plain text
8016 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5196
8017 msgid ""
8018 "When customers buy an Opendesk product directly from a registered maker, "
8019 "they pay:"
8020 msgstr ""
8021
8022 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8023 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8024 msgid ""
8025 "the manufacturing cost as set by the maker (this covers material and labour "
8026 "costs for the product to be manufactured and any extra assembly costs "
8027 "charged by the maker)"
8028 msgstr ""
8029
8030 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8031 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8032 msgid ""
8033 "a design fee for the designer (a design fee that is paid to the designer "
8034 "every time their design is used)"
8035 msgstr ""
8036
8037 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8038 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8039 msgid ""
8040 "a percentage fee to the Opendesk platform (this supports the infrastructure "
8041 "and ongoing development of the platform that helps us build out our "
8042 "marketplace)"
8043 msgstr ""
8044
8045 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8046 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8047 msgid ""
8048 "a percentage fee to the channel through which the sale is made (at the "
8049 "moment this is Opendesk, but in the future we aim to open this up to third-"
8050 "party sellers who can sell Opendesk products through their own channels—this "
8051 "covers sales and marketing fees for the relevant channel)"
8052 msgstr ""
8053
8054 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8055 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8056 msgid ""
8057 "a local delivery service charge (the delivery is typically charged by the "
8058 "maker, but in some cases may be paid to a third-party delivery partner)"
8059 msgstr ""
8060
8061 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8062 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8063 msgid ""
8064 "charges for any additional services the customer chooses, such as on-site "
8065 "assembly (additional services are discretionary—in many cases makers will be "
8066 "happy to quote for assembly on-site and designers may offer bespoke design "
8067 "options)"
8068 msgstr ""
8069
8070 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8071 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5218
8072 msgid "local sales taxes (variable by customer and maker location)3"
8073 msgstr ""
8074
8075 #. type: Plain text
8076 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5220
8077 msgid "They then go into detail how makers’ quotes are created:"
8078 msgstr ""
8079
8080 #. type: Plain text
8081 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5229
8082 msgid ""
8083 "When a customer wants to buy an Opendesk . . . they are provided with a "
8084 "transparent breakdown of fees including the manufacturing cost, design fee, "
8085 "Opendesk platform fee and channel fees. If a customer opts to buy by getting "
8086 "in touch directly with a registered local maker using a downloaded Opendesk "
8087 "file, the maker is responsible for ensuring the design fee, Opendesk "
8088 "platform fee and channel fees are included in any quote at the time of sale. "
8089 "Percentage fees are always based on the underlying manufacturing cost and "
8090 "are typically apportioned as follows:"
8091 msgstr ""
8092
8093 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8094 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5237
8095 msgid ""
8096 "manufacturing cost: fabrication, finishing and any other costs as set by the "
8097 "maker (excluding any services like delivery or on-site assembly)"
8098 msgstr ""
8099
8100 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8101 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5237
8102 msgid "design fee: 8 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8103 msgstr ""
8104
8105 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8106 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5237
8107 msgid "platform fee: 12 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8108 msgstr ""
8109
8110 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8111 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5237
8112 msgid "channel fee: 18 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8113 msgstr ""
8114
8115 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8116 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5237
8117 msgid "sales tax: as applicable (depends on product and location)"
8118 msgstr ""
8119
8120 #. type: Plain text
8121 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5242
8122 msgid ""
8123 "Opendesk shares revenue with their community of designers. According to Nick "
8124 "and Joni, a typical designer fee is around 2.5 percent, so Opendesk’s 8 "
8125 "percent is more generous, and providing a higher value to the designer."
8126 msgstr ""
8127
8128 #. type: Plain text
8129 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5249
8130 msgid ""
8131 "The Opendesk website features stories of designers and makers. Denis Fuzii "
8132 "published the design for the Valovi Chair from his studio in São Paulo. His "
8133 "designs have been downloaded over five thousand times in ninety-five "
8134 "countries. I.J. CNC Services is Ian Jinks, a professional maker based in the "
8135 "United Kingdom. Opendesk now makes up a large proportion of his business."
8136 msgstr ""
8137
8138 #. type: Plain text
8139 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5257
8140 msgid ""
8141 "To manage resources and remain effective, Opendesk has so far focused on a "
8142 "very narrow niche—primarily office furniture of a certain simple aesthetic, "
8143 "which uses only one type of material and one manufacturing technique. This "
8144 "allows them to be more strategic and more disruptive in the market, by "
8145 "getting things to market quickly with competitive prices. It also reflects "
8146 "their vision of creating reproducible and functional pieces."
8147 msgstr ""
8148
8149 #. type: Plain text
8150 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5263
8151 msgid ""
8152 "On their website, Opendesk describes what they do as “open making”: "
8153 "“Designers get a global distribution channel. Makers get profitable jobs and "
8154 "new customers. You get designer products without the designer price tag, a "
8155 "more social, eco-friendly alternative to mass-production and an affordable "
8156 "way to buy custom-made products.”"
8157 msgstr ""
8158
8159 #. type: Plain text
8160 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5269
8161 msgid ""
8162 "Nick and Joni say that customers like the fact that the furniture has a "
8163 "known provenance. People really like that their furniture was designed by a "
8164 "certain international designer but was made by a maker in their local "
8165 "community; it’s a great story to tell. It certainly sets apart Opendesk "
8166 "furniture from the usual mass-produced items from a store."
8167 msgstr ""
8168
8169 #. type: Plain text
8170 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5277
8171 msgid ""
8172 "Nick and Joni are taking a community-based approach to define and evolve "
8173 "Opendesk and the “open making” business model. They’re engaging thought "
8174 "leaders and practitioners to define this new movement. They have a separate "
8175 "Open Making site, which includes a manifesto, a field guide, and an "
8176 "invitation to get involved in the Open Making community.4 People can submit "
8177 "ideas and discuss the principles and business practices they’d like to see "
8178 "used."
8179 msgstr ""
8180
8181 #. type: Plain text
8182 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5283
8183 msgid ""
8184 "Nick and Joni talked a lot with us about intellectual property (IP) and "
8185 "commercialization. Many of their designers fear the idea that someone could "
8186 "take one of their design files and make and sell infinite number of pieces "
8187 "of furniture with it. As a consequence, most Opendesk designers choose the "
8188 "Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC)."
8189 msgstr ""
8190
8191 #. type: Plain text
8192 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5286
8193 msgid ""
8194 "Opendesk established a set of principles for what their community considers "
8195 "commercial and noncommercial use. Their website states:"
8196 msgstr ""
8197
8198 #. type: Plain text
8199 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5288
8200 msgid "It is unambiguously commercial use when anyone:"
8201 msgstr ""
8202
8203 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8204 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5291
8205 msgid "charges a fee or makes a profit when making an Opendesk"
8206 msgstr ""
8207
8208 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8209 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5291
8210 msgid "sells (or bases a commercial service on) an Opendesk"
8211 msgstr ""
8212
8213 #. type: Plain text
8214 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5295
8215 msgid ""
8216 "It follows from this that noncommercial use is when you make an Opendesk "
8217 "yourself, with no intention to gain commercial advantage or monetary "
8218 "compensation. For example, these qualify as noncommercial:"
8219 msgstr ""
8220
8221 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8222 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5304
8223 msgid ""
8224 "you are an individual with your own CNC machine, or access to a shared CNC "
8225 "machine, and will personally cut and make a few pieces of furniture yourself"
8226 msgstr ""
8227
8228 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8229 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5304
8230 msgid ""
8231 "you are a student (or teacher) and you use the design files for educational "
8232 "purposes or training (and do not intend to sell the resulting pieces)"
8233 msgstr ""
8234
8235 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8236 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5304
8237 msgid ""
8238 "you work for a charity and get furniture cut by volunteers, or by employees "
8239 "at a fab lab or maker space"
8240 msgstr ""
8241
8242 #. type: Plain text
8243 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5313
8244 msgid ""
8245 "Whether or not people technically are doing things that implicate IP, Nick "
8246 "and Joni have found that people tend to comply with the wishes of creators "
8247 "out of a sense of fairness. They have found that behavioral economics can "
8248 "replace some of the thorny legal issues. In their business model, Nick and "
8249 "Joni are trying to suspend the focus on IP and build an open business model "
8250 "that works for all stakeholders—designers, channels, manufacturers, and "
8251 "customers. For them, the value Opendesk generates hangs off “open,” not IP."
8252 msgstr ""
8253
8254 #. type: Plain text
8255 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5319
8256 msgid ""
8257 "The mission of Opendesk is about relocalizing manufacturing, which changes "
8258 "the way we think about how goods are made. Commercialization is integral to "
8259 "their mission, and they’ve begun to focus on success metrics that track how "
8260 "many makers and designers are engaged through Opendesk in revenue-making "
8261 "work."
8262 msgstr ""
8263
8264 #. type: Plain text
8265 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5324
8266 msgid ""
8267 "As a global platform for local making, Opendesk’s business model has been "
8268 "built on honesty, transparency, and inclusivity. As Nick and Joni describe "
8269 "it, they put ideas out there that get traction and then have faith in people."
8270 msgstr ""
8271
8272 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
8273 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5331
8274 msgid "www.opendesk.cc/designers"
8275 msgstr ""
8276
8277 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
8278 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5331
8279 msgid "www.opendesk.cc/open-making/makers/"
8280 msgstr ""
8281
8282 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
8283 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5331
8284 msgid "www.opendesk.cc/open-making/join"
8285 msgstr ""
8286
8287 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
8288 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5331
8289 msgid "openmaking.is"
8290 msgstr ""
8291
8292 #. type: Plain text
8293 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5333
8294 msgid "## OpenStax"
8295 msgstr ""
8296
8297 #. type: Plain text
8298 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5337
8299 msgid ""
8300 "OpenStax is a nonprofit that provides free, openly licensed textbooks for "
8301 "high-enrollment introductory college courses and Advanced Placement courses. "
8302 "Founded in 2012 in the U.S."
8303 msgstr ""
8304
8305 #. type: Plain text
8306 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5339
8307 msgid "www.openstaxcollege.org"
8308 msgstr ""
8309
8310 #. type: Plain text
8311 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5342
8312 msgid ""
8313 "Revenue model: grant funding, charging for custom services, charging for "
8314 "physical copies (textbook sales)"
8315 msgstr ""
8316
8317 #. type: Plain text
8318 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5344
8319 msgid "Interview date: December 16, 2015"
8320 msgstr ""
8321
8322 #. type: Plain text
8323 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5346
8324 msgid "Interviewee: David Harris, editor-in-chief"
8325 msgstr ""
8326
8327 #. type: Plain text
8328 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5359
8329 msgid ""
8330 "OpenStax is an extension of a program called Connexions, which was started "
8331 "in 1999 by Dr. Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of "
8332 "Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. "
8333 "Frustrated by the limitations of traditional textbooks and courses, Dr. "
8334 "Baraniuk wanted to provide authors and learners a way to share and freely "
8335 "adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and reports. Today, "
8336 "Connexions (now called OpenStax CNX) is one of the world’s best libraries of "
8337 "customizable educational materials, all licensed with Creative Commons and "
8338 "available to anyone, anywhere, anytime—for free."
8339 msgstr ""
8340
8341 #. type: Plain text
8342 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5368
8343 msgid ""
8344 "In 2008, while in a senior leadership role at WebAssign and looking at ways "
8345 "to reduce the risk that came with relying on publishers, David Harris began "
8346 "investigating open educational resources (OER) and discovered Connexions. A "
8347 "year and a half later, Connexions received a grant to help grow the use of "
8348 "OER so that it could meet the needs of students who couldn’t afford "
8349 "textbooks. David came on board to spearhead this effort. Connexions became "
8350 "OpenStax CNX; the program to create open textbooks became OpenStax College, "
8351 "now simply called OpenStax."
8352 msgstr ""
8353
8354 #. type: Plain text
8355 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5378
8356 msgid ""
8357 "David brought with him a deep understanding of the best practices of "
8358 "publishing along with where publishers have inefficiencies. In David’s view, "
8359 "peer review and high standards for quality are critically important if you "
8360 "want to scale easily. Books have to have logical scope and sequence, they "
8361 "have to exist as a whole and not in pieces, and they have to be easy to "
8362 "find. The working hypothesis for the launch of OpenStax was to "
8363 "professionally produce a turnkey textbook by investing effort up front, with "
8364 "the expectation that this would lead to rapid growth through easy downstream "
8365 "adoptions by faculty and students."
8366 msgstr ""
8367
8368 #. type: Plain text
8369 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5387
8370 msgid ""
8371 "In 2012, OpenStax College launched as a nonprofit with the aim of producing "
8372 "high-quality, peer-reviewed full-color textbooks that would be available for "
8373 "free for the twenty-five most heavily attended college courses in the "
8374 "nation. Today they are fast approaching that number. There is data that "
8375 "proves the success of their original hypothesis on how many students they "
8376 "could help and how much money they could help save.1 Professionally produced "
8377 "content scales rapidly. All with no sales force!"
8378 msgstr ""
8379
8380 #. type: Plain text
8381 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5395
8382 msgid ""
8383 "OpenStax textbooks are all Attribution (CC BY) licensed, and each textbook "
8384 "is available as a PDF, an e-book, or web pages. Those who want a physical "
8385 "copy can buy one for an affordable price. Given the cost of education and "
8386 "student debt in North America, free or very low-cost textbooks are very "
8387 "appealing. OpenStax encourages students to talk to their professor and "
8388 "librarians about these textbooks and to advocate for their use."
8389 msgstr ""
8390
8391 #. type: Plain text
8392 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5402
8393 msgid ""
8394 "Teachers are invited to try out a single chapter from one of the textbooks "
8395 "with students. If that goes well, they’re encouraged to adopt the entire "
8396 "book. They can simply paste a URL into their course syllabus, for free and "
8397 "unlimited access. And with the CC BY license, teachers are free to delete "
8398 "chapters, make changes, and customize any book to fit their needs."
8399 msgstr ""
8400
8401 #. type: Plain text
8402 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5407
8403 msgid ""
8404 "Any teacher can post corrections, suggest examples for difficult concepts, "
8405 "or volunteer as an editor or author. As many teachers also want supplemental "
8406 "material to accompany a textbook, OpenStax also provides slide "
8407 "presentations, test banks, answer keys, and so on."
8408 msgstr ""
8409
8410 #. type: Plain text
8411 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5412
8412 msgid ""
8413 "Institutions can stand out by offering students a lower-cost education "
8414 "through the use of OpenStax textbooks; there’s even a textbook-savings "
8415 "calculator they can use to see how much students would save. OpenStax keeps "
8416 "a running list of institutions that have adopted their textbooks.2"
8417 msgstr ""
8418
8419 #. type: Plain text
8420 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5417
8421 msgid ""
8422 "Unlike traditional publishers’ monolithic approach of controlling "
8423 "intellectual property, distribution, and so many other aspects, OpenStax has "
8424 "adopted a model that embraces open licensing and relies on an extensive "
8425 "network of partners."
8426 msgstr ""
8427
8428 #. type: Plain text
8429 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5426
8430 msgid ""
8431 "Up-front funding of a professionally produced all-color turnkey textbook is "
8432 "expensive. For this part of their model, OpenStax relies on philanthropy. "
8433 "They have initially been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, "
8434 "the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, "
8435 "the 20 Million Minds Foundation, the Maxfield Foundation, the Calvin K. "
8436 "Kazanjian Foundation, and Rice University. To develop additional titles and "
8437 "supporting technology is probably still going to require philanthropic "
8438 "investment."
8439 msgstr ""
8440
8441 #. type: Plain text
8442 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5435
8443 msgid ""
8444 "However, ongoing operations will not rely on foundation grants but instead "
8445 "on funds received through an ecosystem of over forty partners, whereby a "
8446 "partner takes core content from OpenStax and adds features that it can "
8447 "create revenue from. For example, WebAssign, an online homework and "
8448 "assessment tool, takes the physics book and adds algorithmically generated "
8449 "physics problems, with problem-specific feedback, detailed solutions, and "
8450 "tutorial support. WebAssign resources are available to students for a fee."
8451 msgstr ""
8452
8453 #. type: Plain text
8454 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5443
8455 msgid ""
8456 "Another example is Odigia, who has turned OpenStax books into interactive "
8457 "learning experiences and created additional tools to measure and promote "
8458 "student engagement. Odigia licenses its learning platform to institutions. "
8459 "Partners like Odigia and WebAssign give a percentage of the revenue they "
8460 "earn back to OpenStax, as mission-support fees. OpenStax has already "
8461 "published revisions of their titles, such as Introduction to Sociology 2e, "
8462 "using these funds."
8463 msgstr ""
8464
8465 #. type: Plain text
8466 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5453
8467 msgid ""
8468 "In David’s view, this approach lets the market operate at peak efficiency. "
8469 "OpenStax’s partners don’t have to worry about developing textbook content, "
8470 "freeing them up from those development costs and letting them focus on what "
8471 "they do best. With OpenStax textbooks available at no cost, they can provide "
8472 "their services at a lower cost—not free, but still saving students money. "
8473 "OpenStax benefits not only by receiving mission-support fees but through "
8474 "free publicity and marketing. OpenStax doesn’t have a sales force; partners "
8475 "are out there showcasing their materials."
8476 msgstr ""
8477
8478 #. type: Plain text
8479 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5459
8480 msgid ""
8481 "OpenStax’s cost of sales to acquire a single student is very, very low and "
8482 "is a fraction of what traditional players in the market face. This year, "
8483 "Tyton Partners is actually evaluating the costs of sales for an OER effort "
8484 "like OpenStax in comparison with incumbents. David looks forward to sharing "
8485 "these findings with the community."
8486 msgstr ""
8487
8488 #. type: Plain text
8489 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5468
8490 msgid ""
8491 "While OpenStax books are available online for free, many students still want "
8492 "a print copy. Through a partnership with a print and courier company, "
8493 "OpenStax offers a complete solution that scales. OpenStax sells tens of "
8494 "thousands of print books. The price of an OpenStax sociology textbook is "
8495 "about twenty-eight dollars, a fraction of what sociology textbooks usually "
8496 "cost. OpenStax keeps the prices low but does aim to earn a small margin on "
8497 "each book sold, which also contributes to ongoing operations."
8498 msgstr ""
8499
8500 #. type: Plain text
8501 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5479
8502 msgid ""
8503 "Campus-based bookstores are part of the OpenStax solution. OpenStax "
8504 "collaborates with NACSCORP (the National Association of College Stores "
8505 "Corporation) to provide print versions of their textbooks in the stores. "
8506 "While the overall cost of the textbook is significantly less than a "
8507 "traditional textbook, bookstores can still make a profit on sales. "
8508 "Sometimes students take the savings they have from the lower-priced book and "
8509 "use it to buy other things in the bookstore. And OpenStax is trying to break "
8510 "the expensive behavior of excessive returns by having a no-returns policy. "
8511 "This is working well, since the sell-through of their print titles is "
8512 "virtually a hundred percent."
8513 msgstr ""
8514
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8516 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5486
8517 msgid ""
8518 "David thinks of the OpenStax model as “OER 2.0.” So what is OER 1.0? "
8519 "Historically in the OER field, many OER initiatives have been locally funded "
8520 "by institutions or government ministries. In David’s view, this results in "
8521 "content that has high local value but is infrequently adopted nationally. "
8522 "It’s therefore difficult to show payback over a time scale that is "
8523 "reasonable."
8524 msgstr ""
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8527 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5497
8528 msgid ""
8529 "OER 2.0 is about OER intended to be used and adopted on a national level "
8530 "right from the start. This requires a bigger investment up front but pays "
8531 "off through wide geographic adoption. The OER 2.0 process for OpenStax "
8532 "involves two development models. The first is what David calls the "
8533 "acquisition model, where OpenStax purchases the rights from a publisher or "
8534 "author for an already published book and then extensively revises it. The "
8535 "OpenStax physics textbook, for example, was licensed from an author after "
8536 "the publisher released the rights back to the authors. The second model is "
8537 "to develop a book from scratch, a good example being their biology book."
8538 msgstr ""
8539
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8541 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5512
8542 msgid ""
8543 "The process is similar for both models. First they look at the scope and "
8544 "sequence of existing textbooks. They ask questions like what does the "
8545 "customer need? Where are students having challenges? Then they identify "
8546 "potential authors and put them through a rigorous evaluation—only one in ten "
8547 "authors make it through. OpenStax selects a team of authors who come "
8548 "together to develop a template for a chapter and collectively write the "
8549 "first draft (or revise it, in the acquisitions model). (OpenStax doesn’t do "
8550 "books with just a single author as David says it risks the project going "
8551 "longer than scheduled.) The draft is peer-reviewed with no less than three "
8552 "reviewers per chapter. A second draft is generated, with artists producing "
8553 "illustrations and visuals to go along with the text. The book is then "
8554 "copyedited to ensure grammatical correctness and a singular voice. Finally, "
8555 "it goes into production and through a final proofread. The whole process is "
8556 "very time-consuming."
8557 msgstr ""
8558
8559 #. type: Plain text
8560 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5521
8561 msgid ""
8562 "All the people involved in this process are paid. OpenStax does not rely on "
8563 "volunteers. Writers, reviewers, illustrators, and editors are all paid an up-"
8564 "front fee—OpenStax does not use a royalty model. A best-selling author might "
8565 "make more money under the traditional publishing model, but that is only "
8566 "maybe 5 percent of all authors. From David’s perspective, 95 percent of all "
8567 "authors do better under the OER 2.0 model, as there is no risk to them and "
8568 "they earn all the money up front."
8569 msgstr ""
8570
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8572 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5529
8573 msgid ""
8574 "David thinks of the Attribution license (CC BY) as the “innovation license.” "
8575 "It’s core to the mission of OpenStax, letting people use their textbooks in "
8576 "innovative ways without having to ask for permission. It frees up the whole "
8577 "market and has been central to OpenStax being able to bring on partners. "
8578 "OpenStax sees a lot of customization of their materials. By enabling "
8579 "frictionless remixing, CC BY gives teachers control and academic freedom."
8580 msgstr ""
8581
8582 #. type: Plain text
8583 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5538
8584 msgid ""
8585 "Using CC BY is also a good example of using strategies that traditional "
8586 "publishers can’t. Traditional publishers rely on copyright to prevent others "
8587 "from making copies and heavily invest in digital rights management to ensure "
8588 "their books aren’t shared. By using CC BY, OpenStax avoids having to deal "
8589 "with digital rights management and its costs. OpenStax books can be copied "
8590 "and shared over and over again. CC BY changes the rules of engagement and "
8591 "takes advantage of traditional market inefficiencies."
8592 msgstr ""
8593
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8595 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5541
8596 msgid ""
8597 "As of September 16, 2016, OpenStax has achieved some impressive results. "
8598 "From the OpenStax at a Glance fact sheet from their recent press kit:"
8599 msgstr ""
8600
8601 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8602 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5550
8603 msgid "Books published: 23"
8604 msgstr ""
8605
8606 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8607 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5550
8608 msgid "Students who have used OpenStax: 1.6 million"
8609 msgstr ""
8610
8611 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8612 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5550
8613 msgid "Money saved for students: \\$155 million"
8614 msgstr ""
8615
8616 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8617 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5550
8618 msgid "Money saved for students in the 2016/17 academic year: \\$77 million"
8619 msgstr ""
8620
8621 #. type: Bullet: '- '
8622 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5550
8623 msgid ""
8624 "Schools that have used OpenStax: 2,668 (This number reflects all "
8625 "institutions using at least one OpenStax textbook. Out of 2,668 schools, 517 "
8626 "are two-year colleges, 835 four-year colleges and universities, and 344 "
8627 "colleges and universities outside the U.S.)"
8628 msgstr ""
8629
8630 #. type: Plain text
8631 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5555
8632 msgid ""
8633 "While OpenStax has to date been focused on the United States, there is "
8634 "overseas adoption especially in the science, technology, engineering, and "
8635 "math (STEM) fields. Large scale adoption in the United States is seen as a "
8636 "necessary precursor to international interest."
8637 msgstr ""
8638
8639 #. type: Plain text
8640 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5561
8641 msgid ""
8642 "OpenStax has primarily focused on introductory-level college courses where "
8643 "there is high enrollment, but they are starting to think about verticals—a "
8644 "broad offering for a specific group or need. David thinks it would be "
8645 "terrific if OpenStax could provide access to free textbooks through the "
8646 "entire curriculum of a nursing degree, for example."
8647 msgstr ""
8648
8649 #. type: Plain text
8650 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5571
8651 msgid ""
8652 "Finally, for OpenStax success is not just about the adoption of their "
8653 "textbooks and student savings. There is a human aspect to the work that is "
8654 "hard to quantify but incredibly important. They get emails from students "
8655 "saying how OpenStax saved them from making difficult choices like buying "
8656 "food or a textbook. OpenStax would also like to assess the impact their "
8657 "books have on learning efficiency, persistence, and completion. By building "
8658 "an open business model based on Creative Commons, OpenStax is making it "
8659 "possible for every student who wants access to education to get it."
8660 msgstr ""
8661
8662 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
8663 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5576
8664 msgid ""
8665 "news.rice.edu/files/2016/01/0119-OPENSTAX-2016Infographic-lg-1tahxiu.jpg"
8666 msgstr ""
8667
8668 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
8669 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5576
8670 msgid "openstax.org/adopters"
8671 msgstr ""
8672
8673 #. type: Plain text
8674 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5578
8675 msgid "## Amanda Palmer"
8676 msgstr ""
8677
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8679 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5580
8680 msgid "Amanda Palmer is a musician, artist, and writer. Based in the U.S."
8681 msgstr ""
8682
8683 #. type: Plain text
8684 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5582
8685 msgid "amandapalmer.net"
8686 msgstr ""
8687
8688 #. type: Plain text
8689 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5586
8690 msgid ""
8691 "Revenue model: crowdfunding (subscription-based), pay-what-you-want, "
8692 "charging for physical copies (book and album sales), charg-ing for in-person "
8693 "version (performances), selling merchandise"
8694 msgstr ""
8695
8696 #. type: Plain text
8697 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5588
8698 msgid "Interview date: December 15, 2015"
8699 msgstr ""
8700
8701 #. type: Plain text
8702 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5594
8703 msgid ""
8704 "Since the beginning of her career, Amanda Palmer has been on what she calls "
8705 "a “journey with no roadmap,” continually experimenting to find new ways to "
8706 "sustain her creative work. 1"
8707 msgstr ""
8708
8709 #. type: Plain text
8710 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5600
8711 msgid ""
8712 "In her best-selling book, The Art of Asking, Amanda articulates exactly what "
8713 "she has been and continues to strive for—“the ideal sweet spot . . . in "
8714 "which the artist can share freely and directly feel the reverberations of "
8715 "their artistic gifts to the community, and make a living doing that.”"
8716 msgstr ""
8717
8718 #. type: Plain text
8719 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5607
8720 msgid ""
8721 "While she seems to have successfully found that sweet spot for herself, "
8722 "Amanda is the first to acknowledge there is no silver bullet. She thinks the "
8723 "digital age is both an exciting and frustrating time for creators. “On the "
8724 "one hand, we have this beautiful shareability,” Amanda said. “On the other, "
8725 "you’ve got a bunch of confused artists wondering how to make money to buy "
8726 "food so we can make more art.”"
8727 msgstr ""
8728
8729 #. type: Plain text
8730 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5619
8731 msgid ""
8732 "Amanda began her artistic career as a street performer. She would dress up "
8733 "in an antique wedding gown, paint her face white, stand on a stack of milk "
8734 "crates, and hand out flowers to strangers as part of a silent dramatic "
8735 "performance. She collected money in a hat. Most people walked by her without "
8736 "stopping, but an essential few stopped to watch and drop some money into her "
8737 "hat to show their appreciation. Rather than dwelling on the majority of "
8738 "people who ignored her, she felt thankful for those who stopped. “All I "
8739 "needed was . . . some people,” she wrote in her book. “Enough people. Enough "
8740 "to make it worth coming back the next day, enough people to help me make "
8741 "rent and put food on the table. Enough so I could keep making art.”"
8742 msgstr ""
8743
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8745 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5628
8746 msgid ""
8747 "Amanda has come a long way from her street-performing days, but her career "
8748 "remains dominated by that same sentiment—finding ways to reach “her crowd” "
8749 "and feeling gratitude when she does. With her band the Dresden Dolls, Amanda "
8750 "tried the traditional path of signing with a record label. It didn’t take "
8751 "for a variety of reasons, but one of them was that the label had absolutely "
8752 "no interest in Amanda’s view of success. They wanted hits, but making music "
8753 "for the masses was never what Amanda and the Dresden Dolls set out to do."
8754 msgstr ""
8755
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8757 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5638
8758 msgid ""
8759 "After leaving the record label in 2008, she began experimenting with "
8760 "different ways to make a living. She released music directly to the public "
8761 "without involving a middle man, releasing digital files on a “pay what you "
8762 "want” basis and selling CDs and vinyl. She also made money from live "
8763 "performances and merchandise sales. Eventually, in 2012 she decided to try "
8764 "her hand at the sort of crowdfunding we know so well today. Her Kickstarter "
8765 "project started with a goal of \\$100,000, and she made \\$1.2 million. It "
8766 "remains one of the most successful Kickstarter projects of all time."
8767 msgstr ""
8768
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8770 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5648
8771 msgid ""
8772 "Today, Amanda has switched gears away from crowdfunding for specific "
8773 "projects to instead getting consistent financial support from her fan base "
8774 "on Patreon, a crowdfunding site that allows artists to get recurring "
8775 "donations from fans. More than eight thousand people have signed up to "
8776 "support her so she can create music, art, and any other creative “thing” "
8777 "that she is inspired to make. The recurring pledges are made on a “per "
8778 "thing” basis. All of the content she makes is made freely available under an "
8779 "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA)."
8780 msgstr ""
8781
8782 #. type: Plain text
8783 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5663
8784 msgid ""
8785 "Making her music and art available under Creative Commons licensing "
8786 "undoubtedly limits her options for how she makes a living. But sharing her "
8787 "work has been part of her model since the beginning of her career, even "
8788 "before she discovered Creative Commons. Amanda says the Dresden Dolls used "
8789 "to get ten emails per week from fans asking if they could use their music "
8790 "for different projects. They said yes to all of the requests, as long as it "
8791 "wasn’t for a completely for-profit venture. At the time, they used a short-"
8792 "form agreement written by Amanda herself. “I made everyone sign that "
8793 "contract so at least I wouldn’t be leaving the band vulnerable to someone "
8794 "later going on and putting our music in a Camel cigarette ad,” Amanda said. "
8795 "Once she discovered Creative Commons, adopting the licenses was an easy "
8796 "decision because it gave them a more formal, standardized way of doing what "
8797 "they had been doing all along. The NonCommercial licenses were a natural "
8798 "fit."
8799 msgstr ""
8800
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8802 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5670
8803 msgid ""
8804 "Amanda embraces the way her fans share and build upon her music. In The Art "
8805 "of Asking, she wrote that some of her fans’ unofficial videos using her "
8806 "music surpass the official videos in number of views on YouTube. Rather "
8807 "than seeing this sort of thing as competition, Amanda celebrates it. “We got "
8808 "into this because we wanted to share the joy of music,” she said."
8809 msgstr ""
8810
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8812 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5678
8813 msgid ""
8814 "This is symbolic of how nearly everything she does in her career is "
8815 "motivated by a desire to connect with her fans. At the start of her career, "
8816 "she and the band would throw concerts at house parties. As the gatherings "
8817 "grew, the line between fans and friends was completely blurred. “Not only "
8818 "did most our early fans know where I lived and where we practiced, but most "
8819 "of them had also been in my kitchen,” Amanda wrote in The Art of Asking."
8820 msgstr ""
8821
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8823 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5688
8824 msgid ""
8825 "Even though her fan base is now huge and global, she continues to seek this "
8826 "sort of human connection with her fans. She seeks out face-to-face contact "
8827 "with her fans every chance she can get. Her hugely successful Kickstarter "
8828 "featured fifty concerts at house parties for backers. She spends hours in "
8829 "the signing line after shows. It helps that Amanda has the kind of dynamic, "
8830 "engaging personality that instantly draws people to her, but a big component "
8831 "of her ability to connect with people is her willingness to listen. "
8832 "“Listening fast and caring immediately is a skill unto itself,” Amanda wrote."
8833 msgstr ""
8834
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8836 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5697
8837 msgid ""
8838 "Another part of the connection fans feel with Amanda is how much they know "
8839 "about her life. Rather than trying to craft a public persona or image, she "
8840 "essentially lives her life as an open book. She has written openly about "
8841 "incredibly personal events in her life, and she isn’t afraid to be "
8842 "vulnerable. Having that kind of trust in her fans—the trust it takes to be "
8843 "truly honest—begets trust from her fans in return. When she meets fans for "
8844 "the first time after a show, they can legitimately feel like they know her."
8845 msgstr ""
8846
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8848 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5704
8849 msgid ""
8850 "“With social media, we’re so concerned with the picture looking palatable "
8851 "and consumable that we forget that being human and showing the flaws and "
8852 "exposing the vulnerability actually create a deeper connection than just "
8853 "looking fantastic,” Amanda said. “Everything in our culture is telling us "
8854 "otherwise. But my experience has shown me that the risk of making yourself "
8855 "vulnerable is almost always worth it.”"
8856 msgstr ""
8857
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8860 msgid ""
8861 "Not only does she disclose intimate details of her life to them, she sleeps "
8862 "on their couches, listens to their stories, cries with them. In short, she "
8863 "treats her fans like friends in nearly every possible way, even when they "
8864 "are complete strangers. This mentality—that fans are friends—is completely "
8865 "intertwined with Amanda’s success as an artist. It is also intertwined with "
8866 "her use of Creative Commons licenses. Because that is what you do with your "
8867 "friends—you share."
8868 msgstr ""
8869
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8871 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5720
8872 msgid ""
8873 "After years of investing time and energy into building trust with her fans, "
8874 "she has a strong enough relationship with them to ask for support—through "
8875 "pay-what-you-want donations, Kickstarter, Patreon, or even asking them to "
8876 "lend a hand at a concert. As Amanda explains it, crowdfunding (which is "
8877 "really what all of these different things are) is about asking for support "
8878 "from people who know and trust you. People who feel personally invested in "
8879 "your success."
8880 msgstr ""
8881
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8883 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5727
8884 msgid ""
8885 "“When you openly, radically trust people, they not only take care of you, "
8886 "they become your allies, your family,” she wrote. There really is a feeling "
8887 "of solidarity within her core fan base. From the beginning, Amanda and her "
8888 "band encouraged people to dress up for their shows. They consciously "
8889 "cultivated a feeling of belonging to their “weird little family.”"
8890 msgstr ""
8891
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8893 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5735
8894 msgid ""
8895 "This sort of intimacy with fans is not possible or even desirable for every "
8896 "creator. “I don’t take for granted that I happen to be the type of person "
8897 "who loves cavorting with strangers,” Amanda said. “I recognize that it’s not "
8898 "necessarily everyone’s idea of a good time. Everyone does it differently. "
8899 "Replicating what I have done won’t work for others if it isn’t joyful to "
8900 "them. It’s about finding a way to channel energy in a way that is joyful to "
8901 "you.”"
8902 msgstr ""
8903
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8905 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5746
8906 msgid ""
8907 "Yet while Amanda joyfully interacts with her fans and involves them in her "
8908 "work as much as possible, she does keep one job primarily to herself—writing "
8909 "the music. She loves the creativity with which her fans use and adapt her "
8910 "work, but she intentionally does not involve them at the first stage of "
8911 "creating her artistic work. And, of course, the songs and music are what "
8912 "initially draw people to Amanda Palmer. It is only once she has connected to "
8913 "people through her music that she can then begin to build ties with them on "
8914 "a more personal level, both in person and online. In her book, Amanda "
8915 "describes it as casting a net. It starts with the art and then the bond "
8916 "strengthens with human connection."
8917 msgstr ""
8918
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8920 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5754
8921 msgid ""
8922 "For Amanda, the entire point of being an artist is to establish and maintain "
8923 "this connection. “It sounds so corny,” she said, “but my experience in forty "
8924 "years on this planet has pointed me to an obvious truth—that connection with "
8925 "human beings feels so much better and more fulfilling than approaching art "
8926 "through a capitalist lens. There is no more satisfying end goal than having "
8927 "someone tell you that what you do is genuinely of value to them.”"
8928 msgstr ""
8929
8930 #. type: Plain text
8931 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5762
8932 msgid ""
8933 "As she explains it, when a fan gives her a ten-dollar bill, usually what "
8934 "they are saying is that the money symbolizes some deeper value the music "
8935 "provided them. For Amanda, art is not just a product; it’s a relationship. "
8936 "Viewed from this lens, what Amanda does today is not that different from "
8937 "what she did as a young street performer. She shares her music and other "
8938 "artistic gifts. She shares herself. And then rather than forcing people to "
8939 "help her, she lets them."
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8941
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8944 msgid ""
8945 "http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/04/16/amanda-palmer-"
8946 "uncut-the-kickstarter-queen-on-spotify-patreon-and-taylor-swift/"
8947 "\\#44e20ce46d67"
8948 msgstr ""
8949
8950 #. type: Plain text
8951 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5768
8952 msgid "## PLOS (Public Library of Science)"
8953 msgstr ""
8954
8955 #. type: Plain text
8956 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5772
8957 msgid ""
8958 "PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit that publishes a library of "
8959 "academic journals and other scientific literature. Founded in 2000 in the U."
8960 "S."
8961 msgstr ""
8962
8963 #. type: Plain text
8964 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5774
8965 msgid "plos.org"
8966 msgstr ""
8967
8968 #. type: Plain text
8969 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5777
8970 msgid ""
8971 "Revenue model: charging content creators an author processing charge to be "
8972 "featured in the journal"
8973 msgstr ""
8974
8975 #. type: Plain text
8976 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5779
8977 msgid "Interview date: March 7, 2016"
8978 msgstr ""
8979
8980 #. type: Plain text
8981 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5781
8982 msgid "Interviewee: Louise Page, publisher"
8983 msgstr ""
8984
8985 #. type: Plain text
8986 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5795
8987 msgid ""
8988 "The Public Library of Science (PLOS) began in 2000 when three leading "
8989 "scientists—Harold E. Varmus, Patrick O. Brown, and Michael Eisen—started an "
8990 "online petition. They were calling for scientists to stop submitting papers "
8991 "to journals that didn’t make the full text of their papers freely available "
8992 "immediately or within six months. Although tens of thousands signed the "
8993 "petition, most did not follow through. In August 2001, Patrick and Michael "
8994 "announced that they would start their own nonprofit publishing operation to "
8995 "do just what the petition promised. With start-up grant support from the "
8996 "Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, PLOS was launched to provide new open-"
8997 "access journals for biomedicine, with research articles being released under "
8998 "Attribution (CC BY) licenses."
8999 msgstr ""
9000
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9002 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5805
9003 msgid ""
9004 "Traditionally, academic publishing begins with an author submitting a "
9005 "manuscript to a publisher. After in-house technical and ethical "
9006 "considerations, the article is then peer-reviewed to determine if the "
9007 "quality of the work is acceptable for publishing. Once accepted, the "
9008 "publisher takes the article through the process of copyediting, typesetting, "
9009 "and eventual publishing in a print or online publication. Traditional "
9010 "journal publishers recover costs and earn profit by charging a subscription "
9011 "fee to libraries or an access fee to users wanting to read the journal or "
9012 "article."
9013 msgstr ""
9014
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9017 msgid ""
9018 "For Louise Page, the current publisher of PLOS, this traditional model "
9019 "results in inequity. Access is restricted to those who can pay. Most "
9020 "research is funded through government-appointed agencies, that is, with "
9021 "public funds. It’s unjust that the public who funded the research would be "
9022 "required to pay again to access the results. Not everyone can afford the "
9023 "ever-escalating subscription fees publishers charge, especially when library "
9024 "budgets are being reduced. Restricting access to the results of scientific "
9025 "research slows the dissemination of this research and advancement of the "
9026 "field. It was time for a new model."
9027 msgstr ""
9028
9029 #. type: Plain text
9030 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5825
9031 msgid ""
9032 "That new model became known as open access. That is, free and open "
9033 "availability on the Internet. Open-access research articles are not behind a "
9034 "paywall and do not require a login. A key benefit of open access is that it "
9035 "allows people to freely use, copy, and distribute the articles, as they are "
9036 "primarily published under an Attribution (CC BY) license (which only "
9037 "requires the user to provide appropriate attribution). And more importantly, "
9038 "policy makers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, educators, and students around the "
9039 "world have free and timely access to the latest research immediately on "
9040 "publication."
9041 msgstr ""
9042
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9046 "However, open access requires rethinking the business model of research "
9047 "publication. Rather than charge a subscription fee to access the journal, "
9048 "PLOS decided to turn the model on its head and charge a publication fee, "
9049 "known as an article-processing charge. This up-front fee, generally paid by "
9050 "the funder of the research or the author’s institution, covers the expenses "
9051 "such as editorial oversight, peer-review management, journal production, "
9052 "online hosting, and support for discovery. Fees are per article and are "
9053 "billed upon acceptance for publishing. There are no additional charges based "
9054 "on word length, figures, or other elements."
9055 msgstr ""
9056
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9059 msgid ""
9060 "Calculating the article-processing charge involves taking all the costs "
9061 "associated with publishing the journal and determining a cost per article "
9062 "that collectively recovers costs. For PLOS’s journals in biology, medicine, "
9063 "genetics, computational biology, neglected tropical diseases, and pathogens, "
9064 "the article-processing charge ranges from \\$2,250 to \\$2,900. Article-"
9065 "publication charges for PLOS ONE, a journal started in 2006, are just under "
9066 "\\$1,500."
9067 msgstr ""
9068
9069 #. type: Plain text
9070 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5849
9071 msgid ""
9072 "PLOS believes that lack of funds should not be a barrier to publication. "
9073 "Since its inception, PLOS has provided fee support for individuals and "
9074 "institutions to help authors who can’t afford the article-processing charges."
9075 msgstr ""
9076
9077 #. type: Plain text
9078 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5864
9079 msgid ""
9080 "Louise identifies marketing as one area of big difference between PLOS and "
9081 "traditional journal publishers. Traditional journals have to invest heavily "
9082 "in staff, buildings, and infrastructure to market their journal and convince "
9083 "customers to subscribe. Restricting access to subscribers means that tools "
9084 "for managing access control are necessary. They spend millions of dollars on "
9085 "access-control systems, staff to manage them, and sales staff. With PLOS’s "
9086 "open-access publishing, there’s no need for these massive expenses; the "
9087 "articles are free, open, and accessible to all upon publication. "
9088 "Additionally, traditional publishers tend to spend more on marketing to "
9089 "libraries, who ultimately pay the subscription fees. PLOS provides a better "
9090 "service for authors by promoting their research directly to the research "
9091 "community and giving the authors exposure. And this encourages other authors "
9092 "to submit their work for publication."
9093 msgstr ""
9094
9095 #. type: Plain text
9096 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5871
9097 msgid ""
9098 "For Louise, PLOS would not exist without the Attribution license (CC BY). "
9099 "This makes it very clear what rights are associated with the content and "
9100 "provides a safe way for researchers to make their work available while "
9101 "ensuring they get recognition (appropriate attribution). For PLOS, all of "
9102 "this aligns with how they think research content should be published and "
9103 "disseminated."
9104 msgstr ""
9105
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9108 msgid ""
9109 "PLOS also has a broad open-data policy. To get their research paper "
9110 "published, PLOS authors must also make their data available in a public "
9111 "repository and provide a data-availability statement."
9112 msgstr ""
9113
9114 #. type: Plain text
9115 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5883
9116 msgid ""
9117 "Business-operation costs associated with the open-access model still largely "
9118 "follow the existing publishing model. PLOS journals are online only, but the "
9119 "editorial, peer-review, production, typesetting, and publishing stages are "
9120 "all the same as for a traditional publisher. The editorial teams must be top "
9121 "notch. PLOS has to function as well as or better than other premier "
9122 "journals, as researchers have a choice about where to publish."
9123 msgstr ""
9124
9125 #. type: Plain text
9126 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5888
9127 msgid ""
9128 "Researchers are influenced by journal rankings, which reflect the place of a "
9129 "journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that "
9130 "journal, and the prestige associated with it. PLOS journals rank high, even "
9131 "though they are relatively new."
9132 msgstr ""
9133
9134 #. type: Plain text
9135 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5896
9136 msgid ""
9137 "The promotion and tenure of researchers are partially based how many times "
9138 "other researchers cite their articles. Louise says when researchers want to "
9139 "discover and read the work of others in their field, they go to an online "
9140 "aggregator or search engine, and not typically to a particular journal. The "
9141 "CC BY licensing of PLOS research articles ensures easy access for readers "
9142 "and generates more discovery and citations for authors."
9143 msgstr ""
9144
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9147 msgid ""
9148 "Louise believes that open access has been a huge success, progressing from a "
9149 "movement led by a small cadre of researchers to something that is now "
9150 "widespread and used in some form by every journal publisher. PLOS has had a "
9151 "big impact. In 2012 to 2014, they published more open-access articles than "
9152 "BioMed Central, the original open-access publisher, or anyone else."
9153 msgstr ""
9154
9155 #. type: Plain text
9156 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5924
9157 msgid ""
9158 "PLOS further disrupted the traditional journal-publishing model by "
9159 "pioneering the concept of a megajournal. The PLOS ONE megajournal, launched "
9160 "in 2006, is an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal that is much "
9161 "larger than a traditional journal, publishing thousands of articles per year "
9162 "and benefiting from economies of scale. PLOS ONE has a broad scope, covering "
9163 "science and medicine as well as social sciences and the humanities. The "
9164 "review and editorial process is less subjective. Articles are accepted for "
9165 "publication based on whether they are technically sound rather than "
9166 "perceived importance or relevance. This is very important in the current "
9167 "debate about the integrity and reproducibility of research because negative "
9168 "or null results can then be published as well, which are generally rejected "
9169 "by traditional journals. PLOS ONE, like all the PLOS journals, is online "
9170 "only with no print version. PLOS passes on the financial savings accrued "
9171 "through economies of scale to researchers and the public by lowering the "
9172 "article-processing charges, which are below that of other journals. PLOS ONE "
9173 "is the biggest journal in the world and has really set the bar for "
9174 "publishing academic journal articles on a large scale. Other publishers see "
9175 "the value of the PLOS ONE model and are now offering their own "
9176 "multidisciplinary forums for publishing all sound science."
9177 msgstr ""
9178
9179 #. type: Plain text
9180 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5928
9181 msgid ""
9182 "Louise outlined some other aspects of the research-journal business model "
9183 "PLOS is experimenting with, describing each as a kind of slider that could "
9184 "be adjusted to change current practice."
9185 msgstr ""
9186
9187 #. type: Plain text
9188 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5933
9189 msgid ""
9190 "One slider is time to publication. Time to publication may shorten as "
9191 "journals get better at providing quicker decisions to authors. However, "
9192 "there is always a trade-off with scale, as the bigger the volume of "
9193 "articles, the more time the approval process inevitably takes."
9194 msgstr ""
9195
9196 #. type: Plain text
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9198 msgid ""
9199 "Peer review is another part of the process that could change. It’s possible "
9200 "to redefine what peer review actually is, when to review, and what "
9201 "constitutes the final article for publication. Louise talked about the "
9202 "potential to shift to an open-review process, placing the emphasis on "
9203 "transparency rather than double-blind reviews. Louise thinks we’re moving "
9204 "into a direction where it’s actually beneficial for an author to know who is "
9205 "reviewing their paper and for the reviewer to know their review will be "
9206 "public. An open-review process can also ensure everyone gets credit; right "
9207 "now, credit is limited to the publisher and author."
9208 msgstr ""
9209
9210 #. type: Plain text
9211 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5948
9212 msgid ""
9213 "Louise says research with negative outcomes is almost as important as "
9214 "positive results. If journals published more research with negative "
9215 "outcomes, we’d learn from what didn’t work. It could also reduce how much "
9216 "the research wheel gets reinvented around the world."
9217 msgstr ""
9218
9219 #. type: Plain text
9220 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5963
9221 msgid ""
9222 "Another adjustable practice is the sharing of articles at early preprint "
9223 "stages. Publication of research in a peer-reviewed journal can take a long "
9224 "time because articles must undergo extensive peer review. The need to "
9225 "quickly circulate current results within a scientific community has led to a "
9226 "practice of distributing pre-print documents that have not yet undergone "
9227 "peer review. Preprints broaden the peer-review process, allowing authors to "
9228 "receive early feedback from a wide group of peers, which can help revise and "
9229 "prepare the article for submission. Offsetting the advantages of preprints "
9230 "are author concerns over ensuring their primacy of being first to come up "
9231 "with findings based on their research. Other researches may see findings "
9232 "the preprint author has not yet thought of. However, preprints help "
9233 "researchers get their discoveries out early and establish precedence. A big "
9234 "challenge is that researchers don’t have a lot of time to comment on "
9235 "preprints."
9236 msgstr ""
9237
9238 #. type: Plain text
9239 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5971
9240 msgid ""
9241 "What constitutes a journal article could also change. The idea of a research "
9242 "article as printed, bound, and in a library stack is outdated. Digital and "
9243 "online open up new possibilities, such as a living document evolving over "
9244 "time, inclusion of audio and video, and interactivity, like discussion and "
9245 "recommendations. Even the size of what gets published could change. With "
9246 "these changes the current form factor for what constitutes a research "
9247 "article would undergo transformation."
9248 msgstr ""
9249
9250 #. type: Plain text
9251 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5983
9252 msgid ""
9253 "As journals scale up, and new journals are introduced, more and more "
9254 "information is being pushed out to readers, making the experience feel like "
9255 "drinking from a fire hose. To help mitigate this, PLOS aggregates and "
9256 "curates content from PLOS journals and their network of blogs.1 It also "
9257 "offers something called Article-Level Metrics, which helps users assess "
9258 "research most relevant to the field itself, based on indicators like usage, "
9259 "citations, social bookmarking and dissemination activity, media and blog "
9260 "coverage, discussions, and ratings.2 Louise believes that the journal model "
9261 "could evolve to provide a more friendly and interactive user experience, "
9262 "including a way for readers to communicate with authors."
9263 msgstr ""
9264
9265 #. type: Plain text
9266 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:5992
9267 msgid ""
9268 "The big picture for PLOS going forward is to combine and adjust these "
9269 "experimental practices in ways that continue to improve accessibility and "
9270 "dissemination of research, while ensuring its integrity and reliability. The "
9271 "ways they interlink are complex. The process of change and adjustment is not "
9272 "linear. PLOS sees itself as a very flexible publisher interested in "
9273 "exploring all the permutations research-publishing can take, with authors "
9274 "and readers who are open to experimentation."
9275 msgstr ""
9276
9277 #. type: Plain text
9278 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6000
9279 msgid ""
9280 "For PLOS, success is not about revenue. Success is about proving that "
9281 "scientific research can be communicated rapidly and economically at scale, "
9282 "for the benefit of researchers and society. The CC BY license makes it "
9283 "possible for PLOS to publish in a way that is unfettered, open, and fast, "
9284 "while ensuring that the authors get credit for their work. More than two "
9285 "million scientists, scholars, and clinicians visit PLOS every month, with "
9286 "more than 135,000 quality articles to peruse for free."
9287 msgstr ""
9288
9289 #. type: Plain text
9290 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6004
9291 msgid ""
9292 "Ultimately, for PLOS, its authors, and its readers, success is about making "
9293 "research discoverable, available, and reproducible for the advancement of "
9294 "science."
9295 msgstr ""
9296
9297 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
9298 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6009
9299 msgid "collections.plos.org"
9300 msgstr ""
9301
9302 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
9303 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6009
9304 msgid "plos.org/article-level-metrics"
9305 msgstr ""
9306
9307 #. type: Plain text
9308 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6011
9309 msgid "## Rijksmuseum"
9310 msgstr ""
9311
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9313 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6014
9314 msgid ""
9315 "The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to art and history. "
9316 "Founded in 1800 in the Netherlands"
9317 msgstr ""
9318
9319 #. type: Plain text
9320 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6016
9321 msgid "www.rijksmuseum.nl"
9322 msgstr ""
9323
9324 #. type: Plain text
9325 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6020
9326 msgid ""
9327 "Revenue model: grants and government funding, charging for in-person version "
9328 "(museum admission), selling merchandise"
9329 msgstr ""
9330
9331 #. type: Plain text
9332 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6022
9333 msgid "Interview date: December 11, 2015"
9334 msgstr ""
9335
9336 #. type: Plain text
9337 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6025
9338 msgid ""
9339 "Interviewee: Lizzy Jongma, the data manager of the collections information "
9340 "department"
9341 msgstr ""
9342
9343 #. type: Plain text
9344 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6041
9345 msgid ""
9346 "The Rijksmuseum, a national museum in the Netherlands dedicated to art and "
9347 "history, has been housed in its current building since 1885. The monumental "
9348 "building enjoyed more than 125 years of intensive use before needing a "
9349 "thorough overhaul. In 2003, the museum was closed for renovations. Asbestos "
9350 "was found in the roof, and although the museum was scheduled to be closed "
9351 "for only three to four years, renovations ended up taking ten years. During "
9352 "this time, the collection was moved to a different part of Amsterdam, which "
9353 "created a physical distance with the curators. Out of necessity, they "
9354 "started digitally photographing the collection and creating metadata "
9355 "(information about each object to put into a database). With the renovations "
9356 "going on for so long, the museum became largely forgotten by the public. Out "
9357 "of these circumstances emerged a new and more open model for the museum."
9358 msgstr ""
9359
9360 #. type: Plain text
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9362 msgid ""
9363 "By the time Lizzy Jongma joined the Rijksmuseum in 2011 as a data manager, "
9364 "staff were fed up with the situation the museum was in. They also realized "
9365 "that even with the new and larger space, it still wouldn’t be able to show "
9366 "very much of the whole collection—eight thousand of over one million works "
9367 "representing just 1 percent. Staff began exploring ways to express "
9368 "themselves, to have something to show for all of the work they had been "
9369 "doing. The Rijksmuseum is primarily funded by Dutch taxpayers, so was there "
9370 "a way for the museum provide benefit to the public while it was closed? They "
9371 "began thinking about sharing Rijksmuseum’s collection using information "
9372 "technology. And they put up a card-catalog like database of the entire "
9373 "collection online."
9374 msgstr ""
9375
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9378 msgid ""
9379 "It was effective but a bit boring. It was just data. A hackathon they were "
9380 "invited to got them to start talking about events like that as having "
9381 "potential. They liked the idea of inviting people to do cool stuff with "
9382 "their collection. What about giving online access to digital representations "
9383 "of the one hundred most important pieces in the Rijksmuseum collection? That "
9384 "eventually led to why not put the whole collection online?"
9385 msgstr ""
9386
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9389 msgid ""
9390 "Then, Lizzy says, Europeana came along. Europeana is Europe’s digital "
9391 "library, museum, and archive for cultural heritage.1 As an online portal to "
9392 "museum collections all across Europe, Europeana had become an important "
9393 "online platform. In October 2010 Creative Commons released CC0 and its "
9394 "public-domain mark as tools people could use to identify works as free of "
9395 "known copyright. Europeana was the first major adopter, using CC0 to release "
9396 "metadata about their collection and the public domain mark for millions of "
9397 "digital works in their collection. Lizzy says the Rijksmuseum initially "
9398 "found this change in business practice a bit scary, but at the same time it "
9399 "stimulated even more discussion on whether the Rijksmuseum should follow "
9400 "suit."
9401 msgstr ""
9402
9403 #. type: Plain text
9404 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6084
9405 msgid ""
9406 "They realized that they don’t “own” the collection and couldn’t "
9407 "realistically monitor and enforce compliance with the restrictive licensing "
9408 "terms they currently had in place. For example, many copies and versions of "
9409 "Vermeer’s Milkmaid (part of their collection) were already online, many of "
9410 "them of very poor quality. They could spend time and money policing its use, "
9411 "but it would probably be futile and wouldn’t make people stop using their "
9412 "images online. They ended up thinking it’s an utter waste of time to hunt "
9413 "down people who use the Rijksmuseum collection. And anyway, restricting "
9414 "access meant the people they were frustrating the most were schoolkids."
9415 msgstr ""
9416
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9419 msgid ""
9420 "In 2011 the Rijksmuseum began making their digital photos of works known to "
9421 "be free of copyright available online, using Creative Commons CC0 to place "
9422 "works in the public domain. A medium-resolution image was offered for free, "
9423 "but a high-resolution version cost forty euros. People started paying, but "
9424 "Lizzy says getting the money was frequently a nightmare, especially from "
9425 "overseas customers. The administrative costs often offset revenue, and "
9426 "income above costs was relatively low. In addition, having to pay for an "
9427 "image of a work in the public domain from a collection owned by the Dutch "
9428 "government (i.e., paid for by the public) was contentious and frustrating "
9429 "for some. Lizzy says they had lots of fierce debates about what to do."
9430 msgstr ""
9431
9432 #. type: Plain text
9433 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6106
9434 msgid ""
9435 "In 2013 the Rijksmuseum changed its business model. They Creative Commons "
9436 "licensed their highest-quality images and released them online for free. "
9437 "Digitization still cost money, however; they decided to define discrete "
9438 "digitization projects and find sponsors willing to fund each project. This "
9439 "turned out to be a successful strategy, generating high interest from "
9440 "sponsors and lower administrative effort for the Rijksmuseum. They started "
9441 "out making 150,000 high-quality images of their collection available, with "
9442 "the goal to eventually have the entire collection online."
9443 msgstr ""
9444
9445 #. type: Plain text
9446 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6119
9447 msgid ""
9448 "Releasing these high-quality images for free reduced the number of poor-"
9449 "quality images that were proliferating. The high-quality image of Vermeer’s "
9450 "Milkmaid, for example, is downloaded two to three thousand times a month. On "
9451 "the Internet, images from a source like the Rijksmuseum are more trusted, "
9452 "and releasing them with a Creative Commons CC0 means they can easily be "
9453 "found in other platforms. For example, Rijksmuseum images are now used in "
9454 "thousands of Wikipedia articles, receiving ten to eleven million views per "
9455 "month. This extends Rijksmuseum’s reach far beyond the scope of its website. "
9456 "Sharing these images online creates what Lizzy calls the “Mona Lisa effect,” "
9457 "where a work of art becomes so famous that people want to see it in real "
9458 "life by visiting the actual museum."
9459 msgstr ""
9460
9461 #. type: Plain text
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9463 msgid ""
9464 "Every museum tends to be driven by the number of physical visitors. The "
9465 "Rijksmuseum is primarily publicly funded, receiving roughly 70 percent of "
9466 "its operating budget from the government. But like many museums, it must "
9467 "generate the rest of the funding through other means. The admission fee has "
9468 "long been a way to generate revenue generation, including for the "
9469 "Rijksmuseum."
9470 msgstr ""
9471
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9473 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6138
9474 msgid ""
9475 "As museums create a digital presence for themselves and put up digital "
9476 "representations of their collection online, there’s frequently a worry that "
9477 "it will lead to a drop in actual physical visits. For the Rijksmuseum, this "
9478 "has not turned out to be the case. Lizzy told us the Rijksmuseum used to get "
9479 "about one million visitors a year before closing and now gets more than two "
9480 "million a year. Making the collection available online has generated "
9481 "publicity and acts as a form of marketing. The Creative Commons mark "
9482 "encourages reuse as well. When the image is found on protest leaflets, milk "
9483 "cartons, and children’s toys, people also see what museum the image comes "
9484 "from and this increases the museum’s visibility."
9485 msgstr ""
9486
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9488 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6145
9489 msgid ""
9490 "In 2011 the Rijksmuseum received €1 million from the Dutch lottery to create "
9491 "a new web presence that would be different from any other museum’s. In "
9492 "addition to redesigning their main website to be mobile friendly and "
9493 "responsive to devices like the iPad, the Rijksmuseum also created the "
9494 "Rijksstudio, where users and artists could use and do various things with "
9495 "the Rijksmuseum collection.2"
9496 msgstr ""
9497
9498 #. type: Plain text
9499 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6154
9500 msgid ""
9501 "The Rijksstudio gives users access to over two hundred thousand high-quality "
9502 "digital representations of masterworks from the collection. Users can zoom "
9503 "in to any work and even clip small parts of images they like. Rijksstudio is "
9504 "a bit like Pinterest. You can “like” works and compile your personal "
9505 "favorites, and you can share them with friends or download them free of "
9506 "charge. All the images in the Rijksstudio are copyright and royalty free, "
9507 "and users are encouraged to use them as they like, for private or even "
9508 "commercial purposes."
9509 msgstr ""
9510
9511 #. type: Plain text
9512 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6159
9513 msgid ""
9514 "Users have created over 276,000 Rijksstudios, generating their own themed "
9515 "virtual exhibitions on a wide variety of topics ranging from tapestries to "
9516 "ugly babies and birds. Sets of images have also been created for educational "
9517 "purposes including use for school exams."
9518 msgstr ""
9519
9520 #. type: Plain text
9521 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6169
9522 msgid ""
9523 "Some contemporary artists who have works in the Rijksmuseum collection "
9524 "contacted them to ask why their works were not included in the Rijksstudio. "
9525 "The answer was that contemporary artists’ works are still bound by "
9526 "copyright. The Rijksmuseum does encourage contemporary artists to use a "
9527 "Creative Commons license for their works, usually a CC BY-SA license "
9528 "(Attribution-ShareAlike), or a CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) if they "
9529 "want to preclude commercial use. That way, their works can be made available "
9530 "to the public, but within limits the artists have specified."
9531 msgstr ""
9532
9533 #. type: Plain text
9534 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6179
9535 msgid ""
9536 "The Rijksmuseum believes that art stimulates entrepreneurial activity. The "
9537 "line between creative and commercial can be blurry. As Lizzy says, even "
9538 "Rembrandt was commercial, making his livelihood from selling his paintings. "
9539 "The Rijksmuseum encourages entrepreneurial commercial use of the images in "
9540 "Rijksstudio. They’ve even partnered with the DIY marketplace Etsy to inspire "
9541 "people to sell their creations. One great example you can find on Etsy is a "
9542 "kimono designed by Angie Johnson, who used an image of an elaborate cabinet "
9543 "along with an oil painting by Jan Asselijn called The Threatened Swan.3"
9544 msgstr ""
9545
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9548 msgid ""
9549 "In 2013 the Rijksmuseum organized their first high-profile design "
9550 "competition, known as the Rijksstudio Award.4 With the call to action Make "
9551 "Your Own Masterpiece, the competition invites the public to use Rijksstudio "
9552 "images to make new creative designs. A jury of renowned designers and "
9553 "curators selects ten finalists and three winners. The final award comes with "
9554 "a prize of €10,000. The second edition in 2015 attracted a staggering 892 "
9555 "top-class entries. Some award winners end up with their work sold through "
9556 "the Rijksmuseum store, such as the 2014 entry featuring makeup based on a "
9557 "specific color scheme of a work of art.5 The Rijksmuseum has been thrilled "
9558 "with the results. Entries range from the fun to the weird to the "
9559 "inspirational. The third international edition of the Rijksstudio Award "
9560 "started in September 2016."
9561 msgstr ""
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9564 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6196
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9566 "For the next iteration of the Rijksstudio, the Rijksmuseum is considering an "
9567 "upload tool, for people to upload their own works of art, and enhanced "
9568 "social elements so users can interact with each other more."
9569 msgstr ""
9570
9571 #. type: Plain text
9572 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6203
9573 msgid ""
9574 "Going with a more open business model generated lots of publicity for the "
9575 "Rijksmuseum. They were one of the first museums to open up their collection "
9576 "(that is, give free access) with high-quality images. This strategy, along "
9577 "with the many improvements to the Rijksmuseum’s website, dramatically "
9578 "increased visits to their website from thirty-five thousand visits per month "
9579 "to three hundred thousand."
9580 msgstr ""
9581
9582 #. type: Plain text
9583 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6214
9584 msgid ""
9585 "The Rijksmuseum has been experimenting with other ways to invite the public "
9586 "to look at and interact with their collection. On an international day "
9587 "celebrating animals, they ran a successful bird-themed event. The museum put "
9588 "together a showing of two thousand works that featured birds and invited "
9589 "bird-watchers to identify the birds depicted. Lizzy notes that while museum "
9590 "curators know a lot about the works in their collections, they may not know "
9591 "about certain details in the paintings such as bird species. Over eight "
9592 "hundred different birds were identified, including a specific species of "
9593 "crane bird that was unknown to the scientific community at the time of the "
9594 "painting."
9595 msgstr ""
9596
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9598 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6231
9599 msgid ""
9600 "For the Rijksmuseum, adopting an open business model was scary. They came up "
9601 "with many worst-case scenarios, imagining all kinds of awful things people "
9602 "might do with the museum’s works. But Lizzy says those fears did not come "
9603 "true because “ninety-nine percent of people have respect for great art.” "
9604 "Many museums think they can make a lot of money by selling things related to "
9605 "their collection. But in Lizzy’s experience, museums are usually bad at "
9606 "selling things, and sometimes efforts to generate a small amount of money "
9607 "block something much bigger—the real value that the collection has. For "
9608 "Lizzy, clinging to small amounts of revenue is being penny-wise but pound-"
9609 "foolish. For the Rijksmuseum, a key lesson has been to never lose sight of "
9610 "its vision for the collection. Allowing access to and use of their "
9611 "collection has generated great promotional value—far more than the previous "
9612 "practice of charging fees for access and use. Lizzy sums up their "
9613 "experience: “Give away; get something in return. Generosity makes people "
9614 "happy to join you and help out.”"
9615 msgstr ""
9616
9617 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
9618 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6241
9619 msgid "www.europeana.eu/portal/en"
9620 msgstr ""
9621
9622 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
9623 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6241
9624 msgid "www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio"
9625 msgstr ""
9626
9627 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
9628 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6241
9629 msgid "www.etsy.com/ca/listing/175696771/fringe-kimono-silk-kimono-kimono-robe"
9630 msgstr ""
9631
9632 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
9633 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6241
9634 msgid ""
9635 "www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award; the 2014 award: www.rijksmuseum.nl/"
9636 "en/rijksstudio-award-2014; the 2015 award: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-"
9637 "award-2015"
9638 msgstr ""
9639
9640 #. type: Bullet: '5. '
9641 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6241
9642 msgid ""
9643 "www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/142328--nominees-rijksstudio-award/"
9644 "creaties/ba595afe-452d-46bd-9c8c-48dcbdd7f0a4"
9645 msgstr ""
9646
9647 #. type: Plain text
9648 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6243
9649 msgid "## Shareable"
9650 msgstr ""
9651
9652 #. type: Plain text
9653 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6246
9654 msgid ""
9655 "Shareable is an online magazine about sharing. Founded in 2009 in the U.S."
9656 msgstr ""
9657
9658 #. type: Plain text
9659 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6248
9660 msgid "www.shareable.net"
9661 msgstr ""
9662
9663 #. type: Plain text
9664 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6251
9665 msgid ""
9666 "Revenue model: grant funding, crowdfunding (project-based), donations, "
9667 "sponsorships"
9668 msgstr ""
9669
9670 #. type: Plain text
9671 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6253
9672 msgid "Interview date: February 24, 2016"
9673 msgstr ""
9674
9675 #. type: Plain text
9676 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6255
9677 msgid "Interviewee: Neal Gorenflo, cofounder and executive editor"
9678 msgstr ""
9679
9680 #. type: Plain text
9681 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6266
9682 msgid ""
9683 "In 2013, Shareable faced an impasse. The nonprofit online publication had "
9684 "helped start a sharing movement four years prior, but over time, they "
9685 "watched one part of the movement stray from its ideals. As giants like Uber "
9686 "and Airbnb gained ground, attention began to center on the “sharing economy” "
9687 "we know now—profit-driven, transactional, and loaded with venture-capital "
9688 "money. Leaders of corporate start-ups in this domain invited Shareable to "
9689 "advocate for them. The magazine faced a choice: ride the wave or stand on "
9690 "principle."
9691 msgstr ""
9692
9693 #. type: Plain text
9694 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6276
9695 msgid ""
9696 "As an organization, Shareable decided to draw a line in the sand. In 2013, "
9697 "the cofounder and executive editor Neal Gorenflo wrote an opinion piece in "
9698 "the PandoDaily that charted Shareable’s new critical stance on the Silicon "
9699 "Valley version of the sharing economy, while contrasting it with aspects of "
9700 "the real sharing economy like open-source software, participatory budgeting "
9701 "(where citizens decide how a public budget is spent), cooperatives, and "
9702 "more. He wrote, “It’s not so much that collaborative consumption is dead, "
9703 "it’s more that it risks dying as it gets absorbed by the ‘Borg.’”"
9704 msgstr ""
9705
9706 #. type: Plain text
9707 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6283
9708 msgid ""
9709 "Neal said their public critique of the corporate sharing economy defined "
9710 "what Shareable was and is. He does not think the magazine would still be "
9711 "around had they chosen differently. “We would have gotten another type of "
9712 "audience, but it would have spelled the end of us,” he said. “We are a "
9713 "small, mission-driven organization. We would never have been able to weather "
9714 "the criticism that Airbnb and Uber are getting now.”"
9715 msgstr ""
9716
9717 #. type: Plain text
9718 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6292
9719 msgid ""
9720 "Interestingly, impassioned supporters are only a small sliver of Shareable’s "
9721 "total audience. Most are casual readers who come across a Shareable story "
9722 "because it happens to align with a project or interest they have. But "
9723 "choosing principles over the possibility of riding the coattails of the "
9724 "major corporate players in the sharing space saved Shareable’s credibility. "
9725 "Although they became detached from the corporate sharing economy, the online "
9726 "magazine became the voice of the “real sharing economy” and continued to "
9727 "grow their audience."
9728 msgstr ""
9729
9730 #. type: Plain text
9731 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6302
9732 msgid ""
9733 "Shareable is a magazine, but the content they publish is a means to "
9734 "furthering their role as a leader and catalyst of a movement. Shareable "
9735 "became a leader in the movement in 2009. “At that time, there was a sharing "
9736 "movement bubbling beneath the surface, but no one was connecting the dots,” "
9737 "Neal said. “We decided to step into that space and take on that role.” The "
9738 "small team behind the nonprofit publication truly believed sharing could be "
9739 "central to solving some of the major problems human beings face—resource "
9740 "inequality, social isolation, and global warming."
9741 msgstr ""
9742
9743 #. type: Plain text
9744 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6311
9745 msgid ""
9746 "They have worked hard to find ways to tell stories that show different "
9747 "metrics for success. “We wanted to change the notion of what constitutes the "
9748 "good life,” Neal said. While they started out with a very broad focus on "
9749 "sharing generally, today they emphasize stories about the physical commons "
9750 "like “sharing cities” (i.e., urban areas managed in a sustainable, "
9751 "cooperative way), as well as digital platforms that are run democratically. "
9752 "They particularly focus on how-to content that help their readers make "
9753 "changes in their own lives and communities."
9754 msgstr ""
9755
9756 #. type: Plain text
9757 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6323
9758 msgid ""
9759 "More than half of Shareable’s stories are written by paid journalists that "
9760 "are contracted by the magazine. “Particularly in content areas that are a "
9761 "priority for us, we really want to go deep and control the quality,” Neal "
9762 "said. The rest of the content is either contributed by guest writers, often "
9763 "for free, or written by other publications from their network of content "
9764 "publishers. Shareable is a member of the Post Growth Alliance, which "
9765 "facilitates the sharing of content and audiences among a large and growing "
9766 "group of mostly nonprofits. Each organization gets a chance to present "
9767 "stories to the group, and the organizations can use and promote each other’s "
9768 "stories. Much of the content created by the network is licensed with "
9769 "Creative Commons."
9770 msgstr ""
9771
9772 #. type: Plain text
9773 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6335
9774 msgid ""
9775 "All of Shareable’s original content is published under the Attribution "
9776 "license (CC BY), meaning it can be used for any purpose as long as credit is "
9777 "given to Shareable. Creative Commons licensing is aligned with Shareable’s "
9778 "vision, mission, and identity. That alone explains the organization’s "
9779 "embrace of the licenses for their content, but Neal also believes CC "
9780 "licensing helps them increase their reach. “By using CC licensing,” he said, "
9781 "“we realized we could reach far more people through a formal and informal "
9782 "network of republishers or affiliates. That has definitely been the case. "
9783 "It’s hard for us to measure the reach of other media properties, but most of "
9784 "the outlets who republish our work have much bigger audiences than we do.”"
9785 msgstr ""
9786
9787 #. type: Plain text
9788 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6343
9789 msgid ""
9790 "In addition to their regular news and commentary online, Shareable has also "
9791 "experimented with book publishing. In 2012, they worked with a traditional "
9792 "publisher to release Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in an "
9793 "Age of Crisis. The CC-licensed book was available in print form for purchase "
9794 "or online for free. To this day, the book—along with their CC-licensed guide "
9795 "Policies for Shareable Cities—are two of the biggest generators of traffic "
9796 "on their website."
9797 msgstr ""
9798
9799 #. type: Plain text
9800 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6348
9801 msgid ""
9802 "In 2016, Shareable self-published a book of curated Shareable stories called "
9803 "How to: Share, Save Money and Have Fun. The book was available for sale, but "
9804 "a PDF version of the book was available for free. Shareable plans to offer "
9805 "the book in upcoming fund-raising campaigns."
9806 msgstr ""
9807
9808 #. type: Plain text
9809 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6356
9810 msgid ""
9811 "This recent book is one of many fund-raising experiments Shareable has "
9812 "conducted in recent years. Currently, Shareable is primarily funded by "
9813 "grants from foundations, but they are actively moving toward a more "
9814 "diversified model. They have organizational sponsors and are working to "
9815 "expand their base of individual donors. Ideally, they will eventually be a "
9816 "hundred percent funded by their audience. Neal believes being fully "
9817 "community-supported will better represent their vision of the world."
9818 msgstr ""
9819
9820 #. type: Plain text
9821 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6366
9822 msgid ""
9823 "For Shareable, success is very much about their impact on the world. This "
9824 "is true for Neal, but also for everyone who works for Shareable. “We "
9825 "attract passionate people,” Neal said. At times, that means employees work "
9826 "so hard they burn out. Neal tries to stress to the Shareable team that "
9827 "another part of success is having fun and taking care of yourself while you "
9828 "do something you love. “A central part of human beings is that we long to be "
9829 "on a great adventure with people we love,” he said. “We are a species who "
9830 "look over the horizon and imagine and create new worlds, but we also seek "
9831 "the comfort of hearth and home.”"
9832 msgstr ""
9833
9834 #. type: Plain text
9835 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6375
9836 msgid ""
9837 "In 2013, Shareable ran its first crowdfunding campaign to launch their "
9838 "Sharing Cities Network. Neal said at first they were on pace to fail "
9839 "spectacularly. They called in their advisers in a panic and asked for help. "
9840 "The advice they received was simple—“Sit your ass in a chair and start "
9841 "making calls.” That’s exactly what they did, and they ended up reaching "
9842 "their \\$50,000 goal. Neal said the campaign helped them reach new people, "
9843 "but the vast majority of backers were people in their existing base."
9844 msgstr ""
9845
9846 #. type: Plain text
9847 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6381
9848 msgid ""
9849 "For Neal, this symbolized how so much of success comes down to "
9850 "relationships. Over time, Shareable has invested time and energy into the "
9851 "relationships they have forged with their readers and supporters. They have "
9852 "also invested resources into building relationships between their readers "
9853 "and supporters."
9854 msgstr ""
9855
9856 #. type: Plain text
9857 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6395
9858 msgid ""
9859 "Shareable began hosting events in 2010. These events were designed to bring "
9860 "the sharing community together. But over time they realized they could reach "
9861 "far more people if they helped their readers to host their own events. “If "
9862 "we wanted to go big on a conference, there was a huge risk and huge staffing "
9863 "needs, plus only a fraction of our community could travel to the event,” "
9864 "Neal said. Enabling others to create their own events around the globe "
9865 "allowed them to scale up their work more effectively and reach far more "
9866 "people. Shareable has catalyzed three hundred different events reaching over "
9867 "twenty thousand people since implementing this strategy three years ago. "
9868 "Going forward, Shareable is focusing the network on creating and "
9869 "distributing content meant to spur local action. For instance, Shareable "
9870 "will publish a new CC-licensed book in 2017 filled with ideas for their "
9871 "network to implement."
9872 msgstr ""
9873
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9875 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6400
9876 msgid ""
9877 "Neal says Shareable stumbled upon this strategy, but it seems to perfectly "
9878 "encapsulate just how the commons is supposed to work. Rather than a one-size-"
9879 "fits-all approach, Shareable puts the tools out there for people take the "
9880 "ideas and adapt them to their own communities."
9881 msgstr ""
9882
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9884 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6402
9885 msgid "## Siyavula"
9886 msgstr ""
9887
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9889 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6406
9890 msgid ""
9891 "Siyavula is a for-profit educational-technology company that creates "
9892 "textbooks and integrated learning experiences. Founded in 2012 in South "
9893 "Africa."
9894 msgstr ""
9895
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9897 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6408
9898 msgid "www.siyavula.com"
9899 msgstr ""
9900
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9903 msgid "Revenue model: charging for custom services, sponsorships"
9904 msgstr ""
9905
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9908 msgid "Interview date: April 5, 2016"
9909 msgstr ""
9910
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9913 msgid "Interviewee: Mark Horner, CEO"
9914 msgstr ""
9915
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9917 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6422
9918 msgid ""
9919 "Openness is a key principle for Siyavula. They believe that every learner "
9920 "and teacher should have access to high-quality educational resources, as "
9921 "this forms the basis for long-term growth and development. Siyavula has "
9922 "been a pioneer in creating high-quality open textbooks on mathematics and "
9923 "science subjects for grades 4 to 12 in South Africa."
9924 msgstr ""
9925
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9928 msgid ""
9929 "In terms of creating an open business model that involves Creative Commons, "
9930 "Siyavula—and its founder, Mark Horner—have been around the block a few "
9931 "times. Siyavula has significantly shifted directions and strategies to "
9932 "survive and prosper. Mark says it’s been very organic."
9933 msgstr ""
9934
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9938 "It all started in 2002, when Mark and several other colleagues at the "
9939 "University of Cape Town in South Africa founded the Free High School Science "
9940 "Texts project. Most students in South Africa high schools didn’t have access "
9941 "to high-quality, comprehensive science and math textbooks, so Mark and his "
9942 "colleagues set out to write them and make them freely available."
9943 msgstr ""
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9948 "As physicists, Mark and his colleagues were advocates of open-source "
9949 "software. To make the books open and free, they adopted the Free Software "
9950 "Foundation’s GNU Free Documentation License.1 They chose LaTeX, a "
9951 "typesetting program used to publish scientific documents, to author the "
9952 "books. Over a period of five years, the Free High School Science Texts "
9953 "project produced math and physical-science textbooks for grades 10 to 12."
9954 msgstr ""
9955
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9959 "In 2007, the Shuttleworth Foundation offered funding support to make the "
9960 "textbooks available for trial use at more schools. Surveys before and after "
9961 "the textbooks were adopted showed there were no substantial criticisms of "
9962 "the textbooks’ pedagogical content. This pleased both the authors and "
9963 "Shuttleworth; Mark remains incredibly proud of this accomplishment."
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9969 "But the development of new textbooks froze at this stage. Mark shifted his "
9970 "focus to rural schools, which didn’t have textbooks at all, and looked into "
9971 "the printing and distribution options. A few sponsors came on board but not "
9972 "enough to meet the need."
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9978 "In 2007, Shuttleworth and the Open Society Institute convened a group of "
9979 "open-education activists for a small but lively meeting in Cape Town. One "
9980 "result was the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, a statement of "
9981 "principles, strategies, and commitment to help the open-education movement "
9982 "grow.2 Shuttleworth also invited Mark to run a project writing open content "
9983 "for all subjects for K–12 in English. That project became Siyavula."
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9989 "They wrote six original textbooks. A small publishing company offered "
9990 "Shuttleworth the option to buy out the publisher’s existing K–9 content for "
9991 "every subject in South African schools in both English and Afrikaans. A deal "
9992 "was struck, and all the acquired content was licensed with Creative Commons, "
9993 "significantly expanding the collection beyond the six original books."
9994 msgstr ""
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9999 "Mark wanted to build out the remaining curricula collaboratively through "
10000 "communities of practice—that is, with fellow educators and writers. "
10001 "Although sharing is fundamental to teaching, there can be a few challenges "
10002 "when you create educational resources collectively. One concern is legal. It "
10003 "is standard practice in education to copy diagrams and snippets of text, but "
10004 "of course this doesn’t always comply with copyright law. Another concern is "
10005 "transparency. Sharing what you’ve authored means everyone can see it and "
10006 "opens you up to criticism. To alleviate these concerns, Mark adopted a team-"
10007 "based approach to authoring and insisted the curricula be based entirely on "
10008 "resources with Creative Commons licenses, thereby ensuring they were safe to "
10009 "share and free from legal repercussions."
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10015 "Not only did Mark want the resources to be shareable, he wanted all teachers "
10016 "to be able to remix and edit the content. Mark and his team had to come up "
10017 "with an open editable format and provide tools for editing. They ended up "
10018 "putting all the books they’d acquired and authored on a platform called "
10019 "Connexions.3 Siyavula trained many teachers to use Connexions, but it proved "
10020 "to be too complex and the textbooks were rarely edited."
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10026 "Then the Shuttleworth Foundation decided to completely restructure its work "
10027 "as a foundation into a fellowship model (for reasons completely unrelated to "
10028 "Siyavula). As part of that transition in 2009–10, Mark inherited Siyavula as "
10029 "an independent entity and took ownership over it as a Shuttleworth fellow."
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10035 "Mark and his team experimented with several different strategies. They tried "
10036 "creating an authoring and hosting platform called Full Marks so that "
10037 "teachers could share assessment items. They tried creating a service called "
10038 "Open Press, where teachers could ask for open educational resources to be "
10039 "aggregated into a package and printed for them. These services never really "
10040 "panned out."
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10046 "Then the South African government approached Siyavula with an interest in "
10047 "printing out the original six Free High School Science Texts (math and "
10048 "physical-science textbooks for grades 10 to 12) for all high school students "
10049 "in South Africa. Although at this point Siyavula was a bit discouraged by "
10050 "open educational resources, they saw this as a big opportunity."
10051 msgstr ""
10052
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10056 "They began to conceive of the six books as having massive marketing "
10057 "potential for Siyavula. Printing Siyavula books for every kid in South "
10058 "Africa would give their brand huge exposure and could drive vast amounts of "
10059 "traffic to their website. In addition to print books, Siyavula could also "
10060 "make the books available on their website, making it possible for learners "
10061 "to access them using any device—computer, tablet, or mobile phone."
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10067 "Mark and his team began imagining what they could develop beyond what was in "
10068 "the textbooks as a service they charge for. One key thing you can’t do well "
10069 "in a printed textbook is demonstrate solutions. Typically, a one-line answer "
10070 "is given at the end of the book but nothing on the process for arriving at "
10071 "that solution. Mark and his team developed practice items and detailed "
10072 "solutions, giving learners plenty of opportunity to test out what they’ve "
10073 "learned. Furthermore, an algorithm could adapt these practice items to the "
10074 "individual needs of each learner. They called this service Intelligent "
10075 "Practice and embedded links to it in the open textbooks."
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10079 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6534
10080 msgid ""
10081 "The costs for using Intelligent Practice were set very low, making it "
10082 "accessible even to those with limited financial means. Siyavula was going "
10083 "for large volumes and wide-scale use rather than an expensive product "
10084 "targeting only the high end of the market."
10085 msgstr ""
10086
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10088 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6542
10089 msgid ""
10090 "The government distributed the books to 1.5 million students, but there was "
10091 "an unexpected wrinkle: the books were delivered late. Rather than wait, "
10092 "schools who could afford it provided students with a different textbook. The "
10093 "Siyavula books were eventually distributed, but with well-off schools mainly "
10094 "using a different book, the primary market for Siyavula’s Intelligent "
10095 "Practice service inadvertently became low-income learners."
10096 msgstr ""
10097
10098 #. type: Plain text
10099 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6550
10100 msgid ""
10101 "Siyavula’s site did see a dramatic increase in traffic. They got five "
10102 "hundred thousand visitors per month to their math site and the same number "
10103 "to their science site. Two-fifths of the traffic was reading on a “feature "
10104 "phone” (a nonsmartphone with no apps). People on basic phones were reading "
10105 "math and science on a two-inch screen at all hours of the day. To Mark, it "
10106 "was quite amazing and spoke to a need they were servicing."
10107 msgstr ""
10108
10109 #. type: Plain text
10110 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6557
10111 msgid ""
10112 "At first, the Intelligent Practice services could only be paid using a "
10113 "credit card. This proved problematic, especially for those in the low-income "
10114 "demographic, as credit cards were not prevalent. Mark says Siyavula got a "
10115 "harsh business-model lesson early on. As he describes it, it’s not just "
10116 "about product, but how you sell it, who the market is, what the price is, "
10117 "and what the barriers to entry are."
10118 msgstr ""
10119
10120 #. type: Plain text
10121 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6562
10122 msgid ""
10123 "Mark describes this as the first version of Siyavula’s business model: open "
10124 "textbooks serving as marketing material and driving traffic to your site, "
10125 "where you can offer a related service and convert some people into a paid "
10126 "customer."
10127 msgstr ""
10128
10129 #. type: Plain text
10130 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6569
10131 msgid ""
10132 "For Mark a key decision for Siyavula’s business was to focus on how they can "
10133 "add value on top of their basic service. They’ll charge only if they are "
10134 "adding unique value. The actual content of the textbook isn’t unique at all, "
10135 "so Siyavula sees no value in locking it down and charging for it. Mark "
10136 "contrasts this with traditional publishers who charge over and over again "
10137 "for the same content without adding value."
10138 msgstr ""
10139
10140 #. type: Plain text
10141 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6579
10142 msgid ""
10143 "Version two of Siyavula’s business model was a big, ambitious idea—scale up. "
10144 "They also decided to sell the Intelligent Practice service to schools "
10145 "directly. Schools can subscribe on a per-student, per-subject basis. A "
10146 "single subscription gives a learner access to a single subject, including "
10147 "practice content from every grade available for that subject. Lower "
10148 "subscription rates are provided when there are over two hundred students, "
10149 "and big schools have a price cap. A 40 percent discount is offered to "
10150 "schools where both the science and math departments subscribe."
10151 msgstr ""
10152
10153 #. type: Plain text
10154 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6587
10155 msgid ""
10156 "Teachers get a dashboard that allows them to monitor the progress of an "
10157 "entire class or view an individual learner’s results. They can see the "
10158 "questions that learners are working on, identify areas of difficulty, and be "
10159 "more strategic in their teaching. Students also have their own personalized "
10160 "dashboard, where they can view the sections they’ve practiced, how many "
10161 "points they’ve earned, and how their performance is improving."
10162 msgstr ""
10163
10164 #. type: Plain text
10165 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6593
10166 msgid ""
10167 "Based on the success of this effort, Siyavula decided to substantially "
10168 "increase the production of open educational resources so they could provide "
10169 "the Intelligent Practice service for a wider range of books. Grades 10 to "
10170 "12 math and science books were reworked each year, and new books created for "
10171 "grades 4 to 6 and later grades 7 to 9."
10172 msgstr ""
10173
10174 #. type: Plain text
10175 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6599
10176 msgid ""
10177 "In partnership with, and sponsored by, the Sasol Inzalo Foundation, Siyavula "
10178 "produced a series of natural sciences and technology workbooks for grades 4 "
10179 "to 6 called Thunderbolt Kids that uses a fun comic-book style.4 It’s a "
10180 "complete curriculum that also comes with teacher’s guides and other "
10181 "resources."
10182 msgstr ""
10183
10184 #. type: Plain text
10185 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6607
10186 msgid ""
10187 "Through this experience, Siyavula learned they could get sponsors to help "
10188 "fund openly licensed textbooks. It helped that Siyavula had by this time "
10189 "nailed the production model. It cost roughly \\$150,000 to produce a book in "
10190 "two languages. Sponsors liked the social-benefit aspect of textbooks "
10191 "unlocked via a Creative Commons license. They also liked the exposure their "
10192 "brand got. For roughly \\$150,000, their logo would be visible on books "
10193 "distributed to over one million students."
10194 msgstr ""
10195
10196 #. type: Plain text
10197 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6614
10198 msgid ""
10199 "The Siyavula books that are reviewed, approved, and branded by the "
10200 "government are freely and openly available on Siyavula’s website under an "
10201 "Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) —NoDerivs means that these books "
10202 "cannot be modified. Non-government-branded books are available under an "
10203 "Attribution license (CC BY), allowing others to modify and redistribute the "
10204 "books."
10205 msgstr ""
10206
10207 #. type: Plain text
10208 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6623
10209 msgid ""
10210 "Although the South African government paid to print and distribute hard "
10211 "copies of the books to schoolkids, Siyavula itself received no funding from "
10212 "the government. Siyavula initially tried to convince the government to "
10213 "provide them with five rand per book (about US35¢). With those funds, Mark "
10214 "says that Siyavula could have run its entire operation, built a community-"
10215 "based model for producing more books, and provide Intelligent Practice for "
10216 "free to every child in the country. But after a lengthy negotiation, the "
10217 "government said no."
10218 msgstr ""
10219
10220 #. type: Plain text
10221 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6631
10222 msgid ""
10223 "Using Siyavula books generated huge savings for the government. Providing "
10224 "students with a traditionally published grade 12 science or math textbook "
10225 "costs around 250 rand per book (about US\\$18). Providing the Siyavula "
10226 "version cost around 36 rand (about \\$2.60), a savings of over 200 rand per "
10227 "book. But none of those savings were passed on to Siyavula. In retrospect, "
10228 "Mark thinks this may have turned out in their favor as it allowed them to "
10229 "remain independent from the government."
10230 msgstr ""
10231
10232 #. type: Plain text
10233 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6638
10234 msgid ""
10235 "Just as Siyavula was planning to scale up the production of open textbooks "
10236 "even more, the South African government changed its textbook policy. To save "
10237 "costs, the government declared there would be only one authorized textbook "
10238 "for each grade and each subject. There was no guarantee that Siyavula’s "
10239 "would be chosen. This scared away potential sponsors."
10240 msgstr ""
10241
10242 #. type: Plain text
10243 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6647
10244 msgid ""
10245 "Rather than producing more textbooks, Siyavula focused on improving its "
10246 "Intelligent Practice technology for its existing books. Mark calls this "
10247 "version three of Siyavula’s business model—focusing on the technology that "
10248 "provides the revenue-generating service and generating more users of this "
10249 "service. Version three got a significant boost in 2014 with an investment by "
10250 "the Omidyar Network (the philanthropic venture started by eBay founder "
10251 "Pierre Omidyar and his spouse), and continues to be the model Siyavula uses "
10252 "today."
10253 msgstr ""
10254
10255 #. type: Plain text
10256 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6652
10257 msgid ""
10258 "Mark says sales are way up, and they are really nailing Intelligent "
10259 "Practice. Schools continue to use their open textbooks. The government-"
10260 "announced policy that there would be only one textbook per subject turned "
10261 "out to be highly contentious and is in limbo."
10262 msgstr ""
10263
10264 #. type: Plain text
10265 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6659
10266 msgid ""
10267 "Siyavula is exploring a range of enhancements to their business model. "
10268 "These include charging a small amount for assessment services provided over "
10269 "the phone, diversifying their market to all English-speaking countries in "
10270 "Africa, and setting up a consortium that makes Intelligent Practice free to "
10271 "all kids by selling the nonpersonal data Intelligent Practice collects."
10272 msgstr ""
10273
10274 #. type: Plain text
10275 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6672
10276 msgid ""
10277 "Siyavula is a for-profit business but one with a social mission. Their "
10278 "shareholders’ agreement lists lots of requirements around openness for "
10279 "Siyavula, including stipulations that content always be put under an open "
10280 "license and that they can’t charge for something that people volunteered to "
10281 "do for them. They believe each individual should have access to the "
10282 "resources and support they need to achieve the education they deserve. "
10283 "Having educational resources openly licensed with Creative Commons means "
10284 "they can fulfill their social mission, on top of which they can build "
10285 "revenue-generating services to sustain the ongoing operation of Siyavula. In "
10286 "terms of open business models, Mark and Siyavula may have been around the "
10287 "block a few times, but both he and the company are stronger for it."
10288 msgstr ""
10289
10290 #. type: Bullet: '1. '
10291 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6679
10292 msgid "www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl"
10293 msgstr ""
10294
10295 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
10296 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6679
10297 msgid "www.capetowndeclaration.org"
10298 msgstr ""
10299
10300 #. type: Bullet: '3. '
10301 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6679
10302 msgid "cnx.org"
10303 msgstr ""
10304
10305 #. type: Bullet: '4. '
10306 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6679
10307 msgid "www.siyavula.com/products-primary-school.html"
10308 msgstr ""
10309
10310 #. type: Plain text
10311 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6681
10312 msgid "## SparkFun"
10313 msgstr ""
10314
10315 #. type: Plain text
10316 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6684
10317 msgid ""
10318 "SparkFun is an online electronics retailer specializing in open hardware. "
10319 "Founded in 2003 in the U.S."
10320 msgstr ""
10321
10322 #. type: Plain text
10323 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6686
10324 msgid "www.sparkfun.com"
10325 msgstr ""
10326
10327 #. type: Plain text
10328 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6688
10329 msgid "Revenue model: charging for physical copies (electronics sales)"
10330 msgstr ""
10331
10332 #. type: Plain text
10333 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6690
10334 msgid "Interview date: February 29, 2016"
10335 msgstr ""
10336
10337 #. type: Plain text
10338 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6692
10339 msgid "Interviewee: Nathan Seidle, founder"
10340 msgstr ""
10341
10342 #. type: Plain text
10343 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6700
10344 msgid ""
10345 "SparkFun founder and former CEO Nathan Seidle has a picture of himself "
10346 "holding up a clone of a SparkFun product in an electronics market in China, "
10347 "with a huge grin on his face. He was traveling in China when he came across "
10348 "their LilyPad wearable technology being made by someone else. His reaction "
10349 "was glee."
10350 msgstr ""
10351
10352 #. type: Plain text
10353 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6705
10354 msgid ""
10355 "“Being copied is the greatest earmark of flattery and success,” Nathan said. "
10356 "“I thought it was so cool that they were selling to a market we were never "
10357 "going to get access to otherwise. It was evidence of our impact on the "
10358 "world.”"
10359 msgstr ""
10360
10361 #. type: Plain text
10362 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6713
10363 msgid ""
10364 "This worldview runs through everything SparkFun does. SparkFun is an "
10365 "electronics manufacturer. The company sells its products directly to the "
10366 "public online, and it bundles them with educational tools to sell to schools "
10367 "and teachers. SparkFun applies Creative Commons licenses to all of its "
10368 "schematics, images, tutorial content, and curricula, so anyone can make "
10369 "their products on their own. Being copied is part of the design."
10370 msgstr ""
10371
10372 #. type: Plain text
10373 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6721
10374 msgid ""
10375 "Nathan believes open licensing is good for the world. “It touches on our "
10376 "natural human instinct to share,” he said. But he also strongly believes it "
10377 "makes SparkFun better at what they do. They encourage copying, and their "
10378 "products are copied at a very fast rate, often within ten to twelve weeks of "
10379 "release. This forces the company to compete on something other than product "
10380 "design, or what most commonly consider their intellectual property."
10381 msgstr ""
10382
10383 #. type: Plain text
10384 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6725
10385 msgid ""
10386 "“We compete on business principles,” Nathan said. “Claiming your territory "
10387 "with intellectual property allows you to get comfy and rest on your laurels. "
10388 "It gives you a safety net. We took away that safety net.”"
10389 msgstr ""
10390
10391 #. type: Plain text
10392 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6733
10393 msgid ""
10394 "The result is an intense company-wide focus on product development and "
10395 "improvement. “Our products are so much better than they were five years "
10396 "ago,” Nathan said. “We used to just sell products. Now it’s a product plus a "
10397 "video, a seventeen-page hookup guide, and example firmware on three "
10398 "different platforms to get you up and running faster. We have gotten better "
10399 "because we had to in order to compete. As painful as it is for us, it’s "
10400 "better for the customers.”"
10401 msgstr ""
10402
10403 #. type: Plain text
10404 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6741
10405 msgid ""
10406 "SparkFun parts are available on eBay for lower prices. But people come "
10407 "directly to SparkFun because SparkFun makes their lives easier. The example "
10408 "code works; there is a service number to call; they ship replacement parts "
10409 "the day they get a service call. They invest heavily in service and support. "
10410 "“I don’t believe businesses should be competing with IP \\[intellectual "
10411 "property\\] barriers,” Nathan said. “This is the stuff they should be "
10412 "competing on.”"
10413 msgstr ""
10414
10415 #. type: Plain text
10416 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6750
10417 msgid ""
10418 "SparkFun’s company history began in Nathan’s college dorm room. He spent a "
10419 "lot of time experimenting with and building electronics, and he realized "
10420 "there was a void in the market. “If you wanted to place an order for "
10421 "something,” he said, “you first had to search far and wide to find it, and "
10422 "then you had to call or fax someone.” In 2003, during his third year of "
10423 "college, he registered sparkfun.com and started reselling products out of "
10424 "his bedroom. After he graduated, he started making and selling his own "
10425 "products."
10426 msgstr ""
10427
10428 #. type: Plain text
10429 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6757
10430 msgid ""
10431 "Once he started designing his own products, he began putting the software "
10432 "and schematics online to help with technical support. After doing some "
10433 "research on licensing options, he chose Creative Commons licenses because he "
10434 "was drawn to the “human-readable deeds” that explain the licensing terms in "
10435 "simple terms. SparkFun still uses CC licenses for all of the schematics and "
10436 "firmware for the products they create."
10437 msgstr ""
10438
10439 #. type: Plain text
10440 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6764
10441 msgid ""
10442 "The company has grown from a solo project to a corporation with 140 "
10443 "employees. In 2015, SparkFun earned \\$33 million in revenue. Selling "
10444 "components and widgets to hobbyists, professionals, and artists remains a "
10445 "major part of SparkFun’s business. They sell their own products, but they "
10446 "also partner with Arduino (also profiled in this book) by manufacturing "
10447 "boards for resale using Arduino’s brand."
10448 msgstr ""
10449
10450 #. type: Plain text
10451 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6771
10452 msgid ""
10453 "SparkFun also has an educational department dedicated to creating a hands-on "
10454 "curriculum to teach students about electronics using prototyping parts. "
10455 "Because SparkFun has always been dedicated to enabling others to re-create "
10456 "and fix their products on their own, the more recent focus on introducing "
10457 "young people to technology is a natural extension of their core business."
10458 msgstr ""
10459
10460 #. type: Plain text
10461 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6775
10462 msgid ""
10463 "“We have the burden and opportunity to educate the next generation of "
10464 "technical citizens,” Nathan said. “Our goal is to affect the lives of three "
10465 "hundred and fifty thousand high school students by 2020.”"
10466 msgstr ""
10467
10468 #. type: Plain text
10469 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6784
10470 msgid ""
10471 "The Creative Commons license underlying all of SparkFun’s products is "
10472 "central to this mission. The license not only signals a willingness to "
10473 "share, but it also expresses a desire for others to get in and tinker with "
10474 "their products, both to learn and to make their products better. SparkFun "
10475 "uses the Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA), which is a “copyleft” "
10476 "license that allows people to do anything with the content as long as they "
10477 "provide credit and make any adaptations available under the same licensing "
10478 "terms."
10479 msgstr ""
10480
10481 #. type: Plain text
10482 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6793
10483 msgid ""
10484 "From the beginning, Nathan has tried to create a work environment at "
10485 "SparkFun that he himself would want to work in. The result is what appears "
10486 "to be a pretty fun workplace. The U.S. company is based in Boulder, "
10487 "Colorado. They have an eighty-thousand-square-foot facility (approximately "
10488 "seventy-four-hundred square meters), where they design and manufacture their "
10489 "products. They offer public tours of the space several times a week, and "
10490 "they open their doors to the public for a competition once a year."
10491 msgstr ""
10492
10493 #. type: Plain text
10494 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6804
10495 msgid ""
10496 "The public event, called the Autonomous Vehicle Competition, brings in a "
10497 "thousand to two thousand customers and other technology enthusiasts from "
10498 "around the area to race their own self-created bots against each other, "
10499 "participate in training workshops, and socialize. From a business "
10500 "perspective, Nathan says it’s a terrible idea. But they don’t hold the event "
10501 "for business reasons. “The reason we do it is because I get to travel and "
10502 "have interactions with our customers all the time, but most of our employees "
10503 "don’t,” he said. “This event gives our employees the opportunity to get face-"
10504 "to-face contact with our customers.” The event infuses their work with a "
10505 "human element, which makes it more meaningful."
10506 msgstr ""
10507
10508 #. type: Plain text
10509 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6812
10510 msgid ""
10511 "Nathan has worked hard to imbue a deeper meaning into the work SparkFun "
10512 "does. The company is, of course, focused on being fiscally responsible, but "
10513 "they are ultimately driven by something other than money. “Profit is not the "
10514 "goal; it is the outcome of a well-executed plan,” Nathan said. “We focus on "
10515 "having a bigger impact on the world.” Nathan believes they get some of the "
10516 "brightest and most amazing employees because they aren’t singularly focused "
10517 "on the bottom line."
10518 msgstr ""
10519
10520 #. type: Plain text
10521 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6818
10522 msgid ""
10523 "The company is committed to transparency and shares all of its financials "
10524 "with its employees. They also generally strive to avoid being another "
10525 "soulless corporation. They actively try to reveal the humans behind the "
10526 "company, and they work to ensure people coming to their site don’t find only "
10527 "unchanging content."
10528 msgstr ""
10529
10530 #. type: Plain text
10531 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6828
10532 msgid ""
10533 "SparkFun’s customer base is largely made up of industrious electronics "
10534 "enthusiasts. They have customers who are regularly involved in the company’s "
10535 "customer support, independently responding to questions in forums and "
10536 "product-comment sections. Customers also bring product ideas to the company. "
10537 "SparkFun regularly sifts through suggestions from customers and tries to "
10538 "build on them where they can. “From the beginning, we have been listening to "
10539 "the community,” Nathan said. “Customers would identify a pain point, and we "
10540 "would design something to address it.”"
10541 msgstr ""
10542
10543 #. type: Plain text
10544 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6836
10545 msgid ""
10546 "However, this sort of customer engagement does not always translate to "
10547 "people actively contributing to SparkFun’s projects. The company has a "
10548 "public repository of software code for each of its devices online. On a "
10549 "particularly active project, there will only be about two dozen people "
10550 "contributing significant improvements. The vast majority of projects are "
10551 "relatively untouched by the public. “There is a theory that if you open-"
10552 "source it, they will come,” Nathan said. “That’s not really true.”"
10553 msgstr ""
10554
10555 #. type: Plain text
10556 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6844
10557 msgid ""
10558 "Rather than focusing on cocreation with their customers, SparkFun instead "
10559 "focuses on enabling people to copy, tinker, and improve products on their "
10560 "own. They heavily invest in tutorials and other material designed to help "
10561 "people understand how the products work so they can fix and improve things "
10562 "independently. “What gives me joy is when people take open-source layouts "
10563 "and then build their own circuit boards from our designs,” Nathan said."
10564 msgstr ""
10565
10566 #. type: Plain text
10567 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6856
10568 msgid ""
10569 "Obviously, opening up the design of their products is a necessary step if "
10570 "their goal is to empower the public. Nathan also firmly believes it makes "
10571 "them more money because it requires them to focus on how to provide maximum "
10572 "value. Rather than designing a new product and protecting it in order to "
10573 "extract as much money as possible from it, they release the keys necessary "
10574 "for others to build it themselves and then spend company time and resources "
10575 "on innovation and service. From a short-term perspective, SparkFun may lose "
10576 "a few dollars when others copy their products. But in the long run, it makes "
10577 "them a more nimble, innovative business. In other words, it makes them the "
10578 "kind of company they set out to be."
10579 msgstr ""
10580
10581 #. type: Plain text
10582 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6858
10583 msgid "## TeachAIDS"
10584 msgstr ""
10585
10586 #. type: Plain text
10587 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6862
10588 msgid ""
10589 "TeachAIDS is a nonprofit that creates educational materials designed to "
10590 "teach people around the world about HIV and AIDS. Founded in 2005 in the U.S."
10591 msgstr ""
10592
10593 #. type: Plain text
10594 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6864
10595 msgid "teachaids.org"
10596 msgstr ""
10597
10598 #. type: Plain text
10599 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6866
10600 msgid "Revenue model: sponsorships"
10601 msgstr ""
10602
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10605 msgid "Interview date: March 24, 2016"
10606 msgstr ""
10607
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10609 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:6870
10610 msgid "Interviewees: Piya Sorcar, the CEO, and Shuman Ghosemajumder, the chair"
10611 msgstr ""
10612
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10615 msgid ""
10616 "TeachAIDS is an unconventional media company with a conventional revenue "
10617 "model. Like most media companies, they are subsidized by advertising. "
10618 "Corporations pay to have their logos appear on the educational materials "
10619 "TeachAIDS distributes."
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10625 "But unlike most media companies, Teach-AIDS is a nonprofit organization with "
10626 "a purely social mission. TeachAIDS is dedicated to educating the global "
10627 "population about HIV and AIDS, particularly in parts of the world where "
10628 "education efforts have been historically unsuccessful. Their educational "
10629 "content is conveyed through interactive software, using methods based on the "
10630 "latest research about how people learn. TeachAIDS serves content in more "
10631 "than eighty countries around the world. In each instance, the content is "
10632 "translated to the local language and adjusted to conform to local norms and "
10633 "customs. All content is free and made available under a Creative Commons "
10634 "license."
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10640 "TeachAIDS is a labor of love for founder and CEO Piya Sorcar, who earns a "
10641 "salary of one dollar per year from the nonprofit. The project grew out of "
10642 "research she was doing while pursuing her doctorate at Stanford University. "
10643 "She was reading reports about India, noting it would be the next hot zone of "
10644 "people living with HIV. Despite international and national entities pouring "
10645 "in hundreds of millions of dollars on HIV-prevention efforts, the reports "
10646 "showed knowledge levels were still low. People were unaware of whether the "
10647 "virus could be transmitted through coughing and sneezing, for instance. "
10648 "Supported by an interdisciplinary team of experts at Stanford, Piya "
10649 "conducted similar studies, which corroborated the previous research. They "
10650 "found that the primary cause of the limited understanding was that HIV, and "
10651 "issues relating to it, were often considered too taboo to discuss "
10652 "comprehensively. The other major problem was that most of the education on "
10653 "this topic was being taught through television advertising, billboards, and "
10654 "other mass-media campaigns, which meant people were only receiving bits and "
10655 "pieces of information."
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10661 "In late 2005, Piya and her team used research-based design to create new "
10662 "educational materials and worked with local partners in India to help "
10663 "distribute them. As soon as the animated software was posted online, Piya’s "
10664 "team started receiving requests from individuals and governments who were "
10665 "interested in bringing this model to more countries. “We realized fairly "
10666 "quickly that educating large populations about a topic that was considered "
10667 "taboo would be challenging. We began by identifying optimal local partners "
10668 "and worked toward creating an effective, culturally appropriate education,” "
10669 "Piya said."
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10675 "Very shortly after the initial release, Piya’s team decided to spin the "
10676 "endeavor into an independent nonprofit out of Stanford University. They also "
10677 "decided to use Creative Commons licenses on the materials."
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10683 "Given their educational mission, TeachAIDS had an obvious interest in seeing "
10684 "the materials as widely shared as possible. But they also needed to preserve "
10685 "the integrity of the medical information in the content. They chose the "
10686 "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (CC BY-NC-ND), which essentially "
10687 "gives the public the right to distribute only verbatim copies of the "
10688 "content, and for noncommercial purposes. “We wanted attribution for "
10689 "TeachAIDS, and we couldn’t stand by derivatives without vetting them,” the "
10690 "cofounder and chair Shuman Ghosemajumder said. “It was almost a no-brainer "
10691 "to go with a CC license because it was a plug-and-play solution to this "
10692 "exact problem. It has allowed us to scale our materials safely and quickly "
10693 "worldwide while preserving our content and protecting us at the same time.”"
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10699 "Choosing a license that does not allow adaptation of the content was an "
10700 "outgrowth of the careful precision with which TeachAIDS crafts their "
10701 "content. The organization invests heavily in research and testing to "
10702 "determine the best method of conveying the information. “Creating high-"
10703 "quality content is what matters most to us,” Piya said. “Research drives "
10704 "everything we do.”"
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10710 "One important finding was that people accept the message best when it comes "
10711 "from familiar voices they trust and admire. To achieve this, TeachAIDS "
10712 "researches cultural icons that would best resonate with their target "
10713 "audiences and recruits them to donate their likenesses and voices for use in "
10714 "the animated software. The celebrities involved vary for each localized "
10715 "version of the materials."
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10721 "Localization is probably the single-most important aspect of the way "
10722 "TeachAIDS creates its content. While each regional version builds from the "
10723 "same core scientific materials, they pour a lot of resources into "
10724 "customizing the content for a particular population. Because they use a CC "
10725 "license that does not allow the public to adapt the content, TeachAIDS "
10726 "retains careful control over the localization process. The content is "
10727 "translated into the local language, but there are also changes in substance "
10728 "and format to reflect cultural differences. This process results in minor "
10729 "changes, like choosing different idioms based on the local language, and "
10730 "significant changes, like creating gendered versions for places where people "
10731 "are more likely to accept information from someone of the same gender."
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10737 "The localization process relies heavily on volunteers. Their volunteer base "
10738 "is deeply committed to the cause, and the organization has had better luck "
10739 "controlling the quality of the materials when they tap volunteers instead of "
10740 "using paid translators. For quality control, TeachAIDS has three separate "
10741 "volunteer teams translate the materials from English to the local language "
10742 "and customize the content based on local customs and norms. Those three "
10743 "versions are then analyzed and combined into a single master translation. "
10744 "TeachAIDS has additional teams of volunteers then translate that version "
10745 "back into English to see how well it lines up with the original materials. "
10746 "They repeat this process until they reach a translated version that meets "
10747 "their standards. For the Tibetan version, they went through this cycle "
10748 "eleven times."
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10754 "TeachAIDS employs full-time employees, contractors, and volunteers, all in "
10755 "different capacities and organizational configurations. They are careful to "
10756 "use people from diverse backgrounds to create the materials, including "
10757 "teachers, students, and doctors, as well as individuals experienced in "
10758 "working in the NGO space. This diversity and breadth of knowledge help "
10759 "ensure their materials resonate with people from all walks of life. "
10760 "Additionally, TeachAIDS works closely with film writers and directors to "
10761 "help keep the concepts entertaining and easy to understand. The inclusive, "
10762 "but highly controlled, creative process is undertaken entirely by people who "
10763 "are specifically brought on to help with a particular project, rather than "
10764 "ongoing staff. The final product they create is designed to require zero "
10765 "training for people to implement in practice. “In our research, we found we "
10766 "can’t depend on people passing on the information correctly, even if they "
10767 "have the best of intentions,” Piya said. “We need materials where you can "
10768 "push play and they will work.”"
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10774 "Piya’s team was able to produce all of these versions over several years "
10775 "with a head count that never exceeded eight full-time employees. The "
10776 "organization is able to reduce costs by relying heavily on volunteers and in-"
10777 "kind donations. Nevertheless, the nonprofit needed a sustainable revenue "
10778 "model to subsidize content creation and physical distribution of the "
10779 "materials. Charging even a low price was simply not an option. “Educators "
10780 "from various nonprofits around the world were just creating their own "
10781 "materials using whatever they could find for free online,” Shuman said. “The "
10782 "only way to persuade them to use our highly effective model was to make it "
10783 "completely free.”"
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10789 "Like many content creators offering their work for free, they settled on "
10790 "advertising as a funding model. But they were extremely careful not to let "
10791 "the advertising compromise their credibility or undermine the heavy "
10792 "investment they put into creating quality content. Sponsors of the content "
10793 "have no ability to influence the substance of the content, and they cannot "
10794 "even create advertising content. Sponsors only get the right to have their "
10795 "logo appear before and after the educational content. All of the content "
10796 "remains branded as TeachAIDS."
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10802 "TeachAIDS is careful not to seek funding to cover the costs of a specific "
10803 "project. Instead, sponsorships are structured as unrestricted donations to "
10804 "the nonprofit. This gives the nonprofit more stability, but even more "
10805 "importantly, it enables them to subsidize projects being localized for an "
10806 "area with no sponsors. “If we just created versions based on where we could "
10807 "get sponsorships, we would only have materials for wealthier countries,” "
10808 "Shuman said."
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10814 "As of 2016, TeachAIDS has dozens of sponsors. “When we go into a new "
10815 "country, various companies hear about us and reach out to us,” Piya said. "
10816 "“We don’t have to do much to find or attract them.” They believe the "
10817 "sponsorships are easy to sell because they offer so much value to sponsors. "
10818 "TeachAIDS sponsorships give corporations the chance to reach new eyeballs "
10819 "with their brand, but at a much lower cost than other advertising channels. "
10820 "The audience for TeachAIDS content also tends to skew young, which is often "
10821 "a desirable demographic for brands. Unlike traditional advertising, the "
10822 "content is not time-sensitive, so an investment in a sponsorship can benefit "
10823 "a brand for many years to come."
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10829 "Importantly, the value to corporate sponsors goes beyond commercial "
10830 "considerations. As a nonprofit with a clearly articulated social mission, "
10831 "corporate sponsorships are donations to a cause. “This is something "
10832 "companies can be proud of internally,” Shuman said. Some companies have even "
10833 "built publicity campaigns around the fact that they have sponsored these "
10834 "initiatives."
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10840 "The core mission of TeachAIDS—ensuring global access to life-saving education"
10841 "—is at the root of everything the organization does. It underpins the work; "
10842 "it motivates the funders. The CC license on the materials they create "
10843 "furthers that mission, allowing them to safely and quickly scale their "
10844 "materials worldwide. “The Creative Commons license has been a game changer "
10845 "for TeachAIDS,” Piya said."
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10850 msgid "## Tribe of Noise"
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10856 "Tribe of Noise is a for-profit online music platform serving the film, TV, "
10857 "video, gaming, and in-store-media industries. Founded in 2008 in the "
10858 "Netherlands."
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10863 msgid "www.tribeofnoise.com"
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10868 msgid "Interview date: January 26, 2016"
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10873 msgid "Interviewee: Hessel van Oorschot, cofounder"
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10879 "In the early 2000s, Hessel van Oorschot was an entrepreneur running a "
10880 "business where he coached other midsize entrepreneurs how to create an "
10881 "online business. He also coauthored a number of workbooks for small- to "
10882 "medium-size enterprises to use to optimize their business for the Web. "
10883 "Through this early work, Hessel became familiar with the principles of open "
10884 "licensing, including the use of open-source software and Creative Commons."
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10890 "In 2005, Hessel and Sandra Brandenburg launched a niche video-production "
10891 "initiative. Almost immediately, they ran into issues around finding and "
10892 "licensing music tracks. All they could find was standard, cold stock-music. "
10893 "They thought of looking up websites where you could license music directly "
10894 "from the musician without going through record labels or agents. But in "
10895 "2005, the ability to directly license music from a rights holder was not "
10896 "readily available."
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10902 "They hired two lawyers to investigate further, and while they uncovered five "
10903 "or six examples, Hessel found the business models lacking. The lawyers "
10904 "expressed interest in being their legal team should they decide to pursue "
10905 "this as an entrepreneurial opportunity. Hessel says, “When lawyers are "
10906 "interested in a venture like this, you might have something special.” So "
10907 "after some more research, in early 2008, Hessel and Sandra decided to build "
10908 "a platform."
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10914 "Building a platform posed a real chicken-and-egg problem. The platform had "
10915 "to build an online community of music-rights holders and, at the same time, "
10916 "provide the community with information and ideas about how the new economy "
10917 "works. Community willingness to try new music business models requires a "
10918 "trust relationship."
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10924 "In July 2008, Tribe of Noise opened its virtual doors with a couple hundred "
10925 "musicians willing to use the CC BY-SA license (Attribution-ShareAlike) for a "
10926 "limited part of their repertoire. The two entrepreneurs wanted to take the "
10927 "pain away for media makers who wanted to license music and solve the "
10928 "problems the two had personally experienced finding this music."
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10934 "As they were growing the community, Hessel got a phone call from a company "
10935 "that made in-store music playlists asking if they had enough music licensed "
10936 "with Creative Commons that they could use. Stores need quality, good-"
10937 "listening music but not necessarily hits, a bit like a radio show without "
10938 "the DJ. This opened a new opportunity for Tribe of Noise. They started their "
10939 "In-store Music Service, using music (licensed with CC BY-SA) uploaded by the "
10940 "Tribe of Noise community of musicians.1"
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10946 "In most countries, artists, authors, and musicians join a collecting society "
10947 "that manages the licensing and helps collect the royalties. Copyright "
10948 "collecting societies in the European Union usually hold monopolies in their "
10949 "respective national markets. In addition, they require their members to "
10950 "transfer exclusive administration rights to them of all of their works. This "
10951 "complicates the picture for Tribe of Noise, who wants to represent artists, "
10952 "or at least a portion of their repertoire. Hessel and his legal team reached "
10953 "out to collecting societies, starting with those in the Netherlands. What "
10954 "would be the best legal way forward that would respect the wishes of "
10955 "composers and musicians who’d be interested in trying out new models like "
10956 "the In-store Music Service? Collecting societies at first were hesitant and "
10957 "said no, but Tribe of Noise persisted arguing that they primarily work with "
10958 "unknown artists and provide them exposure in parts of the world where they "
10959 "don’t get airtime normally and a source of revenue—and this convinced them "
10960 "that it was OK. However, Hessel says, “We are still fighting for a good "
10961 "cause every single day.”"
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10967 "Instead of building a large sales force, Tribe of Noise partnered with big "
10968 "organizations who have lots of clients and can act as a kind of Tribe of "
10969 "Noise reseller. The largest telecom network in the Netherlands, for example, "
10970 "sells Tribe’s In-store Music Service subscriptions to their business "
10971 "clients, which include fashion retailers and fitness centers. They have a "
10972 "similar deal with the leading trade association representing hotels and "
10973 "restaurants in the country. Hessel hopes to “copy and paste” this service "
10974 "into other countries where collecting societies understand what you can do "
10975 "with Creative Commons. Outside of the Netherlands, early adoptions have "
10976 "happened in Scandinavia, Belgium, and the U.S."
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10982 "Tribe of Noise doesn’t pay the musicians up front; they get paid when their "
10983 "music ends up in Tribe of Noise’s in-store music channels. The musicians’ "
10984 "share is 42.5 percent. It’s not uncommon in a traditional model for the "
10985 "artist to get only 5 to 10 percent, so a share of over 40 percent is a "
10986 "significantly better deal. Here’s how they give an example on their website:"
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10992 "A few of your songs \\[licensed with CC BY-SA\\], for example five in total, "
10993 "are selected for a bespoke in-store music channel broadcasting at a large "
10994 "retailer with 1,000 stores nationwide. In this case the overall playlist "
10995 "contains 350 songs so the musician’s share is 5/350 = 1.43%. The license "
10996 "fee agreed with this retailer is US\\$12 per month per play-out. So if 42.5% "
10997 "is shared with the Tribe musicians in this playlist and your share is 1.43%, "
10998 "you end up with US\\$12 \\* 1000 stores \\* 0.425 \\* 0.0143 = US\\$73 per "
10999 "month.2"
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11005 "Tribe of Noise has another model that does not involve Creative Commons. In "
11006 "a survey with members, most said they liked the exposure using Creative "
11007 "Commons gets them and the way it lets them reach out to others to share and "
11008 "remix. However, they had a bit of a mental struggle with Creative Commons "
11009 "licenses being perpetual. A lot of musicians have the mind-set that one day "
11010 "one of their songs may become an overnight hit. If that happened the CC BY-"
11011 "SA license would preclude them getting rich off the sale of that song."
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11017 "Hessel’s legal team took this feedback and created a second model and "
11018 "separate area of the platform called Tribe of Noise Pro. Songs uploaded to "
11019 "Tribe of Noise Pro aren’t Creative Commons licensed; Tribe of Noise has "
11020 "instead created a “nonexclusive exploitation” contract, similar to a "
11021 "Creative Commons license but allowing musicians to opt out whenever they "
11022 "want. When you opt out, Tribe of Noise agrees to take your music off the "
11023 "Tribe of Noise platform within one to two months. This lets the musician "
11024 "reuse their song for a better deal."
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11030 "Tribe of Noise Pro is primarily geared toward media makers who are looking "
11031 "for music. If they buy a license from this catalog, they don’t have to state "
11032 "the name of the creator; they just license the song for a specific amount. "
11033 "This is a big plus for media makers. And musicians can pull their repertoire "
11034 "at any time. Hessel sees this as a more direct and clean deal."
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11040 "Lots of Tribe of Noise musicians upload songs to both Tribe of Noise Pro and "
11041 "the community area of Tribe of Noises. There aren’t that many artists who "
11042 "upload only to Tribe of Noise Pro, which has a smaller repertoire of music "
11043 "than the community area."
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11049 "Hessel sees the two as complementary. Both are needed for the model to work. "
11050 "With a whole generation of musicians interested in the sharing economy, the "
11051 "community area of Tribe of Noise is where they can build trust, create "
11052 "exposure, and generate money. And after that, musicians may become more "
11053 "interested in exploring other models like Tribe of Noise Pro."
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11059 "Every musician who joins Tribe of Noise gets their own home page and free "
11060 "unlimited Web space to upload as much of their own music as they like. Tribe "
11061 "of Noise is also a social network; fellow musicians and professionals can "
11062 "vote for, comment on, and like your music. Community managers interact with "
11063 "and support members, and music supervisors pick and choose from the uploaded "
11064 "songs for in-store play or to promote them to media producers. Members "
11065 "really like having people working for the platform who truly engage with "
11066 "them."
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11072 "Another way Tribe of Noise creates community and interest is with contests, "
11073 "which are organized in partnership with Tribe of Noise clients. The client "
11074 "specifies what they want, and any member can submit a song. Contests usually "
11075 "involve prizes, exposure, and money. In addition to building member "
11076 "engagement, contests help members learn how to work with clients: listening "
11077 "to them, understanding what they want, and creating a song to meet that need."
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11083 "Tribe of Noise now has twenty-seven thousand members from 192 countries, and "
11084 "many are exploring do-it-yourself models for generating revenue. Some came "
11085 "from music labels and publishers, having gone through the traditional way of "
11086 "music licensing and now seeing if this new model makes sense for them. "
11087 "Others are young musicians, who grew up with a DIY mentality and see little "
11088 "reason to sign with a third party or hand over some of the control. Still a "
11089 "small but growing group of Tribe members are pursuing a hybrid model by "
11090 "licensing some of their songs under CC BY-SA and opting in others with "
11091 "collecting societies like ASCAP or BMI."
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11097 "It’s not uncommon for performance-rights organizations, record labels, or "
11098 "music publishers to sign contracts with musicians based on exclusivity. Such "
11099 "an arrangement prevents those musicians from uploading their music to Tribe "
11100 "of Noise. In the United States, you can have a collecting society handle "
11101 "only some of your tracks, whereas in many countries in Europe, a collecting "
11102 "society prefers to represent your entire repertoire (although the European "
11103 "Commission is making some changes). Tribe of Noise deals with this issue all "
11104 "the time and gives you a warning whenever you upload a song. If collecting "
11105 "societies are willing to be open and flexible and do the most they can for "
11106 "their members, then they can consider organizations like Tribe of Noise as a "
11107 "nice add-on, generating more exposure and revenue for the musicians they "
11108 "represent. So far, Tribe of Noise has been able to make all this work "
11109 "without litigation."
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11115 "For Hessel the key to Tribe of Noise’s success is trust. The fact that "
11116 "Creative Commons licenses work the same way all over the world and have been "
11117 "translated into all languages really helps build that trust. Tribe of Noise "
11118 "believes in creating a model where they work together with musicians. They "
11119 "can only do that if they have a live and kicking community, with people who "
11120 "think that the Tribe of Noise team has their best interests in mind. "
11121 "Creative Commons makes it possible to create a new business model for music, "
11122 "a model that’s based on trust."
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11129
11130 #. type: Bullet: '2. '
11131 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7244
11132 msgid "www.tribeofnoise.com/info\\_instoremusic.php"
11133 msgstr ""
11134
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11137 msgid "## Wikimedia Foundation"
11138 msgstr ""
11139
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11141 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7249
11142 msgid ""
11143 "The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia "
11144 "and its sister projects. Founded in 2003 in the U.S."
11145 msgstr ""
11146
11147 #. type: Plain text
11148 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7251
11149 msgid "wikimediafoundation.org"
11150 msgstr ""
11151
11152 #. type: Plain text
11153 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7253
11154 msgid "Revenue model: donations"
11155 msgstr ""
11156
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11159 msgid "Interview date: December 18, 2015"
11160 msgstr ""
11161
11162 #. type: Plain text
11163 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7258
11164 msgid ""
11165 "Interviewees: Luis Villa, former Chief Officer of Community Engagement, and "
11166 "Stephen LaPorte, legal counsel"
11167 msgstr ""
11168
11169 #. type: Plain text
11170 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7262
11171 msgid "Nearly every person with an online presence knows Wikipedia."
11172 msgstr ""
11173
11174 #. type: Plain text
11175 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7268
11176 msgid ""
11177 "In many ways, it is the preeminent open project: The online encyclopedia is "
11178 "created entirely by volunteers. Anyone in the world can edit the articles. "
11179 "All of the content is available for free to anyone online. All of the "
11180 "content is released under a Creative Commons license that enables people to "
11181 "reuse and adapt it for any purpose."
11182 msgstr ""
11183
11184 #. type: Plain text
11185 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7272
11186 msgid ""
11187 "As of December 2016, there were more than forty-two million articles in the "
11188 "295 language editions of the online encyclopedia, according to—what else?—"
11189 "the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia."
11190 msgstr ""
11191
11192 #. type: Plain text
11193 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7284
11194 msgid ""
11195 "The Wikimedia Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that owns "
11196 "the Wikipedia domain name and hosts the site, along with many other related "
11197 "sites like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The foundation employs about two "
11198 "hundred and eighty people, who all work to support the projects it hosts. "
11199 "But the true heart of Wikipedia and its sister projects is its community. "
11200 "The numbers of people in the community are variable, but about seventy-five "
11201 "thousand volunteers edit and improve Wikipedia articles every month. "
11202 "Volunteers are organized in a variety of ways across the globe, including "
11203 "formal Wikimedia chapters (mostly national), groups focused on a particular "
11204 "theme, user groups, and many thousands who are not connected to a particular "
11205 "organization."
11206 msgstr ""
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11209 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7289
11210 msgid ""
11211 "As Wikimedia legal counsel Stephen LaPorte told us, “There is a common "
11212 "saying that Wikipedia works in practice but not in theory.” While it "
11213 "undoubtedly has its challenges and flaws, Wikipedia and its sister projects "
11214 "are a striking testament to the power of human collaboration."
11215 msgstr ""
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11218 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7296
11219 msgid ""
11220 "Because of its extraordinary breadth and scope, it does feel a bit like a "
11221 "unicorn. Indeed, there is nothing else like Wikipedia. Still, much of what "
11222 "makes the projects successful—community, transparency, a strong mission, "
11223 "trust—are consistent with what it takes to be successfully Made with "
11224 "Creative Commons more generally. With Wikipedia, everything just happens at "
11225 "an unprecedented scale."
11226 msgstr ""
11227
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11229 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7306
11230 msgid ""
11231 "The story of Wikipedia has been told many times. For our purposes, it is "
11232 "enough to know the experiment started in 2001 at a small scale, inspired by "
11233 "the crazy notion that perhaps a truly open, collaborative project could "
11234 "create something meaningful. At this point, Wikipedia is so ubiquitous and "
11235 "ingrained in our digital lives that the fact of its existence seems less "
11236 "remarkable. But outside of software, Wikipedia is perhaps the single most "
11237 "stunning example of successful community cocreation. Every day, seven "
11238 "thousand new articles are created on Wikipedia, and nearly fifteen thousand "
11239 "edits are made every hour."
11240 msgstr ""
11241
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11243 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7326
11244 msgid ""
11245 "The nature of the content the community creates is ideal for asynchronous "
11246 "cocreation. “An encyclopedia is something where incremental community "
11247 "improvement really works,” Luis Villa, former Chief Officer of Community "
11248 "Engagement, told us. The rules and processes that govern cocreation on "
11249 "Wikipedia and its sister projects are all community-driven and vary by "
11250 "language edition. There are entire books written on the intricacies of their "
11251 "systems, but generally speaking, there are very few exceptions to the rule "
11252 "that anyone can edit any article, even without an account on their system. "
11253 "The extensive peer-review process includes elaborate systems to resolve "
11254 "disputes, methods for managing particularly controversial subject areas, "
11255 "talk pages explaining decisions, and much, much more. The Wikimedia "
11256 "Foundation’s decision to leave governance of the projects to the community "
11257 "is very deliberate. “We look at the things that the community can do well, "
11258 "and we want to let them do those things,” Stephen told us. Instead, the "
11259 "foundation focuses its time and resources on what the community cannot do as "
11260 "effectively, like the software engineering that supports the technical "
11261 "infrastructure of the sites. In 2015-16, about half of the foundation’s "
11262 "budget went to direct support for the Wikimedia sites."
11263 msgstr ""
11264
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11266 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7339
11267 msgid ""
11268 "Some of that is directed at servers and general IT support, but the "
11269 "foundation also invests a significant amount on architecture designed to "
11270 "help the site function as effectively as possible. “There is a constantly "
11271 "evolving system to keep the balance in place to avoid Wikipedia becoming the "
11272 "world’s biggest graffiti wall,” Luis said. Depending on how you measure it, "
11273 "somewhere between 90 to 98 percent of edits to Wikipedia are positive. Some "
11274 "portion of that success is attributable to the tools Wikimedia has in place "
11275 "to try to incentivize good actors. “The secret to having any healthy "
11276 "community is bringing back the right people,” Luis said. “Vandals tend to "
11277 "get bored and go away. That is partially our model working, and partially "
11278 "just human nature.” Most of the time, people want to do the right thing."
11279 msgstr ""
11280
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11282 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7350
11283 msgid ""
11284 "Wikipedia not only relies on good behavior within its community and on its "
11285 "sites, but also by everyone else once the content leaves Wikipedia. All of "
11286 "the text of Wikipedia is available under an Attribution-ShareAlike license "
11287 "(CC BY-SA), which means it can be used for any purpose and modified so long "
11288 "as credit is given and anything new is shared back with the public under the "
11289 "same license. In theory, that means anyone can copy the content and start a "
11290 "new Wikipedia. But as Stephen explained, “Being open has only made Wikipedia "
11291 "bigger and stronger. The desire to protect is not always what is best for "
11292 "everyone.”"
11293 msgstr ""
11294
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11297 msgid ""
11298 "Of course, the primary reason no one has successfully co-opted Wikipedia is "
11299 "that copycat efforts do not have the Wikipedia community to sustain what "
11300 "they do. Wikipedia is not simply a source of up-to-the-minute content on "
11301 "every given topic—it is also a global patchwork of humans working together "
11302 "in a million different ways, in a million different capacities, for a "
11303 "million different reasons. While many have tried to guess what makes "
11304 "Wikipedia work as well it does, the fact is there is no single explanation. "
11305 "“In a movement as large as ours, there is an incredible diversity of "
11306 "motivations,” Stephen said. For example, there is one editor of the English "
11307 "Wikipedia edition who has corrected a single grammatical error in articles "
11308 "more than forty-eight thousand times.1 Only a fraction of Wikipedia users "
11309 "are also editors. But editing is not the only way to contribute to "
11310 "Wikipedia. “Some donate text, some donate images, some donate financially,” "
11311 "Stephen told us. “They are all contributors.”"
11312 msgstr ""
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11316 msgid ""
11317 "But the vast majority of us who use Wikipedia are not contributors; we are "
11318 "passive readers. The Wikimedia Foundation survives primarily on individual "
11319 "donations, with about \\$15 as the average. Because Wikipedia is one of the "
11320 "ten most popular websites in terms of total page views, donations from a "
11321 "small portion of that audience can translate into a lot of money. In the "
11322 "2015-16 fiscal year, they received more than \\$77 million from more than "
11323 "five million donors."
11324 msgstr ""
11325
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11327 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7383
11328 msgid ""
11329 "The foundation has a fund-raising team that works year-round to raise money, "
11330 "but the bulk of their revenue comes in during the December campaign in "
11331 "Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United "
11332 "States. They engage in extensive user testing and research to maximize the "
11333 "reach of their fund-raising campaigns. Their basic fund-raising message is "
11334 "simple: We provide our readers and the world immense value, so give back. "
11335 "Every little bit helps. With enough eyeballs, they are right."
11336 msgstr ""
11337
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11340 msgid ""
11341 "The vision of the Wikimedia Foundation is a world in which every single "
11342 "human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. They work to "
11343 "realize this vision by empowering people around the globe to create "
11344 "educational content made freely available under an open license or in the "
11345 "public domain. Stephen and Luis said the mission, which is rooted in the "
11346 "same philosophy behind Creative Commons, drives everything the foundation "
11347 "does."
11348 msgstr ""
11349
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11351 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7396
11352 msgid ""
11353 "The philosophy behind the endeavor also enables the foundation to be "
11354 "financially sustainable. It instills trust in their readership, which is "
11355 "critical for a revenue strategy that relies on reader donations. It also "
11356 "instills trust in their community."
11357 msgstr ""
11358
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11361 msgid ""
11362 "Any given edit on Wikipedia could be motivated by nearly an infinite number "
11363 "of reasons. But the social mission of the project is what binds the global "
11364 "community together. “Wikipedia is an example of how a mission can motivate "
11365 "an entire movement,” Stephen told us."
11366 msgstr ""
11367
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11370 msgid ""
11371 "Of course, what results from that movement is one of the Internet’s great "
11372 "public resources. “The Internet has a lot of businesses and stores, but it "
11373 "is missing the digital equivalent of parks and open public spaces,” Stephen "
11374 "said. “Wikipedia has found a way to be that open public space.”"
11375 msgstr ""
11376
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11378 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7411
11379 msgid "gimletmedia.com/episode/14-the-art-of-making-and-fixing-mistakes/"
11380 msgstr ""
11381
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11384 msgid "## Bibliography"
11385 msgstr ""
11386
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11389 msgid ""
11390 "Alperovitz, Gar. What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American "
11391 "Revolution; Democratizing Wealth and Building a Community-Sustaining Economy "
11392 "from the Ground Up. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013."
11393 msgstr ""
11394
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11397 msgid ""
11398 "Anderson, Chris. Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving "
11399 "Something for Nothing, reprint with new preface. New York: Hyperion, 2010."
11400 msgstr ""
11401
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11404 msgid "———. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. New York: Signal, 2012."
11405 msgstr ""
11406
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11409 msgid ""
11410 "Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our "
11411 "Decisions. Rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010."
11412 msgstr ""
11413
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11416 msgid ""
11417 "Bacon, Jono. The Art of Community. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, "
11418 "2012."
11419 msgstr ""
11420
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11423 msgid ""
11424 "Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms "
11425 "Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. www.benkler."
11426 "org/Benkler\\_Wealth\\_Of\\_Networks.pdf (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)."
11427 msgstr ""
11428
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11431 msgid ""
11432 "Benyayer, Louis-David, ed. Open Models: Business Models of the Open Economy. "
11433 "Cachan, France: Without Model, 2016. www.slideshare.net/WithoutModel/open-"
11434 "models-book-64463892 (licensed under CC BY-SA)."
11435 msgstr ""
11436
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11439 msgid ""
11440 "Bollier, David. Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm. Paper "
11441 "commissioned by the Next Systems Project. Washington, DC: Democracy "
11442 "Collaborative, 2016. thenextsystem.org/commoning-as-a-transformative-social-"
11443 "paradigm/."
11444 msgstr ""
11445
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11448 msgid ""
11449 "———. Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. "
11450 "Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014."
11451 msgstr ""
11452
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11454 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.md:7456
11455 msgid ""
11456 "Bollier, David, and Pat Conaty. Democratic Money and Capital for the "
11457 "Commons: Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance through Commons-"
11458 "Based Alternatives. A report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop in "
11459 "cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 2015. "
11460 "bollier.org/democratic-money-and-capital-commons-report-pdf. For more "
11461 "information, see bollier.org/blog/democratic-money-and-capital-commons."
11462 msgstr ""
11463
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11466 msgid ""
11467 "Bollier, David, and Silke Helfrich, eds. The Wealth of the Commons: A World "
11468 "Beyond Market and State. Amherst, MA: Levellers Press, 2012."
11469 msgstr ""
11470
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11473 msgid ""
11474 "Botsman, Rachel, and Roo Rogers. What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of "
11475 "Collaborative Consumption. New York: Harper Business, 2010."
11476 msgstr ""
11477
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11480 msgid ""
11481 "Boyle, James. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. New "
11482 "Haven: Yale University Press, 2008."
11483 msgstr ""
11484
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11487 msgid "www.thepublicdomain.org/download/ (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)."
11488 msgstr ""
11489
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11492 msgid ""
11493 "Capra, Fritjof, and Ugo Mattei. The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in "
11494 "Tune with Nature and Community. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2015."
11495 msgstr ""
11496
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11499 msgid ""
11500 "Chesbrough, Henry. Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation "
11501 "Landscape. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006."
11502 msgstr ""
11503
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11506 msgid ""
11507 "———. Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from "
11508 "Technology. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2006."
11509 msgstr ""
11510
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11514 "City of Bologna. Regulation on Collaboration between Citizens and the City "
11515 "for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons. Translated by LabGov "
11516 "(LABoratory for the GOVernance of Commons). Bologna, Italy: City of Bologna, "
11517 "2014). www.labgov.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/Bologna-Regulation-on-"
11518 "collaboration-between-citizens-and-the-city-for-the-cure-and-regeneration-of-"
11519 "urban-commons1.pdf."
11520 msgstr ""
11521
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11524 msgid ""
11525 "Cole, Daniel H. “Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the Natural "
11526 "Commons for the Knowledge Commons.” Chap. 2 in Frischmann, Madison, and "
11527 "Strandburg, Governing Knowledge Commons."
11528 msgstr ""
11529
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11532 msgid ""
11533 "Creative Commons. 2015 State of the Commons. Mountain View, CA: Creative "
11534 "Commons, 2015. stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/."
11535 msgstr ""
11536
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11540 "Doctorow, Cory. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet "
11541 "Age. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2014."
11542 msgstr ""
11543
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11546 msgid ""
11547 "Eckhardt, Giana, and Fleura Bardhi. “The Sharing Economy Isn’t about Sharing "
11548 "at All.” Harvard Business Review, January 28, 2015. hbr.org/2015/01/the-"
11549 "sharing-economy-isnt-about-sharing-at-all."
11550 msgstr ""
11551
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11554 msgid ""
11555 "Elliott, Patricia W., and Daryl H. Hepting, eds. (2015). Free Knowledge: "
11556 "Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery. Regina, SK: University "
11557 "of Regina Press, 2015. uofrpress.ca/publications/Free-Knowledge (licensed "
11558 "under CC BY-NC-ND)."
11559 msgstr ""
11560
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11563 msgid ""
11564 "Eyal, Nir. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. With Ryan Hoover. "
11565 "New York: Portfolio, 2014."
11566 msgstr ""
11567
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11570 msgid ""
11571 "Farley, Joshua, and Ida Kubiszewski. “The Economics of Information in a Post-"
11572 "Carbon Economy.” Chap. 11 in Elliott and Hepting, Free Knowledge."
11573 msgstr ""
11574
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11577 msgid ""
11578 "Foster, William Landes, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen. “Ten Nonprofit "
11579 "Funding Models.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009. ssir.org/"
11580 "articles/entry/ten\\_nonprofit\\_funding\\_models."
11581 msgstr ""
11582
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11586 "Frischmann, Brett M. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. "
11587 "New York: Oxford University Press, 2012."
11588 msgstr ""
11589
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11593 "Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg, eds. "
11594 "Governing Knowledge Commons. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014."
11595 msgstr ""
11596
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11599 msgid ""
11600 "Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg. "
11601 "“Governing Knowledge Commons.” Chap. 1 in Frischmann, Madison, and "
11602 "Strandburg, Governing Knowledge Commons."
11603 msgstr ""
11604
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11607 msgid ""
11608 "Gansky, Lisa. The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing. Reprint with "
11609 "new epilogue. New York: Portfolio, 2012."
11610 msgstr ""
11611
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11615 "Grant, Adam. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. New York: "
11616 "Viking, 2013."
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11618
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11622 "Haiven, Max. Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity "
11623 "and the Commons. New York: Zed Books, 2014."
11624 msgstr ""
11625
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11628 msgid ""
11629 "Harris, Malcom, ed. Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the "
11630 "Age of Crisis. With Neal Gorenflo. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2012."
11631 msgstr ""
11632
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11636 "Hermida, Alfred. Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters. Toronto: "
11637 "Doubleday Canada, 2014."
11638 msgstr ""
11639
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11643 "Hyde, Lewis. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. New York: "
11644 "Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010."
11645 msgstr ""
11646
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11649 msgid ""
11650 "———. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. 2nd Vintage "
11651 "Books edition. New York: Vintage Books, 2007."
11652 msgstr ""
11653
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11656 msgid ""
11657 "Kelley, Tom, and David Kelley. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Potential "
11658 "within Us All. New York: Crown, 2013."
11659 msgstr ""
11660
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11664 "Kelly, Marjorie. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution; "
11665 "Journeys to a Generative Economy. San Francisco:"
11666 msgstr ""
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11670 msgid "Berrett-Koehler, 2012."
11671 msgstr ""
11672
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11675 msgid ""
11676 "Kleon, Austin. Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get "
11677 "Discovered. New York: Workman, 2014."
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11683 "———. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative. "
11684 "New York: Workman, 2012."
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11690 "Kramer, Bryan. Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy. New "
11691 "York: Morgan James, 2016."
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11697 "Lee, David. “Inside Medium: An Attempt to Bring Civility to the Internet.” "
11698 "BBC News, March 3, 2016. www.bbc.com/news/technology-35709680"
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11704 "Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid "
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11711 "Menzies, Heather. Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good: A Memoir and "
11712 "Manifesto. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014."
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11718 "Mason, Paul. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. New York: Farrar, Straus "
11719 "and Giroux, 2015."
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11725 "New York Times Customer Insight Group. The Psychology of Sharing: Why Do "
11726 "People Share Online? New York: New York Times Customer Insight Group, 2011. "
11727 "www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf."
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11733 "Osterwalder, Alex, and Yves Pigneur. Business Model Generation. Hoboken, NJ: "
11734 "John Wiley and Sons, 2010. A preview of the book is available at strategyzer."
11735 "com/books/business-model-generation."
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11741 "Osterwalder, Alex, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda, and Adam Smith. Value "
11742 "Proposition Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2014. A preview of the "
11743 "book is available at strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design."
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11749 "Palmer, Amanda. The Art of Asking: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let "
11750 "People Help. New York: Grand Central, 2014."
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11756 "Pekel, Joris. Democratising the Rijksmuseum: Why Did the Rijksmuseum Make "
11757 "Available Their Highest Quality Material without Restrictions, and What Are "
11758 "the Results? The Hague, Netherlands: Europeana Foundation, 2014. pro."
11759 "europeana.eu/publication/democratising-the-rijksmuseum (licensed under CC BY-"
11760 "SA)."
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11766 "Ramos, José Maria, ed. The City as Commons: A Policy Reader. Melbourne, "
11767 "Australia: Commons Transition Coalition, 2016. www.academia.edu/27143172/The"
11768 "\\_City\\_as\\_Commons\\_a\\_Policy\\_Reader (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
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11774 "Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open "
11775 "Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Rev. ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly "
11776 "Media, 2001. See esp. “The Magic Cauldron.” www.catb.org/esr/writings/"
11777 "cathedral-bazaar/."
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11783 "Ries, Eric. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous "
11784 "Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown "
11785 "Business, 2011."
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11791 "Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the "
11792 "Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. New York: Palgrave "
11793 "Macmillan, 2014."
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11799 "Rowe, Jonathan. Our Common Wealth. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013."
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11805 "Rushkoff, Douglas. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the "
11806 "Enemy of Prosperity. New York: Portfolio, 2016."
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11812 "Sandel, Michael J. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. New "
11813 "York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012."
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11819 "Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into "
11820 "Collaborators. London, England: Penguin Books, 2010."
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11826 "Slee, Tom. What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy. New York: OR "
11827 "Books, 2015."
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11833 "Stephany, Alex. The Business of Sharing: Making in the New Sharing Economy. "
11834 "New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015."
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11840 "Stepper, John. Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life. New York: "
11841 "Ikigai Press, 2015."
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11847 "Sull, Donald, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a "
11848 "Complex World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015."
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11854 "Sundararajan, Arun. The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise "
11855 "of Crowd-Based Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016."
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11866 "Tapscott, Don, and Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology "
11867 "Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Toronto: "
11868 "Portfolio, 2016."
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11874 "Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. With Mark "
11875 "Reiter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006."
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11881 "Tkacz, Nathaniel. Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. Chicago: "
11882 "University of Chicago Press, 2015."
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11888 "Van Abel, Bass, Lucas Evers, Roel Klaassen, and Peter Troxler, eds. Open "
11889 "Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, "
11890 "with Creative Commons Netherlands; Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for "
11891 "Design and Fashion; and the Waag Society, 2011. opendesignnow.org (licensed "
11892 "under CC BY-NC-SA)."
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11898 "Van den Hoff, Ronald. Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society "
11899 "3.0. Utrecht, the Netherlands: Society 3.0 Foundation, 2014. society30.com/"
11900 "get-the-book/ (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
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11906 "Von Hippel, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. London: MIT Press, 2005. web."
11907 "mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
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11913 "Whitehurst, Jim. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance. "
11914 "Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015."
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11919 msgid "## Acknowledgments"
11920 msgstr ""
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11925 "We extend special thanks to Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley, the Creative "
11926 "Commons Board, and all of our Creative Commons colleagues for "
11927 "enthusiastically supporting our work. Special gratitude to the William and "
11928 "Flora Hewlett Foundation for the initial seed funding that got us started on "
11929 "this project."
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11935 "Huge appreciation to all the Made with Creative Commons interviewees for "
11936 "sharing their stories with us. You make the commons come alive. Thanks for "
11937 "the inspiration."
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11943 "We interviewed more than the twenty-four organizations profiled in this "
11944 "book. We extend special thanks to Gooru, OERu, Sage Bionetworks, and Medium "
11945 "for sharing their stories with us. While not featured as case studies in "
11946 "this book, you all are equally interesting, and we encourage our readers to "
11947 "visit your sites and explore your work."
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11953 "This book was made possible by the generous support of 1,687 Kickstarter "
11954 "backers listed below. We especially acknowledge our many Kickstarter co-"
11955 "editors who read early drafts of our work and provided invaluable feedback. "
11956 "Heartfelt thanks to all of you."
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11962 "Co-editor Kickstarter backers (alphabetically by first name): Abraham "
11963 "Taherivand, Alan Graham, Alfredo Louro, Anatoly Volynets, Aurora Thornton, "
11964 "Austin Tolentino, Ben Sheridan, Benedikt Foit, Benjamin Costantini, Bernd "
11965 "Nurnberger, Bernhard Seefeld, Bethanye Blount, Bradford Benn, Bryan Mock, "
11966 "Carmen Garcia Wiedenhoeft, Carolyn Hinchliff, Casey Milford, Cat Cooper, "
11967 "Chip McIntosh, Chris Thorne, Chris Weber, Chutika Udomsinn, Claire Wardle, "
11968 "Claudia Cristiani, Cody Allard, Colleen Cressman, Craig Thomler, Creative "
11969 "Commons Uruguay, Curt McNamara, Dan Parson, Daniel Dominguez, Daniel Morado, "
11970 "Darius Irvin, Dave Taillefer, David Lewis, David Mikula, David Varnes, David "
11971 "Wiley, Deborah Nas, Diderik van Wingerden, Dirk Kiefer, Dom Lane, Domi "
11972 "Enders, Douglas Van Houweling, Dylan Field, Einar Joergensen, Elad Wieder, "
11973 "Elie Calhoun, Erika Reid, Evtim Papushev, Fauxton Software, Felix "
11974 "Maximiliano Obes, Ferdies Food Lab, Gatien de Broucker, Gaurav Kapil, Gavin "
11975 "Romig-Koch, George Baier IV, George De Bruin, Gianpaolo Rando, Glenn Otis "
11976 "Brown, Govindarajan Umakanthan, Graham Bird, Graham Freeman, Hamish MacEwan, "
11977 "Harry Kaczka, Humble Daisy, Ian Capstick, Iris Brest, James Cloos, Jamie "
11978 "Stevens, Jamil Khatib, Jane Finette, Jason Blasso, Jason E. Barkeloo, Jay M "
11979 "Williams, Jean-Philippe Turcotte, Jeanette Frey, Jeff De Cagna, Jérôme "
11980 "Mizeret, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, Jessy Kate Schingler, Jim O’Flaherty, "
11981 "Jim Pellegrini, Jiří Marek, Jo Allum, Joachim von Goetz, Johan Adda, John "
11982 "Benfield, John Bevan, Jonas Öberg, Jonathan Lin, JP Rangaswami, Juan Carlos "
11983 "Belair, Justin Christian, Justin Szlasa, Kate Chapman, Kate Stewart, Kellie "
11984 "Higginbottom, Kendra Byrne, Kevin Coates, Kristina Popova, Kristoffer Steen, "
11985 "Kyle Simpson, Laurie Racine, Leonardo Bueno Postacchini, Leticia Britos "
11986 "Cavagnaro, Livia Leskovec, Louis-David Benyayer, Maik Schmalstich, Mairi "
11987 "Thomson, Marcia Hofmann, Maria Liberman, Marino Hernandez, Mario R. Hemsley, "
11988 "MD, Mark Cohen, Mark Mullen, Mary Ellen Davis, Mathias Bavay, Matt Black, "
11989 "Matt Hall, Max van Balgooy, Médéric Droz-dit-Busset, Melissa Aho, Menachem "
11990 "Goldstein, Michael Harries, Michael Lewis, Michael Weiss, Miha Batic, Mike "
11991 "Stop Continues, Mike Stringer, Mustafa K Calik, MD, Neal Stimler, Niall "
11992 "McDonagh, Niall Twohig, Nicholas Norfolk, Nick Coghlan, Nicole Hickman, "
11993 "Nikki Thompson, Norrie Mailer, Omar Kaminski, OpenBuilds, Papp István Péter, "
11994 "Pat Sticks, Patricia Brennan, Paul and Iris Brest, Paul Elosegui, Penny "
11995 "Pearson, Peter Mengelers, Playground Inc., Pomax, Rafaela Kunz, Rajiv "
11996 "Jhangiani, Rayna Stamboliyska, Rob Berkley, Rob Bertholf, Robert Jones, "
11997 "Robert Thompson, Ronald van den Hoff, Rusi Popov, Ryan Merkley, S Searle, "
11998 "Salomon Riedo, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Samuel Tait, Sarah McGovern, Scott "
11999 "Gillespie, Seb Schmoller, Sharon Clapp, Sheona Thomson, Siena Oristaglio, "
12000 "Simon Law, Solomon Simon, Stefano Guidotti, Subhendu Ghosh, Susan Chun, "
12001 "Suzie Wiley, Sylvain Carle, Theresa Bernardo, Thomas Hartman, Thomas Kent, "
12002 "Timothée Planté, Timothy Hinchliff, Traci Long DeForge, Trevor Hogue, "
12003 "Tumuult, Vickie Goode, Vikas Shah, Virginia Kopelman, Wayne Mackintosh, "
12004 "William Peter Nash, Winie Evers, Wolfgang Renninger, Xavier Antoviaque, "
12005 "Yancey Strickler"
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12011 "All other Kickstarter backers (alphabetically by first name): A. Lee, Aaron "
12012 "C. Rathbun, Aaron Stubbs, Aaron Suggs, Abdul Razak Manaf, Abraham "
12013 "Taherivand, Adam Croom, Adam Finer, Adam Hansen, Adam Morris, Adam Procter, "
12014 "Adam Quirk, Adam Rory Porter, Adam Simmons, Adam Tinworth, Adam Zimmerman, "
12015 "Adrian Ho, Adrian Smith, Adriane Ruzak, Adriano Loconte, Al Sweigart, Alain "
12016 "Imbaud, Alan Graham, Alan M. Ford, Alan Swithenbank, Alan Vonlanthen, Albert "
12017 "O’Connor, Alec Foster, Alejandro Suarez Cebrian, Aleks Degtyarev, Alex "
12018 "Blood, Alex C. Ion, Alex Ross Shaw, Alexander Bartl, Alexander Brown, "
12019 "Alexander Brunner, Alexander Eliesen, Alexander Hawson, Alexander Klar, "
12020 "Alexander Neumann, Alexander Plaum, Alexander Wendland, Alexandre "
12021 "Rafalovitch, Alexey Volkow, Alexi Wheeler, Alexis Sevault, Alfredo Louro, "
12022 "Ali Sternburg, Alicia Gibb & Lunchbox Electronics, Alison Link, Alison "
12023 "Pentecost, Alistair Boettiger, Alistair Walder, Alix Bernier, Allan "
12024 "Callaghan, Allen Riddell, Allison Breland Crotwell, Allison Jane Smith, "
12025 "Álvaro Justen, Amanda Palmer, Amanda Wetherhold, Amit Bagree, Amit Tikare, "
12026 "Amos Blanton, Amy Sept, Anatoly Volynets, Anders Ericsson, Andi Popp, André "
12027 "Bose Do Amaral, Andre Dickson, André Koot, André Ricardo, Andre van Rooyen, "
12028 "Andre Wallace, Andrea Bagnacani, Andrea Pepe, Andrea Pigato, Andreas "
12029 "Jagelund, Andres Gomez Casanova, Andrew A. Farke, Andrew Berhow, Andrew "
12030 "Hearse, Andrew Matangi, Andrew R McHugh, Andrew Tam, Andrew Turvey, Andrew "
12031 "Walsh, Andrew Wilson, Andrey Novoseltsev, Andy McGhee, Andy Reeve, Andy "
12032 "Woods, Angela Brett, Angeliki Kapoglou, Angus Keenan, Anne-Marie Scott, "
12033 "Antero Garcia, Antoine Authier, Antoine Michard, Anton Kurkin, Anton "
12034 "Porsche, Antònia Folguera, António Ornelas, Antonis Triantafyllakis, aois21 "
12035 "publishing, April Johnson, Aria F. Chernik, Ariane Allan, Ariel Katz, "
12036 "Arithmomaniac, Arnaud Tessier, Arnim Sommer, Ashima Bawa, Ashley Elsdon, "
12037 "Athanassios Diacakis, Aurora Thornton, Aurore Chavet Henry, Austin "
12038 "Hartzheim, Austin Tolentino, Avner Shanan, Axel Pettersson, Axel "
12039 "Stieglbauer, Ay Okpokam, Barb Bartkowiak, Barbara Lindsey, Barry Dayton, "
12040 "Bastian Hougaard, Ben Chad, Ben Doherty, Ben Hansen, Ben Nuttall, Ben "
12041 "Rosenthal, Ben Sheridan, Benedikt Foit, Benita Tsao, Benjamin Costantini, "
12042 "Benjamin Daemon, Benjamin Keele, Benjamin Pflanz, Berglind Ósk Bergsdóttir, "
12043 "Bernardo Miguel Antunes, Bernd Nurnberger, Bernhard Seefeld, Beth Gis, Beth "
12044 "Tillinghast, Bethanye Blount, Bill Bonwitt, Bill Browne, Bill Keaggy, Bill "
12045 "Maiden, Bill Rafferty, Bill Scanlon, Bill Shields, Bill Slankard, BJ Becker, "
12046 "Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Bjørn Otto Wallevik, BK Bitner, Bo Ilsøe Hansen, Bo "
12047 "Sprotte Kofod, Bob Doran, Bob Recny, Bob Stuart, Bonnie Chiu, Boris Mindzak, "
12048 "Boriss Lariushin, Borjan Tchakaloff, Brad Kik, Braden Hassett, Bradford "
12049 "Benn, Bradley Keyes, Bradley L’Herrou, Brady Forrest, Brandon McGaha, Branka "
12050 "Tokic, Brant Anderson, Brenda Sullivan, Brendan O’Brien, Brendan Schlagel, "
12051 "Brett Abbott, Brett Gaylor, Brian Dysart, Brian Lampl, Brian Lipscomb, Brian "
12052 "S. Weis, Brian Schrader, Brian Walsh, Brian Walsh, Brooke Dukes, Brooke "
12053 "Schreier Ganz, Bruce Lerner, Bruce Wilson, Bruno Boutot, Bruno Girin, Bryan "
12054 "Mock, Bryant Durrell, Bryce Barbato, Buzz Technology Limited, Byung-Geun "
12055 "Jeon, C. Glen Williams, C. L. Couch, Cable Green, Callum Gare, Cameron "
12056 "Callahan, Cameron Colby Thomson, Cameron Mulder, Camille Bissuel / Nylnook, "
12057 "Candace Robertson, Carl Morris, Carl Perry, Carl Rigney, Carles Mateu, "
12058 "Carlos Correa Loyola, Carlos Solis, Carmen Garcia Wiedenhoeft, Carol Long, "
12059 "Carol marquardsen, Caroline Calomme, Caroline Mailloux, Carolyn Hinchliff, "
12060 "Carolyn Rude, Carrie Cousins, Carrie Watkins, Casey Hunt, Casey Milford, "
12061 "Casey Powell Shorthouse, Cat Cooper, Cecilie Maria, Cedric Howe, Cefn Hoile, "
12062 "@ShrimpingIt, Celia Muller, Ces Keller, Chad Anderson, Charles Butler, "
12063 "Charles Carstensen, Charles Chi Thoi Le, Charles Kobbe, Charles S. Tritt, "
12064 "Charles Stanhope, Charlotte Ong-Wisener, Chealsye Bowley, Chelle Destefano, "
12065 "Chenpang Chou, Cheryl Corte, Cheryl Todd, Chip Dickerson, Chip McIntosh, "
12066 "Chris Bannister, Chris Betcher, Chris Coleman, Chris Conway, Chris Foote "
12067 "(Spike), Chris Hurst, Chris Mitchell, Chris Muscat Azzopardi, Chris "
12068 "Niewiarowski, Chris Opperwall, Chris Stieha, Chris Thorne, Chris Weber, "
12069 "Chris Woolfrey, Chris Zabriskie, Christi Reid, Christian Holzberger, "
12070 "Christian Schubert, Christian Sheehy, Christian Thibault, Christian Villum, "
12071 "Christian Wachter, Christina Bennett, Christine Henry, Christine Rico, "
12072 "Christopher Burrows, Christopher Chan, Christopher Clay, Christopher Harris, "
12073 "Christopher Opiah, Christopher Swenson, Christos Keramitsis, Chuck Roslof, "
12074 "Chutika Udomsinn, Claire Wardle, Clare Forrest, Claudia Cristiani, Claudio "
12075 "Gallo, Claudio Ruiz, Clayton Dewey, Clement Delort, Cliff Church, Clint "
12076 "Lalonde, Clint O’Connor, Cody Allard, Cody Taylor, Colin Ayer, Colin "
12077 "Campbell, Colin Dean, Colin Mutchler, Colleen Cressman, Comfy Nomad, Connie "
12078 "Roberts, Connor Bär, Connor Merkley, Constantin Graf, Corbett Messa, Cory "
12079 "Chapman, Cosmic Wombat Games, Craig Engler, Craig Heath, Craig Maloney, "
12080 "Craig Thomler, Creative Commons Uruguay, Crina Kienle, Cristiano Gozzini, "
12081 "Curt McNamara, D C Petty, D. Moonfire, D. Rohhyn, D. Schulz, Dacian Herbei, "
12082 "Dagmar M. Meyer, Dan Mcalister, Dan Mohr, Dan Parson, Dana Freeman, Dana "
12083 "Ospina, Dani Leviss, Daniel Bustamante, Daniel Demmel, Daniel Dominguez, "
12084 "Daniel Dultz, Daniel Gallant, Daniel Kossmann, Daniel Kruse, Daniel Morado, "
12085 "Daniel Morgan, Daniel Pimley, Daniel Sabo, Daniel Sobey, Daniel Stein, "
12086 "Daniel Wildt, Daniele Prati, Danielle Moss, Danny Mendoza, Dario "
12087 "Taraborelli, Darius Irvin, Darius Whelan, Darla Anderson, Dasha Brezinova, "
12088 "Dave Ainscough, Dave Bull, Dave Crosby, Dave Eagle, Dave Moskovitz, Dave "
12089 "Neeteson, Dave Taillefer, Dave Witzel, David Bailey, David Cheung, David "
12090 "Eriksson, David Gallagher, David H. Bronke, David Hartley, David Hellam, "
12091 "David Hood, David Hunter, David jlaietta, David Lewis, David Mason, David "
12092 "Mcconville, David Mikula, David Nelson, David Orban, David Parry, David "
12093 "Spira, David T. Kindler, David Varnes, David Wiley, David Wormley, Deborah "
12094 "Nas, Denis Jean, dennis straub, Dennis Whittle, Denver Gingerich, Derek "
12095 "Slater, Devon Cooke, Diana Pasek-Atkinson, Diane Johnston Graves, Diane K. "
12096 "Kovacs, Diane Trout, Diderik van Wingerden, Diego Cuevas, Diego De La Cruz, "
12097 "Dimitrie Grigorescu, Dina Marie Rodriguez, Dinah Fabela, Dirk Haun, Dirk "
12098 "Kiefer, Dirk Loop, DJ Fusion - FuseBox Radio Broadcast, Dom jurkewitz, Dom "
12099 "Lane, Domi Enders, Domingo Gallardo, Dominic de Haas, Dominique Karadjian, "
12100 "Dongpo Deng, Donnovan Knight, Door de Flines, Doug Fitzpatrick, Doug Hoover, "
12101 "Douglas Craver, Douglas Van Camp, Douglas Van Houweling, Dr. Braddlee, Drew "
12102 "Spencer, Duncan Sample, Durand D’souza, Dylan Field, E C Humphries, Eamon "
12103 "Caddigan, Earleen Smith, Eden Sarid, Eden Spodek, Eduardo Belinchon, Eduardo "
12104 "Castro, Edwin Vandam, Einar Joergensen, Ejnar Brendsdal, Elad Wieder, Elar "
12105 "Haljas, Elena Valhalla, Eli Doran, Elias Bouchi, Elie Calhoun, Elizabeth "
12106 "Holloway, Ellen Buecher, Ellen Kaye- Cheveldayoff, Elli Verhulst, Elroy "
12107 "Fernandes, Emery Hurst Mikel, Emily Catedral, Enrique Mandujano R., Eric "
12108 "Astor, Eric Axelrod, Eric Celeste, Eric Finkenbiner, Eric Hellman, Eric "
12109 "Steuer, Erica Fletcher, Erik Hedman, Erik Lindholm Bundgaard, Erika Reid, "
12110 "Erin Hawley, Erin McKean of Wordnik, Ernest Risner, Erwan Bousse, Erwin "
12111 "Bell, Ethan Celery, Étienne Gilli, Eugeen Sablin, Evan Tangman, Evonne "
12112 "Okafor, Evtim Papushev, Fabien Cambi, Fabio Natali, Fauxton Software, Felix "
12113 "Deierlein, Felix Gebauer, Felix Maximiliano Obes, Felix Schmidt, Felix "
12114 "Zephyr Hsiao, Ferdies Food Lab, Fernand Deschambault, Filipe Rodrigues, "
12115 "Filippo Toso, Fiona MacAlister, fiona.mac.uk, Floor Scheffer, Florent "
12116 "Darrault, Florian Hähnel, Florian Schneider, Floyd Wilde, Foxtrot Games, "
12117 "Francis Clarke, Francisco Rivas-Portillo, Francois Dechery, Francois Grey, "
12118 "François Gros, François Pelletier, Fred Benenson, Frédéric Abella, Frédéric "
12119 "Schütz, Fredrik Ekelund, Fumi Yamazaki, Gabor Sooki-Toth, Gabriel Staples, "
12120 "Gabriel Véjar Valenzuela, Gal Buki, Gareth Jordan, Garrett Heath, Gary "
12121 "Anson, Gary Forster, Gatien de Broucker, Gaurav Kapil, Gauthier de "
12122 "Valensart, Gavin Gray, Gavin Romig-Koch, Geoff Wood, Geoffrey Lehr, George "
12123 "Baier IV, George De Bruin, George Lawie, George Strakhov, Gerard Gorman, "
12124 "Geronimo de la Lama, Gianpaolo Rando, Gil Stendig, Gino Cingolani Trucco, "
12125 "Giovanna Sala, Glen Moffat, Glenn D. Jones, Glenn Otis Brown, Global Lives "
12126 "Project, Gorm Lai, Govindarajan Umakanthan, Graham Bird, Graham Freeman, "
12127 "Graham Heath, Graham Jones, Graham Smith-Gordon, Graham Vowles, Greg "
12128 "Brodsky, Greg Malone, Grégoire Detrez, Gregory Chevalley, Gregory Flynn, "
12129 "Grit Matthias, Gui Louback, Guillaume Rischard, Gustavo Vaz de Carvalho "
12130 "Gonçalves, Gustin Johnson, Gwen Franck, Gwilym Lucas, Haggen So, Håkon T "
12131 "Sønderland, Hamid Larbi, Hamish MacEwan, Hannes Leo, Hans Bickhofe, Hans de "
12132 "Raad, Hans Vd Horst, Harold van Ingen, Harold Watson, Harry Chapman, Harry "
12133 "Kaczka, Harry Torque, Hayden Glass, Hayley Rosenblum, Heather Leson, Helen "
12134 "Crisp, Helen Michaud, Helen Qubain, Helle Rekdal Schønemann, Henrique Flach "
12135 "Latorre Moreno, Henry Finn, Henry Kaiser, Henry Lahore, Henry Steingieser, "
12136 "Hermann Paar, Hillary Miller, Hironori Kuriaki, Holly Dykes, Holly Lyne, "
12137 "Hubert Gertis, Hugh Geenen, Humble Daisy, Hüppe Keith, Iain Davidson, Ian "
12138 "Capstick, Ian Johnson, Ian Upton, Icaro Ferracini, Igor Lesko, Imran Haider, "
12139 "Inma de la Torre, Iris Brest, Irwin Madriaga, Isaac Sandaljian, Isaiah "
12140 "Tanenbaum, Ivan F. Villanueva B., J P Cleverdon, Jaakko Tammela Jr, Jacek "
12141 "Darken Gołębiowski, Jack Hart, Jacky Hood, Jacob Dante Leffler, Jaime Perla, "
12142 "Jaime Woo, Jake Campbell, Jake Loeterman, Jakes Rawlinson, James Allenspach, "
12143 "James Chesky, James Cloos, James Docherty, James Ellars, James K Wood, James "
12144 "Tyler, Jamie Finlay, Jamie Stevens, Jamil Khatib, Jan E Ellison, Jan Gondol, "
12145 "Jan Sepp, Jan Zuppinger, Jane Finette, jane Lofton, Jane Mason, Jane Park, "
12146 "Janos Kovacs, Jasmina Bricic, Jason Blasso, Jason Chu, Jason Cole, Jason E. "
12147 "Barkeloo, Jason Hibbets, Jason Owen, Jason Sigal, Jay M Williams, Jazzy Bear "
12148 "Brown, JC Lara, Jean-Baptiste Carré, Jean-Philippe Dufraigne, Jean-Philippe "
12149 "Turcotte, Jean-Yves Hemlin, Jeanette Frey, Jeff Atwood, Jeff De Cagna, Jeff "
12150 "Donoghue, Jeff Edwards, Jeff Hilnbrand, Jeff Lowe, Jeff Rasalla, Jeff Ski "
12151 "Kinsey, Jeff Smith, Jeffrey L Tucker, Jeffrey Meyer, Jen Garcia, Jens Erat, "
12152 "Jeppe Bager Skjerning, Jeremy Dudet, Jeremy Russell, Jeremy Sabo, Jeremy "
12153 "Zauder, Jerko Grubisic, Jerome Glacken, Jérôme Mizeret, Jessica Dickinson "
12154 "Goodman, Jessica Litman, Jessica Mackay, Jessy Kate Schingler, Jesús Longás "
12155 "Gamarra, Jesus Marin, Jim Matt, Jim Meloy, Jim O’Flaherty, Jim Pellegrini, "
12156 "Jim Tittsler, Jimmy Alenius, Jiří Marek, Jo Allum, Joachim Brandon LeBlanc, "
12157 "Joachim Pileborg, Joachim von Goetz, Joakim Bang Larsen, Joan Rieu, Joanna "
12158 "Penn, João Almeida, Jochen Muetsch, Jodi Sandfort, Joe Cardillo, Joe "
12159 "Carpita, Joe Moross, Joerg Fricke, Johan Adda, Johan Meeusen, Johannes "
12160 "Förstner, Johannes Visintini, John Benfield, John Bevan, John C Patterson, "
12161 "John Crumrine, John Dimatos, John Feyler, John Huntsman, John Manoogian III, "
12162 "John Muller, John Ober, John Paul Blodgett, John Pearce, John Shale, John "
12163 "Sharp, John Simpson, John Sumser, John Weeks, John Wilbanks, John Worland, "
12164 "Johnny Mayall, Jollean Matsen, Jon Alberdi, Jon Andersen, Jon Cohrs, Jon "
12165 "Gotlin, Jon Schull, Jon Selmer Friborg, Jon Smith, Jonas Öberg, Jonas "
12166 "Weitzmann, Jonathan Campbell, Jonathan Deamer, Jonathan Holst, Jonathan Lin, "
12167 "Jonathan Schmid, Jonathan Yao, Jordon Kalilich, Jörg Schwarz, Jose Antonio "
12168 "Gallego Vázquez, Joseph Mcarthur, Joseph Noll, Joseph Sullivan, Joseph "
12169 "Tucker, Josh Bernhard, Josh Tong, Joshua Tobkin, JP Rangaswami, Juan Carlos "
12170 "Belair, Juan Irming, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Juan Pablo Marin Diaz, Judith "
12171 "Newman, Judy Tuan, Jukka Hellén, Julia Benson-Slaughter, Julia Devonshire, "
12172 "Julian Fietkau, Julie Harboe, Julien Brossoit, Julien Leroy, Juliet Chen, "
12173 "Julio Terra, Julius Mikkelä, Justin Christian, Justin Grimes, Justin Jones, "
12174 "Justin Szlasa, Justin Walsh, JustinChung.com, K. J. Przybylski, Kaloyan "
12175 "Raev, Kamil Śliwowski, Kaniska Padhi, Kara Malenfant, Kara Monroe, Karen Pe, "
12176 "Karl Jahn, Karl Jonsson, Karl Nelson, Kasia Zygmuntowicz, Kat Lim, Kate "
12177 "Chapman, Kate Stewart, Kathleen Beck, Kathleen Hanrahan, Kathryn Abuzzahab, "
12178 "Kathryn Deiss, Kathryn Rose, Kathy Payne, Katie Lynn Daniels, Katie Meek, "
12179 "Katie Teague, Katrina Hennessy, Katriona Main, Kavan Antani, Keith Adams, "
12180 "Keith Berndtson, MD, Keith Luebke, Kellie Higginbottom, Ken Friis Larsen, "
12181 "Ken Haase, Ken Torbeck, Kendel Ratley, Kendra Byrne, Kerry Hicks, Kevin "
12182 "Brown, Kevin Coates, Kevin Flynn, Kevin Rumon, Kevin Shannon, Kevin Taylor, "
12183 "Kevin Tostado, Kewhyun Kelly-Yuoh, Kiane l’Azin, Kianosh Pourian, Kiran "
12184 "Kadekoppa, Kit Walsh, Klaus Mickus, Konrad Rennert, Kris Kasianovitz, "
12185 "Kristian Lundquist, Kristin Buxton, Kristina Popova, Kristofer Bratt, "
12186 "Kristoffer Steen, Kumar McMillan, Kurt Whittemore, Kyle Pinches, Kyle "
12187 "Simpson, L Eaton, Lalo Martins, Lane Rasberry, Larry Garfield, Larry Singer, "
12188 "Lars Josephsen, Lars Klaeboe, Laura Anne Brown, Laura Billings, Laura "
12189 "Ferejohn, Lauren Pedersen, Laurence Gonsalves, Laurent Muchacho, Laurie "
12190 "Racine, Laurie Reynolds, Lawrence M. Schoen, Leandro Pangilinan, Leigh "
12191 "Verlandson, Lenka Gondolova, Leonardo Bueno Postacchini, leonardo menegola, "
12192 "Lesley Mitchell, Leslie Krumholz, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Levi Bostian, "
12193 "Leyla Acaroglu, Liisa Ummelas, Lilly Kashmir Marques, Lior Mazliah, Lisa "
12194 "Bjerke, Lisa Brewster, Lisa Canning, Lisa Cronin, Lisa Di Valentino, "
12195 "Lisandro Gaertner, Livia Leskovec, Liynn Worldlaw, Liz Berg, Liz White, "
12196 "Logan Cox, Loki Carbis, Lora Lynn, Lorna Prescott, Lou Yufan, Louie "
12197 "Amphlett, Louis-David Benyayer, Louise Denman, Luca Corsato, Luca Lesinigo, "
12198 "Luca Palli, Luca Pianigiani, Luca S.G. de Marinis, Lucas Lopez, Lukas "
12199 "Mathis, Luke Chamberlin, Luke Chesser, Luke Woodbury, Lulu Tang, Lydia "
12200 "Pintscher, M Alexander Jurkat, Maarten Sander, Macie J Klosowski, Magnus "
12201 "Adamsson, Magnus Killingberg, Mahmoud Abu-Wardeh, Maik Schmalstich, Maiken "
12202 "Håvarstein, Maira Sutton, Mairi Thomson, Mandy Wultsch, Manickkavasakam "
12203 "Rajasekar, Marc Bogonovich, Marc Harpster, Marc Martí, Marc Olivier Bastien, "
12204 "Marc Stober, Marc-André Martin, Marcel de Leeuwe, Marcel Hill, Marcia "
12205 "Hofmann, Marcin Olender, Marco Massarotto, Marco Montanari, Marco Morales, "
12206 "Marcos Medionegro, Marcus Bitzl, Marcus Norrgren, Margaret Gary, Mari "
12207 "Moreshead, Maria Liberman, Marielle Hsu, Marino Hernandez, Mario Lurig, "
12208 "Mario R. Hemsley, MD, Marissa Demers, Mark Chandler, Mark Cohen, Mark De "
12209 "Solla Price, Mark Gabby, Mark Gray, Mark Koudritsky, Mark Kupfer, Mark "
12210 "Lednor, Mark McGuire, Mark Moleda, Mark Mullen, Mark Murphy, Mark Perot, "
12211 "Mark Reeder, Mark Spickett, Mark Vincent Adams, Mark Waks, Mark Zuccarell "
12212 "II, Markus Deimann, Markus Jaritz, Markus Luethi, Marshal Miller, Marshall "
12213 "Warner, Martijn Arets, Martin Beaudoin, Martin Decky, Martin DeMello, Martin "
12214 "Humpolec, Martin Mayr, Martin Peck, Martin Sanchez, Martino Loco, Martti "
12215 "Remmelgas, Martyn Eggleton, Martyn Lewis, Mary Ellen Davis, Mary Heacock, "
12216 "Mary Hess, Mary Mi, Masahiro Takagi, Mason Du, Massimo V.A. Manzari, Mathias "
12217 "Bavay, Mathias Nicolajsen Kjærgaard, Matias Kruk, Matija Nalis, Matt Alcock, "
12218 "Matt Black, Matt Broach, Matt Hall, Matt Haughey, Matt Lee, Matt Plec, Matt "
12219 "Skoss, Matt Thompson, Matt Vance, Matt Wagstaff, Matteo Cocco, Matthew "
12220 "Bendert, Matthew Bergholt, Matthew Darlison, Matthew Epler, Matthew Hawken, "
12221 "Matthew Heimbecker, Matthew Orstad, Matthew Peterworth, Matthew Sheehy, "
12222 "Matthew Tucker, Adaptive Handy Apps, LLC, Mattias Axell, Max Green, Max "
12223 "Kossatz, Max lupo, Max Temkin, Max van Balgooy, Médéric Droz-dit-Busset, "
12224 "Megan Ingle, Megan Wacha, Meghan Finlayson, Melissa Aho, Melissa Sterry, "
12225 "Melle Funambuline, Menachem Goldstein, Micah Bridges, Michael Ailberto, "
12226 "Michael Anderson, Michael Andersson Skane, Michael C. Stewart, Michael "
12227 "Carroll, Michael Cavette, Michael Crees, Michael David Johas Teener, Michael "
12228 "Dennis Moore, Michael Freundt Karlsen, Michael Harries, Michael Hawel, "
12229 "Michael Lewis, Michael May, Michael Murphy, Michael Murvine, Michael "
12230 "Perkins, Michael Sauers, Michael St.Onge, Michael Stanford, Michael Stanley, "
12231 "Michael Underwood, Michael Weiss, Michael Wright, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, "
12232 "Michaela Voigt, Michal Rosenn, Michał Szymański, Michel Gallez, Michell "
12233 "Zappa, Michelle Heeyeon You, Miha Batic, Mik Ishmael, Mikael Andersson, Mike "
12234 "Chelen, Mike Habicher, Mike Maloney, Mike Masnick, Mike McDaniel, Mike "
12235 "Pouraryan, Mike Sheldon, Mike Stop Continues, Mike Stringer, Mike "
12236 "Wittenstein, Mikkel Ovesen, Mikołaj Podlaszewski, Millie Gonzalez, Mindi "
12237 "Lovell, Mindy Lin, Mirko “Macro” Fichtner, Mitch Featherston, Mitchell "
12238 "Adams, Molika Oum, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Monica Mora, Morgan Loomis, "
12239 "Moritz Schubert, Mrs. Paganini, Mushin Schilling, Mustafa K Calik, MD, Myk "
12240 "Pilgrim, Myra Harmer, Nadine Forget-Dubois, Nagle Industries, LLC, Nah Wee "
12241 "Yang, Natalie Brown, Natalie Freed, Nathan D Howell, Nathan Massey, Nathan "
12242 "Miller, Neal Gorenflo, Neal McBurnett, Neal Stimler, Neil Wilson, Nele "
12243 "Wollert, Neuchee Chang, Niall McDonagh, Niall Twohig, Nic McPhee, Nicholas "
12244 "Bentley, Nicholas Koran, Nicholas Norfolk, Nicholas Potter, Nick Bell, Nick "
12245 "Coghlan, Nick Isaacs, Nick M. Daly, Nick Vance, Nickolay Vedernikov, Nicky "
12246 "Weaver-Weinberg, Nico Prin, Nicolas Weidinger, Nicole Hickman, Niek "
12247 "Theunissen, Nigel Robertson, Nikki Thompson, Nikko Marie, Nikola Chernev, "
12248 "Nils Lavesson, Noah Blumenson-Cook, Noah Fang, Noah Kardos-Fein, Noah "
12249 "Meyerhans, Noel Hanigan, Noel Hart, Norrie Mailer, O.P. Gobée, Ohad Mayblum, "
12250 "Olivia Wilson, Olivier De Doncker, Olivier Schulbaum, Olle Ahnve, Omar "
12251 "Kaminski, Omar Willey, OpenBuilds, Ove Ødegård, Øystein Kjærnet, Pablo López "
12252 "Soriano, Pablo Vasquez, Pacific Design, Paige Mackay, Papp István Péter, "
12253 "Paris Marx, Parker Higgins, Pasquale Borriello, Pat Allan, Pat Hawks, Pat "
12254 "Ludwig, Pat Sticks, Patricia Brennan, Patricia Rosnel, Patricia Wolf, "
12255 "Patrick Berry, Patrick Beseda, Patrick Hurley, Patrick M. Lozeau, Patrick "
12256 "McCabe, Patrick Nafarrete, Patrick Tanguay, Patrick von Hauff, Patrik "
12257 "Kernstock, Patti J Ryan, Paul A Golder, Paul and Iris Brest, Paul Bailey, "
12258 "Paul Bryan, Paul Bunkham, Paul Elosegui, Paul Hibbitts, Paul Jacobson, Paul "
12259 "Keller, Paul Rowe, Paul Timpson, Paul Walker, Pavel Dostál, Peeter Sällström "
12260 "Randsalu, Peggy Frith, Pen-Yuan Hsing, Penny Pearson, Per Åström, Perry "
12261 "Jetter, Péter Fankhauser, Peter Hirtle, Peter Humphries, Peter Jenkins, "
12262 "Peter Langmar, Peter le Roux, Peter Marinari, Peter Mengelers, Peter "
12263 "O’Brien, Peter Pinch, Peter S. Crosby, Peter Wells, Petr Fristedt, Petr "
12264 "Viktorin, Petronella Jeurissen, Phil Flickinger, Philip Chung, Philip "
12265 "Pangrac, Philip R. Skaggs Jr., Philip Young, Philippa Lorne Channer, "
12266 "Philippe Vandenbroeck, Pierluigi Luisi, Pierre Suter, Pieter-Jan Pauwels, "
12267 "Playground Inc., Pomax, Popenoe, Pouhiou Noenaute, Prilutskiy Kirill, "
12268 "Print3Dreams Ltd., Quentin Coispeau, R. Smith, Race DiLoreto, Rachel Mercer, "
12269 "Rafael Scapin, Rafaela Kunz, Rain Doggerel, Raine Lourie, Rajiv Jhangiani, "
12270 "Ralph Chapoteau, Randall Kirby, Randy Brians, Raphaël Alexandre, Raphaël "
12271 "Schröder, Rasmus Jensen, Rayn Drahps, Rayna Stamboliyska, Rebecca Godar, "
12272 "Rebecca Lendl, Rebecca Weir, Regina Tschud, Remi Dino, Ric Herrero, Rich "
12273 "McCue, Richard “TalkToMeGuy” Olson, Richard Best, Richard Blumberg, Richard "
12274 "Fannon, Richard Heying, Richard Karnesky, Richard Kelly, Richard Littauer, "
12275 "Richard Sobey, Richard White, Richard Winchell, Rik ToeWater, Rita Lewis, "
12276 "Rita Wood, Riyadh Al Balushi, Rob Balder, Rob Berkley, Rob Bertholf, Rob "
12277 "Emanuele, Rob McAuliffe, Rob McKaughan, Rob Tillie, Rob Utter, Rob Vincent, "
12278 "Robert Gaffney, Robert Jones, Robert Kelly, Robert Lawlis, Robert McDonald, "
12279 "Robert Orzanna, Robert Paterson Hunter, Robert R. Daniel Jr., Robert Ryan-"
12280 "Silva, Robert Thompson, Robert Wagoner, Roberto Selvaggio, Robin DeRosa, "
12281 "Robin Rist Kildal, Rodrigo Castilhos, Roger Bacon, Roger Saner, Roger So, "
12282 "Roger Solé, Roger Tregear, Roland Tanglao, Rolf and Mari von Walthausen, "
12283 "Rolf Egstad, Rolf Schaller, Ron Zuijlen, Ronald Bissell, Ronald van den "
12284 "Hoff, Ronda Snow, Rory Landon Aronson, Ross Findlay, Ross Pruden, Ross "
12285 "Williams, Rowan Skewes, Roy Ivy III, Ruben Flores, Rupert Hitzenberger, Rusi "
12286 "Popov, Russ Antonucci, Russ Spollin, Russell Brand, Rute Correia, Ruth Ann "
12287 "Carpenter, Ruth White, Ryan Mentock, Ryan Merkley, Ryan Price, Ryan Sasaki, "
12288 "Ryan Singer, Ryan Voisin, Ryan Weir, S Searle, Salem Bin Kenaid, Salomon "
12289 "Riedo, Sam Hokin, Sam Twidale, Samantha Levin, Samantha-Jayne Chapman, "
12290 "Samarth Agarwal, Sami Al-AbdRabbuh, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Samuel Goëta, Samuel "
12291 "Hauser, Samuel Landete, Samuel Oliveira Cersosimo, Samuel Tait, Sandra "
12292 "Fauconnier, Sandra Markus, Sandy Bjar, Sandy ONeil, Sang-Phil Ju, Sanjay "
12293 "Basu, Santiago Garcia, Sara Armstrong, Sara Lucca, Sara Rodriguez Marin, "
12294 "Sarah Brand, Sarah Cove, Sarah Curran, Sarah Gold, Sarah McGovern, Sarah "
12295 "Smith, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Sasha Moss, Sasha VanHoven, Saul Gasca, Scott "
12296 "Abbott, Scott Akerman, Scott Beattie, Scott Bruinooge, Scott Conroy, Scott "
12297 "Gillespie, Scott Williams, Sean Anderson, Sean Johnson, Sean Lim, Sean "
12298 "Wickett, Seb Schmoller, Sebastiaan Bekker, Sebastiaan ter Burg, Sebastian "
12299 "Makowiecki, Sebastian Meyer, Sebastian Schweizer, Sebastian Sigloch, "
12300 "Sebastien Huchet, Seokwon Yang, Sergey Chernyshev, Sergey Storchay, Sergio "
12301 "Cardoso, Seth Drebitko, Seth Gover, Seth Lepore, Shannon Turner, Sharon "
12302 "Clapp, Shauna Redmond, Shawn Gaston, Shawn Martin, Shay Knohl, Shelby "
12303 "Hatfield, Sheldon (Vila) Widuch, Sheona Thomson, Si Jie, Sicco van Sas, "
12304 "Siena Oristaglio, Simon Glover, Simon John King, Simon Klose, Simon Law, "
12305 "Simon Linder, Simon Moffitt, Solomon Kahn, Solomon Simon, Soujanna Sarkar, "
12306 "Stanislav Trifonov, Stefan Dumont, Stefan Jansson, Stefan Langer, Stefan "
12307 "Lindblad, Stefano Guidotti, Stefano Luzardi, Stephan Meißl, Stéphane "
12308 "Wojewoda, Stephanie Pereira, Stephen Gates, Stephen Murphey, Stephen Pearce, "
12309 "Stephen Rose, Stephen Suen, Stephen Walli, Stevan Matheson, Steve Battle, "
12310 "Steve Fisches, Steve Fitzhugh, Steve Guen-gerich, Steve Ingram, Steve Kroy, "
12311 "Steve Midgley, Steve Rhine, Steven Kasprzyk, Steven Knudsen, Steven Melvin, "
12312 "Stig-Jørund B. Ö. Arnesen, Stuart Drewer, Stuart Maxwell, Stuart Reich, "
12313 "Subhendu Ghosh, Sujal Shah, Sune Bøegh, Susan Chun, Susan R Grossman, Suzie "
12314 "Wiley, Sven Fielitz, Swan/Starts, Sylvain Carle, Sylvain Chery, Sylvia "
12315 "Green, Sylvia van Bruggen, Szabolcs Berecz, T. L. Mason, Tanbir Baeg, Tanya "
12316 "Hart, Tara Tiger Brown, Tara Westover, Tarmo Toikkanen, Tasha Turner "
12317 "Lennhoff, Tathagat Varma, Ted Timmons, Tej Dhawan, Teresa Gonczy, Terry "
12318 "Hook, Theis Madsen, Theo M. Scholl, Theresa Bernardo, Thibault Badenas, "
12319 "Thomas Bacig, Thomas Boehnlein, Thomas Bøvith, Thomas Chang, Thomas Hartman, "
12320 "Thomas Kent, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Philipp-Edmonds, Thomas Thrush, Thomas "
12321 "Werkmeister, Tieg Zaharia, Tieu Thuy Nguyen, Tim Chambers, Tim Cook, Tim "
12322 "Evers, Tim Nichols, Tim Stahmer, Timothée Planté, Timothy Arfsten, Timothy "
12323 "Hinchliff, Timothy Vollmer, Tina Coffman, Tisza Gergő, Tobias Schonwetter, "
12324 "Todd Brown, Todd Pousley, Todd Sattersten, Tom Bamford, Tom Caswell, Tom "
12325 "Goren, Tom Kent, Tom MacWright, Tom Maillioux, Tom Merkli, Tom Merritt, Tom "
12326 "Myers, Tom Olijhoek, Tom Rubin, Tommaso De Benetti, Tommy Dahlen, Tony Ciak, "
12327 "Tony Nwachukwu, Torsten Skomp, Tracey Depellegrin, Tracey Henton, Tracey "
12328 "James, Traci Long DeForge, Trent Yarwood, Trevor Hogue, Trey Blalock, Trey "
12329 "Hunner, Tryggvi Björgvinsson, Tumuult, Tushar Roy, Tyler Occhiogrosso, Udo "
12330 "Blenkhorn, Uri Sivan, Vanja Bobas, Vantharith Oum, Vaughan jenkins, Veethika "
12331 "Mishra, Vic King, Vickie Goode, Victor DePina, Victor Grigas, Victoria "
12332 "Klassen, Victorien Elvinger, VIGA Manufacture, Vikas Shah, Vinayak S."
12333 "Kaujalgi, Vincent O’Leary, Violette Paquet, Virginia Gentilini, Virginia "
12334 "Kopelman, Vitor Menezes, Vivian Marthell, Wayne Mackintosh, Wendy Keenan, "
12335 "Werner Wiethege, Wesley Derbyshire, Widar Hellwig, Willa Köerner, William "
12336 "Bettridge-Radford, William Jefferson, William Marshall, William Peter Nash, "
12337 "William Ray, William Robins, Willow Rosenberg, Winie Evers, Wolfgang "
12338 "Renninger, Xavier Antoviaque, Xavier Hugonet, Xavier Moisant, Xueqi Li, "
12339 "Yancey Strickler, Yann Heurtaux, Yasmine Hajjar, Yu-Hsian Sun, Yves "
12340 "Deruisseau, Zach Chandler, Zak Zebrowski, Zane Amiralis and Joshua de Haan, "
12341 "ZeMarmot Open Movie"
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