1 # MADE WITH CREATIVE COMMONS
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4 # Authors: Paul Stacey and Sarah Hinchliff Pearson
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129 "Made With Creative Commons is published with the kind support of Creative "
130 "Commons and backers of our crowdfunding-campaign on the Kickstarter.com "
134 #. type: Content of: <book><dedication><blockquote><para>
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137 "“I don’t know a whole lot about nonfiction journalism. . . The way that I "
138 "think about these things, and in terms of what I can do is. . . essays like "
139 "this are occasions to watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably "
140 "average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all "
141 "sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily "
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147 msgid "— <emphasis>David Foster Wallace</emphasis>"
150 #. type: Content of: <book><preface><title>
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158 "Three years ago, just after I was hired as CEO of Creative Commons, I met "
159 "with Cory Doctorow in the hotel bar of Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. As one of "
160 "CC’s most well-known proponents—one who has also had a successful career as "
161 "a writer who shares his work using CC—I told him I thought CC had a role in "
162 "defining and advancing open business models. He kindly disagreed, and called "
163 "the pursuit of viable business models through CC “a red herring.”"
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169 "He was, in a way, completely correct—those who make things with Creative "
170 "Commons have ulterior motives, as Paul Stacey explains in this book: "
171 "“Regardless of legal status, they all have a social mission. Their primary "
172 "reason for being is to make the world a better place, not to profit. Money "
173 "is a means to a social end, not the end itself.”"
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179 "In the case study about Cory Doctorow, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson cites Cory’s "
180 "words from his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: “Entering the arts "
181 "because you want to get rich is like buying lottery tickets because you want "
182 "to get rich. It might work, but it almost certainly won’t. Though, of "
183 "course, someone always wins the lottery.”"
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189 "Today, copyright is like a lottery ticket—everyone has one, and almost "
190 "nobody wins. What they don’t tell you is that if you choose to share your "
191 "work, the returns can be significant and long-lasting. This book is filled "
192 "with stories of those who take much greater risks than the two dollars we "
193 "pay for a lottery ticket, and instead reap the rewards that come from "
194 "pursuing their passions and living their values."
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200 "So it’s not about the money. Also: it is. Finding the means to continue to "
201 "create and share often requires some amount of income. Max Temkin of Cards "
202 "Against Humanity says it best in their case study: “We don’t make jokes and "
203 "games to make money—we make money so we can make more jokes and games.”"
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209 "Creative Commons’ focus is on building a vibrant, usable commons, powered by "
210 "collaboration and gratitude. Enabling communities of collaboration is at the "
211 "heart of our strategy. With that in mind, Creative Commons began this book "
212 "project. Led by Paul and Sarah, the project set out to define and advance "
213 "the best open business models. Paul and Sarah were the ideal authors to "
214 "write Made with Creative Commons."
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220 "Paul dreams of a future where new models of creativity and innovation "
221 "overpower the inequality and scarcity that today define the worst parts of "
222 "capitalism. He is driven by the power of human connections between "
223 "communities of creators. He takes a longer view than most, and it’s made him "
224 "a better educator, an insightful researcher, and also a skilled gardener. He "
225 "has a calm, cool voice that conveys a passion that inspires his colleagues "
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232 "Sarah is the best kind of lawyer—a true advocate who believes in the good of "
233 "people, and the power of collective acts to change the world. Over the past "
234 "year I’ve seen Sarah struggle with the heartbreak that comes from investing "
235 "so much into a political campaign that didn’t end as she’d hoped. Today, "
236 "she’s more determined than ever to live with her values right out on her "
237 "sleeve. I can always count on Sarah to push Creative Commons to focus on our "
238 "impact—to make the main thing the main thing. She’s practical, "
239 "detail-oriented, and clever. There’s no one on my team that I enjoy debating "
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246 "As coauthors, Paul and Sarah complement each other perfectly. They "
247 "researched, analyzed, argued, and worked as a team, sometimes together and "
248 "sometimes independently. They dove into the research and writing with "
249 "passion and curiosity, and a deep respect for what goes into building the "
250 "commons and sharing with the world. They remained open to new ideas, "
251 "including the possibility that their initial theories would need refinement "
252 "or might be completely wrong. That’s courageous, and it has made for a "
253 "better book that is insightful, honest, and useful."
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259 "From the beginning, CC wanted to develop this project with the principles "
260 "and values of open collaboration. The book was funded, developed, "
261 "researched, and written in the open. It is being shared openly under a CC "
262 "BY-SA license for anyone to use, remix, or adapt with attribution. It is, in "
263 "itself, an example of an open business model."
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269 "For 31 days in August of 2015, Sarah took point to organize and execute a "
270 "Kickstarter campaign to generate the core funding for the book. The "
271 "remainder was provided by CC’s generous donors and supporters. In the end, "
272 "it became one of the most successful book projects on Kickstarter, smashing "
273 "through two stretch goals and engaging over 1,600 donors—the majority of "
274 "them new supporters of Creative Commons."
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280 "Paul and Sarah worked openly throughout the project, publishing the plans, "
281 "drafts, case studies, and analysis, early and often, and they engaged "
282 "communities all over the world to help write this book. As their opinions "
283 "diverged and their interests came into focus, they divided their voices and "
284 "decided to keep them separate in the final product. Working in this way "
285 "requires both humility and self-confidence, and without question it has made "
286 "Made with Creative Commons a better project."
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292 "Those who work and share in the commons are not typical creators. They are "
293 "part of something greater than themselves, and what they offer us all is a "
294 "profound gift. What they receive in return is gratitude and a community."
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300 "Jonathan Mann, who is profiled in this book, writes a song a day. When I "
301 "reached out to ask him to write a song for our Kickstarter (and to offer "
302 "himself up as a Kickstarter benefit), he agreed immediately. Why would he "
303 "agree to do that? Because the commons has collaboration at its core, and "
304 "community as a key value, and because the CC licenses have helped so many to "
305 "share in the ways that they choose with a global audience."
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311 "Sarah writes, “Endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons thrive when "
312 "community is built around what they do. This may mean a community "
313 "collaborating together to create something new, or it may simply be a "
314 "collection of like-minded people who get to know each other and rally around "
315 "common interests or beliefs. To a certain extent, simply being Made with "
316 "Creative Commons automatically brings with it some element of community, by "
317 "helping connect you to like-minded others who recognize and are drawn to the "
318 "values symbolized by using CC.” Amanda Palmer, the other musician profiled "
319 "in the book, would surely add this from her case study: “There is no more "
320 "satisfying end goal than having someone tell you that what you do is "
321 "genuinely of value to them.”"
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327 "This is not a typical business book. For those looking for a recipe or a "
328 "roadmap, you might be disappointed. But for those looking to pursue a social "
329 "end, to build something great through collaboration, or to join a powerful "
330 "and growing global community, they’re sure to be satisfied. Made with "
331 "Creative Commons offers a world-changing set of clearly articulated values "
332 "and principles, some essential tools for exploring your own business "
333 "opportunities, and two dozen doses of pure inspiration."
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339 "In a 1996 Stanford Law Review article “The Zones of Cyberspace”, CC founder "
340 "Lawrence Lessig wrote, “Cyberspace is a place. People live there. They "
341 "experience all the sorts of things that they experience in real space, "
342 "there. For some, they experience more. They experience this not as isolated "
343 "individuals, playing some high tech computer game; they experience it in "
344 "groups, in communities, among strangers, among people they come to know, and "
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351 "I’m incredibly proud that Creative Commons is able to publish this book for "
352 "the many communities that we have come to know and like. I’m grateful to "
353 "Paul and Sarah for their creativity and insights, and to the global "
354 "communities that have helped us bring it to you. As CC board member "
355 "Johnathan Nightingale often says, “It’s all made of people.”"
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360 msgid "That’s the true value of things that are Made with Creative Commons."
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365 msgid "<emphasis>Ryan Merkley</emphasis>"
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370 msgid "<emphasis>CEO, Creative Commons</emphasis>"
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381 "This book shows the world how sharing can be good for business—but with a "
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388 "We began the project intending to explore how creators, organizations, and "
389 "businesses make money to sustain what they do when they share their work "
390 "using Creative Commons licenses. Our goal was not to identify a formula for "
391 "business models that use Creative Commons but instead gather fresh ideas and "
392 "dynamic examples that spark new, innovative models and help others follow "
393 "suit by building on what already works. At the onset, we framed our "
394 "investigation in familiar business terms. We created a blank “open business "
395 "model canvas,” an interactive online tool that would help people design and "
396 "analyze their business model."
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402 "Through the generous funding of Kickstarter backers, we set about this "
403 "project first by identifying and selecting a diverse group of creators, "
404 "organizations, and businesses who use Creative Commons in an integral "
405 "way—what we call being Made with Creative Commons. We interviewed them and "
406 "wrote up their stories. We analyzed what we heard and dug deep into the "
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413 "But as we did our research, something interesting happened. Our initial way "
414 "of framing the work did not match the stories we were hearing."
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420 "Those we interviewed were not typical businesses selling to consumers and "
421 "seeking to maximize profits and the bottom line. Instead, they were sharing "
422 "to make the world a better place, creating relationships and community "
423 "around the works being shared, and generating revenue not for unlimited "
424 "growth but to sustain the operation."
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430 "They often didn’t like hearing what they do described as an open business "
431 "model. Their endeavor was something more than that. Something "
432 "different. Something that generates not just economic value but social and "
433 "cultural value. Something that involves human connection. Being Made with "
434 "Creative Commons is not “business as usual.”"
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440 "We had to rethink the way we conceived of this project. And it didn’t happen "
441 "overnight. From the fall of 2015 through 2016, we documented our thoughts in "
442 "blog posts on Medium and with regular updates to our Kickstarter backers. We "
443 "shared drafts of case studies and analysis with our Kickstarter cocreators, "
444 "who provided invaluable edits, feedback, and advice. Our thinking changed "
445 "dramatically over the course of a year and a half."
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451 "Throughout the process, the two of us have often had very different ways of "
452 "understanding and describing what we were learning. Learning from each other "
453 "has been one of the great joys of this work, and, we hope, something that "
454 "has made the final product much richer than it ever could have been if "
455 "either of us undertook this project alone. We have preserved our voices "
456 "throughout, and you’ll be able to sense our different but complementary "
457 "approaches as you read through our different sections."
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463 "While we recommend that you read the book from start to finish, each section "
464 "reads more or less independently. The book is structured into two main "
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471 "Part one, the overview, begins with a big-picture framework written by "
472 "Paul. He provides some historical context for the digital commons, "
473 "describing the three ways society has managed resources and shared "
474 "wealth—the commons, the market, and the state. He advocates for thinking "
475 "beyond business and market terms and eloquently makes the case for sharing "
476 "and enlarging the digital commons."
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482 "The overview continues with Sarah’s chapter, as she considers what it means "
483 "to be successfully Made with Creative Commons. While making money is one "
484 "piece of the pie, there is also a set of public-minded values and the kind "
485 "of human connections that make sharing truly meaningful. This section "
486 "outlines the ways the creators, organizations, and businesses we interviewed "
487 "bring in revenue, how they further the public interest and live out their "
488 "values, and how they foster connections with the people with whom they "
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495 "And to end part one, we have a short section that explains the different "
496 "Creative Commons licenses. We talk about the misconception that the more "
497 "restrictive licenses—the ones that are closest to the all-rights-reserved "
498 "model of traditional copyright—are the only ways to make money."
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504 "Part two of the book is made up of the twenty-four stories of the creators, "
505 "businesses, and organizations we interviewed. While both of us participated "
506 "in the interviews, we divided up the writing of these profiles."
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512 "Of course, we are pleased to make the book available using a Creative "
513 "Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Please copy, distribute, translate, "
514 "localize, and build upon this work."
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520 "Writing this book has transformed and inspired us. The way we now look at "
521 "and think about what it means to be Made with Creative Commons has "
522 "irrevocably changed. We hope this book inspires you and your enterprise to "
523 "use Creative Commons and in so doing contribute to the transformation of our "
524 "economy and world for the better."
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529 msgid "<emphasis>Paul and Sarah </emphasis>"
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534 msgid "The Big Picture"
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539 msgid "The New World of Digital Commons"
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549 msgid "Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013), 14."
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555 "Jonathan Rowe eloquently describes the commons as “the air and oceans, the "
556 "web of species, wilderness and flowing water—all are parts of the "
557 "commons. So are language and knowledge, sidewalks and public squares, the "
558 "stories of childhood and the processes of democracy. Some parts of the "
559 "commons are gifts of nature, others the product of human endeavor. Some are "
560 "new, such as the Internet; others are as ancient as soil and "
561 "calligraphy.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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567 "In Made with Creative Commons, we focus on our current era of digital "
568 "commons, a commons of human-produced works. This commons cuts across a broad "
569 "range of areas including cultural heritage, education, research, technology, "
570 "art, design, literature, entertainment, business, and data. Human-produced "
571 "works in all these areas are increasingly digital. The Internet is a kind of "
572 "global, digital commons. The individuals, organizations, and businesses we "
573 "profile in our case studies use Creative Commons to share their resources "
574 "online over the Internet."
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580 "David Bollier, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of "
581 "the Commons (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 176."
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592 "The commons is not just about shared resources, however. It’s also about the "
593 "social practices and values that manage them. A resource is a noun, but to "
594 "common—to put the resource into the commons—is a verb.<placeholder "
595 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The creators, organizations, and businesses we "
596 "profile are all engaged with commoning. Their use of Creative Commons "
597 "involves them in the social practice of commoning, managing resources in a "
598 "collective manner with a community of users.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
599 "id=\"1\"/> Commoning is guided by a set of values and norms that balance the "
600 "costs and benefits of the enterprise with those of the community. Special "
601 "regard is given to equitable access, use, and sustainability."
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606 msgid "The Commons, the Market, and the State"
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617 "Historically, there have been three ways to manage resources and share "
618 "wealth: the commons (managed collectively), the state (i.e., the "
619 "government), and the market—with the last two being the dominant forms "
620 "today.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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631 "The organizations and businesses in our case studies are unique in the way "
632 "they participate in the commons while still engaging with the market and/or "
633 "state. The extent of engagement with market or state varies. Some operate "
634 "primarily as a commons with minimal or no reliance on the market or "
635 "state.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Others are very much a part "
636 "of the market or state, depending on them for financial sustainability. All "
637 "operate as hybrids, blending the norms of the commons with those of the "
641 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
642 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:448
644 "Fig. 1. is a depiction of how an enterprise can have varying levels of "
645 "engagement with commons, state, and market."
648 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
649 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:452
651 "Some of our case studies are simply commons and market enterprises with "
652 "little or no engagement with the state. A depiction of those case studies "
653 "would show the state sphere as tiny or even absent. Other case studies are "
654 "primarily market-based with only a small engagement with the commons. A "
655 "depiction of those case studies would show the market sphere as large and "
656 "the commons sphere as small. The extent to which an enterprise sees itself "
657 "as being primarily of one type or another affects the balance of norms by "
658 "which they operate."
661 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
662 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:463
664 "All our case studies generate money as a means of livelihood and "
665 "sustainability. Money is primarily of the market. Finding ways to generate "
666 "revenue while holding true to the core values of the commons (usually "
667 "expressed in mission statements) is challenging. To manage interaction and "
668 "engagement between the commons and the market requires a deft touch, a "
669 "strong sense of values, and the ability to blend the best of both."
672 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
673 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:472
675 "The state has an important role to play in fostering the use and adoption of "
676 "the commons. State programs and funding can deliberately contribute to and "
677 "build the commons. Beyond money, laws and regulations regarding property, "
678 "copyright, business, and finance can all be designed to foster the commons."
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683 msgid "Enterprise engagement with commons, state and market."
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699 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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702 "It’s helpful to understand how the commons, market, and state manage "
703 "resources differently, and not just for those who consider themselves "
704 "primarily as a commons. For businesses or governmental organizations who "
705 "want to engage in and use the commons, knowing how the commons operates will "
706 "help them understand how best to do so. Participating in and using the "
707 "commons the same way you do the market or state is not a strategy for "
711 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
712 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:503
713 msgid "The Four Aspects of a Resource"
716 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
717 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:508
719 "Daniel H. Cole, “Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the Natural "
720 "Commons for the Knowledge Commons,” in Governing Knowledge Commons, "
721 "eds. Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg "
722 "(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 53."
725 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
726 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:505
728 "As part of her Nobel Prize–winning work, Elinor Ostrom developed a framework "
729 "for analyzing how natural resources are managed in a commons.<placeholder "
730 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Her framework considered things like the "
731 "biophysical characteristics of common resources, the community’s actors and "
732 "the interactions that take place between them, rules-in-use, and "
733 "outcomes. That framework has been simplified and generalized to apply to the "
734 "commons, the market, and the state for this chapter."
737 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
738 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:521
740 "To compare and contrast the ways in which the commons, market, and state "
741 "work, let’s consider four aspects of resource management: resource "
742 "characteristics, the people involved and the process they use, the norms and "
743 "rules they develop to govern use, and finally actual resource use along with "
744 "outcomes of that use (see Fig. 2)."
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749 msgid "Four aspects of resource management"
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762 msgid "Characteristics"
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768 "Resources have particular characteristics or attributes that affect the way "
769 "they can be used. Some resources are natural; others are human "
770 "produced. And—significantly for today’s commons—resources can be physical or "
771 "digital, which affects a resource’s inherent potential."
774 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
775 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:550
777 "Physical resources exist in limited supply. If I have a physical resource "
778 "and give it to you, I no longer have it. When a resource is removed and "
779 "used, the supply becomes scarce or depleted. Scarcity can result in "
780 "competing rivalry for the resource. Made with Creative Commons enterprises "
781 "are usually digitally based but some of our case studies also produce "
782 "resources in physical form. The costs of producing and distributing a "
783 "physical good usually require them to engage with the market."
786 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
787 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:561
789 "Physical resources are depletable, exclusive, and rivalrous. Digital "
790 "resources, on the other hand, are nondepletable, nonexclusive, and "
791 "nonrivalrous. If I share a digital resource with you, we both have the "
792 "resource. Giving it to you does not mean I no longer have it. Digital "
793 "resources can be infinitely stored, copied, and distributed without becoming "
794 "depleted, and at close to zero cost. Abundance rather than scarcity is an "
795 "inherent characteristic of digital resources."
798 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
799 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:571
801 "The nondepletable, nonexclusive, and nonrivalrous nature of digital "
802 "resources means the rules and norms for managing them can (and ought to) be "
803 "different from how physical resources are managed. However, this is not "
804 "always the case. Digital resources are frequently made artificially "
805 "scarce. Placing digital resources in the commons makes them free and "
809 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
810 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:579
812 "Our case studies frequently manage hybrid resources, which start out as "
813 "digital with the possibility of being made into a physical resource. The "
814 "digital file of a book can be printed on paper and made into a physical "
815 "book. A computer-rendered design for furniture can be physically "
816 "manufactured in wood. This conversion from digital to physical invariably "
817 "has costs. Often the digital resources are managed in a free and open way, "
818 "but money is charged to convert a digital resource into a physical one."
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824 "Beyond this idea of physical versus digital, the commons, market, and state "
825 "conceive of resources differently (see Fig. 3). The market sees resources "
826 "as private goods—commodities for sale—from which value is extracted. The "
827 "state sees resources as public goods that provide value to state "
828 "citizens. The commons sees resources as common goods, providing a common "
829 "wealth extending beyond state boundaries, to be passed on in undiminished or "
830 "enhanced form to future generations."
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835 msgid "People and processes"
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841 "In the commons, the market, and the state, different people and processes "
842 "are used to manage resources. The processes used define both who has a say "
843 "and how a resource is managed."
846 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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849 "In the state, a government of elected officials is responsible for managing "
850 "resources on behalf of the public. The citizens who produce and use those "
851 "resources are not directly involved; instead, that responsibility is given "
852 "over to the government. State ministries and departments staffed with "
853 "public servants set budgets, implement programs, and manage resources based "
854 "on government priorities and procedures."
857 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
858 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:617
860 "In the market, the people involved are producers, buyers, sellers, and "
861 "consumers. Businesses act as intermediaries between those who produce "
862 "resources and those who consume or use them. Market processes seek to "
863 "extract as much monetary value from resources as possible. In the market, "
864 "resources are managed as commodities, frequently mass-produced, and sold to "
865 "consumers on the basis of a cash transaction."
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869 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:628
871 "Max Haiven, Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity "
872 "and the Commons (New York: Zed Books, 2014), 93."
875 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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878 "In contrast to the state and market, resources in a commons are managed more "
879 "directly by the people involved.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
880 "Creators of human produced resources can put them in the commons by personal "
881 "choice. No permission from state or market is required. Anyone can "
882 "participate in the commons and determine for themselves the extent to which "
883 "they want to be involved—as a contributor, user, or manager. The people "
884 "involved include not only those who create and use resources but those "
885 "affected by outcome of use. Who you are affects your say, actions you can "
886 "take, and extent of decision making. In the commons, the community as a "
887 "whole manages the resources. Resources put into the commons using Creative "
888 "Commons require users to give the original creator credit. Knowing the "
889 "person behind a resource makes the commons less anonymous and more personal."
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894 msgid "How the market, commons and state concieve of resources."
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907 msgid "Norms and rules"
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913 "The social interactions between people, and the processes used by the state, "
914 "market, and commons, evolve social norms and rules. These norms and rules "
915 "define permissions, allocate entitlements, and resolve disputes."
918 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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921 "State authority is governed by national constitutions. Norms related to "
922 "priorities and decision making are defined by elected officials and "
923 "parliamentary procedures. State rules are expressed through policies, "
924 "regulations, and laws. The state influences the norms and rules of the "
925 "market and commons through the rules it passes."
928 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
929 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:676
931 "Market norms are influenced by economics and competition for scarce "
932 "resources. Market rules follow property, business, and financial laws "
933 "defined by the state."
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937 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:688
938 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 175."
941 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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944 "As with the market, a commons can be influenced by state policies, "
945 "regulations, and laws. But the norms and rules of a commons are largely "
946 "defined by the community. They weigh individual costs and benefits against "
947 "the costs and benefits to the whole community. Consideration is given not "
948 "just to economic efficiency but also to equity and "
949 "sustainability.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
952 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
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957 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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960 "The combination of the aspects we’ve discussed so far—the resource’s "
961 "inherent characteristics, people and processes, and norms and rules—shape "
962 "how resources are used. Use is also influenced by the different goals the "
963 "state, market, and commons have."
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967 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:707
969 "Joshua Farley and Ida Kubiszewski, “The Economics of Information in a "
970 "Post-Carbon Economy,” in Free Knowledge: Confronting the Commodification of "
971 "Human Discovery, eds. Patricia W. Elliott and Daryl H. Hepting (Regina, SK: "
972 "University of Regina Press, 2015), 201–4."
975 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
976 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:702
978 "In the market, the focus is on maximizing the utility of a resource. What we "
979 "pay for the goods we consume is seen as an objective measure of the utility "
980 "they provide. The goal then becomes maximizing total monetary value in the "
981 "economy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Units consumed translates "
982 "to sales, revenue, profit, and growth, and these are all ways to measure "
983 "goals of the market."
986 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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989 "The state aims to use and manage resources in a way that balances the "
990 "economy with the social and cultural needs of its citizens. Health care, "
991 "education, jobs, the environment, transportation, security, heritage, and "
992 "justice are all facets of a healthy society, and the state applies its "
993 "resources toward these aims. State goals are reflected in quality of life "
997 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
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1000 "In the commons, the goal is maximizing access, equity, distribution, "
1001 "participation, innovation, and sustainability. You can measure success by "
1002 "looking at how many people access and use a resource; how users are "
1003 "distributed across gender, income, and location; if a community to extend "
1004 "and enhance the resources is being formed; and if the resources are being "
1005 "used in innovative ways for personal and social good."
1008 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
1009 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:735
1011 "As hybrid combinations of the commons with the market or state, the success "
1012 "and sustainability of all our case study enterprises depends on their "
1013 "ability to strategically utilize and balance these different aspects of "
1014 "managing resources."
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1019 msgid "A Short History of the Commons"
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1025 "Using the commons to manage resources is part of a long historical "
1026 "continuum. However, in contemporary society, the market and the state "
1027 "dominate the discourse on how resources are best managed. Rarely is the "
1028 "commons even considered as an option. The commons has largely disappeared "
1029 "from consciousness and consideration. There are no news reports or speeches "
1030 "about the commons."
1033 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1036 "But the more than 1.1 billion resources licensed with Creative Commons "
1037 "around the world are indications of a grassroots move toward the "
1038 "commons. The commons is making a resurgence. To understand the resilience of "
1039 "the commons and its current renewal, it’s helpful to know something of its "
1043 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
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1046 "Rowe, Our Common Wealth, 19; and Heather Menzies, Reclaiming the Commons for "
1047 "the Common Good: A Memoir and Manifesto (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, "
1051 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1054 "For centuries, indigenous people and preindustrialized societies managed "
1055 "resources, including water, food, firewood, irrigation, fish, wild game, and "
1056 "many other things collectively as a commons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
1057 "id=\"0\"/> There was no market, no global economy. The state in the form of "
1058 "rulers influenced the commons but by no means controlled it. Direct social "
1059 "participation in a commons was the primary way in which resources were "
1060 "managed and needs met. (Fig. 4 illustrates the commons in relation to the "
1061 "state and the market.)"
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1066 msgid "In preindustrialized society."
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1079 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 55–78."
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1085 "Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei, The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in "
1086 "Tune with Nature and Community (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2015), 46–57; "
1087 "and Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 88."
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1093 "This is followed by a long history of the state (a monarchy or ruler) taking "
1094 "over the commons for their own purposes. This is called enclosure of the "
1095 "commons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In olden days, “commoners” "
1096 "were evicted from the land, fences and hedges erected, laws passed, and "
1097 "security set up to forbid access.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> "
1098 "Gradually, resources became the property of the state and the state became "
1099 "the primary means by which resources were managed. (See Fig. 5)."
1102 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1105 "Holdings of land, water, and game were distributed to ruling family and "
1106 "political appointees. Commoners displaced from the land migrated to "
1107 "cities. With the emergence of the industrial revolution, land and resources "
1108 "became commodities sold to businesses to support production. Monarchies "
1109 "evolved into elected parliaments. Commoners became labourers earning money "
1110 "operating the machinery of industry. Financial, business, and property laws "
1111 "were revised by governments to support markets, growth, and "
1112 "productivity. Over time ready access to market produced goods resulted in a "
1113 "rising standard of living, improved health, and education. Fig. 6 shows how "
1114 "today the market is the primary means by which resources are managed."
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1119 msgid "The commons is gradually superseded by the state."
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1133 "However, the world today is going through turbulent times. The benefits of "
1134 "the market have been offset by unequal distribution and overexploitation."
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1140 "Overexploitation was the topic of Garrett Hardin’s influential essay “The "
1141 "Tragedy of the Commons,” published in Science in 1968. Hardin argues that "
1142 "everyone in a commons seeks to maximize personal gain and will continue to "
1143 "do so even when the limits of the commons are reached. The commons is then "
1144 "tragically depleted to the point where it can no longer support "
1145 "anyone. Hardin’s essay became widely accepted as an economic truism and a "
1146 "justification for private property and free markets."
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1152 "Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg, "
1153 "“Governing Knowledge Commons,” in Frischmann, Madison, and Strandburg "
1154 "Governing Knowledge Commons, 12."
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1160 "However, there is one serious flaw with Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the "
1161 "Commons”—it’s fiction. Hardin did not actually study how real commons "
1162 "work. Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics for her work "
1163 "studying different commons all around the world. Ostrom’s work shows that "
1164 "natural resource commons can be successfully managed by local communities "
1165 "without any regulation by central authorities or without "
1166 "privatization. Government and privatization are not the only two "
1167 "choices. There is a third way: management by the people, where those that "
1168 "are directly impacted are directly involved. With natural resources, there "
1169 "is a regional locality. The people in the region are the most familiar with "
1170 "the natural resource, have the most direct relationship and history with it, "
1171 "and are therefore best situated to manage it. Ostrom’s approach to the "
1172 "governance of natural resources broke with convention; she recognized the "
1173 "importance of the commons as an alternative to the market or state for "
1174 "solving problems of collective action.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
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1181 "Hardin failed to consider the actual social dynamic of the commons. His "
1182 "model assumed that people in the commons act autonomously, out of pure "
1183 "self-interest, without interaction or consideration of others. But as Ostrom "
1184 "found, in reality, managing common resources together forms a community and "
1185 "encourages discourse. This naturally generates norms and rules that help "
1186 "people work collectively and ensure a sustainable commons. Paradoxically, "
1187 "while Hardin’s essay is called The Tragedy of the Commons it might more "
1188 "accurately be titled The Tragedy of the Market."
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1194 "Farley and Kubiszewski, “Economics of Information,” in Elliott and Hepting, "
1195 "Free Knowledge, 203."
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1199 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:880
1201 "Hardin’s story is based on the premise of depletable resources. Economists "
1202 "have focused almost exclusively on scarcity-based markets. Very little is "
1203 "known about how abundance works.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1204 "The emergence of information technology and the Internet has led to an "
1205 "explosion in digital resources and new means of sharing and "
1206 "distribution. Digital resources can never be depleted. An absence of a "
1207 "theory or model for how abundance works, however, has led the market to make "
1208 "digital resources artificially scarce and makes it possible for the usual "
1209 "market norms and rules to be applied."
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1213 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:895
1215 "When it comes to use of state funds to create digital goods, however, there "
1216 "is really no justification for artificial scarcity. The norm for state "
1217 "funded digital works should be that they are freely and openly available to "
1218 "the public that paid for them."
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1223 msgid "How the market, the state and the commons look today."
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1236 msgid "The Digital Revolution"
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1240 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:918
1242 "In the early days of computing, programmers and developers learned from each "
1243 "other by sharing software. In the 1980s, the free-software movement codified "
1244 "this practice of sharing into a set of principles and freedoms:"
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1248 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:926
1249 msgid "The freedom to run a software program as you wish, for any purpose."
1252 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
1253 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:932
1255 "The freedom to study how a software program works (because access to the "
1256 "source code has been freely given), and change it so it does your computing "
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1262 msgid "The freedom to redistribute copies."
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1266 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:946
1268 "“What Is Free Software?” GNU Operating System, the Free Software "
1269 "Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Lab, accessed December 30, 2016, "
1270 "<ulink url=\"http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw\"/>."
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1274 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:944
1276 "The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to "
1277 "others.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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1283 "These principles and freedoms constitute a set of norms and rules that "
1284 "typify a digital commons."
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1288 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:970
1289 msgid "Wikipedia, s.v. “Open-source software,” last modified November 22, 2016."
1292 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1293 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:959
1295 "In the late 1990s, to make the sharing of source code and collaboration more "
1296 "appealing to companies, the open-source-software initiative converted these "
1297 "principles into licenses and standards for managing access to and "
1298 "distribution of software. The benefits of open source—such as reliability, "
1299 "scalability, and quality verified by independent peer review—became widely "
1300 "recognized and accepted. Customers liked the way open source gave them "
1301 "control without being locked into a closed, proprietary technology. Free and "
1302 "open-source software also generated a network effect where the value of a "
1303 "product or service increases with the number of people using it.<placeholder "
1304 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The dramatic growth of the Internet itself owes "
1305 "much to the fact that nobody has a proprietary lock on core Internet "
1309 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1310 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:985
1312 "Eric S. Raymond, “The Magic Cauldron,” in The Cathedral and the Bazaar: "
1313 "Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, "
1314 "rev. ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2001), <ulink "
1315 "url=\"http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/\"/>."
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1319 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:977
1321 "While open-source software functions as a commons, many businesses and "
1322 "markets did build up around it. Business models based on the licenses and "
1323 "standards of open-source software evolved alongside organizations that "
1324 "managed software code on principles of abundance rather than scarcity. Eric "
1325 "Raymond’s essay “The Magic Cauldron” does a great job of analyzing the "
1326 "economics and business models associated with open-source "
1327 "software.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> These models can provide "
1328 "examples of sustainable approaches for those Made with Creative Commons."
1331 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1332 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:994
1334 "It isn’t just about an abundant availability of digital assets but also "
1335 "about abundance of participation. The growth of personal computing, "
1336 "information technology, and the Internet made it possible for mass "
1337 "participation in producing creative works and distributing them. Photos, "
1338 "books, music, and many other forms of digital content could now be readily "
1339 "created and distributed by almost anyone. Despite this potential for "
1340 "abundance, by default these digital works are governed by copyright "
1341 "laws. Under copyright, a digital work is the property of the creator, and by "
1342 "law others are excluded from accessing and using it without the creator’s "
1346 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1347 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1013
1349 "New York Times Customer Insight Group, The Psychology of Sharing: Why Do "
1350 "People Share Online? (New York: New York Times Customer Insight Group, "
1351 "2011), <ulink url=\"http://www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf\"/>."
1354 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1355 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1007
1357 "But people like to share. One of the ways we define ourselves is by sharing "
1358 "valuable and entertaining content. Doing so grows and nourishes "
1359 "relationships, seeks to change opinions, encourages action, and informs "
1360 "others about who we are and what we care about. Sharing lets us feel more "
1361 "involved with the world.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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1365 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1021
1366 msgid "The Birth of Creative Commons"
1369 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1370 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1023
1372 "In 2001, Creative Commons was created as a nonprofit to support all those "
1373 "who wanted to share digital content. A suite of Creative Commons licenses "
1374 "was modeled on those of open-source software but for use with digital "
1375 "content rather than software code. The licenses give everyone from "
1376 "individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, "
1377 "standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work."
1380 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1381 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1044
1383 "“Licensing Considerations,” Creative Commons, accessed December 30, 2016, "
1385 "url=\"http://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/\"/>."
1388 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1389 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1032
1391 "Creative Commons licenses have a three-layer design. The norms and rules of "
1392 "each license are first expressed in full legal language as used by "
1393 "lawyers. This layer is called the legal code. But since most creators and "
1394 "users are not lawyers, the licenses also have a commons deed, expressing the "
1395 "permissions in plain language, which regular people can read and quickly "
1396 "understand. It acts as a user-friendly interface to the legal-code layer "
1397 "beneath. The third layer is the machine-readable one, making it easy for the "
1398 "Web to know a work is Creative Commons–licensed by expressing permissions in "
1399 "a way that software systems, search engines, and other kinds of technology "
1400 "can understand.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Taken together, "
1401 "these three layers ensure creators, users, and even the Web itself "
1402 "understand the norms and rules associated with digital content in a commons."
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1406 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1052
1408 "In 2015, there were over one billion Creative Commons licensed works in a "
1409 "global commons. These works were viewed online 136 billion times. People are "
1410 "using Creative Commons licenses all around the world, in thirty-four "
1411 "languages. These resources include photos, artwork, research articles in "
1412 "journals, educational resources, music and other audio tracks, and videos."
1415 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1416 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1065
1418 "Creative Commons, 2015 State of the Commons (Mountain View, CA: Creative "
1419 "Commons, 2015), <ulink url=\"http://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/\"/>."
1422 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1423 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1060
1425 "Individual artists, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers use Creative "
1426 "Commons, but so do museums, governments, creative industries, manufacturers, "
1427 "and publishers. Millions of websites use CC licenses, including major "
1428 "platforms like Wikipedia and Flickr and smaller ones like blogs.<placeholder "
1429 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Users of Creative Commons are diverse and cut "
1430 "across many different sectors. (Our case studies were chosen to reflect that "
1434 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1435 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1073
1437 "Some see Creative Commons as a way to share a gift with others, a way of "
1438 "getting known, or a way to provide social benefit. Others are simply "
1439 "committed to the norms associated with a commons. And for some, "
1440 "participation has been spurred by the free-culture movement, a social "
1441 "movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative "
1442 "works. The free-culture movement sees a commons as providing significant "
1443 "benefits compared to restrictive copyright laws. This ethos of free exchange "
1444 "in a commons aligns the free-culture movement with the free and open-source "
1445 "software movement."
1448 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1449 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1085
1451 "Over time, Creative Commons has spawned a range of open movements, including "
1452 "open educational resources, open access, open science, and open data. The "
1453 "goal in every case has been to democratize participation and share digital "
1454 "resources at no cost, with legal permissions for anyone to freely access, "
1458 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1459 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1098
1461 "Wikipedia, s.v. “Open Government Partnership,” last modified September 24, "
1463 "url=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Partnership\"/>."
1466 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1467 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1093
1469 "The state is increasingly involved in supporting open movements. The Open "
1470 "Government Partnership was launched in 2011 to provide an international "
1471 "platform for governments to become more open, accountable, and responsive to "
1472 "citizens. Since then, it has grown from eight participating countries to "
1473 "seventy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In all these countries, "
1474 "government and civil society are working together to develop and implement "
1475 "ambitious open-government reforms. Governments are increasingly adopting "
1476 "Creative Commons to ensure works funded with taxpayer dollars are open and "
1477 "free to the public that paid for them."
1480 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
1481 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1109
1482 msgid "The Changing Market"
1485 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1486 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1117
1487 msgid "Capra and Mattei, Ecology of Law, 114."
1490 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1491 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1125
1495 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1496 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1111
1498 "Today’s market is largely driven by global capitalism. Law and financial "
1499 "systems are structured to support extraction, privatization, and corporate "
1500 "growth. A perception that the market is more efficient than the state has "
1501 "led to continual privatization of many public natural resources, utilities, "
1502 "services, and infrastructures.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1503 "While this system has been highly efficient at generating consumerism and "
1504 "the growth of gross domestic product, the impact on human well-being has "
1505 "been mixed. Offsetting rising living standards and improvements to health "
1506 "and education are ever-increasing wealth inequality, social inequality, "
1507 "poverty, deterioration of our natural environment, and breakdowns of "
1508 "democracy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
1511 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1512 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1135
1514 "The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, “Stockholm "
1515 "Statement” accessed February 15, 2017, <ulink "
1516 "url=\"http://sida.se/globalassets/sida/eng/press/stockholm-statement.pdf\"/>"
1519 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1520 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1129
1522 "In light of these challenges there is a growing recognition that GDP growth "
1523 "should not be an end in itself, that development needs to be socially and "
1524 "economically inclusive, that environmental sustainability is a requirement "
1525 "not an option, and that we need to better balance the market, state and "
1526 "community.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
1529 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1530 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1146
1532 "City of Bologna, Regulation on Collaboration between Citizens and the City "
1533 "for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons, trans. LabGov (LABoratory "
1534 "for the GOVernance of Commons) (Bologna, Italy: City of Bologna, 2014), "
1536 "url=\"http://www.labgov.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/Bologna-Regulation-on-collaboration-between-citizens-and-the-city-for-the-cure-and-regeneration-of-urban-commons1.pdf\"/>."
1539 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1540 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1156
1542 "The Seoul Sharing City website is <ulink "
1543 "url=\"http://english.sharehub.kr\"/>; for Amsterdam Sharing City, go to "
1544 "<ulink url=\"http://www.sharenl.nl/amsterdam-sharing-city/\"/>."
1547 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1548 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1141
1550 "These realizations have led to a resurgence of interest in the commons as a "
1551 "means of enabling that balance. City governments like Bologna, Italy, are "
1552 "collaborating with their citizens to put in place regulations for the care "
1553 "and regeneration of urban commons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1554 "Seoul and Amsterdam call themselves “sharing cities,” looking to make "
1555 "sustainable and more efficient use of scarce resources. They see sharing as "
1556 "a way to improve the use of public spaces, mobility, social cohesion, and "
1557 "safety.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
1560 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1561 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1173
1563 "Tom Slee, What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy (New York: OR "
1567 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1568 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1163
1570 "The market itself has taken an interest in the sharing economy, with "
1571 "businesses like Airbnb providing a peer-to-peer marketplace for short-term "
1572 "lodging and Uber providing a platform for ride sharing. However, Airbnb and "
1573 "Uber are still largely operating under the usual norms and rules of the "
1574 "market, making them less like a commons and more like a traditional business "
1575 "seeking financial gain. Much of the sharing economy is not about the commons "
1576 "or building an alternative to a corporate-driven market economy; it’s about "
1577 "extending the deregulated free market into new areas of our "
1578 "lives.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> While none of the people we "
1579 "interviewed for our case studies would describe themselves as part of the "
1580 "sharing economy, there are in fact some significant parallels. Both the "
1581 "sharing economy and the commons make better use of asset capacity. The "
1582 "sharing economy sees personal residents and cars as having latent spare "
1583 "capacity with rental value. The equitable access of the commons broadens and "
1584 "diversifies the number of people who can use and derive value from an asset."
1587 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1588 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1195
1590 "Chris Anderson, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving "
1591 "Something for Nothing, Reprint with new preface. (New York: Hyperion, "
1595 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1596 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1185
1598 "One way Made with Creative Commons case studies differ from those of the "
1599 "sharing economy is their focus on digital resources. Digital resources "
1600 "function under different economic rules than physical ones. In a world where "
1601 "prices always seem to go up, information technology is an "
1602 "anomaly. Computer-processing power, storage, and bandwidth are all rapidly "
1603 "increasing, but rather than costs going up, costs are coming down. Digital "
1604 "technologies are getting faster, better, and cheaper. The cost of anything "
1605 "built on these technologies will always go down until it is close to "
1606 "zero.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
1609 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
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1612 "Those that are Made with Creative Commons are looking to leverage the unique "
1613 "inherent characteristics of digital resources, including lowering costs. The "
1614 "use of digital-rights-management technologies in the form of locks, "
1615 "passwords, and controls to prevent digital goods from being accessed, "
1616 "changed, replicated, and distributed is minimal or nonexistent. Instead, "
1617 "Creative Commons licenses are used to put digital content out in the "
1618 "commons, taking advantage of the unique economics associated with being "
1619 "digital. The aim is to see digital resources used as widely and by as many "
1620 "people as possible. Maximizing access and participation is a common goal. "
1621 "They aim for abundance over scarcity."
1624 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1625 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1220
1627 "Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the "
1628 "Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (New York: Palgrave "
1629 "Macmillan, 2014), 273."
1632 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1633 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1215
1635 "The incremental cost of storing, copying, and distributing digital goods is "
1636 "next to zero, making abundance possible. But imagining a market based on "
1637 "abundance rather than scarcity is so alien to the way we conceive of "
1638 "economic theory and practice that we struggle to do so.<placeholder "
1639 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Those that are Made with Creative Commons are "
1640 "each pioneering in this new landscape, devising their own economic models "
1644 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1645 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1228
1647 "Some are looking to minimize their interactions with the market and operate "
1648 "as autonomously as possible. Others are operating largely as a business "
1649 "within the existing rules and norms of the market. And still others are "
1650 "looking to change the norms and rules by which the market operates."
1653 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1654 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1242
1656 "Gar Alperovitz, What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American "
1657 "Revolution: Democratizing Wealth and Building a Community-Sustaining Economy "
1658 "from the Ground Up (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013), 39."
1661 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1662 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1251
1664 "Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution; "
1665 "Journeys to a Generative Economy (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2012), "
1669 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1670 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1235
1672 "For an ordinary corporation, making social benefit a part of its operations "
1673 "is difficult, as it’s legally required to make decisions that financially "
1674 "benefit stockholders. But new forms of business are emerging. There are "
1675 "benefit corporations and social enterprises, which broaden their business "
1676 "goals from making a profit to making a positive impact on society, workers, "
1677 "the community, and the environment.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1678 "Community-owned businesses, worker-owned businesses, cooperatives, guilds, "
1679 "and other organizational forms offer alternatives to the traditional "
1680 "corporation. Collectively, these alternative market entities are changing "
1681 "the rules and norms of the market.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
1684 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1685 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1264
1687 "Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation (Hoboken, NJ: "
1688 "John Wiley and Sons, 2010). A preview of the book is available at <ulink "
1689 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation\"/>."
1692 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1693 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1257
1695 "“A book on open business models” is how we described it in this book’s "
1696 "Kickstarter campaign. We used a handbook called Business Model Generation as "
1697 "our reference for defining just what a business model is. Developed over "
1698 "nine years using an “open process” involving 470 coauthors from forty-five "
1699 "countries, it is useful as a framework for talking about business "
1700 "models.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
1703 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1704 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1273
1706 "This business model canvas is available to download at <ulink "
1707 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/canvas/business-model-canvas\"/>."
1710 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1711 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1281
1713 "We’ve made the “Open Business Model Canvas,” designed by the coauthor Paul "
1714 "Stacey, available online at <ulink "
1715 "url=\"http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1QOIDa2qak7wZSSOa4Wv6qVMO77IwkKHN7CYyq0wHivs/edit\"/>. "
1716 "You can also find the accompanying Open Business Model Canvas Questions at "
1718 "url=\"http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kACK7TkoJgsM18HUWCbX9xuQ0Byna4plSVZXZGTtays/edit\"/>."
1721 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1722 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1271
1724 "It contains a “business model canvas,” which conceives of a business model "
1725 "as having nine building blocks.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
1726 "This blank canvas can serve as a tool for anyone to design their own "
1727 "business model. We remixed this business model canvas into an open business "
1728 "model canvas, adding three more building blocks relevant to hybrid market, "
1729 "commons enterprises: social good, Creative Commons license, and “type of "
1730 "open environment that the business fits in.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
1731 "id=\"1\"/> This enhanced canvas proved useful when we analyzed businesses "
1732 "and helped start-ups plan their economic model."
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1736 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1291
1738 "In our case study interviews, many expressed discomfort over describing "
1739 "themselves as an open business model—the term business model suggested "
1740 "primarily being situated in the market. Where you sit on the "
1741 "commons-to-market spectrum affects the extent to which you see yourself as a "
1742 "business in the market. The more central to the mission shared resources "
1743 "and commons values are, the less comfort there is in describing yourself, or "
1744 "depicting what you do, as a business. Not all who have endeavors Made with "
1745 "Creative Commons use business speak; for some the process has been "
1746 "experimental, emergent, and organic rather than carefully planned using a "
1750 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1751 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1312
1753 "A more comprehensive list of revenue streams is available in this post I "
1754 "wrote on Medium on March 6, 2016. “What Is an Open Business Model and How "
1755 "Can You Generate Revenue?”, available at <ulink "
1756 "url=\"http://medium.com/made-with-creative-commons/what-is-an-open-business-model-and-how-can-you-generate-revenue-5854d2659b15\"/>."
1759 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1760 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1304
1762 "The creators, businesses, and organizations we profile all engage with the "
1763 "market to generate revenue in some way. The ways in which this is done vary "
1764 "widely. Donations, pay what you can, memberships, “digital for free but "
1765 "physical for a fee,” crowdfunding, matchmaking, value-add services, patrons "
1766 ". . . the list goes on and on. (Initial description of how to earn revenue "
1767 "available through reference note. For latest thinking see How to Bring In "
1768 "Money in the next section.)<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> There "
1769 "is no single magic bullet, and each endeavor has devised ways that work for "
1770 "them. Most make use of more than one way. Diversifying revenue streams "
1771 "lowers risk and provides multiple paths to sustainability."
1774 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
1775 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1324
1776 msgid "Benefits of the Digital Commons"
1779 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1780 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1326
1782 "While it may be clear why commons-based organizations want to interact and "
1783 "engage with the market (they need money to survive), it may be less obvious "
1784 "why the market would engage with the commons. The digital commons offers "
1788 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1789 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1332
1791 "The commons speeds dissemination. The free flow of resources in the commons "
1792 "offers tremendous economies of scale. Distribution is decentralized, with "
1793 "all those in the commons empowered to share the resources they have access "
1794 "to. Those that are Made with Creative Commons have a reduced need for sales "
1795 "or marketing. Decentralized distribution amplifies supply and know-how."
1798 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1799 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1341
1801 "The commons ensures access to all. The market has traditionally operated by "
1802 "putting resources behind a paywall requiring payment first before "
1803 "access. The commons puts resources in the open, providing access up front "
1804 "without payment. Those that are Made with Creative Commons make little or no "
1805 "use of digital rights management (DRM) to manage resources. Not using DRM "
1806 "frees them of the costs of acquiring DRM technology and staff resources to "
1807 "engage in the punitive practices associated with restricting access. The way "
1808 "the commons provides access to everyone levels the playing field and "
1809 "promotes inclusiveness, equity, and fairness."
1812 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1813 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1354
1815 "The commons maximizes participation. Resources in the commons can be used "
1816 "and contributed to by everyone. Using the resources of others, contributing "
1817 "your own, and mixing yours with others to create new works are all dynamic "
1818 "forms of participation made possible by the commons. Being Made with "
1819 "Creative Commons means you’re engaging as many users with your resources as "
1820 "possible. Users are also authoring, editing, remixing, curating, "
1821 "localizing, translating, and distributing. The commons makes it possible for "
1822 "people to directly participate in culture, knowledge building, and even "
1823 "democracy, and many other socially beneficial practices."
1826 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
1827 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1376
1829 "Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and "
1830 "Profiting from Technology (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2006), "
1834 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1835 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1367
1837 "The commons spurs innovation. Resources in the hands of more people who can "
1838 "use them leads to new ideas. The way commons resources can be modified, "
1839 "customized, and improved results in derivative works never imagined by the "
1840 "original creator. Some endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons "
1841 "deliberately encourage users to take the resources being shared and innovate "
1842 "them. Doing so moves research and development (R&D) from being solely "
1843 "inside the organization to being in the community.<placeholder "
1844 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Community-based innovation will keep an "
1845 "organization or business on its toes. It must continue to contribute new "
1846 "ideas, absorb and build on top of the innovations of others, and steward the "
1847 "resources and the relationship with the community."
1850 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1851 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1385
1853 "The commons boosts reach and impact. The digital commons is "
1854 "global. Resources may be created for a local or regional need, but they go "
1855 "far and wide generating a global impact. In the digital world, there are no "
1856 "borders between countries. When you are Made with Creative Commons, you are "
1857 "often local and global at the same time: Digital designs being globally "
1858 "distributed but made and manufactured locally. Digital books or music being "
1859 "globally distributed but readings and concerts performed locally. The "
1860 "digital commons magnifies impact by connecting creators to those who use and "
1861 "build on their work both locally and globally."
1864 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1865 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1398
1867 "The commons is generative. Instead of extracting value, the commons adds "
1868 "value. Digitized resources persist without becoming depleted, and through "
1869 "use are improved, personalized, and localized. Each use adds value. The "
1870 "market focuses on generating value for the business and the customer. The "
1871 "commons generates value for a broader range of beneficiaries including the "
1872 "business, the customer, the creator, the public, and the commons itself. The "
1873 "generative nature of the commons means that it is more cost-effective and "
1874 "produces a greater return on investment. Value is not just measured in "
1875 "financial terms. Each new resource added to the commons provides value to "
1876 "the public and contributes to the overall value of the commons."
1879 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1880 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1412
1882 "The commons brings people together for a common cause. The commons vests "
1883 "people directly with the responsibility to manage the resources for the "
1884 "common good. The costs and benefits for the individual are balanced with the "
1885 "costs and benefits for the community and for future generations. Resources "
1886 "are not anonymous or mass produced. Their provenance is known and "
1887 "acknowledged through attribution and other means. Those that are Made with "
1888 "Creative Commons generate awareness and reputation based on their "
1889 "contributions to the commons. The reach, impact, and sustainability of those "
1890 "contributions rest largely on their ability to forge relationships and "
1891 "connections with those who use and improve them. By functioning on the basis "
1892 "of social engagement, not monetary exchange, the commons unifies people."
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1898 "The benefits of the commons are many. When these benefits align with the "
1899 "goals of individuals, communities, businesses in the market, or state "
1900 "enterprises, choosing to manage resources as a commons ought to be the "
1904 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
1905 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1434
1906 msgid "Our Case Studies"
1909 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1910 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1436
1912 "The creators, organizations, and businesses in our case studies operate as "
1913 "nonprofits, for-profits, and social enterprises. Regardless of legal "
1914 "status, they all have a social mission. Their primary reason for being is "
1915 "to make the world a better place, not to profit. Money is a means to a "
1916 "social end, not the end itself. They factor public interest into decisions, "
1917 "behavior, and practices. Transparency and trust are really important. Impact "
1918 "and success are measured against social aims expressed in mission "
1919 "statements, and are not just about the financial bottom line."
1922 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1923 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1448
1925 "The case studies are based on the narratives told to us by founders and key "
1926 "staff. Instead of solely using financials as the measure of success and "
1927 "sustainability, they emphasized their mission, practices, and means by which "
1928 "they measure success. Metrics of success are a blend of how social goals "
1929 "are being met and how sustainable the enterprise is."
1932 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1933 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1456
1935 "Our case studies are diverse, ranging from publishing to education and "
1936 "manufacturing. All of the organizations, businesses, and creators in the "
1937 "case studies produce digital resources. Those resources exist in many forms "
1938 "including books, designs, songs, research, data, cultural works, education "
1939 "materials, graphic icons, and video. Some are digital representations of "
1940 "physical resources. Others are born digital but can be made into physical "
1944 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1945 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1466
1947 "They are creating new resources, or using the resources of others, or mixing "
1948 "existing resources together to make something new. They, and their audience, "
1949 "all play a direct, participatory role in managing those resources, including "
1950 "their preservation, curation, distribution, and enhancement. Access and "
1951 "participation is open to all regardless of monetary means."
1954 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1955 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1474
1957 "And as users of Creative Commons licenses, they are automatically part of a "
1958 "global community. The new digital commons is global. Those we profiled come "
1959 "from nearly every continent in the world. To build and interact within this "
1960 "global community is conducive to success."
1963 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1964 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1481
1966 "Creative Commons licenses may express legal rules around the use of "
1967 "resources in a commons, but success in the commons requires more than "
1968 "following the letter of the law and acquiring financial means. Over and over "
1969 "we heard in our interviews how success and sustainability are tied to a set "
1970 "of beliefs, values, and principles that underlie their actions: Give more "
1971 "than you take. Be open and inclusive. Add value. Make visible what you are "
1972 "using from the commons, what you are adding, and what you are "
1973 "monetizing. Maximize abundance. Give attribution. Express gratitude. Develop "
1974 "trust; don’t exploit. Build relationship and community. Be "
1975 "transparent. Defend the commons."
1978 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1979 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1494
1981 "The new digital commons is here to stay. Made With Creative Commons case "
1982 "studies show how it’s possible to be part of this commons while still "
1983 "functioning within market and state systems. The commons generates benefits "
1984 "neither the market nor state can achieve on their own. Rather than the "
1985 "market or state dominating as primary means of resource management, a more "
1986 "balanced alternative is possible."
1989 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
1990 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1503
1992 "Enterprise use of Creative Commons has only just begun. The case studies in "
1993 "this book are merely starting points. Each is changing and evolving over "
1994 "time. Many more are joining and inventing new models. This overview aims to "
1995 "provide a framework and language for thinking and talking about the new "
1996 "digital commons. The remaining sections go deeper providing further guidance "
1997 "and insights on how it works."
2000 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
2001 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1514
2002 msgid "How to Be Made with Creative Commons"
2005 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2006 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1516
2007 msgid "Sarah Hinchliff Pearson"
2010 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2011 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1519
2013 "When we began this project in August 2015, we set out to write a book about "
2014 "business models that involve Creative Commons licenses in some significant "
2015 "way—what we call being Made with Creative Commons. With the help of our "
2016 "Kickstarter backers, we chose twenty-four endeavors from all around the "
2017 "world that are Made with Creative Commons. The mix is diverse, from an "
2018 "individual musician to a university-textbook publisher to an electronics "
2019 "manufacturer. Some make their own content and share under Creative Commons "
2020 "licensing. Others are platforms for CC-licensed creative work made by "
2021 "others. Many sit somewhere in between, both using and contributing creative "
2022 "work that’s shared with the public. Like all who use the licenses, these "
2023 "endeavors share their work—whether it’s open data or furniture designs—in a "
2024 "way that enables the public not only to access it but also to make use of "
2028 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2029 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1535
2031 "We analyzed the revenue models, customer segments, and value propositions of "
2032 "each endeavor. We searched for ways that putting their content under "
2033 "Creative Commons licenses helped boost sales or increase reach. Using "
2034 "traditional measures of economic success, we tried to map these business "
2035 "models in a way that meaningfully incorporated the impact of Creative "
2036 "Commons. In our interviews, we dug into the motivations, the role of CC "
2037 "licenses, modes of revenue generation, definitions of success."
2040 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2041 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1545
2043 "In fairly short order, we realized the book we set out to write was quite "
2044 "different from the one that was revealing itself in our interviews and "
2048 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2049 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1550
2051 "It isn’t that we were wrong to think you can make money while using Creative "
2052 "Commons licenses. In many instances, CC can help make you more money. Nor "
2053 "were we wrong that there are business models out there that others who want "
2054 "to use CC licensing as part of their livelihood or business could "
2055 "replicate. What we didn’t realize was just how misguided it would be to "
2056 "write a book about being Made with Creative Commons using only a business "
2060 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2061 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1562
2063 "Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation (Hoboken, NJ: "
2064 "John Wiley and Sons, 2010), 14. A preview of the book is available at <ulink "
2065 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation\"/>."
2068 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2069 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1559
2071 "According to the seminal handbook Business Model Generation, a business "
2072 "model “describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and "
2073 "captures value.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Thinking about "
2074 "sharing in terms of creating and capturing value always felt inappropriately "
2075 "transactional and out of place, something we heard time and time again in "
2076 "our interviews. And as Cory Doctorow told us in our interview with him, "
2077 "“Business model can mean anything you want it to mean.”"
2080 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2081 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1573
2083 "Eventually, we got it. Being Made with Creative Commons is more than a "
2084 "business model. While we will talk about specific revenue models as one "
2085 "piece of our analysis (and in more detail in the case studies), we scrapped "
2086 "that as our guiding rubric for the book."
2089 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2090 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1580
2092 "Admittedly, it took me a long time to get there. When Paul and I divided up "
2093 "our writing after finishing the research, my charge was to distill "
2094 "everything we learned from the case studies and write up the practical "
2095 "lessons and takeaways. I spent months trying to jam what we learned into the "
2096 "business-model box, convinced there must be some formula for the way things "
2097 "interacted. But there is no formula. You’ll probably have to discard that "
2098 "way of thinking before you read any further."
2101 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2102 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1590
2104 "In every interview, we started from the same simple questions. Amid all the "
2105 "diversity among the creators, organizations, and businesses we profiled, "
2106 "there was one constant. Being Made with Creative Commons may be good for "
2107 "business, but that is not why they do it. Sharing work with Creative Commons "
2108 "is, at its core, a moral decision. The commercial and other self-interested "
2109 "benefits are secondary. Most decided to use CC licenses first and found a "
2110 "revenue model later. This was our first hint that writing a book solely "
2111 "about the impact of sharing on business might be a little off track."
2114 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2115 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1602
2117 "But we also started to realize something about what it means to be Made with "
2118 "Creative Commons. When people talked to us about how and why they used CC, "
2119 "it was clear that it meant something more than using a copyright license. It "
2120 "also represented a set of values. There is symbolism behind using CC, and "
2121 "that symbolism has many layers."
2124 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2125 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1610
2127 "At one level, being Made with Creative Commons expresses an affinity for the "
2128 "value of Creative Commons. While there are many different flavors of CC "
2129 "licenses and nearly infinite ways to be Made with Creative Commons, the "
2130 "basic value system is rooted in a fundamental belief that knowledge and "
2131 "creativity are building blocks of our culture rather than just commodities "
2132 "from which to extract market value. These values reflect a belief that the "
2133 "common good should always be part of the equation when we determine how to "
2134 "regulate our cultural outputs. They reflect a belief that everyone has "
2135 "something to contribute, and that no one can own our shared culture. They "
2136 "reflect a belief in the promise of sharing."
2139 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2140 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1624
2142 "Whether the public makes use of the opportunity to copy and adapt your work, "
2143 "sharing with a Creative Commons license is a symbol of how you want to "
2144 "interact with the people who consume your work. Whenever you create "
2145 "something, “all rights reserved” under copyright is automatic, so the "
2146 "copyright symbol (©) on the work does not necessarily come across as a "
2147 "marker of distrust or excessive protectionism. But using a CC license can be "
2148 "a symbol of the opposite—of wanting a real human relationship, rather than "
2149 "an impersonal market transaction. It leaves open the possibility of "
2153 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2154 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1636
2156 "Being Made with Creative Commons not only demonstrates values connected to "
2157 "CC and sharing. It also demonstrates that something other than profit drives "
2158 "what you do. In our interviews, we always asked what success looked like for "
2159 "them. It was stunning how rarely money was mentioned. Most have a deeper "
2160 "purpose and a different vision of success."
2163 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2164 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1649
2166 "Cory Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet "
2167 "Age (San Francisco, CA: McSweeney’s, 2014) 68."
2170 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2171 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1644
2173 "The driving motivation varies depending on the type of endeavor. For "
2174 "individual creators, it is most often about personal inspiration. In some "
2175 "ways, this is nothing new. As Doctorow has written, “Creators usually start "
2176 "doing what they do for love.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But "
2177 "when you share your creative work under a CC license, that dynamic is even "
2178 "more pronounced. Similarly, for technological innovators, it is often less "
2179 "about creating a specific new thing that will make you rich and more about "
2180 "solving a specific problem you have. The creators of Arduino told us that "
2181 "the key question when creating something is “Do you as the creator want to "
2182 "use it? It has to have personal use and meaning.”"
2185 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2186 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1660
2188 "Many that are Made with Creative Commons have an express social mission that "
2189 "underpins everything they do. In many cases, sharing with Creative Commons "
2190 "expressly advances that social mission, and using the licenses can be the "
2191 "difference between legitimacy and hypocrisy. Noun Project co-founder Edward "
2192 "Boatman told us they could not have stated their social mission of sharing "
2193 "with a straight face if they weren’t willing to show the world that it was "
2194 "OK to share their content using a Creative Commons license."
2197 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2198 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1670
2200 "This dynamic is probably one reason why there are so many nonprofit examples "
2201 "of being Made with Creative Commons. The content is the result of a labor of "
2202 "love or a tool to drive social change, and money is like gas in the car, "
2203 "something that you need to keep going but not an end in itself. Being Made "
2204 "with Creative Commons is a different vision of a business or livelihood, "
2205 "where profit is not paramount, and producing social good and human "
2206 "connection are integral to success."
2209 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2210 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1680
2212 "Even if profit isn’t the end goal, you have to bring in money to be "
2213 "successfully Made with Creative Commons. At a bare minimum, you have to make "
2214 "enough money to keep the lights on."
2217 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2218 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1685
2220 "The costs of doing business vary widely for those made with CC, but there is "
2221 "generally a much lower threshold for sustainability than there used to be "
2222 "for any creative endeavor. Digital technology has made it easier than ever "
2223 "to create, and easier than ever to distribute. As Doctorow put it in his "
2224 "book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, “If analog dollars have turned "
2225 "into digital dimes (as the critics of ad-supported media have it), there is "
2226 "the fact that it’s possible to run a business that gets the same amount of "
2227 "advertising as its forebears at a fraction of the price.”"
2230 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2231 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1702
2235 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2236 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1697
2238 "Some creation costs are the same as they always were. It takes the same "
2239 "amount of time and money to write a peer-reviewed journal article or paint a "
2240 "painting. Technology can’t change that. But other costs are dramatically "
2241 "reduced by technology, particularly in production-heavy domains like "
2242 "filmmaking.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> CC-licensed content and "
2243 "content in the public domain, as well as the work of volunteer "
2244 "collaborators, can also dramatically reduce costs if they’re being used as "
2245 "resources to create something new. And, of course, there is the reality that "
2246 "some content would be created whether or not the creator is paid because it "
2247 "is a labor of love."
2250 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2251 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1714
2253 "Chris Anderson, Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving "
2254 "Something for Nothing, reprint with new preface (New York: Hyperion, 2010), "
2258 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2259 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1711
2261 "Distributing content is almost universally cheaper than ever. Once content "
2262 "is created, the costs to distribute copies digitally are essentially "
2263 "zero.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The costs to distribute "
2264 "physical copies are still significant, but lower than they have been "
2265 "historically. And it is now much easier to print and distribute physical "
2266 "copies on-demand, which also reduces costs. Depending on the endeavor, there "
2267 "can be a whole host of other possible expenses like marketing and promotion, "
2268 "and even expenses associated with the various ways money is being made, like "
2269 "touring or custom training."
2272 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
2273 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1736
2274 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 44."
2277 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2278 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1726
2280 "It’s important to recognize that the biggest impact of technology on "
2281 "creative endeavors is that creators can now foot the costs of creation and "
2282 "distribution themselves. People now often have a direct route to their "
2283 "potential public without necessarily needing intermediaries like record "
2284 "labels and book publishers. Doctorow wrote, “If you’re a creator who never "
2285 "got the time of day from one of the great imperial powers, this is your "
2286 "time. Where once you had no means of reaching an audience without the "
2287 "assistance of the industry-dominating megacompanies, now you have hundreds "
2288 "of ways to do it without them.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
2289 "Previously, distribution of creative work involved the costs associated with "
2290 "sustaining a monolithic entity, now creators can do the work "
2291 "themselves. That means the financial needs of creative endeavors can be a "
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2296 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1743
2298 "Whether for an individual creator or a larger endeavor, it usually isn’t "
2299 "enough to break even if you want to make what you’re doing a livelihood. You "
2300 "need to build in some support for the general operation. This extra bit "
2301 "looks different for everyone, but importantly, in nearly all cases for those "
2302 "Made with Creative Commons, the definition of “enough money” looks a lot "
2303 "different than it does in the world of venture capital and stock options. It "
2304 "is more about sustainability and less about unlimited growth and "
2305 "profit. SparkFun founder Nathan Seidle told us, “Business model is a really "
2306 "grandiose word for it. It is really just about keeping the operation going "
2310 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2311 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1756
2313 "This book is a testament to the notion that it is possible to make money "
2314 "while using CC licenses and CC-licensed content, but we are still very much "
2315 "at an experimental stage. The creators, organizations, and businesses we "
2316 "profile in this book are blazing the trail and adapting in real time as they "
2317 "pursue this new way of operating."
2320 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
2321 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1764
2323 "There are, however, plenty of ways in which CC licensing can be good for "
2324 "business in fairly predictable ways. The first is how it helps solve "
2328 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
2329 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1769
2330 msgid "Problem Zero: Getting Discovered"
2333 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2334 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1776
2336 "Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let "
2337 "People Help (New York: Grand Central, 2014), 121."
2340 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2341 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1790
2343 "Chris Anderson, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution (New York: Signal, "
2347 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2348 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1771
2350 "Once you create or collect your content, the next step is finding users, "
2351 "customers, fans—in other words, your people. As Amanda Palmer wrote, “It has "
2352 "to start with the art. The songs had to touch people initially, and mean "
2353 "something, for anything to work at all.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2354 "id=\"0\"/> There isn’t any magic to finding your people, and there is "
2355 "certainly no formula. Your work has to connect with people and offer them "
2356 "some artistic and/or utilitarian value. In some ways, this is easier than "
2357 "ever. Online we are not limited by shelf space, so there is room for every "
2358 "obscure interest, taste, and need imaginable. This is what Chris Anderson "
2359 "dubbed the Long Tail, where consumption becomes less about mainstream mass "
2360 "“hits” and more about micromarkets for every particular niche. As Anderson "
2361 "wrote, “We are all different, with different wants and needs, and the "
2362 "Internet now has a place for all of them in the way that physical markets "
2363 "did not.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> We are no longer limited "
2364 "to what appeals to the masses."
2367 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2368 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1803
2370 "David Bollier, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of "
2371 "the Commons (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014), 70."
2374 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2375 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1809
2376 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 66."
2379 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2380 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1813
2382 "Bryan Kramer, Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy (New "
2383 "York: Morgan James, 2016), 10."
2386 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2387 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1796
2389 "While finding “your people” online is theoretically easier than in the "
2390 "analog world, as a practical matter it can still be difficult to actually "
2391 "get noticed. The Internet is a firehose of content, one that only grows "
2392 "larger by the minute. As a content creator, not only are you competing for "
2393 "attention against more content creators than ever before, you are competing "
2394 "against creativity generated outside the market as well.<placeholder "
2395 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Anderson wrote, “The greatest change of the "
2396 "past decade has been the shift in time people spend consuming amateur "
2397 "content instead of professional content.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2398 "id=\"1\"/> To top it all off, you have to compete against the rest of their "
2399 "lives, too—“friends, family, music playlists, soccer games, and nights on "
2400 "the town.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> Somehow, some way, you "
2401 "have to get noticed by the right people."
2404 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2405 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1827
2406 msgid "Anderson, Free, 62."
2409 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2410 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1819
2412 "When you come to the Internet armed with an all-rights-reserved mentality "
2413 "from the start, you are often restricting access to your work before there "
2414 "is even any demand for it. In many cases, requiring payment for your work is "
2415 "part of the traditional copyright system. Even a tiny cost has a big effect "
2416 "on demand. It’s called the penny gap—the large difference in demand between "
2417 "something that is available at the price of one cent versus the price of "
2418 "zero.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> That doesn’t mean it is wrong "
2419 "to charge money for your content. It simply means you need to recognize the "
2420 "effect that doing so will have on demand. The same principle applies to "
2421 "restricting access to copy the work. If your problem is how to get "
2422 "discovered and find “your people,” prohibiting people from copying your work "
2423 "and sharing it with others is counterproductive."
2426 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2427 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1841
2428 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 38."
2431 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2432 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1837
2434 "Of course, it’s not that being discovered by people who like your work will "
2435 "make you rich—far from it. But as Cory Doctorow says, “Recognition is one of "
2436 "many necessary preconditions for artistic success.”<placeholder "
2437 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2440 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2441 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1845
2443 "Choosing not to spend time and energy restricting access to your work and "
2444 "policing infringement also builds goodwill. Lumen Learning, a for-profit "
2445 "company that publishes online educational materials, made an early decision "
2446 "not to prevent students from accessing their content, even in the form of a "
2447 "tiny paywall, because it would negatively impact student success in a way "
2448 "that would undermine the social mission behind what they do. They believe "
2449 "this decision has generated an immense amount of goodwill within the "
2453 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2454 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1862
2455 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 68."
2458 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2459 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1856
2461 "It is not just that restricting access to your work may undermine your "
2462 "social mission. It also may alienate the people who most value your creative "
2463 "work. If people like your work, their natural instinct will be to share it "
2464 "with others. But as David Bollier wrote, “Our natural human impulses to "
2465 "imitate and share—the essence of culture—have been "
2466 "criminalized.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2469 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2470 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1866
2472 "The fact that copying can carry criminal penalties undoubtedly deters "
2473 "copying it, but copying with the click of a button is too easy and "
2474 "convenient to ever fully stop it. Try as the copyright industry might to "
2475 "persuade us otherwise, copying a copyrighted work just doesn’t feel like "
2476 "stealing a loaf of bread. And, of course, that’s because it isn’t. Sharing a "
2477 "creative work has no impact on anyone else’s ability to make use of it."
2480 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2481 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1875
2483 "If you take some amount of copying and sharing your work as a given, you can "
2484 "invest your time and resources elsewhere, rather than wasting them on "
2485 "playing a cat and mouse game with people who want to copy and share your "
2486 "work. Lizzy Jongma from the Rijksmuseum said, “We could spend a lot of money "
2487 "trying to protect works, but people are going to do it anyway. And they will "
2488 "use bad-quality versions.” Instead, they started releasing high-resolution "
2489 "digital copies of their collection into the public domain and making them "
2490 "available for free on their website. For them, sharing was a form of quality "
2491 "control over the copies that were inevitably being shared online. Doing this "
2492 "meant forgoing the revenue they previously got from selling digital "
2493 "images. But Lizzy says that was a small price to pay for all of the "
2494 "opportunities that sharing unlocked for them."
2497 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2498 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1895
2499 msgid "Anderson, Free, 86."
2502 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2503 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1891
2505 "Being Made with Creative Commons means you stop thinking about ways to "
2506 "artificially make your content scarce, and instead leverage it as the "
2507 "potentially abundant resource it is.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2508 "id=\"0\"/> When you see information abundance as a feature, not a bug, you "
2509 "start thinking about the ways to use the idling capacity of your content to "
2510 "your advantage. As my friend and colleague Eric Steuer once said, “Using CC "
2511 "licenses shows you get the Internet.”"
2514 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2515 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1906
2516 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 144."
2519 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2520 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1903
2522 "Cory Doctorow says it costs him nothing when other people make copies of his "
2523 "work, and it opens the possibility that he might get something in "
2524 "return.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Similarly, the makers of "
2525 "the Arduino boards knew it was impossible to stop people from copying their "
2526 "hardware, so they decided not to even try and instead look for the benefits "
2527 "of being open. For them, the result is one of the most ubiquitous pieces of "
2528 "hardware in the world, with a thriving online community of tinkerers and "
2529 "innovators that have done things with their work they never could have done "
2533 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2534 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1916
2536 "There are all kinds of way to leverage the power of sharing and remix to "
2537 "your benefit. Here are a few."
2540 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2541 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1920
2542 msgid "Use CC to grow a larger audience"
2545 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2546 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1922
2548 "Putting a Creative Commons license on your content won’t make it "
2549 "automatically go viral, but eliminating legal barriers to copying the work "
2550 "certainly can’t hurt the chances that your work will be shared. The CC "
2551 "license symbolizes that sharing is welcome. It can act as a little tap on "
2552 "the shoulder to those who come across the work—a nudge to copy the work if "
2553 "they have any inkling of doing so. All things being equal, if one piece of "
2554 "content has a sign that says Share and the other says Don’t Share (which is "
2555 "what “©” means), which do you think people are more likely to share?"
2558 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2559 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1934
2561 "The Conversation is an online news site with in-depth articles written by "
2562 "academics who are experts on particular topics. All of the articles are "
2563 "CC-licensed, and they are copied and reshared on other sites by design. This "
2564 "proliferating effect, which they track, is a central part of the value to "
2565 "their academic authors who want to reach as many readers as possible."
2568 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2569 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1950
2570 msgid "Anderson, Free, 123."
2573 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2574 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1943
2576 "The idea that more eyeballs equates with more success is a form of the max "
2577 "strategy, adopted by Google and other technology companies. According to "
2578 "Google’s Eric Schmidt, the idea is simple: “Take whatever it is you are "
2579 "doing and do it at the max in terms of distribution. The other way of saying "
2580 "this is that since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well "
2581 "put things everywhere.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> This "
2582 "strategy is what often motivates companies to make their products and "
2583 "services free (i.e., no cost), but the same logic applies to making content "
2584 "freely shareable. Because CC-licensed content is free (as in cost) and can "
2585 "be freely copied, CC licensing makes it even more accessible and likely to "
2589 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2590 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1964
2594 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2595 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1969
2599 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2600 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1959
2602 "If you are successful in reaching more users, readers, listeners, or other "
2603 "consumers of your work, you can start to benefit from the bandwagon "
2604 "effect. The simple fact that there are other people consuming or following "
2605 "your work spurs others to want to do the same.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2606 "id=\"0\"/> This is, in part, because we simply have a tendency to engage in "
2607 "herd behavior, but it is also because a large following is at least a "
2608 "partial indicator of quality or usefulness.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2612 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2613 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1974
2614 msgid "Use CC to get attribution and name recognition"
2617 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2618 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1988
2620 "James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (New York: Anchor Books, 2005), "
2621 "124. Surowiecki says, “The measure of success of laws and contracts is how "
2622 "rarely they are invoked.”"
2625 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2626 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1976
2628 "Every Creative Commons license requires that credit be given to the author, "
2629 "and that reusers supply a link back to the original source of the "
2630 "material. CC0, not a license but a tool used to put work in the public "
2631 "domain, does not make attribution a legal requirement, but many communities "
2632 "still give credit as a matter of best practices and social norms. In fact, "
2633 "it is social norms, rather than the threat of legal enforcement, that most "
2634 "often motivate people to provide attribution and otherwise comply with the "
2635 "CC license terms anyway. This is the mark of any well-functioning community, "
2636 "within both the marketplace and the society at large.<placeholder "
2637 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> CC licenses reflect a set of wishes on the part "
2638 "of creators, and in the vast majority of circumstances, people are naturally "
2639 "inclined to follow those wishes. This is particularly the case for something "
2640 "as straightforward and consistent with basic notions of fairness as "
2644 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2645 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:1999
2647 "The fact that the name of the creator follows a CC-licensed work makes the "
2648 "licenses an important means to develop a reputation or, in corporate speak, "
2649 "a brand. The drive to associate your name with your work is not just based "
2650 "on commercial motivations, it is fundamental to authorship. Knowledge "
2651 "Unlatched is a nonprofit that helps to subsidize the print production of "
2652 "CC-licensed academic texts by pooling contributions from libraries around "
2653 "the United States. The CEO, Frances Pinter, says that the Creative Commons "
2654 "license on the works has a huge value to authors because reputation is the "
2655 "most important currency for academics. Sharing with CC is a way of having "
2656 "the most people see and cite your work."
2659 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2660 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2013
2662 "Attribution can be about more than just receiving credit. It can also be "
2663 "about establishing provenance. People naturally want to know where content "
2664 "came from—the source of a work is sometimes just as interesting as the work "
2665 "itself. Opendesk is a platform for furniture designers to share their "
2666 "designs. Consumers who like those designs can then get matched with local "
2667 "makers who turn the designs into real-life furniture. The fact that I, "
2668 "sitting in the middle of the United States, can pick out a design created by "
2669 "a designer in Tokyo and then use a maker within my own community to "
2670 "transform the design into something tangible is part of the power of their "
2671 "platform. The provenance of the design is a special part of the product."
2674 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2675 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2028
2677 "Knowing the source of a work is also critical to ensuring its "
2678 "credibility. Just as a trademark is designed to give consumers a way to "
2679 "identify the source and quality of a particular good and service, knowing "
2680 "the author of a work gives the public a way to assess its credibility. In a "
2681 "time when online discourse is plagued with misinformation, being a trusted "
2682 "information source is more valuable than ever."
2685 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2686 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2038
2687 msgid "Use CC-licensed content as a marketing tool"
2690 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2691 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2040
2693 "As we will cover in more detail later, many endeavors that are Made with "
2694 "Creative Commons make money by providing a product or service other than the "
2695 "CC-licensed work. Sometimes that other product or service is completely "
2696 "unrelated to the CC content. Other times it’s a physical copy or live "
2697 "performance of the CC content. In all cases, the CC content can attract "
2698 "people to your other product or service."
2701 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2702 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2062
2703 msgid "Anderson, Free, 44."
2706 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2707 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2049
2709 "Knowledge Unlatched’s Pinter told us she has seen time and again how "
2710 "offering CC-licensed content—that is, digitally for free—actually increases "
2711 "sales of the printed goods because it functions as a marketing tool. We see "
2712 "this phenomenon regularly with famous artwork. The Mona Lisa is likely the "
2713 "most recognizable painting on the planet. Its ubiquity has the effect of "
2714 "catalyzing interest in seeing the painting in person, and in owning physical "
2715 "goods with the image. Abundant copies of the content often entice more "
2716 "demand, not blunt it. Another example came with the advent of the "
2717 "radio. Although the music industry did not see it coming (and fought it!), "
2718 "free music on the radio functioned as advertising for the paid version "
2719 "people bought in music stores.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Free "
2720 "can be a form of promotion."
2723 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2724 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2066
2726 "In some cases, endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons do not even "
2727 "need dedicated marketing teams or marketing budgets. Cards Against Humanity "
2728 "is a CC-licensed card game available as a free download. And because of this "
2729 "(thanks to the CC license on the game), the creators say it is one of the "
2730 "best-marketed games in the world, and they have never spent a dime on "
2731 "marketing. The textbook publisher OpenStax has also avoided hiring a "
2732 "marketing team. Their products are free, or cheaper to buy in the case of "
2733 "physical copies, which makes them much more attractive to students who then "
2734 "demand them from their universities. They also partner with service "
2735 "providers who build atop the CC-licensed content and, in turn, spend money "
2736 "and resources marketing those services (and by extension, the OpenStax "
2740 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2741 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2083
2742 msgid "Use CC to enable hands-on engagement with your work"
2745 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2746 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2086
2748 "The great promise of Creative Commons licensing is that it signifies an "
2749 "embrace of remix culture. Indeed, this is the great promise of digital "
2750 "technology. The Internet opened up a whole new world of possibilities for "
2751 "public participation in creative work."
2754 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2755 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2100
2756 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 23."
2759 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2760 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2093
2762 "Four of the six CC licenses enable reusers to take apart, build upon, or "
2763 "otherwise adapt the work. Depending on the context, adaptation can mean "
2764 "wildly different things—translating, updating, localizing, improving, "
2765 "transforming. It enables a work to be customized for particular needs, uses, "
2766 "people, and communities, which is another distinct value to offer the "
2767 "public.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Adaptation is more game "
2768 "changing in some contexts than others. With educational materials, the "
2769 "ability to customize and update the content is critically important for its "
2770 "usefulness. For photography, the ability to adapt a photo is less important."
2773 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2774 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2113
2775 msgid "Anderson, Free, 67."
2778 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2779 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2118
2783 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2784 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2121
2785 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 71."
2788 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2789 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2126
2791 "Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into "
2792 "Collaborators (London: Penguin Books, 2010), 78."
2795 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2796 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2108
2798 "This is a way to counteract a potential downside of the abundance of free "
2799 "and open content described above. As Anderson wrote in Free, “People often "
2800 "don’t care as much about things they don’t pay for, and as a result they "
2801 "don’t think as much about how they consume them.”<placeholder "
2802 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> If even the tiny act of volition of paying one "
2803 "penny for something changes our perception of that thing, then surely the "
2804 "act of remixing it enhances our perception exponentially.<placeholder "
2805 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> We know that people will pay more for products "
2806 "they had a part in creating.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/> And we "
2807 "know that creating something, no matter what quality, brings with it a type "
2808 "of creative satisfaction that can never be replaced by consuming something "
2809 "created by someone else.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"3\"/>"
2812 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2813 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2139
2817 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2818 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2132
2820 "Actively engaging with the content helps us avoid the type of aimless "
2821 "consumption that anyone who has absentmindedly scrolled through their "
2822 "social-media feeds for an hour knows all too well. In his book, Cognitive "
2823 "Surplus, Clay Shirky says, “To participate is to act as if your presence "
2824 "matters, as if, when you see something or hear something, your response is "
2825 "part of the event.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Opening the "
2826 "door to your content can get people more deeply tied to your work."
2829 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2830 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2145
2831 msgid "Use CC to differentiate yourself"
2834 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2835 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2154
2836 msgid "Doctorow, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 43."
2839 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2840 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2147
2842 "Operating under a traditional copyright regime usually means operating under "
2843 "the rules of establishment players in the media. Business strategies that "
2844 "are embedded in the traditional copyright system, like using digital rights "
2845 "management (DRM) and signing exclusivity contracts, can tie the hands of "
2846 "creators, often at the expense of the creator’s best interest.<placeholder "
2847 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Being Made with Creative Commons means you can "
2848 "function without those barriers and, in many cases, use the increased "
2849 "openness as a competitive advantage. David Harris from OpenStax said they "
2850 "specifically pursue strategies they know that traditional publishers "
2851 "cannot. “Don’t go into a market and play by the incumbent rules,” David "
2852 "said. “Change the rules of engagement.”"
2855 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
2856 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2166
2857 msgid "Making Money"
2860 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2861 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2176
2863 "William Landes Foster, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen, “Ten Nonprofit "
2864 "Funding Models,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009, <ulink "
2865 "url=\"http://ssir.org/articles/entry/ten_nonprofit_funding_models\"/>."
2868 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2869 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2168
2871 "Like any moneymaking endeavor, those that are Made with Creative Commons "
2872 "have to generate some type of value for their audience or "
2873 "customers. Sometimes that value is subsidized by funders who are not "
2874 "actually beneficiaries of that value. Funders, whether philanthropic "
2875 "institutions, governments, or concerned individuals, provide money to the "
2876 "organization out of a sense of pure altruism. This is the way traditional "
2877 "nonprofit funding operates.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But in "
2878 "many cases, the revenue streams used by endeavors that are Made with "
2879 "Creative Commons are directly tied to the value they generate, where the "
2880 "recipient is paying for the value they receive like any standard market "
2881 "transaction. In still other cases, rather than the quid pro quo exchange of "
2882 "money for value that typically drives market transactions, the recipient "
2883 "gives money out of a sense of reciprocity."
2886 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para><footnote><para>
2887 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2197
2888 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 111."
2891 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2892 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2189
2894 "Most who are Made with Creative Commons use a variety of methods to bring in "
2895 "revenue, some market-based and some not. One common strategy is using grant "
2896 "funding for content creation when research-and-development costs are "
2897 "particularly high, and then finding a different revenue stream (or streams) "
2898 "for ongoing expenses. As Shirky wrote, “The trick is in knowing when markets "
2899 "are an optimal way of organizing interactions and when they are "
2900 "not.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2903 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
2904 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2201
2906 "Our case studies explore in more detail the various revenue-generating "
2907 "mechanisms used by the creators, organizations, and businesses we "
2908 "interviewed. There is nuance hidden within the specific ways each of them "
2909 "makes money, so it is a bit dangerous to generalize too much about what we "
2910 "learned. Nonetheless, zooming out and viewing things from a higher level of "
2911 "abstraction can be instructive."
2914 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
2915 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2210
2916 msgid "Market-based revenue streams"
2919 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2920 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2215
2921 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 30."
2924 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2925 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2222
2927 "Jim Whitehurst, The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance "
2928 "(Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015), 202."
2931 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2932 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2212
2934 "In the market, the central question when determining how to bring in revenue "
2935 "is what value people are willing to pay for.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
2936 "id=\"0\"/> By definition, if you are Made with Creative Commons, the content "
2937 "you provide is available for free and not a market commodity. Like the "
2938 "ubiquitous freemium business model, any possible market transaction with a "
2939 "consumer of your content has to be based on some added value you "
2940 "provide.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
2943 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2944 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2238
2945 msgid "Anderson, Free, 71."
2948 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2949 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2228
2951 "In many ways, this is the way of the future for all content-driven "
2952 "endeavors. In the market, value lives in things that are scarce. Because the "
2953 "Internet makes a universe of content available to all of us for free, it is "
2954 "difficult to get people to pay for content online. The struggling newspaper "
2955 "industry is a testament to this fact. This is compounded by the fact that at "
2956 "least some amount of copying is probably inevitable. That means you may end "
2957 "up competing with free versions of your own content, whether you condone it "
2958 "or not.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> If people can easily find "
2959 "your content for free, getting people to buy it will be difficult, "
2960 "particularly in a context where access to content is more important than "
2961 "owning it. In Free, Anderson wrote, “Copyright protection schemes, whether "
2962 "coded into either law or software, are simply holding up a price against the "
2963 "force of gravity.”"
2966 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
2967 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2257
2971 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2972 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2247
2974 "Of course, this doesn’t mean that content-driven endeavors have no future in "
2975 "the traditional marketplace. In Free, Anderson explains how when one product "
2976 "or service becomes free, as information and content largely have in the "
2977 "digital age, other things become more valuable. “Every abundance creates a "
2978 "new scarcity,” he wrote. You just have to find some way other than the "
2979 "content to provide value to your audience or customers. As Anderson says, "
2980 "“It’s easy to compete with Free: simply offer something better or at least "
2981 "different from the free version.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
2984 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2985 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2261
2987 "In light of this reality, in some ways endeavors that are Made with Creative "
2988 "Commons are at a level playing field with all content-based endeavors in the "
2989 "digital age. In fact, they may even have an advantage because they can use "
2990 "the abundance of content to derive revenue from something scarce. They can "
2991 "also benefit from the goodwill that stems from the values behind being Made "
2992 "with Creative Commons."
2995 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
2996 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2270
2998 "For content creators and distributors, there are nearly infinite ways to "
2999 "provide value to the consumers of your work, above and beyond the value that "
3000 "lives within your free digital content. Often, the CC-licensed content "
3001 "functions as a marketing tool for the paid product or service."
3004 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3005 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2277
3006 msgid "Here are the most common high-level categories."
3009 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3010 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2281
3012 "Providing a custom service to consumers of your work "
3013 "<emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3016 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3017 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2291
3021 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3022 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2284
3024 "In this age of information abundance, we don’t lack for content. The trick "
3025 "is finding content that matches our needs and wants, so customized services "
3026 "are particularly valuable. As Anderson wrote, “Commodity information "
3027 "(everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information "
3028 "(you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be "
3029 "expensive.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> This can be anything "
3030 "from the artistic and cultural consulting services provided by Ártica to the "
3031 "custom-song business of Jonathan “Song-A-Day” Mann."
3034 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3035 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2298
3036 msgid "Charging for the physical copy <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3039 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3040 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2305
3041 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 107."
3044 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3045 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2301
3047 "In his book about maker culture, Anderson characterizes this model as giving "
3048 "away the bits and selling the atoms (where bits refers to digital content "
3049 "and atoms refer to a physical object).<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3050 "id=\"0\"/> This is particularly successful in domains where the digital "
3051 "version of the content isn’t as valuable as the analog version, like book "
3052 "publishing where a significant subset of people still prefer reading "
3053 "something they can hold in their hands. Or in domains where the content "
3054 "isn’t useful until it is in physical form, like furniture designs. In those "
3055 "situations, a significant portion of consumers will pay for the convenience "
3056 "of having someone else put the physical version together for them. Some "
3057 "endeavors squeeze even more out of this revenue stream by using a Creative "
3058 "Commons license that only allows noncommercial uses, which means no one else "
3059 "can sell physical copies of their work in competition with them. This "
3060 "strategy of reserving commercial rights can be particularly important for "
3061 "items like books, where every printed copy of the same work is likely to be "
3062 "the same quality, so it is harder to differentiate one publishing service "
3063 "from another. On the other hand, for items like furniture or electronics, "
3064 "the provider of the physical goods can compete with other providers of the "
3065 "same works based on quality, service, or other traditional business "
3069 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3070 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2329
3071 msgid "Charging for the in-person version <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3074 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3075 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2332
3077 "As anyone who has ever gone to a concert will tell you, experiencing "
3078 "creativity in person is a completely different experience from consuming a "
3079 "digital copy on your own. Far from acting as a substitute for face-to-face "
3080 "interaction, CC-licensed content can actually create demand for the "
3081 "in-person version of experience. You can see this effect when people go view "
3082 "original art in person or pay to attend a talk or training course."
3085 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3086 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2343
3087 msgid "Selling merchandise <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3090 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3091 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2346
3093 "In many cases, people who like your work will pay for products demonstrating "
3094 "a connection to your work. As a child of the 1980s, I can personally attest "
3095 "to the power of a good concert T-shirt. This can also be an important "
3096 "revenue stream for museums and galleries."
3099 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3100 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2363
3101 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 89."
3104 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3105 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2353
3107 "Sometimes the way to find a market-based revenue stream is by providing "
3108 "value to people other than those who consume your CC-licensed content. In "
3109 "these revenue streams, the free content is being subsidized by an entirely "
3110 "different category of people or businesses. Often, those people or "
3111 "businesses are paying to access your main audience. The fact that the "
3112 "content is free increases the size of the audience, which in turn makes the "
3113 "offer more valuable to the paying customers. This is a variation of a "
3114 "traditional business model built on free called multi-sided "
3115 "platforms.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Access to your audience "
3116 "isn’t the only thing people are willing to pay for—there are other services "
3117 "you can provide as well."
3120 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3121 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2370
3122 msgid "Charging advertisers or sponsors <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3125 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3126 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2378
3130 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3131 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2382
3132 msgid "Anderson, Free, 142."
3135 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3136 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2373
3138 "The traditional model of subsidizing free content is advertising. In this "
3139 "version of multi-sided platforms, advertisers pay for the opportunity to "
3140 "reach the set of eyeballs the content creators provide in the form of their "
3141 "audience.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> The Internet has made "
3142 "this model more difficult because the number of potential channels available "
3143 "to reach those eyeballs has become essentially infinite.<placeholder "
3144 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Nonetheless, it remains a viable revenue stream "
3145 "for many content creators, including those who are Made with Creative "
3146 "Commons. Often, instead of paying to display advertising, the advertiser "
3147 "pays to be an official sponsor of particular content or projects, or of the "
3151 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3152 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2391
3153 msgid "Charging your content creators <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3156 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3157 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2394
3159 "Another type of multisided platform is where the content creators themselves "
3160 "pay to be featured on the platform. Obviously, this revenue stream is only "
3161 "available to those who rely on work created, at least in part, by "
3162 "others. The most well-known version of this model is the “author-processing "
3163 "charge” of open-access journals like those published by the Public Library "
3164 "of Science, but there are other variations. The Conversation is primarily "
3165 "funded by a university-membership model, where universities pay to have "
3166 "their faculties participate as writers of the content on the Conversation "
3170 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3171 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2408
3172 msgid "Charging a transaction fee <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3175 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3176 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2413
3177 msgid "Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 32."
3180 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3181 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2411
3183 "This is a version of a traditional business model based on brokering "
3184 "transactions between parties.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
3185 "Curation is an important element of this model. Platforms like the Noun "
3186 "Project add value by wading through CC-licensed content to curate a "
3187 "high-quality set and then derive revenue when creators of that content make "
3188 "transactions with customers. Other platforms make money when service "
3189 "providers transact with their customers; for example, Opendesk makes money "
3190 "every time someone on their site pays a maker to make furniture based on one "
3191 "of the designs on the platform."
3194 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3195 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2425
3196 msgid "Providing a service to your creators <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3199 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3200 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2428
3202 "As mentioned above, endeavors can make money by providing customized "
3203 "services to their users. Platforms can undertake a variation of this service "
3204 "model directed at the creators that provide the content they feature. The "
3205 "data platforms Figure.NZ and Figshare both capitalize on this model by "
3206 "providing paid tools to help their users make the data they contribute to "
3207 "the platform more discoverable and reusable."
3210 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3211 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2438
3212 msgid "Licensing a trademark <emphasis>[MARKET-BASED]</emphasis>"
3215 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3216 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2441
3218 "Finally, some that are Made with Creative Commons make money by selling use "
3219 "of their trademarks. Well known brands that consumers associate with "
3220 "quality, credibility, or even an ethos can license that trademark to "
3221 "companies that want to take advantage of that goodwill. By definition, "
3222 "trademarks are scarce because they represent a particular source of a good "
3223 "or service. Charging for the ability to use that trademark is a way of "
3224 "deriving revenue from something scarce while taking advantage of the "
3225 "abundance of CC content."
3228 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3229 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2453
3230 msgid "Reciprocity-based revenue streams"
3233 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3234 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2455
3236 "Even if we set aside grant funding, we found that the traditional economic "
3237 "framework of understanding the market failed to fully capture the ways the "
3238 "endeavors we analyzed were making money. It was not simply about monetizing "
3242 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3243 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2462
3245 "Rather than devising a scheme to get people to pay money in exchange for "
3246 "some direct value provided to them, many of the revenue streams were more "
3247 "about providing value, building a relationship, and then eventually finding "
3248 "some money that flows back out of a sense of reciprocity. While some look "
3249 "like traditional nonprofit funding models, they aren’t charity. The endeavor "
3250 "exchange value with people, just not necessarily synchronously or in a way "
3251 "that requires that those values be equal. As David Bollier wrote in Think "
3252 "Like a Commoner, “There is no self-serving calculation of whether the value "
3253 "given and received is strictly equal.”"
3256 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3257 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2475
3259 "This should be a familiar dynamic—it is the way you deal with your friends "
3260 "and family. We give without regard for what and when we will get back. David "
3261 "Bollier wrote, “Reciprocal social exchange lies at the heart of human "
3262 "identity, community and culture. It is a vital brain function that helps the "
3263 "human species survive and evolve.”"
3266 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3267 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2485
3268 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 150."
3271 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3272 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2489
3276 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3277 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2483
3279 "What is rare is to incorporate this sort of relationship into an endeavor "
3280 "that also engages with the market.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
3281 "We almost can’t help but think of relationships in the market as being "
3282 "centered on an even-steven exchange of value.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3286 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3287 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2494
3289 "Memberships and individual donations "
3290 "<emphasis>[RECIPROCITY-BASED]</emphasis>"
3293 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3294 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2497
3296 "While memberships and donations are traditional nonprofit funding models, in "
3297 "the Made with Creative Commons context, they are directly tied to the "
3298 "reciprocal relationship that is cultivated with the beneficiaries of their "
3299 "work. The bigger the pool of those receiving value from the content, the "
3300 "more likely this strategy will work, given that only a small percentage of "
3301 "people are likely to contribute. Since using CC licenses can grease the "
3302 "wheels for content to reach more people, this strategy can be more effective "
3303 "for endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons. The greater the argument "
3304 "that the content is a public good or that the entire endeavor is furthering "
3305 "a social mission, the more likely this strategy is to succeed."
3308 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3309 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2513
3310 msgid "The pay-what-you-want model <emphasis>[RECIPROCITY-BASED]</emphasis>"
3313 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3314 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2516
3316 "In the pay-what-you-want model, the beneficiary of Creative Commons content "
3317 "is invited to give—at any amount they can and feel is appropriate, based on "
3318 "the public and personal value they feel is generated by the open "
3319 "content. Critically, these models are not touted as “buying” something "
3320 "free. They are similar to a tip jar. People make financial contributions as "
3321 "an act of gratitude. These models capitalize on the fact that we are "
3322 "naturally inclined to give money for things we value in the marketplace, "
3323 "even in situations where we could find a way to get it for free."
3326 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3327 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2529
3328 msgid "Crowdfunding <emphasis>[RECIPROCITY-BASED]</emphasis>"
3331 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3332 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2532
3334 "Crowdfunding models are based on recouping the costs of creating and "
3335 "distributing content before the content is created. If the endeavor is Made "
3336 "with Creative Commons, anyone who wants the work in question could simply "
3337 "wait until it’s created and then access it for free. That means, for this "
3338 "model to work, people have to care about more than just receiving the "
3339 "work. They have to want you to succeed. Amanda Palmer credits the success of "
3340 "her crowdfunding on Kickstarter and Patreon to the years she spent building "
3341 "her community and creating a connection with her fans. She wrote in The Art "
3342 "of Asking, “Good art is made, good art is shared, help is offered, ears are "
3343 "bent, emotions are exchanged, the compost of real, deep connection is "
3344 "sprayed all over the fields. Then one day, the artist steps up and asks for "
3345 "something. And if the ground has been fertilized enough, the audience says, "
3346 "without hesitation: of course.”"
3349 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3350 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2550
3352 "Other types of crowdfunding rely on a sense of responsibility that a "
3353 "particular community may feel. Knowledge Unlatched pools funds from major "
3354 "U.S. libraries to subsidize CC-licensed academic work that will be, by "
3355 "definition, available to everyone for free. Libraries with bigger budgets "
3356 "tend to give more out of a sense of commitment to the library community and "
3357 "to the idea of open access generally."
3360 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><title>
3361 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2561
3362 msgid "Making Human Connections"
3365 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3366 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2563
3368 "Regardless of how they made money, in our interviews, we repeatedly heard "
3369 "language like “persuading people to buy” and “inviting people to pay.” We "
3370 "heard it even in connection with revenue streams that sit squarely within "
3371 "the market. Cory Doctorow told us, “I have to convince my readers that the "
3372 "right thing to do is to pay me.” The founders of the for-profit company "
3373 "Lumen Learning showed us the letter they send to those who opt not to pay "
3374 "for the services they provide in connection with their CC-licensed "
3375 "educational content. It isn’t a cease-and-desist letter; it’s an invitation "
3376 "to pay because it’s the right thing to do. This sort of behavior toward what "
3377 "could be considered nonpaying customers is largely unheard of in the "
3378 "traditional marketplace. But it seems to be part of the fabric of being Made "
3379 "with Creative Commons."
3382 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3383 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2579
3385 "Nearly every endeavor we profiled relied, at least in part, on people being "
3386 "invested in what they do. The closer the Creative Commons content is to "
3387 "being “the product,” the more pronounced this dynamic has to be. Rather than "
3388 "simply selling a product or service, they are making ideological, personal, "
3389 "and creative connections with the people who value what they do."
3392 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3393 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2587
3395 "It took me a very long time to see how this avoidance of thinking about what "
3396 "they do in pure market terms was deeply tied to being Made with Creative "
3400 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3401 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2592
3403 "I came to the research with preconceived notions about what Creative Commons "
3404 "is and what it means to be Made with Creative Commons. It turned out I was "
3405 "wrong on so many counts."
3408 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3409 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2597
3411 "Obviously, being Made with Creative Commons means using Creative Commons "
3412 "licenses. That much I knew. But in our interviews, people spoke of so much "
3413 "more than copyright permissions when they explained how sharing fit into "
3414 "what they do. I was thinking about sharing too narrowly, and as a result, I "
3415 "was missing vast swaths of the meaning packed within Creative "
3416 "Commons. Rather than parsing the specific and narrow role of the copyright "
3417 "license in the equation, it is important not to disaggregate the rest of "
3418 "what comes with sharing. You have to widen the lens."
3421 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3422 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2608
3424 "Being Made with Creative Commons is not just about the simple act of "
3425 "licensing a copyrighted work under a set of standardized terms, but also "
3426 "about community, social good, contributing ideas, expressing a value system, "
3427 "working together. These components of sharing are hard to cultivate if you "
3428 "think about what you do in purely market terms. Decent social behavior isn’t "
3429 "as intuitive when we are doing something that involves monetary exchange. It "
3430 "takes a conscious effort to foster the context for real sharing, based not "
3431 "strictly on impersonal market exchange, but on connections with the people "
3432 "with whom you share—connections with you, with your work, with your values, "
3436 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><para>
3437 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2622
3439 "The rest of this section will explore some of the common strategies that "
3440 "creators, companies, and organizations use to remind us that there are "
3441 "humans behind every creative endeavor. To remind us we have obligations to "
3442 "each other. To remind us what sharing really looks like."
3445 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3446 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2629
3450 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3451 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2633
3453 "Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our "
3454 "Decisions, rev. ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), 109."
3457 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3458 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2631
3460 "Humans are social animals, which means we are naturally inclined to treat "
3461 "each other well.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But the further "
3462 "removed we are from the person with whom we are interacting, the less caring "
3463 "our behavior will be. While the Internet has democratized cultural "
3464 "production, increased access to knowledge, and connected us in extraordinary "
3465 "ways, it can also make it easy forget we are dealing with another human."
3468 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3469 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2657
3471 "Austin Kleon, Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get "
3472 "Discovered (New York: Workman, 2014), 93."
3475 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3476 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2644
3478 "To counteract the anonymous and impersonal tendencies of how we operate "
3479 "online, individual creators and corporations who use Creative Commons "
3480 "licenses work to demonstrate their humanity. For some, this means pouring "
3481 "their lives out on the page. For others, it means showing their creative "
3482 "process, giving a glimpse into how they do what they do. As writer Austin "
3483 "Kleon wrote, “Our work doesn’t speak for itself. Human beings want to know "
3484 "where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories "
3485 "you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and "
3486 "what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they "
3487 "understand about your work affects how they value it.”<placeholder "
3488 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
3491 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3492 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2663
3494 "A critical component to doing this effectively is not worrying about being a "
3495 "“brand.” That means not being afraid to be vulnerable. Amanda Palmer says, "
3496 "“When you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect with "
3497 "them. You’re too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.” Not everyone "
3498 "is suited to live life as an open book like Palmer, and that’s OK. There are "
3499 "a lot of ways to be human. The trick is just avoiding pretense and the "
3500 "temptation to artificially craft an image. People don’t just want the glossy "
3501 "version of you. They can’t relate to it, at least not in a meaningful way."
3504 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3505 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2683
3506 msgid "Kramer, Shareology, 76."
3509 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3510 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2675
3512 "This advice is probably even more important for businesses and organizations "
3513 "because we instinctively conceive of them as nonhuman (though in the United "
3514 "States, corporations are people!). When corporations and organizations make "
3515 "the people behind them more apparent, it reminds people that they are "
3516 "dealing with something other than an anonymous corporate entity. In "
3517 "business-speak, this is about “humanizing your interactions” with the "
3518 "public.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But it can’t be a "
3519 "gimmick. You can’t fake being human."
3522 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3523 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2689
3524 msgid "Be open and accountable"
3527 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3528 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2698
3529 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 252."
3532 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3533 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2703
3534 msgid "Whitehurst, Open Organization, 145."
3537 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3538 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2691
3540 "Transparency helps people understand who you are and why you do what you do, "
3541 "but it also inspires trust. Max Temkin of Cards Against Humanity told us, "
3542 "“One of the most surprising things you can do in capitalism is just be "
3543 "honest with people.” That means sharing the good and the bad. As Amanda "
3544 "Palmer wrote, “You can fix almost anything by authentically "
3545 "communicating.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It isn’t about "
3546 "trying to satisfy everyone or trying to sugarcoat mistakes or bad news, but "
3547 "instead about explaining your rationale and then being prepared to defend it "
3548 "when people are critical.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3551 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3552 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2712
3553 msgid "Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 203."
3556 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3557 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2719
3558 msgid "Whitehurst, Open Organization, 80."
3561 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3562 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2707
3564 "Being accountable does not mean operating on consensus. According to James "
3565 "Surowiecki, consensus-driven groups tend to resort to "
3566 "lowest-common-denominator solutions and avoid the sort of candid exchange of "
3567 "ideas that cultivates healthy collaboration.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3568 "id=\"0\"/> Instead, it can be as simple as asking for input and then giving "
3569 "context and explanation about decisions you make, even if soliciting "
3570 "feedback and inviting discourse is time-consuming. If you don’t go through "
3571 "the effort to actually respond to the input you receive, it can be worse "
3572 "than not inviting input in the first place.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3573 "id=\"1\"/> But when you get it right, it can guarantee the type of diversity "
3574 "of thought that helps endeavors excel. And it is another way to get people "
3575 "involved and invested in what you do."
3578 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3579 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2727
3580 msgid "Design for the good actors"
3583 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3584 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2731
3585 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 25."
3588 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3589 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2736
3593 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3594 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2729
3596 "Traditional economics assumes people make decisions based solely on their "
3597 "own economic self-interest.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Any "
3598 "relatively introspective human knows this is a fiction—we are much more "
3599 "complicated beings with a whole range of needs, emotions, and "
3600 "motivations. In fact, we are hardwired to work together and ensure "
3601 "fairness.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Being Made with Creative "
3602 "Commons requires an assumption that people will largely act on those social "
3603 "motivations, motivations that would be considered “irrational” in an "
3604 "economic sense. As Knowledge Unlatched’s Pinter told us, “It is best to "
3605 "ignore people who try to scare you about free riding. That fear is based on "
3606 "a very shallow view of what motivates human behavior.” There will always be "
3607 "people who will act in purely selfish ways, but endeavors that are Made with "
3608 "Creative Commons design for the good actors."
3611 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3612 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2754
3613 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 112."
3616 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3617 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2748
3619 "The assumption that people will largely do the right thing can be a "
3620 "self-fulfilling prophecy. Shirky wrote in Cognitive Surplus, “Systems that "
3621 "assume people will act in ways that create public goods, and that give them "
3622 "opportunities and rewards for doing so, often let them work together better "
3623 "than neoclassical economics would predict.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3624 "id=\"0\"/> When we acknowledge that people are often motivated by something "
3625 "other than financial self-interest, we design our endeavors in ways that "
3626 "encourage and accentuate our social instincts."
3629 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3630 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2771
3631 msgid "Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 124."
3634 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3635 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2761
3637 "Rather than trying to exert control over people’s behavior, this mode of "
3638 "operating requires a certain level of trust. We might not realize it, but "
3639 "our daily lives are already built on trust. As Surowiecki wrote in The "
3640 "Wisdom of Crowds, “It’s impossible for a society to rely on law alone to "
3641 "make sure citizens act honestly and responsibly. And it’s impossible for any "
3642 "organization to rely on contracts alone to make sure that its managers and "
3643 "workers live up to their obligation.” Instead, we largely trust that "
3644 "people—mostly strangers—will do what they are supposed to do.<placeholder "
3645 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And most often, they do."
3648 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3649 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2776
3650 msgid "Treat humans like, well, humans"
3653 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3654 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2781
3655 msgid "Kleon, Show Your Work, 127."
3658 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3659 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2789
3660 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 121."
3663 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3664 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2778
3666 "For creators, treating people as humans means not treating them like "
3667 "fans. As Kleon says, “If you want fans, you have to be a fan "
3668 "first.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Even if you happen to be "
3669 "one of the few to reach celebrity levels of fame, you are better off "
3670 "remembering that the people who follow your work are human, too. Cory "
3671 "Doctorow makes a point to answer every single email someone sends him. "
3672 "Amanda Palmer spends vast quantities of time going online to communicate "
3673 "with her public, making a point to listen just as much as she "
3674 "talks.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3677 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3678 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2793
3680 "The same idea goes for businesses and organizations. Rather than automating "
3681 "its customer service, the music platform Tribe of Noise makes a point to "
3682 "ensure its employees have personal, one-on-one interaction with users."
3685 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3686 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2804
3687 msgid "Ariely, Predictably Irrational, 87."
3690 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3691 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2814
3695 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3696 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2799
3698 "When we treat people like humans, they typically return the gift in "
3699 "kind. It’s called karma. But social relationships are fragile. It is all too "
3700 "easy to destroy them if you make the mistake of treating people as anonymous "
3701 "customers or free labor.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Platforms "
3702 "that rely on content from contributors are especially at risk of creating an "
3703 "exploitative dynamic. It is important to find ways to acknowledge and pay "
3704 "back the value that contributors generate. That does not mean you can solve "
3705 "this problem by simply paying contributors for their time or "
3706 "contributions. As soon as we introduce money into a relationship—at least "
3707 "when it takes a form of paying monetary value in exchange for other value—it "
3708 "can dramatically change the dynamic.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3712 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3713 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2819
3714 msgid "State your principles and stick to them"
3717 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3718 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2821
3720 "Being Made with Creative Commons makes a statement about who you are and "
3721 "what you do. The symbolism is powerful. Using Creative Commons licenses "
3722 "demonstrates adherence to a particular belief system, which generates "
3723 "goodwill and connects like-minded people to your work. Sometimes people will "
3724 "be drawn to endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons as a way of "
3725 "demonstrating their own commitment to the Creative Commons value system, "
3726 "akin to a political statement. Other times people will identify and feel "
3727 "connected with an endeavor’s separate social mission. Often both."
3730 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3731 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2833
3733 "The expression of your values doesn’t have to be implicit. In fact, many of "
3734 "the people we interviewed talked about how important it is to state your "
3735 "guiding principles up front. Lumen Learning attributes a lot of their "
3736 "success to having been outspoken about the fundamental values that guide "
3737 "what they do. As a for-profit company, they think their expressed commitment "
3738 "to low-income students and open licensing has been critical to their "
3739 "credibility in the OER (open educational resources) community in which they "
3743 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3744 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2848
3748 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3749 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2844
3751 "When your end goal is not about making a profit, people trust that you "
3752 "aren’t just trying to extract value for your own gain. People notice when "
3753 "you have a sense of purpose that transcends your own "
3754 "self-interest.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It attracts "
3755 "committed employees, motivates contributors, and builds trust."
3758 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3759 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2854
3760 msgid "Build a community"
3763 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3764 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2862
3766 "Jono Bacon, The Art of Community, 2nd ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, "
3770 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3771 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2856
3773 "Endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons thrive when community is built "
3774 "around what they do. This may mean a community collaborating together to "
3775 "create something new, or it may simply be a collection of like-minded people "
3776 "who get to know each other and rally around common interests or "
3777 "beliefs.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> To a certain extent, "
3778 "simply being Made with Creative Commons automatically brings with it some "
3779 "element of community, by helping connect you to like-minded others who "
3780 "recognize and are drawn to the values symbolized by using CC."
3783 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3784 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2878
3785 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 98."
3788 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3789 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2885
3790 msgid "Whitehurst, Open Organization, 34."
3793 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3794 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2870
3796 "To be sustainable, though, you have to work to nurture community. People "
3797 "have to care—about you and each other. One critical piece to this is "
3798 "fostering a sense of belonging. As Jono Bacon writes in The Art of "
3799 "Community, “If there is no belonging, there is no community.” For Amanda "
3800 "Palmer and her band, that meant creating an accepting and inclusive "
3801 "environment where people felt a part of their “weird little "
3802 "family.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> For organizations like Red "
3803 "Hat, that means connecting around common beliefs or goals. As the CEO Jim "
3804 "Whitehurst wrote in The Open Organization, “Tapping into passion is "
3805 "especially important in building the kinds of participative communities that "
3806 "drive open organizations.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3809 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3810 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2897
3811 msgid "Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds, 200."
3814 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3815 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2901
3816 msgid "Bollier, Think Like a Commoner, 29."
3819 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3820 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2889
3822 "Communities that collaborate together take deliberate planning. Surowiecki "
3823 "wrote, “It takes a lot of work to put the group together. It’s difficult to "
3824 "ensure that people are working in the group’s interest and not in their "
3825 "own. And when there’s a lack of trust between the members of the group "
3826 "(which isn’t surprising given that they don’t really know each other), "
3827 "considerable energy is wasted trying to determine each other’s bona "
3828 "fides.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Building true community "
3829 "requires giving people within the community the power to create or influence "
3830 "the rules that govern the community.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
3831 "id=\"1\"/> If the rules are created and imposed in a top-down manner, people "
3832 "feel like they don’t have a voice, which in turn leads to disengagement."
3835 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3836 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2907
3838 "Community takes work, but working together, or even simply being connected "
3839 "around common interests or values, is in many ways what sharing is about."
3842 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3843 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2913
3844 msgid "Give more to the commons than you take"
3847 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3848 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2924
3850 "Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi, “The Sharing Economy Isn’t about Sharing "
3851 "at All,” Harvard Business Review (website), January 28, 2015, <ulink "
3852 "url=\"http://hbr.org/2015/01/the-sharing-economy-isnt-about-sharing-at-all\"/>."
3855 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3856 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2932
3858 "Lisa Gansky, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing, reprint with "
3859 "new epilogue (New York: Portfolio, 2012)."
3862 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3863 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2915
3865 "Conventional wisdom in the marketplace dictates that people should try to "
3866 "extract as much money as possible from resources. This is essentially what "
3867 "defines so much of the so-called sharing economy. In an article on the "
3868 "Harvard Business Review website called “The Sharing Economy Isn’t about "
3869 "Sharing at All,” authors Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi explained how the "
3870 "anonymous market-driven trans-actions in most sharing-economy businesses are "
3871 "purely about monetizing access.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As "
3872 "Lisa Gansky put it in her book The Mesh, the primary strategy of the sharing "
3873 "economy is to sell the same product multiple times, by selling access rather "
3874 "than ownership.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> That is not "
3878 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3879 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2948
3881 "David Lee, “Inside Medium: An Attempt to Bring Civility to the Internet,” "
3882 "BBC News, March 3, 2016, <ulink "
3883 "url=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35709680\"/>."
3886 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3887 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2938
3889 "Sharing requires adding as much or more value to the ecosystem than you "
3890 "take. You can’t simply treat open content as a free pool of resources from "
3891 "which to extract value. Part of giving back to the ecosystem is contributing "
3892 "content back to the public under CC licenses. But it doesn’t have to just be "
3893 "about creating content; it can be about adding value in other ways. The "
3894 "social blogging platform Medium provides value to its community by "
3895 "incentivizing good behavior, and the result is an online space with "
3896 "remarkably high-quality user-generated content and limited "
3897 "trolling.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Opendesk contributes to "
3898 "its community by committing to help its designers make money, in part by "
3899 "actively curating and displaying their work on its platform effectively."
3902 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3903 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2957
3905 "In all cases, it is important to openly acknowledge the amount of value you "
3906 "add versus that which you draw on that was created by others. Being "
3907 "transparent about this builds credibility and shows you are a contributing "
3908 "player in the commons. When your endeavor is making money, that also means "
3909 "apportioning financial compensation in a way that reflects the value "
3910 "contributed by others, providing more to contributors when the value they "
3911 "add outweighs the value provided by you."
3914 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><title>
3915 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2968
3916 msgid "Involve people in what you do"
3919 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3920 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2973
3921 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 148."
3924 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3925 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2977
3926 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 164."
3929 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3930 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2984 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3048
3931 msgid "Whitehurst, foreword to Open Organization."
3934 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3935 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2970
3937 "Thanks to the Internet, we can tap into the talents and expertise of people "
3938 "around the globe. Chris Anderson calls it the Long Tail of "
3939 "talent.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> But to make collaboration "
3940 "work, the group has to be effective at what it is doing, and the people "
3941 "within the group have to find satisfaction from being involved.<placeholder "
3942 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> This is easier to facilitate for some types of "
3943 "creative work than it is for others. Groups tied together online collaborate "
3944 "best when people can work independently and asynchronously, and particularly "
3945 "for larger groups with loose ties, when contributors can make simple "
3946 "improvements without a particularly heavy time commitment.<placeholder "
3947 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"2\"/>"
3950 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3951 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2997
3952 msgid "Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, 144."
3955 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3956 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:2988
3958 "As the success of Wikipedia demonstrates, editing an online encyclopedia is "
3959 "exactly the sort of activity that is perfect for massive co-creation because "
3960 "small, incremental edits made by a diverse range of people acting on their "
3961 "own are immensely valuable in the aggregate. Those same sorts of small "
3962 "contributions would be less useful for many other types of creative work, "
3963 "and people are inherently less motivated to contribute when it doesn’t "
3964 "appear that their efforts will make much of a difference.<placeholder "
3965 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
3968 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3969 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3009
3973 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
3974 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3021
3975 msgid "Palmer, Art of Asking, 163."
3978 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
3979 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3001
3981 "It is easy to romanticize the opportunities for global cocreation made "
3982 "possible by the Internet, and, indeed, the successful examples of it are "
3983 "truly incredible and inspiring. But in a wide range of "
3984 "circumstances—perhaps more often than not—community cocreation is not part "
3985 "of the equation, even within endeavors built on CC content. Shirky wrote, "
3986 "“Sometimes the value of professional work trumps the value of amateur "
3987 "sharing or a feeling of belonging.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> "
3988 "The textbook publisher OpenStax, which distributes all of its material for "
3989 "free under CC licensing, is an example of this dynamic. Rather than tapping "
3990 "the community to help cocreate their college textbooks, they invest a "
3991 "significant amount of time and money to develop professional content. For "
3992 "individual creators, where the creative work is the basis for what they do, "
3993 "community cocreation is only rarely a part of the picture. Even musician "
3994 "Amanda Palmer, who is famous for her openness and involvement with her fans, "
3995 "said, “The only department where I wasn’t open to input was the writing, the "
3996 "music itself.”<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
3999 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4000 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3032
4001 msgid "Anderson, Makers, 173."
4004 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4005 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3039
4007 "Tom Kelley and David Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Potential "
4008 "within Us All (New York: Crown, 2013), 82."
4011 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
4012 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3025
4014 "While we tend to immediately think of cocreation and remixing when we hear "
4015 "the word collaboration, you can also involve others in your creative process "
4016 "in more informal ways, by sharing half-baked ideas and early drafts, and "
4017 "interacting with the public to incubate ideas and get feedback. So-called "
4018 "“making in public” opens the door to letting people feel more invested in "
4019 "your creative work.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> And it shows a "
4020 "nonterritorial approach to ideas and information. Stephen Covey (of The 7 "
4021 "Habits of Highly Effective People fame) calls this the abundance "
4022 "mentality—treating ideas like something plentiful—and it can create an "
4023 "environment where collaboration flourishes.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
4027 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para><footnote><para>
4028 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3056
4030 "Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of "
4031 "Collaborative Consumption (New York: Harper Business, 2010), 188."
4034 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><sect1><sect2><para>
4035 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3045
4037 "There is no one way to involve people in what you do. They key is finding a "
4038 "way for people to contribute on their terms, compelled by their own "
4039 "motivations.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> What that looks like "
4040 "varies wildly depending on the project. Not every endeavor that is Made with "
4041 "Creative Commons can be Wikipedia, but every endeavor can find ways to "
4042 "invite the public into what they do. The goal for any form of collaboration "
4043 "is to move away from thinking of consumers as passive recipients of your "
4044 "content and transition them into active participants.<placeholder "
4045 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
4048 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4049 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3065
4050 msgid "The Creative Commons Licenses"
4053 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4054 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3067
4056 "All of the Creative Commons licenses grant a basic set of permissions. At a "
4057 "minimum, a CC- licensed work can be copied and shared in its original form "
4058 "for noncommercial purposes so long as attribution is given to the "
4059 "creator. There are six licenses in the CC license suite that build on that "
4060 "basic set of permissions, ranging from the most restrictive (allowing only "
4061 "those basic permissions to share unmodified copies for noncommercial "
4062 "purposes) to the most permissive (reusers can do anything they want with "
4063 "the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they give the creator "
4064 "credit). The licenses are built on copyright and do not cover other types of "
4065 "rights that creators might have in their works, like patents or trademarks."
4068 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4069 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3081
4070 msgid "Here are the six licenses:"
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4074 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3085
4076 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4077 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001930000008D83BF99FC0821C489.png\" "
4078 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4081 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4082 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3094
4084 "The Attribution license (CC BY) lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and "
4085 "build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the "
4086 "original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses "
4087 "offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed "
4091 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4092 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3102
4094 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4095 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001930000008DFD3592CB17C4EC38.png\" "
4096 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4099 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4100 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3111
4102 "The Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA) lets others remix, tweak, and "
4103 "build upon your work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit "
4104 "you and license their new creations under identical terms. This license is "
4105 "often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new "
4106 "works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will "
4107 "also allow commercial use."
4110 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4111 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3121
4113 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4114 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001930000008D254882DE24793FEA.png\" "
4115 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4118 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4119 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3130
4121 "The Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) allows for redistribution, "
4122 "commercial and noncommercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged with "
4126 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4127 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3136
4129 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4130 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001930000008DCAF78FB61D1CBDA6.png\" "
4131 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4134 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4135 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3145
4137 "The Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC) lets others remix, tweak, "
4138 "and build upon your work noncommercially. Although their new works must also "
4139 "acknowledge you, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the "
4143 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4144 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3152
4146 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4147 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001930000008D16DA603376395620.png\" "
4148 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4151 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4152 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3161
4154 "The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA) lets others "
4155 "remix, tweak, and build upon your work noncommercially, as long as they "
4156 "credit you and license their new creations under the same terms."
4159 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4160 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3168
4162 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4163 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001930000008DC3FEF92B21310965.png\" "
4164 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4167 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4168 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3177
4170 "The Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (CC BY-NC-ND) is the most "
4171 "restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your "
4172 "works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t "
4173 "change them or use them commercially."
4176 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4177 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3184
4179 "In addition to these six licenses, Creative Commons has two public-domain "
4180 "tools—one for creators and the other for those who manage collections of "
4181 "existing works by authors whose terms of copyright have expired:"
4184 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4185 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3191
4187 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4188 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001900000008DBE3414994CD27786.png\" "
4189 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4192 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4193 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3200
4195 "CC0 enables authors and copyright owners to dedicate their works to the "
4196 "worldwide public domain (“no rights reserved”)."
4199 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><informalfigure><mediaobject>
4200 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3205
4202 "<imageobject> <imagedata "
4203 "fileref=\"Pictures/10000201000001900000008D36DCD649C5B1411F.png\" "
4204 "width=\"40.0%\"/> </imageobject>"
4207 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4208 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3214
4210 "The Creative Commons Public Domain Mark facilitates the labeling and "
4211 "discovery of works that are already free of known copyright restrictions."
4214 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4215 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3219
4217 "In our case studies, some use just one Creative Commons license, others use "
4218 "several. Attribution (found in thirteen case studies) and "
4219 "Attribution-ShareAlike (found in eight studies) were the most common, with "
4220 "the other licenses coming up in four or so case studies, including the "
4221 "public-domain tool CC0. Some of the organizations we profiled offer both "
4222 "digital content and software: by using open-source-software licenses for the "
4223 "software code and Creative Commons licenses for digital content, they "
4224 "amplify their involvement with and commitment to sharing."
4227 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4228 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3230
4230 "There is a popular misconception that the three NonCommercial licenses "
4231 "offered by CC are the only options for those who want to make money off "
4232 "their work. As we hope this book makes clear, there are many ways to make "
4233 "endeavors that are Made with Creative Commons sustainable. Reserving "
4234 "commercial rights is only one of those ways. It is certainly true that a "
4235 "license that allows others to make commercial use of your work (CC BY, CC "
4236 "BY-SA, and CC BY-ND) forecloses some traditional revenue streams. If you "
4237 "apply an Attribution (CC BY) license to your book, you can’t force a film "
4238 "company to pay you royalties if they turn your book into a feature-length "
4239 "film, or prevent another company from selling physical copies of your work."
4242 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4243 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3244
4245 "The decision to choose a NonCommercial and/or NoDerivs license comes down to "
4246 "how much you need to retain control over the creative work. The "
4247 "NonCommercial and NoDerivs licenses are ways of reserving some significant "
4248 "portion of the exclusive bundle of rights that copyright grants to "
4249 "creators. In some cases, reserving those rights is important to how you "
4250 "bring in revenue. In other cases, creators use a NonCommercial or NoDerivs "
4251 "license because they can’t give up on the dream of hitting the creative "
4252 "jackpot. The music platform Tribe of Noise told us the NonCommercial "
4253 "licenses were popular among their users because people still held out the "
4254 "dream of having a major record label discover their work."
4257 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4258 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3257
4260 "Other times the decision to use a more restrictive license is due to a "
4261 "concern about the integrity of the work. For example, the nonprofit "
4262 "TeachAIDS uses a NoDerivs license for its educational materials because the "
4263 "medical subject matter is particularly important to get right."
4266 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4267 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3264
4269 "There is no one right way. The NonCommercial and NoDerivs restrictions "
4270 "reflect the values and preferences of creators about how their creative work "
4271 "should be reused, just as the ShareAlike license reflects a different set of "
4272 "values, one that is less about controlling access to their own work and more "
4273 "about ensuring that whatever gets created with their work is available to "
4274 "all on the same terms. Since the beginning of the commons, people have been "
4275 "setting up structures that helped regulate the way in which shared resources "
4276 "were used. The CC licenses are an attempt to standardize norms across all "
4280 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4281 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3276
4285 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4286 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3279
4288 "For more about the licenses including examples and tips on sharing your work "
4289 "in the digital commons, start with the Creative Commons page called “Share "
4290 "Your Work” at <ulink url=\"http://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/\"/>."
4293 #. type: Content of: <book><part><title>
4294 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3287
4295 msgid "The Case Studies"
4298 #. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
4299 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3290
4301 "The twenty-four case studies in this section were chosen from hundreds of "
4302 "nominations received from Kickstarter backers, Creative Commons staff, and "
4303 "the global Creative Commons community. We selected eighty potential "
4304 "candidates that represented a mix of industries, content types, revenue "
4305 "streams, and parts of the world. Twelve of the case studies were selected "
4306 "from that group based on votes cast by Kickstarter backers, and the other "
4307 "twelve were selected by us."
4310 #. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
4311 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3300
4313 "We did background research and conducted interviews for each case study, "
4314 "based on the same set of basic questions about the endeavor. The idea for "
4315 "each case study is to tell the story about the endeavor and the role sharing "
4316 "plays within it, largely the way in which it was told to us by those we "
4320 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4321 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3308
4325 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4326 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3311
4328 "Arduino is a for-profit open-source electronics platform and computer "
4329 "hardware and software company. Founded in 2005 in Italy."
4332 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4333 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3316
4334 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.arduino.cc\"/>"
4337 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4338 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3318
4340 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
4341 "copies (sales of boards, modules, shields, and kits), licensing a trademark "
4342 "(fees paid by those who want to sell Arduino products using their name)"
4345 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4346 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3323 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4164
4347 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 4, 2016"
4350 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4351 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3326
4353 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: David Cuartielles and Tom "
4357 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4358 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3330 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4171 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4602 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4843 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5124 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5433 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5943 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6196 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6517 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6868 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7408 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7692 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8156 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8932
4359 msgid "Profile written by Paul Stacey"
4362 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4363 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3334
4365 "In 2005, at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in northern Italy, "
4366 "teachers and students needed an easy way to use electronics and programming "
4367 "to quickly prototype design ideas. As musicians, artists, and designers, "
4368 "they needed a platform that didn’t require engineering expertise. A group of "
4369 "teachers and students, including Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, "
4370 "Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis, built a platform that combined different "
4371 "open technologies. They called it Arduino. The platform integrated software, "
4372 "hardware, microcontrollers, and electronics. All aspects of the platform "
4373 "were openly licensed: hardware designs and documentation with the "
4374 "Attribution-Share-Alike license (CC BY-SA), and software with the GNU "
4375 "General Public License."
4378 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4379 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3348
4381 "Arduino boards are able to read inputs—light on a sensor, a finger on a "
4382 "button, or a Twitter message—and turn it into outputs—activating a motor, "
4383 "turning on an LED, publishing something online. You send a set of "
4384 "instructions to the microcontroller on the board by using the Arduino "
4385 "programming language and Arduino software (based on a piece of open-source "
4386 "software called Processing, a programming tool used to make visual art)."
4389 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4390 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3358
4392 "“The reasons for making Arduino open source are complicated,” Tom "
4393 "says. Partly it was about supporting flexibility. The open-source nature of "
4394 "Arduino empowers users to modify it and create a lot of different "
4395 "variations, adding on top of what the founders build. David says this "
4396 "“ended up strengthening the platform far beyond what we had even thought of "
4400 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4401 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3366
4403 "For Tom another factor was the impending closure of the Ivrea design "
4404 "school. He’d seen other organizations close their doors and all their work "
4405 "and research just disappear. Open-sourcing ensured that Arduino would "
4406 "outlive the Ivrea closure. Persistence is one thing Tom really likes about "
4407 "open source. If key people leave, or a company shuts down, an open-source "
4408 "product lives on. In Tom’s view, “Open sourcing makes it easier to trust a "
4412 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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4415 "With the school closing, David and some of the other Arduino founders "
4416 "started a consulting firm and multidisciplinary design studio they called "
4417 "Tinker, in London. Tinker designed products and services that bridged the "
4418 "digital and the physical, and they taught people how to use new technologies "
4419 "in creative ways. Revenue from Tinker was invested in sustaining and "
4420 "enhancing Arduino."
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4426 "For Tom, part of Arduino’s success is because the founders made themselves "
4427 "the first customer of their product. They made products they themselves "
4428 "personally wanted. It was a matter of “I need this thing,” not “If we make "
4429 "this, we’ll make a lot of money.” Tom notes that being your own first "
4430 "customer makes you more confident and convincing at selling your product."
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4436 "Arduino’s business model has evolved over time—and Tom says model is a "
4437 "grandiose term for it. Originally, they just wanted to make a few boards and "
4438 "get them out into the world. They started out with two hundred boards, sold "
4439 "them, and made a little profit. They used that to make another thousand, "
4440 "which generated enough revenue to make five thousand. In the early days, "
4441 "they simply tried to generate enough funding to keep the venture going day "
4442 "to day. When they hit the ten thousand mark, they started to think about "
4443 "Arduino as a company. By then it was clear you can open-source the design "
4444 "but still manufacture the physical product. As long as it’s a quality "
4445 "product and sold at a reasonable price, people will buy it."
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4451 "Arduino now has a worldwide community of makers—students, hobbyists, "
4452 "artists, programmers, and professionals. Arduino provides a wiki called "
4453 "Playground (a wiki is where all users can edit and add pages, contributing "
4454 "to and benefiting from collective research). People share code, circuit "
4455 "diagrams, tutorials, DIY instructions, and tips and tricks, and show off "
4456 "their projects. In addition, there’s a multilanguage discussion forum where "
4457 "users can get help using Arduino, discuss topics like robotics, and make "
4458 "suggestions for new Arduino product designs. As of January 2017, 324,928 "
4459 "members had made 2,989,489 posts on 379,044 topics. The worldwide community "
4460 "of makers has contributed an incredible amount of accessible knowledge "
4461 "helpful to novices and experts alike."
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4465 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3420
4467 "Transitioning Arduino from a project to a company was a big step. Other "
4468 "businesses who made boards were charging a lot of money for them. Arduino "
4469 "wanted to make theirs available at a low price to people across a wide range "
4470 "of industries. As with any business, pricing was key. They wanted prices "
4471 "that would get lots of customers but were also high enough to sustain the "
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4476 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3428
4478 "For a business, getting to the end of the year and not being in the red is a "
4479 "success. Arduino may have an open-licensing strategy, but they are still a "
4480 "business, and all the things needed to successfully run one still "
4481 "apply. David says, “If you do those other things well, sharing things in an "
4482 "open-source way can only help you.”"
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4488 "While openly licensing the designs, documentation, and software ensures "
4489 "longevity, it does have risks. There’s a possibility that others will create "
4490 "knockoffs, clones, and copies. The CC BY-SA license means anyone can produce "
4491 "copies of their boards, redesign them, and even sell boards that copy the "
4492 "design. They don’t have to pay a license fee to Arduino or even ask "
4493 "permission. However, if they republish the design of the board, they have to "
4494 "give attribution to Arduino. If they change the design, they must release "
4495 "the new design using the same Creative Commons license to ensure that the "
4496 "new version is equally free and open."
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4502 "Tom and David say that a lot of people have built companies off of Arduino, "
4503 "with dozens of Arduino derivatives out there. But in contrast to closed "
4504 "business models that can wring money out of the system over many years "
4505 "because there is no competition, Arduino founders saw competition as keeping "
4506 "them honest, and aimed for an environment of collaboration. A benefit of "
4507 "open over closed is the many new ideas and designs others have contributed "
4508 "back to the Arduino ecosystem, ideas and designs that Arduino and the "
4509 "Arduino community use and incorporate into new products."
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4513 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3468
4514 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Products\"/>"
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4518 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3459
4520 "Over time, the range of Arduino products has diversified, changing and "
4521 "adapting to new needs and challenges. In addition to simple entry level "
4522 "boards, new products have been added ranging from enhanced boards that "
4523 "provide advanced functionality and faster performance, to boards for "
4524 "creating Internet of Things applications, wearables, and 3-D printing. The "
4525 "full range of official Arduino products includes boards, modules (a smaller "
4526 "form-factor of classic boards), shields (elements that can be plugged onto a "
4527 "board to give it extra features), and kits.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
4531 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4532 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3471
4534 "Arduino’s focus is on high-quality boards, well-designed support materials, "
4535 "and the building of community; this focus is one of the keys to their "
4536 "success. And being open lets you build a real community. David says "
4537 "Arduino’s community is a big strength and something that really does "
4538 "matter—in his words, “It’s good business.” When they started, the Arduino "
4539 "team had almost entirely no idea how to build a community. They started by "
4540 "conducting numerous workshops, working directly with people using the "
4541 "platform to make sure the hardware and software worked the way it was meant "
4542 "to work and solved people’s problems. The community grew organically from "
4546 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4547 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3484
4549 "A key decision for Arduino was trademarking the name. The founders needed a "
4550 "way to guarantee to people that they were buying a quality product from a "
4551 "company committed to open-source values and knowledge sharing. Trademarking "
4552 "the Arduino name and logo expresses that guarantee and helps customers "
4553 "easily identify their products, and the products sanctioned by them. If "
4554 "others want to sell boards using the Arduino name and logo, they have to pay "
4555 "a small fee to Arduino. This allows Arduino to scale up manufacturing and "
4556 "distribution while at the same time ensuring the Arduino brand isn’t hurt by "
4557 "low-quality copies."
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4561 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3496
4563 "Current official manufacturers are Smart Projects in Italy, SparkFun in the "
4564 "United States, and Dog Hunter in Taiwan/China. These are the only "
4565 "manufacturers that are allowed to use the Arduino logo on their "
4566 "boards. Trademarking their brand provided the founders with a way to protect "
4567 "Arduino, build it out further, and fund software and tutorial "
4568 "development. The trademark-licensing fee for the brand became Arduino’s "
4569 "revenue-generating model."
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4573 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3506
4575 "How far to open things up wasn’t always something the founders perfectly "
4576 "agreed on. David, who was always one to advocate for opening things up more, "
4577 "had some fears about protecting the Arduino name, thinking people would be "
4578 "mad if they policed their brand. There was some early backlash with a "
4579 "project called Freeduino, but overall, trademarking and branding has been a "
4580 "critical tool for Arduino."
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4584 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3527
4585 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/\"/>"
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4589 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3515
4591 "David encourages people and businesses to start by sharing everything as a "
4592 "default strategy, and then think about whether there is anything that really "
4593 "needs to be protected and why. There are lots of good reasons to not open up "
4594 "certain elements. This strategy of sharing everything is certainly the "
4595 "complete opposite of how today’s world operates, where nothing is "
4596 "shared. Tom suggests a business formalize which elements are based on open "
4597 "sharing and which are closed. An Arduino blog post from 2013 entitled “Send "
4598 "In the Clones,” by one of the founders Massimo Banzi, does a great job of "
4599 "explaining the full complexities of how trademarking their brand has played "
4600 "out, distinguishing between official boards and those that are clones, "
4601 "derivatives, compatibles, and counterfeits.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
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4608 "For David, an exciting aspect of Arduino is the way lots of people can use "
4609 "it to adapt technology in many different ways. Technology is always making "
4610 "more things possible but doesn’t always focus on making it easy to use and "
4611 "adapt. This is where Arduino steps in. Arduino’s goal is “making things "
4612 "that help other people make things.”"
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4616 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3538
4618 "Arduino has been hugely successful in making technology and electronics "
4619 "reach a larger audience. For Tom, Arduino has been about “the "
4620 "democratization of technology.” Tom sees Arduino’s open-source strategy as "
4621 "helping the world get over the idea that technology has to be protected. Tom "
4622 "says, “Technology is a literacy everyone should learn.”"
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4626 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3546
4628 "Ultimately, for Arduino, going open has been good business—good for product "
4629 "development, good for distribution, good for pricing, and good for "
4633 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
4634 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3552
4638 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4639 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3555
4641 "Ártica provides online courses and consulting services focused on how to use "
4642 "digital technology to share knowledge and enable collaboration in arts and "
4643 "culture. Founded in 2011 in Uruguay."
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4648 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.articaonline.com\"/>"
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4652 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3562
4654 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for custom "
4658 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4659 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3565
4660 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 9, 2016"
4663 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
4664 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3567
4666 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Mariana Fossatti and "
4667 "Jorge Gemetto, cofounders"
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4672 msgid "Profile written by Sarah Hinchliff Pearson"
4675 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
4676 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3575
4678 "The story of Mariana Fossatti and Jorge Gemetto’s business, Ártica, is the "
4679 "ultimate example of DIY. Not only are they successful entrepreneurs, the "
4680 "niche in which their small business operates is essentially one they built "
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4685 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3581
4686 msgid "Their dream jobs didn’t exist, so they created them."
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4690 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3584
4692 "In 2011, Mariana was a sociologist working for an international organization "
4693 "to develop research and online education about rural-development "
4694 "issues. Jorge was a psychologist, also working in online education. Both "
4695 "were bloggers and heavy users of social media, and both had a passion for "
4696 "arts and culture. They decided to take their skills in digital technology "
4697 "and online learning and apply them to a topic area they loved. They launched "
4698 "Ártica, an online business that provides education and consulting for people "
4699 "and institutions creating artistic and cultural projects on the Internet."
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4703 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3596
4705 "Ártica feels like a uniquely twenty-first century business. The small "
4706 "company has a global online presence with no physical offices. Jorge and "
4707 "Mariana live in Uruguay, and the other two full-time employees, who Jorge "
4708 "and Mariana have never actually met in person, live in Spain. They started "
4709 "by creating a MOOC (massive open online course) about remix culture and "
4710 "collaboration in the arts, which gave them a direct way to reach an "
4711 "international audience, attracting students from across Latin America and "
4712 "Spain. In other words, it is the classic Internet story of being able to "
4713 "directly tap into an audience without relying upon gatekeepers or "
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4718 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3609
4720 "Ártica offers personalized education and consulting services, and helps "
4721 "clients implement projects. All of these services are customized. They call "
4722 "it an “artisan” process because of the time and effort it takes to adapt "
4723 "their work for the particular needs of students and clients. “Each student "
4724 "or client is paying for a specific solution to his or her problems and "
4725 "questions,” Mariana said. Rather than sell access to their content, they "
4726 "provide it for free and charge for the personalized services."
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4730 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3619
4732 "When they started, they offered a smaller number of courses designed to "
4733 "attract large audiences. “Over the years, we realized that online "
4734 "communities are more specific than we thought,” Mariana said. Ártica now "
4735 "provides more options for classes and has lower enrollment in each "
4736 "course. This means they can provide more attention to individual students "
4737 "and offer classes on more specialized topics."
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4741 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3628
4743 "Online courses are their biggest revenue stream, but they also do more than "
4744 "a dozen consulting projects each year, ranging from digitization to event "
4745 "planning to marketing campaigns. Some are significant in scope, particularly "
4746 "when they work with cultural institutions, and some are smaller projects "
4747 "commissioned by individual artists."
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4751 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3636
4753 "Ártica also seeks out public and private funding for specific "
4754 "projects. Sometimes, even if they are unsuccessful in subsidizing a project "
4755 "like a new course or e-book, they will go ahead because they believe in "
4756 "it. They take the stance that every new project leads them to something new, "
4757 "every new resource they create opens new doors."
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4761 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3644
4763 "Ártica relies heavily on their free Creative Commons–licensed content to "
4764 "attract new students and clients. Everything they create—online education, "
4765 "blog posts, videos—is published under an Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC "
4766 "BY-SA). “We use a ShareAlike license because we want to give the greatest "
4767 "freedom to our students and readers, and we also want that freedom to be "
4768 "viral,” Jorge said. For them, giving others the right to reuse and remix "
4769 "their content is a fundamental value. “How can you offer an online "
4770 "educational service without giving permission to download, make and keep "
4771 "copies, or print the educational resources?” Jorge said. “If we want to do "
4772 "the best for our students—those who trust in us to the point that they are "
4773 "willing to pay online without face-to-face contact—we have to offer them a "
4774 "fair and ethical agreement.”"
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4780 "They also believe sharing their ideas and expertise openly helps them build "
4781 "their reputation and visibility. People often share and cite their work. A "
4782 "few years ago, a publisher even picked up one of their e-books and "
4783 "distributed printed copies. Ártica views reuse of their work as a way to "
4784 "open up new opportunities for their business."
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4788 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3668
4790 "This belief that openness creates new opportunities reflects another "
4791 "belief—in serendipity. When describing their process for creating content, "
4792 "they spoke of all of the spontaneous and organic ways they find "
4793 "inspiration. “Sometimes, the collaborative process starts with a "
4794 "conversation between us, or with friends from other projects,” Jorge "
4795 "said. “That can be the first step for a new blog post or another simple "
4796 "piece of content, which can evolve to a more complex product in the future, "
4797 "like a course or a book.”"
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4801 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3678
4803 "Rather than planning their work in advance, they let their creative process "
4804 "be dynamic. “This doesn’t mean that we don’t need to work hard in order to "
4805 "get good professional results, but the design process is more flexible,” "
4806 "Jorge said. They share early and often, and they adjust based on what they "
4807 "learn, always exploring and testing new ideas and ways of operating. In many "
4808 "ways, for them, the process is just as important as the final product."
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4812 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3687
4814 "People and relationships are also just as important, sometimes more. “In the "
4815 "educational and cultural business, it is more important to pay attention to "
4816 "people and process, rather than content or specific formats or materials,” "
4817 "Mariana said. “Materials and content are fluid. The important thing is the "
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4822 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3695
4824 "Ártica believes in the power of the network. They seek to make connections "
4825 "with people and institutions across the globe so they can learn from them "
4826 "and share their knowledge."
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4830 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3700
4832 "At the core of everything Ártica does is a set of values. “Good content is "
4833 "not enough,” Jorge said. “We also think that it is very important to take a "
4834 "stand for some things in the cultural sector.” Mariana and Jorge are "
4835 "activists. They defend free culture (the movement promoting the freedom to "
4836 "modify and distribute creative work) and work to demonstrate the "
4837 "intersection between free culture and other social-justice movements. Their "
4838 "efforts to involve people in their work and enable artists and cultural "
4839 "institutions to better use technology are all tied closely to their belief "
4840 "system. Ultimately, what drives their work is a mission to democratize art "
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4847 "Of course, Ártica also has to make enough money to cover its expenses. Human "
4848 "resources are, by far, their biggest expense. They tap a network of "
4849 "collaborators on a case-by-case basis and hire contractors for specific "
4850 "projects. Whenever possible, they draw from artistic and cultural resources "
4851 "in the commons, and they rely on free software. Their operation is small, "
4852 "efficient, and sustainable, and because of that, it is a success."
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4858 "“There are lots of people offering online courses,” Jorge said. “But it is "
4859 "easy to differentiate us. We have an approach that is very specific and "
4860 "personal.” Ártica’s model is rooted in the personal at every level. For "
4861 "Mariana and Jorge, success means doing what brings them personal meaning and "
4862 "purpose, and doing it sustainably and collaboratively."
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4866 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3730
4868 "In their work with younger artists, Mariana and Jorge try to emphasize that "
4869 "this model of success is just as valuable as the picture of success we get "
4870 "from the media. “If they seek only the traditional type of success, they "
4871 "will get frustrated,” Mariana said. “We try to show them another image of "
4872 "what it looks like.”"
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4877 msgid "Blender Institute"
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4881 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3741
4883 "The Blender Institute is an animation studio that creates 3-D films using "
4884 "Blender software. Founded in 2006 in the Netherlands."
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4889 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.blender.org\"/>"
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4895 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: crowdfunding "
4896 "(subscription-based), charging for physical copies, selling merchandise"
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4901 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 8, 2016"
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4907 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Francesco Siddi, "
4908 "production coordinator"
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4914 "For Ton Roosendaal, the creator of Blender software and its related "
4915 "entities, sharing is practical. Making their 3-D content creation software "
4916 "available under a free software license has been integral to its development "
4917 "and popularity. Using that software to make movies that were licensed with "
4918 "Creative Commons pushed that development even further. Sharing enables "
4919 "people to participate and to interact with and build upon the technology and "
4920 "content they create in a way that benefits Blender and its community in "
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4925 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3773
4927 "Each open-movie project Blender runs produces a host of openly licensed "
4928 "outputs, not just the final film itself but all of the source material as "
4929 "well. The creative process also enhances the development of the Blender "
4930 "software because the technical team responds directly to the needs of the "
4931 "film production team, creating tools and features that make their lives "
4932 "easier. And, of course, each project involves a long, rewarding process for "
4933 "the creative and technical community working together."
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4939 "Rather than just talking about the theoretical benefits of sharing and free "
4940 "culture, Ton is very much about doing and making free culture. Blender’s "
4941 "production coordinator Francesco Siddi told us, “Ton believes if you don’t "
4942 "make content using your tools, then you’re not doing anything.”"
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4948 "Blender’s history begins in the late 1990s, when Ton created the Blender "
4949 "software. Originally, the software was an in-house resource for his "
4950 "animation studio based in the Netherlands. Investors became interested in "
4951 "the software, so he began marketing the software to the public, offering a "
4952 "free version in addition to a paid version. Sales were disappointing, and "
4953 "his investors gave up on the endeavor in the early 2000s. He made a deal "
4954 "with investors—if he could raise enough money, he could then make the "
4955 "Blender software available under the GNU General Public License."
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4961 "This was long before Kickstarter and other online crowdfunding sites "
4962 "existed, but Ton ran his own version of a crowdfunding campaign and quickly "
4963 "raised the money he needed. The Blender software became freely available for "
4964 "anyone to use. Simply applying the General Public License to the software, "
4965 "however, was not enough to create a thriving community around it. Francesco "
4966 "told us, “Software of this complexity relies on people and their vision of "
4967 "how people work together. Ton is a fantastic community builder and manager, "
4968 "and he put a lot of work into fostering a community of developers so that "
4969 "the project could live.”"
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4975 "Like any successful free and open-source software project, Blender developed "
4976 "quickly because the community could make fixes and improvements. “Software "
4977 "should be free and open to hack,” Francesco said. “Otherwise, everyone is "
4978 "doing the same thing in the dark for ten years.” Ton set up the Blender "
4979 "Foundation to oversee and steward the software development and maintenance."
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4985 "After a few years, Ton began looking for new ways to push development of the "
4986 "software. He came up with the idea of creating CC-licensed films using the "
4987 "Blender software. Ton put a call online for all interested and skilled "
4988 "artists. Francesco said the idea was to get the best artists available, put "
4989 "them in a building together with the best developers, and have them work "
4990 "together. They would not only produce high-quality openly licensed content, "
4991 "they would improve the Blender software in the process."
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4997 "They turned to crowdfunding to subsidize the costs of the project. They had "
4998 "about twenty people working full-time for six to ten months, so the costs "
4999 "were significant. Francesco said that when their crowdfunding campaign "
5000 "succeeded, people were astounded. “The idea that making money was possible "
5001 "by producing CC-licensed material was mind-blowing to people,” he "
5002 "said. “They were like, ‘I have to see it to believe it.’”"
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5008 "The first film, which was released in 2006, was an experiment. It was so "
5009 "successful that Ton decided to set up the Blender Institute, an entity "
5010 "dedicated to hosting open-movie projects. The Blender Institute’s next "
5011 "project was an even bigger success. The film, Big Buck Bunny, went viral, "
5012 "and its animated characters were picked up by marketers."
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5018 "Francesco said that, over time, the Blender Institute projects have gotten "
5019 "bigger and more prominent. That means the filmmaking process has become more "
5020 "complex, combining technical experts and artists who focus on "
5021 "storytelling. Francesco says the process is almost on an industrial scale "
5022 "because of the number of moving parts. This requires a lot of specialized "
5023 "assistance, but the Blender Institute has no problem finding the talent it "
5024 "needs to help on projects. “Blender hardly does any recruiting for film "
5025 "projects because the talent emerges naturally,” Francesco said. “So many "
5026 "people want to work with us, and we can’t always hire them because of budget "
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5033 "Blender has had a lot of success raising money from its community over the "
5034 "years. In many ways, the pitch has gotten easier to make. Not only is "
5035 "crowdfunding simply more familiar to the public, but people know and trust "
5036 "Blender to deliver, and Ton has developed a reputation as an effective "
5037 "community leader and visionary for their work. “There is a whole community "
5038 "who sees and understands the benefit of these projects,” Francesco said."
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5044 "While these benefits of each open-movie project make a compelling pitch for "
5045 "crowdfunding campaigns, Francesco told us the Blender Institute has found "
5046 "some limitations in the standard crowdfunding model where you propose a "
5047 "specific project and ask for funding. “Once a project is over, everyone "
5048 "goes home,” he said. “It is great fun, but then it ends. That is a problem.”"
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5054 "To make their work more sustainable, they needed a way to receive ongoing "
5055 "support rather than on a project-by-project basis. Their solution is Blender "
5056 "Cloud, a subscription-style crowdfunding model akin to the online "
5057 "crowdfunding platform, Patreon. For about ten euros each month, subscribers "
5058 "get access to download everything the Blender Institute produces—software, "
5059 "art, training, and more. All of the assets are available under an "
5060 "Attribution license (CC BY) or placed in the public domain (CC0), but they "
5061 "are initially made available only to subscribers. Blender Cloud enables "
5062 "subscribers to follow Blender’s movie projects as they develop, sharing "
5063 "detailed information and content used in the creative process. Blender Cloud "
5064 "also has extensive training materials and libraries of characters and other "
5065 "assets used in various projects."
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5069 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3893
5071 "The continuous financial support provided by Blender Cloud subsidizes five "
5072 "to six full-time employees at the Blender Institute. Francesco says their "
5073 "goal is to grow their subscriber base. “This is our freedom,” he told us, "
5074 "“and for artists, freedom is everything.”"
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5080 "Blender Cloud is the primary revenue stream of the Blender Institute. The "
5081 "Blender Foundation is funded primarily by donations, and that money goes "
5082 "toward software development and maintenance. The revenue streams of the "
5083 "Institute and Foundation are deliberately kept separate. Blender also has "
5084 "other revenue streams, such as the Blender Store, where people can purchase "
5085 "DVDs, T-shirts, and other Blender products."
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5091 "Ton has worked on projects relating to his Blender software for nearly "
5092 "twenty years. Throughout most of that time, he has been committed to making "
5093 "the software and the content produced with the software free and "
5094 "open. Selling a license has never been part of the business model."
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5100 "Since 2006, he has been making films available along with all of their "
5101 "source material. He says he has hardly ever seen people stepping into "
5102 "Blender’s shoes and trying to make money off of their content. Ton believes "
5103 "this is because the true value of what they do is in the creative and "
5104 "production process. “Even when you share everything, all your original "
5105 "sources, it still takes a lot of talent, skills, time, and budget to "
5106 "reproduce what you did,” Ton said."
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5111 msgid "For Ton and Blender, it all comes back to doing."
5114 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
5115 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3930
5116 msgid "Cards Against Humanity"
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5122 "Cards Against Humanity is a private, for-profit company that makes a popular "
5123 "party game by the same name. Founded in 2011 in the U.S."
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5128 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com\"/>"
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5134 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
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5140 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 3, 2016"
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5145 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Max Temkin, cofounder"
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5151 "If you ask cofounder Max Temkin, there is nothing particularly interesting "
5152 "about the Cards Against Humanity business model. “We make a product. We sell "
5153 "it for money. Then we spend less money than we make,” Max said."
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5159 "He is right. Cards Against Humanity is a simple party game, modeled after "
5160 "the game Apples to Apples. To play, one player asks a question or "
5161 "fill-in-the-blank statement from a black card, and the other players submit "
5162 "their funniest white card in response. The catch is that all of the cards "
5163 "are filled with crude, gruesome, and otherwise awful things. For the right "
5164 "kind of people (“horrible people,” according to Cards Against Humanity "
5165 "advertising), this makes for a hilarious and fun game."
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5171 "The revenue model is simple. Physical copies of the game are sold for a "
5172 "profit. And it works. At the time of this writing, Cards Against Humanity is "
5173 "the number-one best-selling item out of all toys and games on Amazon. There "
5174 "are official expansion packs available, and several official themed packs "
5175 "and international editions as well."
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5181 "But Cards Against Humanity is also available for free. Anyone can download a "
5182 "digital version of the game on the Cards Against Humanity website. More than "
5183 "one million people have downloaded the game since the company began tracking "
5187 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
5188 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:3984
5190 "The game is available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
5191 "(CC BY-NC-SA). That means, in addition to copying the game, anyone can "
5192 "create new versions of the game as long as they make it available under the "
5193 "same noncommercial terms. The ability to adapt the game is like an entire "
5194 "new game unto itself."
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5200 "All together, these factors—the crass tone of the game and company, the free "
5201 "download, the openness to fans remixing the game—give the game a massive "
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5208 "Their success is not the result of a grand plan. Instead, Cards Against "
5209 "Humanity was the last in a long line of games and comedy projects that Max "
5210 "Temkin and his friends put together for their own amusement. As Max tells "
5211 "the story, they made the game so they could play it themselves on New Year’s "
5212 "Eve because they were too nerdy to be invited to other parties. The game was "
5213 "a hit, so they decided to put it up online as a free PDF. People started "
5214 "asking if they could pay to have the game printed for them, and eventually "
5215 "they decided to run a Kickstarter to fund the printing. They set their "
5216 "Kickstarter goal at $4,000—and raised $15,000. The game was officially "
5217 "released in May 2011."
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5223 "The game caught on quickly, and it has only grown more popular over "
5224 "time. Max says the eight founders never had a meeting where they decided to "
5225 "make it an ongoing business. “It kind of just happened,” he said."
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5231 "But this tale of a “happy accident” belies marketing genius. Just like the "
5232 "game, the Cards Against Humanity brand is irreverent and memorable. It is "
5233 "hard to forget a company that calls the FAQ on their website “Your dumb "
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5240 "Like most quality satire, however, there is more to the joke than vulgarity "
5241 "and shock value. The company’s marketing efforts around Black Friday "
5242 "illustrate this particularly well. For those outside the United States, "
5243 "Black Friday is the term for the day after the Thanksgiving holiday, the "
5244 "biggest shopping day of the year. It is an incredibly important day for "
5245 "Cards Against Humanity, like it is for all U.S. retailers. Max said they "
5246 "struggled with what to do on Black Friday because they didn’t want to "
5247 "support what he called the “orgy of consumerism” the day has become, "
5248 "particularly since it follows a day that is about being grateful for what "
5249 "you have. In 2013, after deliberating, they decided to have an Everything "
5250 "Costs $5 More sale."
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5256 "“We sweated it out the night before Black Friday, wondering if our fans were "
5257 "going to hate us for it,” he said. “But it made us laugh so we went with "
5258 "it. People totally caught the joke.”"
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5264 "This sort of bold transparency delights the media, but more importantly, it "
5265 "engages their fans. “One of the most surprising things you can do in "
5266 "capitalism is just be honest with people,” Max said. “It shocks people that "
5267 "there is transparency about what you are doing.”"
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5273 "Max also likened it to a grand improv scene. “If we do something a little "
5274 "subversive and unexpected, the public wants to be a part of the joke.” One "
5275 "year they did a Give Cards Against Humanity $5 event, where people literally "
5276 "paid them five dollars for no reason. Their fans wanted to make the joke "
5277 "funnier by making it successful. They made $70,000 in a single day."
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5281 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4056
5283 "This remarkable trust they have in their customers is what inspired their "
5284 "decision to apply a Creative Commons license to the game. Trusting your "
5285 "customers to reuse and remix your work requires a leap of faith. Cards "
5286 "Against Humanity obviously isn’t afraid of doing the unexpected, but there "
5287 "are lines even they do not want to cross. Before applying the license, Max "
5288 "said they worried that some fans would adapt the game to include all of the "
5289 "jokes they intentionally never made because they crossed that line. “It "
5290 "happened, and the world didn’t end,” Max said. “If that is the worst cost of "
5291 "using CC, I’d pay that a hundred times over because there are so many "
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5298 "Any successful product inspires its biggest fans to create remixes of it, "
5299 "but unsanctioned adaptations are more likely to fly under the radar. The "
5300 "Creative Commons license gives fans of Cards Against Humanity the freedom to "
5301 "run with the game and copy, adapt, and promote their creations openly. Today "
5302 "there are thousands of fan expansions of the game."
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5308 "Max said, “CC was a no-brainer for us because it gets the most people "
5309 "involved. Making the game free and available under a CC license led to the "
5310 "unbelievable situation where we are one of the best-marketed games in the "
5311 "world, and we have never spent a dime on marketing.”"
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5317 "Of course, there are limits to what the company allows its customers to do "
5318 "with the game. They chose the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license "
5319 "because it restricts people from using the game to make money. It also "
5320 "requires that adaptations of the game be made available under the same "
5321 "licensing terms if they are shared publicly. Cards Against Humanity also "
5322 "polices its brand. “We feel like we’re the only ones who can use our brand "
5323 "and our game and make money off of it,” Max said. About 99.9 percent of the "
5324 "time, they just send an email to those making commercial use of the game, "
5325 "and that is the end of it. There have only been a handful of instances where "
5326 "they had to get a lawyer involved."
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5332 "Just as there is more than meets the eye to the Cards Against Humanity "
5333 "business model, the same can be said of the game itself. To be playable, "
5334 "every white card has to work syntactically with enough black cards. The "
5335 "eight creators invest an incredible amount of work into creating new cards "
5336 "for the game. “We have daylong arguments about commas,” Max said. “The "
5337 "slacker tone of the cards gives people the impression that it is easy to "
5338 "write them, but it is actually a lot of work and quibbling.”"
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5344 "That means cocreation with their fans really doesn’t work. The company has a "
5345 "submission mechanism on their website, and they get thousands of "
5346 "suggestions, but it is very rare that a submitted card is adopted. Instead, "
5347 "the eight initial creators remain the primary authors of expansion decks and "
5348 "other new products released by the company. Interestingly, the creativity of "
5349 "their customer base is really only an asset to the company once their "
5350 "original work is created and published when people make their own "
5351 "adaptations of the game."
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5357 "For all of their success, the creators of Cards Against Humanity are only "
5358 "partially motivated by money. Max says they have always been interested in "
5359 "the Walt Disney philosophy of financial success. “We don’t make jokes and "
5360 "games to make money—we make money so we can make more jokes and games,” he "
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5367 "In fact, the company has given more than $4 million to various charities and "
5368 "causes. “Cards is not our life plan,” Max said. “We all have other interests "
5369 "and hobbies. We are passionate about other things going on in our lives. A "
5370 "lot of the activism we have done comes out of us taking things from the rest "
5371 "of our lives and channeling some of the excitement from the game into it.”"
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5377 "Seeing money as fuel rather than the ultimate goal is what has enabled them "
5378 "to embrace Creative Commons licensing without reservation. CC licensing "
5379 "ended up being a savvy marketing move for the company, but nonetheless, "
5380 "giving up exclusive control of your work necessarily means giving up some "
5381 "opportunities to extract more money from customers."
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5387 "“It’s not right for everyone to release everything under CC licensing,” Max "
5388 "said. “If your only goal is to make a lot of money, then CC is not best "
5389 "strategy. This kind of business model, though, speaks to your values, and "
5390 "who you are and why you’re making things.”"
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5395 msgid "The Conversation"
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5399 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:4153
5401 "The Conversation is an independent source of news, sourced from the academic "
5402 "and research community and delivered direct to the public over the "
5403 "Internet. Founded in 2011 in Australia."
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5408 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://theconversation.com\"/>"
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5414 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging content "
5415 "creators (universities pay membership fees to have their faculties serve as "
5416 "writers), grant funding"
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5421 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Andrew Jaspan, founder"
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5427 "Andrew Jaspan spent years as an editor of major newspapers including the "
5428 "Observer in London, the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, and the Age in Melbourne, "
5429 "Australia. He experienced firsthand the decline of newspapers, including the "
5430 "collapse of revenues, layoffs, and the constant pressure to reduce "
5431 "costs. After he left the Age in 2005, his concern for the future journalism "
5432 "didn’t go away. Andrew made a commitment to come up with an alternative "
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5439 "Around the time he left his job as editor of the Melbourne Age, Andrew "
5440 "wondered where citizens would get news grounded in fact and evidence rather "
5441 "than opinion or ideology. He believed there was still an appetite for "
5442 "journalism with depth and substance but was concerned about the increasing "
5443 "focus on the sensational and sexy."
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5449 "While at the Age, he’d become friends with a vice-chancellor of a university "
5450 "in Melbourne who encouraged him to talk to smart people across campus—an "
5451 "astrophysicist, a Nobel laureate, earth scientists, economists . . . These "
5452 "were the kind of smart people he wished were more involved in informing the "
5453 "world about what is going on and correcting the errors that appear in "
5454 "media. However, they were reluctant to engage with mass media. Often, "
5455 "journalists didn’t understand what they said, or unilaterally chose what "
5456 "aspect of a story to tell, putting out a version that these people felt was "
5457 "wrong or mischaracterized. Newspapers want to attract a mass "
5458 "audience. Scholars want to communicate serious news, findings, and "
5459 "insights. It’s not a perfect match. Universities are massive repositories of "
5460 "knowledge, research, wisdom, and expertise. But a lot of that stays behind a "
5461 "wall of their own making—there are the walled garden and ivory tower "
5462 "metaphors, and in more literal terms, the paywall. Broadly speaking, "
5463 "universities are part of society but disconnected from it. They are an "
5464 "enormous public resource but not that good at presenting their expertise to "
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5471 "Andrew believed he could to help connect academics back into the public "
5472 "arena, and maybe help society find solutions to big problems. He thought "
5473 "about pairing professional editors with university and research experts, "
5474 "working one-on-one to refine everything from story structure to headline, "
5475 "captions, and quotes. The editors could help turn something that is "
5476 "academic into something understandable and readable. And this would be a key "
5477 "difference from traditional journalism—the subject matter expert would get a "
5478 "chance to check the article and give final approval before it is "
5479 "published. Compare this with reporters just picking and choosing the quotes "
5480 "and writing whatever they want."
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5486 "The people he spoke to liked this idea, and Andrew embarked on raising money "
5487 "and support with the help of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial "
5488 "Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne, Monash "
5489 "University, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of "
5490 "Western Australia. These founding partners saw the value of an independent "
5491 "information channel that would also showcase the talent and knowledge of the "
5492 "university and research sector. With their help, in 2011, the Conversation, "
5493 "was launched as an independent news site in Australia. Everything published "
5494 "in the Conversation is openly licensed with Creative Commons."
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5500 "The Conversation is founded on the belief that underpinning a functioning "
5501 "democracy is access to independent, high-quality, informative "
5502 "journalism. The Conversation’s aim is for people to have a better "
5503 "understanding of current affairs and complex issues—and hopefully a better "
5504 "quality of public discourse. The Conversation sees itself as a source of "
5505 "trusted information dedicated to the public good. Their core mission is "
5506 "simple: to provide readers with a reliable source of evidence-based "
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5518 "Andrew worked hard to reinvent a methodology for creating reliable, credible "
5519 "content. He introduced strict new working practices, a charter, and codes of "
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5521 "disclosing who every author is (with their relevant expertise); who is "
5522 "funding their research; and if there are any potential or real conflicts of "
5523 "interest. Also important is where the content originates, and even though it "
5524 "comes from the university and research community, it still needs to be fully "
5525 "disclosed. The Conversation does not sit behind a paywall. Andrew believes "
5526 "access to information is an issue of equality—everyone should have access, "
5527 "like access to clean water. The Conversation is committed to an open and "
5528 "free Internet. Everyone should have free access to their content, and be "
5529 "able to share it or republish it."
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5535 "Creative Commons help with these goals; articles are published with the "
5536 "Attribution- NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND). They’re freely available for "
5537 "others to republish elsewhere as long as attribution is given and the "
5538 "content is not edited. Over five years, more than twenty-two thousand sites "
5539 "have republished their content. The Conversation website gets about 2.9 "
5540 "million unique views per month, but through republication they have "
5541 "thirty-five million readers. This couldn’t have been done without the "
5542 "Creative Commons license, and in Andrew’s view, Creative Commons is central "
5543 "to everything the Conversation does."
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5549 "When readers come across the Conversation, they seem to like what they find "
5550 "and recommend it to their friends, peers, and networks. Readership has "
5551 "grown primarily through word of mouth. While they don’t have sales and "
5552 "marketing, they do promote their work through social media (including "
5553 "Twitter and Facebook), and by being an accredited supplier to Google News."
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5559 "It’s usual for the founders of any company to ask themselves what kind of "
5560 "company it should be. It quickly became clear to the founders of the "
5561 "Conversation that they wanted to create a public good rather than make money "
5562 "off of information. Most media companies are working to aggregate as many "
5563 "eyeballs as possible and sell ads. The Conversation founders didn’t want "
5564 "this model. It takes no advertising and is a not-for-profit venture."
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5570 "There are now different editions of the Conversation for Africa, the United "
5571 "Kingdom, France, and the United States, in addition to the one for "
5572 "Australia. All five editions have their own editorial mastheads, advisory "
5573 "boards, and content. The Conversation’s global virtual newsroom has roughly "
5574 "ninety staff working with thirty-five thousand academics from over sixteen "
5575 "hundred universities around the world. The Conversation would like to be "
5576 "working with university scholars from even more parts of the world."
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5582 "Additionally, each edition has its own set of founding partners, strategic "
5583 "partners, and funders. They’ve received funding from foundations, "
5584 "corporates, institutions, and individual donations, but the Conversation is "
5585 "shifting toward paid memberships by universities and research institutions "
5586 "to sustain operations. This would safeguard the current service and help "
5587 "improve coverage and features."
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5593 "When professors from member universities write an article, there is some "
5594 "branding of the university associated with the article. On the Conversation "
5595 "website, paying university members are listed as “members and funders.” "
5596 "Early participants may be designated as “founding members,” with seats on "
5597 "the editorial advisory board."
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5603 "Academics are not paid for their contributions, but they get free editing "
5604 "from a professional (four to five hours per piece, on average). They also "
5605 "get access to a large audience. Every author and member university has "
5606 "access to a special analytics dashboard where they can check the reach of an "
5607 "article. The metrics include what people are tweeting, the comments, "
5608 "countries the readership represents, where the article is being republished, "
5609 "and the number of readers per article."
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5615 "The Conversation plans to expand the dashboard to show not just reach but "
5616 "impact. This tracks activities, behaviors, and events that occurred as a "
5617 "result of publication, including things like a scholar being asked to go on "
5618 "a show to discuss their piece, give a talk at a conference, collaborate, "
5619 "submit a journal paper, and consult a company on a topic."
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5625 "These reach and impact metrics show the benefits of membership. With the "
5626 "Conversation, universities can engage with the public and show why they’re "
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5633 "With its tagline, “Academic Rigor, Journalistic Flair,” the Conversation "
5634 "represents a new form of journalism that contributes to a more informed "
5635 "citizenry and improved democracy around the world. Its open business model "
5636 "and use of Creative Commons show how it’s possible to generate both a public "
5637 "good and operational revenue at the same time."
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5642 msgid "Cory Doctorow"
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5648 "Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer, activist, blogger, and "
5649 "journalist. Based in the U.S."
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5655 "<ulink url=\"http://craphound.com\"/> and <ulink "
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5662 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
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5668 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: January 12, 2016"
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5674 "Cory Doctorow hates the term “business model,” and he is adamant that he is "
5675 "not a brand. “To me, branding is the idea that you can take a thing that has "
5676 "certain qualities, remove the qualities, and go on selling it,” he "
5677 "said. “I’m not out there trying to figure out how to be a brand. I’m doing "
5678 "this thing that animates me to work crazy insane hours because it’s the most "
5679 "important thing I know how to do.”"
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5685 "Cory calls himself an entrepreneur. He likes to say his success came from "
5686 "making stuff people happened to like and then getting out of the way of them "
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5693 "He is a science fiction writer, activist, blogger, and journalist. "
5694 "Beginning with his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, in 2003, "
5695 "his work has been published under a Creative Commons license. Cory is "
5696 "coeditor of the popular CC-licensed site Boing Boing, where he writes about "
5697 "technology, politics, and intellectual property. He has also written several "
5698 "nonfiction books, including the most recent Information Doesn’t Want to Be "
5699 "Free, about the ways in which creators can make a living in the Internet "
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5706 "Cory primarily makes money by selling physical books, but he also takes on "
5707 "paid speaking gigs and is experimenting with pay-what-you-want models for "
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5714 "While Cory’s extensive body of fiction work has a large following, he is "
5715 "just as well known for his activism. He is an outspoken opponent of "
5716 "restrictive copyright and digital-rights-management (DRM) technology used to "
5717 "lock up content because he thinks both undermine creators and the public "
5718 "interest. He is currently a special adviser at the Electronic Frontier "
5719 "Foundation, where he is involved in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. law that "
5720 "protects DRM. Cory says his political work doesn’t directly make him money, "
5721 "but if he gave it up, he thinks he would lose credibility and, more "
5722 "importantly, lose the drive that propels him to create. “My political work "
5723 "is a different expression of the same artistic-political urge,” he said. “I "
5724 "have this suspicion that if I gave up the things that didn’t make me money, "
5725 "the genuineness would leach out of what I do, and the quality that causes "
5726 "people to like what I do would be gone.”"
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5732 "Cory has been financially successful, but money is not his primary "
5733 "motivation. At the start of his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, he "
5734 "stresses how important it is not to become an artist if your goal is to get "
5735 "rich. “Entering the arts because you want to get rich is like buying lottery "
5736 "tickets because you want to get rich,” he wrote. “It might work, but it "
5737 "almost certainly won’t. Though, of course, someone always wins the "
5738 "lottery.” He acknowledges that he is one of the lucky few to “make it,” but "
5739 "he says he would be writing no matter what. “I am compelled to write,” he "
5740 "wrote. “Long before I wrote to keep myself fed and sheltered, I was writing "
5741 "to keep myself sane.”"
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5747 "Just as money is not his primary motivation to create, money is not his "
5748 "primary motivation to share. For Cory, sharing his work with Creative "
5749 "Commons is a moral imperative. “It felt morally right,” he said of his "
5750 "decision to adopt Creative Commons licenses. “I felt like I wasn’t "
5751 "contributing to the culture of surveillance and censorship that has been "
5752 "created to try to stop copying.” In other words, using CC licenses "
5753 "symbolizes his worldview."
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5759 "He also feels like there is a solid commercial basis for licensing his work "
5760 "with Creative Commons. While he acknowledges he hasn’t been able to do a "
5761 "controlled experiment to compare the commercial benefits of licensing with "
5762 "CC against reserving all rights, he thinks he has sold more books using a CC "
5763 "license than he would have without it. Cory says his goal is to convince "
5764 "people they should pay him for his work. “I started by not calling them "
5765 "thieves,” he said."
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5771 "Cory started using CC licenses soon after they were first created. At the "
5772 "time his first novel came out, he says the science fiction genre was overrun "
5773 "with people scanning and downloading books without permission. When he and "
5774 "his publisher took a closer look at who was doing that sort of thing online, "
5775 "they realized it looked a lot like book promotion. “I knew there was a "
5776 "relationship between having enthusiastic readers and having a successful "
5777 "career as a writer,” he said. “At the time, it took eighty hours to OCR a "
5778 "book, which is a big effort. I decided to spare them the time and energy, "
5779 "and give them the book for free in a format destined to spread.”"
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5785 "Cory admits the stakes were pretty low for him when he first adopted "
5786 "Creative Commons licenses. He only had to sell two thousand copies of his "
5787 "book to break even. People often said he was only able to use CC licenses "
5788 "successfully at that time because he was just starting out. Now they say he "
5789 "can only do it because he is an established author."
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5795 "The bottom line, Cory says, is that no one has found a way to prevent people "
5796 "from copying the stuff they like. Rather than fighting the tide, Cory makes "
5797 "his work intrinsically shareable. “Getting the hell out of the way for "
5798 "people who want to share their love of you with other people sounds obvious, "
5799 "but it’s remarkable how many people don’t do it,” he said."
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5805 "Making his work available under Creative Commons licenses enables him to "
5806 "view his biggest fans as his ambassadors. “Being open to fan activity makes "
5807 "you part of the conversation about what fans do with your work and how they "
5808 "interact with it,” he said. Cory’s own website routinely highlights cool "
5809 "things his audience has done with his work. Unlike corporations like Disney "
5810 "that tend to have a hands-off relationship with their fan activity, he has a "
5811 "symbiotic relationship with his audience. “Engaging with your audience can’t "
5812 "guarantee you success,” he said. “And Disney is an example of being able to "
5813 "remain aloof and still being the most successful company in the creative "
5814 "industry in history. But I figure my likelihood of being Disney is pretty "
5815 "slim, so I should take all the help I can get.”"
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5821 "His first book was published under the most restrictive Creative Commons "
5822 "license, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND). It allows only "
5823 "verbatim copying for noncommercial purposes. His later work is published "
5824 "under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA), which "
5825 "gives people the right to adapt his work for noncommercial purposes but only "
5826 "if they share it back under the same license terms. Before releasing his "
5827 "work under a CC license that allows adaptations, he always sells the right "
5828 "to translate the book to other languages to a commercial publisher first. He "
5829 "wants to reach new potential buyers in other parts of the world, and he "
5830 "thinks it is more difficult to get people to pay for translations if there "
5831 "are fan translations already available for free."
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5837 "In his book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, Cory likens his philosophy "
5838 "to thinking like a dandelion. Dandelions produce thousands of seeds each "
5839 "spring, and they are blown into the air going in every direction. The "
5840 "strategy is to maximize the number of blind chances the dandelion has for "
5841 "continuing its genetic line. Similarly, he says there are lots of people out "
5842 "there who may want to buy creative work or compensate authors for it in some "
5843 "other way. “The more places your work can find itself, the greater the "
5844 "likelihood that it will find one of those would-be customers in some "
5845 "unsuspected crack in the metaphorical pavement,” he wrote. “The copies that "
5846 "others make of my work cost me nothing, and present the possibility that "
5847 "I’ll get something.”"
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5853 "Applying a CC license to his work increases the chances it will be shared "
5854 "more widely around the Web. He avoids DRM—and openly opposes the "
5855 "practice—for similar reasons. DRM has the effect of tying a work to a "
5856 "particular platform. This digital lock, in turn, strips the authors of "
5857 "control over their own work and hands that control over to the platform. He "
5858 "calls it Cory’s First Law: “Anytime someone puts a lock on something that "
5859 "belongs to you and won’t give you the key, that lock isn’t there for your "
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5866 "Cory operates under the premise that artists benefit when there are more, "
5867 "rather than fewer, places where people can access their work. The Internet "
5868 "has opened up those avenues, but DRM is designed to limit them. “On the one "
5869 "hand, we can credibly make our work available to a widely dispersed "
5870 "audience,” he said. “On the other hand, the intermediaries we historically "
5871 "sold to are making it harder to go around them.” Cory continually looks for "
5872 "ways to reach his audience without relying upon major platforms that will "
5873 "try to take control over his work."
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5879 "Cory says his e-book sales have been lower than those of his competitors, "
5880 "and he attributes some of that to the CC license making the work available "
5881 "for free. But he believes people are willing to pay for content they like, "
5882 "even when it is available for free, as long as it is easy to do. He was "
5883 "extremely successful using Humble Bundle, a platform that allows people to "
5884 "pay what they want for DRM-free versions of a bundle of a particular "
5885 "creator’s work. He is planning to try his own pay-what-you-want experiment "
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5892 "Fans are particularly willing to pay when they feel personally connected to "
5893 "the artist. Cory works hard to create that personal connection. One way he "
5894 "does this is by personally answering every single email he gets. “If you "
5895 "look at the history of artists, most die in penury,” he said. “That reality "
5896 "means that for artists, we have to find ways to support ourselves when "
5897 "public tastes shift, when copyright stops producing. Future-proofing your "
5898 "artistic career in many ways means figuring out how to stay connected to "
5899 "those people who have been touched by your work.”"
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5905 "Cory’s realism about the difficulty of making a living in the arts does not "
5906 "reflect pessimism about the Internet age. Instead, he says the fact that it "
5907 "is hard to make a living as an artist is nothing new. What is new, he writes "
5908 "in his book, “is how many ways there are to make things, and to get them "
5909 "into other people’s hands and minds.”"
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5914 msgid "It has never been easier to think like a dandelion."
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5925 "Figshare is a for-profit company offering an online repository where "
5926 "researchers can preserve and share the output of their research, including "
5927 "figures, data sets, images, and videos. Founded in 2011 in the UK."
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5938 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: platform providing paid "
5939 "services to creators"
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5944 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: January 28, 2016"
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5949 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Mark Hahnel, founder"
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5955 "Figshare’s mission is to change the face of academic publishing through "
5956 "improved dissemination, discoverability, and reusability of scholarly "
5957 "research. Figshare is a repository where users can make all the output of "
5958 "their research available—from posters and presentations to data sets and "
5959 "code—in a way that’s easy to discover, cite, and share. Users can upload any "
5960 "file format, which can then be previewed in a Web browser. Research output "
5961 "is disseminated in a way that the current scholarly-publishing model does "
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5968 "Figshare founder Mark Hahnel often gets asked: How do you make money? How do "
5969 "we know you’ll be here in five years? Can you, as a for-profit venture, be "
5970 "trusted? Answers have evolved over time."
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5976 "Mark traces the origins of Figshare back to when he was a graduate student "
5977 "getting his PhD in stem cell biology. His research involved working with "
5978 "videos of stem cells in motion. However, when he went to publish his "
5979 "research, there was no way for him to also publish the videos, figures, "
5980 "graphs, and data sets. This was frustrating. Mark believed publishing his "
5981 "complete research would lead to more citations and be better for his career."
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5987 "Mark does not consider himself an advanced software programmer. "
5988 "Fortunately, things like cloud-based computing and wikis had become "
5989 "mainstream, and he believed it ought to be possible to put all his research "
5990 "online and share it with anyone. So he began working on a solution."
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5996 "There were two key needs: licenses to make the data citable, and persistent "
5997 "identifiers— URL links that always point back to the original object "
5998 "ensuring the research is citable for the long term."
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6004 "Mark chose Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to meet the need for a "
6005 "persistent identifier. In the DOI system, an object’s metadata is stored as "
6006 "a series of numbers in the DOI name. Referring to an object by its DOI is "
6007 "more stable than referring to it by its URL, because the location of an "
6008 "object (the web page or URL) can often change. Mark partnered with DataCite "
6009 "for the provision of DOIs for research data."
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6015 "As for licenses, Mark chose Creative Commons. The open-access and "
6016 "open-science communities were already using and recommending Creative "
6017 "Commons. Based on what was happening in those communities and Mark’s "
6018 "dialogue with peers, he went with CC0 (in the public domain) for data sets "
6019 "and CC BY (Attribution) for figures, videos, and data sets."
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6025 "So Mark began using DOIs and Creative Commons for his own research work. He "
6026 "had a science blog where he wrote about it and made all his data "
6027 "open. People started commenting on his blog that they wanted to do the "
6028 "same. So he opened it up for them to use, too."
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6034 "People liked the interface and simple upload process. People started asking "
6035 "if they could also share theses, grant proposals, and code. Inclusion of "
6036 "code raised new licensing issues, as Creative Commons licenses are not used "
6037 "for software. To allow the sharing of software code, Mark chose the MIT "
6038 "license, but GNU and Apache licenses can also be used."
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6044 "Mark sought investment to make this into a scalable product. After a few "
6045 "unsuccessful funding pitches, UK-based Digital Science expressed interest "
6046 "but insisted on a more viable business model. They made an initial "
6047 "investment, and together they came up with a freemium-like business model."
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6053 "Under the freemium model, academics upload their research to Figshare for "
6054 "storage and sharing for free. Each research object is licensed with Creative "
6055 "Commons and receives a DOI link. The premium option charges researchers a "
6056 "fee for gigabytes of private storage space, and for private online space "
6057 "designed for a set number of research collaborators, which is ideal for "
6058 "larger teams and geographically dispersed research groups. Figshare sums up "
6059 "its value proposition to researchers as “You retain ownership. You license "
6060 "it. You get credit. We just make sure it persists.”"
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6066 "In January 2012, Figshare was launched. (The fig in Figshare stands for "
6067 "figures.) Using investment funds, Mark made significant improvements to "
6068 "Figshare. For example, researchers could quickly preview their research "
6069 "files within a browser without having to download them first or require "
6070 "third-party software. Journals who were still largely publishing articles as "
6071 "static noninteractive PDFs became interested in having Figshare provide that "
6072 "functionality for them."
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6078 "Figshare diversified its business model to include services for "
6079 "journals. Figshare began hosting large amounts of data for the journals’ "
6080 "online articles. This additional data improved the quality of the "
6081 "articles. Outsourcing this service to Figshare freed publishers from having "
6082 "to develop this functionality as part of their own "
6083 "infrastructure. Figshare-hosted data also provides a link back to the "
6084 "article, generating additional click-through and readership—a benefit to "
6085 "both journal publishers and researchers. Figshare now provides "
6086 "research-data infrastructure for a wide variety of publishers including "
6087 "Wiley, Springer Nature, PLOS, and Taylor and Francis, to name a few, and has "
6088 "convinced them to use Creative Commons licenses for the data."
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6094 "Governments allocate significant public funds to research. In parallel with "
6095 "the launch of Figshare, governments around the world began requesting the "
6096 "research they fund be open and accessible. They mandated that researchers "
6097 "and academic institutions better manage and disseminate their research "
6098 "outputs. Institutions looking to comply with this new mandate became "
6099 "interested in Figshare. Figshare once again diversified its business model, "
6100 "adding services for institutions."
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6106 "Figshare now offers a range of fee-based services to institutions, including "
6107 "their own minibranded Figshare space (called Figshare for Institutions) that "
6108 "securely hosts research data of institutions in the cloud. Services include "
6109 "not just hosting but data metrics, data dissemination, and user-group "
6110 "administration. Figshare’s workflow, and the services they offer for "
6111 "institutions, take into account the needs of librarians and administrators, "
6112 "as well as of the researchers."
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6118 "As with researchers and publishers, Fig-share encouraged institutions to "
6119 "share their research with CC BY (Attribution) and their data with CC0 (into "
6120 "the public domain). Funders who require researchers and institutions to use "
6121 "open licensing believe in the social responsibilities and benefits of making "
6122 "research accessible to all. Publishing research in this open way has come to "
6123 "be called open access. But not all funders specify CC BY; some institutions "
6124 "want to offer their researchers a choice, including less permissive licenses "
6125 "like CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial), CC BY-SA "
6126 "(Attribution-ShareAlike), or CC BY-ND (Attribution-NoDerivs)."
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6132 "For Mark this created a conflict. On the one hand, the principles and "
6133 "benefits of open science are at the heart of Figshare, and Mark believes CC "
6134 "BY is the best license for this. On the other hand, institutions were saying "
6135 "they wouldn’t use Figshare unless it offered a choice in licenses. He "
6136 "initially refused to offer anything beyond CC0 and CC BY, but after seeing "
6137 "an open-source CERN project offer all Creative Commons licenses without any "
6138 "negative repercussions, he decided to follow suit."
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6144 "Mark is thinking of doing a Figshare study that tracks research "
6145 "dissemination according to Creative Commons license, and gathering metrics "
6146 "on views, citations, and downloads. You could see which license generates "
6147 "the biggest impact. If the data showed that CC BY is more impactful, Mark "
6148 "believes more and more researchers and institutions will make it their "
6149 "license of choice."
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6169 "Figshare has an Application Programming Interface (API) that makes it "
6170 "possible for data to be pulled from Figshare and used in other "
6171 "applications. As an example, Mark shared a Figshare data set showing the "
6172 "journal subscriptions that higher-education institutions in the United "
6173 "Kingdom paid to ten major publishers.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
6174 "id=\"0\"/> Figshare’s API enables that data to be pulled into an app "
6175 "developed by a completely different researcher that converts the data into a "
6176 "visually interesting graph, which any viewer can alter by changing any of "
6177 "the variables.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/>"
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6183 "The free version of Figshare has built a community of academics, who through "
6184 "word of mouth and presentations have promoted and spread awareness of "
6185 "Figshare. To amplify and reward the community, Figshare established an "
6186 "Advisor program, providing those who promoted Figshare with hoodies and "
6187 "T-shirts, early access to new features, and travel expenses when they gave "
6188 "presentations outside of their area. These Advisors also helped Mark on what "
6189 "license to use for software code and whether to offer universities an option "
6190 "of using Creative Commons licenses."
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6201 "Mark says his success is partly about being in the right place at the right "
6202 "time. He also believes that the diversification of Figshare’s model over "
6203 "time has been key to success. Figshare now offers a comprehensive set of "
6204 "services to researchers, publishers, and institutions.<placeholder "
6205 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> If he had relied solely on revenue from premium "
6206 "subscriptions, he believes Figshare would have struggled. In Figshare’s "
6207 "early days, their primary users were early-career and late-career "
6208 "academics. It has only been because funders mandated open licensing that "
6209 "Figshare is now being used by the mainstream."
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6215 "Today Figshare has 26 million–plus page views, 7.5 million–plus downloads, "
6216 "800,000–plus user uploads, 2 million–plus articles, 500,000-plus "
6217 "collections, and 5,000–plus projects. Sixty percent of their traffic comes "
6218 "from Google. A sister company called Altmetric tracks the use of Figshare by "
6219 "others, including Wikipedia and news sources."
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6225 "Figshare uses the revenue it generates from the premium subscribers, journal "
6226 "publishers, and institutions to fund and expand what it can offer to "
6227 "researchers for free. Figshare has publicly stuck to its principles—keeping "
6228 "the free service free and requiring the use of CC BY and CC0 from the "
6229 "start—and from Mark’s perspective, this is why people trust Figshare. Mark "
6230 "sees new competitors coming forward who are just in it for money. If "
6231 "Figshare was only in it for the money, they wouldn’t care about offering a "
6232 "free version. Figshare’s principles and advocacy for openness are a key "
6233 "differentiator. Going forward, Mark sees Figshare not only as supporting "
6234 "open access to research but also enabling people to collaborate and make new "
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6246 "Figure.NZ is a nonprofit charity that makes an online data platform designed "
6247 "to make data reusable and easy to understand. Founded in 2012 in New "
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6259 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: platform providing paid "
6260 "services to creators, donations, sponsorships"
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6265 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: May 3, 2016"
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6270 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Lillian Grace, founder"
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6283 "In the paper Harnessing the Economic and Social Power of Data presented at "
6284 "the New Zealand Data Futures Forum in 2014,<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
6285 "id=\"0\"/> Figure.NZ founder Lillian Grace said there are thousands of "
6286 "valuable and relevant data sets freely available to us right now, but most "
6287 "people don’t use them. She used to think this meant people didn’t care about "
6288 "being informed, but she’s come to see that she was wrong. Almost everyone "
6289 "wants to be informed about issues that matter—not only to them, but also to "
6290 "their families, their communities, their businesses, and their country. But "
6291 "there’s a big difference between availability and accessibility of "
6292 "information. Data is spread across thousands of sites and is held within "
6293 "databases and spreadsheets that require both time and skill to engage "
6294 "with. To use data when making a decision, you have to know what specific "
6295 "question to ask, identify a source that has collected the data, and "
6296 "manipulate complex tools to extract and visualize the information within the "
6297 "data set. Lillian established Figure.NZ to make data truly accessible to "
6298 "all, with a specific focus on New Zealand."
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6304 "Lillian had the idea for Figure.NZ in February 2012 while working for the "
6305 "New Zealand Institute, a think tank concerned with improving economic "
6306 "prosperity, social well-being, environmental quality, and environmental "
6307 "productivity for New Zealand and New Zealanders. While giving talks to "
6308 "community and business groups, Lillian realized “every single issue we "
6309 "addressed would have been easier to deal with if more people understood the "
6310 "basic facts.” But understanding the basic facts sometimes requires data and "
6311 "research that you often have to pay for."
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6317 "Lillian began to imagine a website that lifted data up to a visual form that "
6318 "could be easily understood and freely accessed. Initially launched as Wiki "
6319 "New Zealand, the original idea was that people could contribute their data "
6320 "and visuals via a wiki. However, few people had graphs that could be used "
6321 "and shared, and there were no standards or consistency around the data and "
6322 "the visuals. Realizing the wiki model wasn’t working, Lillian brought the "
6323 "process of data aggregation, curation, and visual presentation in-house, and "
6324 "invested in the technology to help automate some of it. Wiki New Zealand "
6325 "became Figure.NZ, and efforts were reoriented toward providing services to "
6326 "those wanting to open their data and present it visually."
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6332 "Here’s how it works. Figure.NZ sources data from other organizations, "
6333 "including corporations, public repositories, government departments, and "
6334 "academics. Figure.NZ imports and extracts that data, and then validates and "
6335 "standardizes it—all with a strong eye on what will be best for users. They "
6336 "then make the data available in a series of standardized forms, both human- "
6337 "and machine-readable, with rich metadata about the sources, the licenses, "
6338 "and data types. Figure.NZ has a chart-designing tool that makes simple bar, "
6339 "line, and area graphs from any data source. The graphs are posted to the "
6340 "Figure.NZ website, and they can also be exported in a variety of formats for "
6341 "print or online use. Figure.NZ makes its data and graphs available using "
6342 "the Attribution (CC BY) license. This allows others to reuse, revise, remix, "
6343 "and redistribute Figure.NZ data and graphs as long as they give attribution "
6344 "to the original source and to Figure.NZ."
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6357 "Lillian characterizes the initial decision to use Creative Commons as "
6358 "naively fortunate. It was first recommended to her by a colleague. Lillian "
6359 "spent time looking at what Creative Commons offered and thought it looked "
6360 "good, was clear, and made common sense. It was easy to use and easy for "
6361 "others to understand. Over time, she’s come to realize just how fortunate "
6362 "and important that decision turned out to be. New Zealand’s government has "
6363 "an open-access and licensing framework called NZGOAL, which provides "
6364 "guidance for agencies when they release copyrighted and noncopyrighted work "
6365 "and material.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It aims to "
6366 "standardize the licensing of works with government copyright and how they "
6367 "can be reused, and it does this with Creative Commons licenses. As a result, "
6368 "98 percent of all government-agency data is Creative Commons licensed, "
6369 "fitting in nicely with Figure.NZ’s decision."
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6375 "Lillian thinks current ideas of what a business is are relatively new, only "
6376 "a hundred years old or so. She’s convinced that twenty years from now, we "
6377 "will see new and different models for business. Figure.NZ is set up as a "
6378 "nonprofit charity. It is purpose-driven but also strives to pay people well "
6379 "and thinks like a business. Lillian sees the charity-nonprofit status as an "
6380 "essential element for the mission and purpose of Figure.NZ. She believes "
6381 "Wikipedia would not work if it were for profit, and similarly, Figure.NZ’s "
6382 "nonprofit status assures people who have data and people who want to use it "
6383 "that they can rely on Figure.NZ’s motives. People see them as a trusted "
6384 "wrangler and source."
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6390 "Although Figure.NZ is a social enterprise that openly licenses their data "
6391 "and graphs for everyone to use for free, they have taken care not to be "
6392 "perceived as a free service all around the table. Lillian believes hundreds "
6393 "of millions of dollars are spent by the government and organizations to "
6394 "collect data. However, very little money is spent on taking that data and "
6395 "making it accessible, understandable, and useful for decision making. "
6396 "Government uses some of the data for policy, but Lillian believes that it is "
6397 "underutilized and the potential value is much larger. Figure.NZ is focused "
6398 "on solving that problem. They believe a portion of money allocated to "
6399 "collecting data should go into making sure that data is useful and generates "
6400 "value. If the government wants citizens to understand why certain decisions "
6401 "are being made and to be more aware about what the government is doing, why "
6402 "not transform the data it collects into easily understood visuals? It could "
6403 "even become a way for a government or any organization to differentiate, "
6404 "market, and brand itself."
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6410 "Figure.NZ spends a lot of time seeking to understand the motivations of data "
6411 "collectors and to identify the channels where it can provide value. Every "
6412 "part of their business model has been focused on who is going to get value "
6413 "from the data and visuals."
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6419 "Figure.NZ has multiple lines of business. They provide commercial services "
6420 "to organizations that want their data publicly available and want to use "
6421 "Figure.NZ as their publishing platform. People who want to publish open data "
6422 "appreciate Figure.NZ’s ability to do it faster, more easily, and better than "
6423 "they can. Customers are encouraged to help their users find, use, and make "
6424 "things from the data they make available on Figure.NZ’s website. Customers "
6425 "control what is released and the license terms (although Figure.NZ "
6426 "encourages Creative Commons licensing). Figure.NZ also serves customers who "
6427 "want a specific collection of charts created—for example, for their website "
6428 "or annual report. Charging the organizations that want to make their data "
6429 "available enables Figure.NZ to provide their site free to all users, to "
6430 "truly democratize data."
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6436 "Lillian notes that the current state of most data is terrible and often not "
6437 "well understood by the people who have it. This sometimes makes it difficult "
6438 "for customers and Figure.NZ to figure out what it would cost to import, "
6439 "standardize, and display that data in a useful way. To deal with this, "
6440 "Figure.NZ uses “high-trust contracts,” where customers allocate a certain "
6441 "budget to the task that Figure.NZ is then free to draw from, as long as "
6442 "Figure.NZ frequently reports on what they’ve produced so the customer can "
6443 "determine the value for money. This strategy has helped build trust and "
6444 "transparency about the level of effort associated with doing work that has "
6445 "never been done before."
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6456 "A second line of business is what Figure.NZ calls partners. ASB Bank and "
6457 "Statistics New Zealand are partners who back Figure.NZ’s efforts. As one "
6458 "example, with their support Figure.NZ has been able to create Business "
6459 "Figures, a special way for businesses to find useful data without having to "
6460 "know what questions to ask.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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6471 "Figure.NZ also has patrons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Patrons "
6472 "donate to topic areas they care about, directly enabling Figure.NZ to get "
6473 "data together to flesh out those areas. Patrons do not direct what data is "
6474 "included or excluded."
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6480 "Figure.NZ also accepts philanthropic donations, which are used to provide "
6481 "more content, extend technology, and improve services, or are targeted to "
6482 "fund a specific effort or provide in-kind support. As a charity, donations "
6483 "are tax deductible."
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6489 "Figure.NZ has morphed and grown over time. With data aggregation, curation, "
6490 "and visualizing services all in-house, Figure.NZ has developed a deep "
6491 "expertise in taking random styles of data, standardizing it, and making it "
6492 "useful. Lillian realized that Figure.NZ could easily become a warehouse of "
6493 "seventy people doing data. But for Lillian, growth isn’t always good. In her "
6494 "view, bigger often means less effective. Lillian set artificial constraints "
6495 "on growth, forcing the organization to think differently and be more "
6496 "efficient. Rather than in-house growth, they are growing and building "
6497 "external relationships."
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6503 "Figure.NZ’s website displays visuals and data associated with a wide range "
6504 "of categories including crime, economy, education, employment, energy, "
6505 "environment, health, information and communications technology, industry, "
6506 "tourism, and many others. A search function helps users find tables and "
6507 "graphs. Figure.NZ does not provide analysis or interpretation of the data or "
6508 "visuals. Their goal is to teach people how to think, not think for them. "
6509 "Figure.NZ wants to create intuitive experiences, not user manuals."
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6515 "Figure.NZ believes data and visuals should be useful. They provide their "
6516 "customers with a data collection template and teach them why it’s important "
6517 "and how to use it. They’ve begun putting more emphasis on tracking what "
6518 "users of their website want. They also get requests from social media and "
6519 "through email for them to share data for a specific topic—for example, can "
6520 "you share data for water quality? If they have the data, they respond "
6521 "quickly; if they don’t, they try and identify the organizations that would "
6522 "have that data and forge a relationship so they can be included on "
6523 "Figure.NZ’s site. Overall, Figure.NZ is seeking to provide a place for "
6524 "people to be curious about, access, and interpret data on topics they are "
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6531 "Lillian has a deep and profound vision for Figure.NZ that goes well beyond "
6532 "simply providing open-data services. She says things are different now. “We "
6533 "used to live in a world where it was really hard to share information "
6534 "widely. And in that world, the best future was created by having a few great "
6535 "leaders who essentially had access to the information and made decisions on "
6536 "behalf of others, whether it was on behalf of a country or companies."
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6543 "widely and also to communicate widely. In the world we live in now, the best "
6544 "future is the one where everyone can make well-informed decisions."
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6550 "“The use of numbers and data as a way of making well-informed decisions is "
6551 "one of the areas where there is the biggest gaps. We don’t really use "
6552 "numbers as a part of our thinking and part of our understanding yet."
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6558 "“Part of the reason is the way data is spread across hundreds of sites. In "
6559 "addition, for the most part, deep thinking based on data is constrained to "
6560 "experts because most people don’t have data literacy. There once was a time "
6561 "when many citizens in society couldn’t read or write. However, as a society, "
6562 "we’ve now come to believe that reading and writing skills should be "
6563 "something all citizens have. We haven’t yet adopted a similar belief around "
6564 "numbers and data literacy. We largely still believe that only a few "
6565 "specially trained people can analyze and think with numbers."
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6571 "“Figure.NZ may be the first organization to assert that everyone can use "
6572 "numbers in their thinking, and it’s built a technological platform along "
6573 "with trust and a network of relationships to make that possible. What you "
6574 "can see on Figure.NZ are tens of thousands of graphs, maps, and data."
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6580 "“Figure.NZ sees this as a new kind of alphabet that can help people analyze "
6581 "what they see around them. A way to be thoughtful and informed about "
6582 "society. A means of engaging in conversation and shaping decision making "
6583 "that transcends personal experience. The long-term value and impact is "
6584 "almost impossible to measure, but the goal is to help citizens gain "
6585 "understanding and work together in more informed ways to shape the future.”"
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6591 "Lillian sees Figure.NZ’s model as having global potential. But for now, "
6592 "their focus is completely on making Figure.NZ work in New Zealand and to get "
6593 "the “network effect”— users dramatically increasing value for themselves and "
6594 "for others through use of their service. Creative Commons is core to making "
6595 "the network effect possible."
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6600 msgid "Knowledge Unlatched"
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6606 "Knowledge Unlatched is a not-for-profit community interest company that "
6607 "brings libraries together to pool funds to publish open-access "
6608 "books. Founded in 2012 in the UK."
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6613 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://knowledgeunlatched.org\"/>"
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6619 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: crowdfunding "
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6625 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 26, 2016"
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6629 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5120
6630 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Frances Pinter, founder"
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6634 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5128
6636 "The serial entrepreneur Dr. Frances Pinter has been at the forefront of "
6637 "innovation in the publishing industry for nearly forty years. She founded "
6638 "the UK-based Knowledge Unlatched with a mission to enable open access to "
6639 "scholarly books. For Frances, the current scholarly- book-publishing system "
6640 "is not working for anyone, and especially not for monographs in the "
6641 "humanities and social sciences. Knowledge Unlatched is committed to changing "
6642 "this and has been working with libraries to create a sustainable alternative "
6643 "model for publishing scholarly books, sharing the cost of making monographs "
6644 "(released under a Creative Commons license) and savings costs over the long "
6645 "term. Since its launch, Knowledge Unlatched has received several awards, "
6646 "including the IFLA/Brill Open Access award in 2014 and a Curtin University "
6647 "Commercial Innovation Award for Innovation in Education in 2015."
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6653 "Dr. Pinter has been in academic publishing most of her career. About ten "
6654 "years ago, she became acquainted with the Creative Commons founder Lawrence "
6655 "Lessig and got interested in Creative Commons as a tool for both protecting "
6656 "content online and distributing it free to users."
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6660 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5151
6662 "Not long after, she ran a project in Africa convincing publishers in Uganda "
6663 "and South Africa to put some of their content online for free using a "
6664 "Creative Commons license and to see what happened to print sales. Sales went "
6668 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
6669 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5157
6671 "In 2008, Bloomsbury Academic, a new imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing in the "
6672 "United Kingdom, appointed her its founding publisher in London. As part of "
6673 "the launch, Frances convinced Bloomsbury to differentiate themselves by "
6674 "putting out monographs for free online under a Creative Commons license "
6675 "(BY-NC or BY-NC-ND, i.e., Attribution-NonCommercial or "
6676 "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs). This was seen as risky, as the biggest "
6677 "cost for publishers is getting a book to the stage where it can be "
6678 "printed. If everyone read the online book for free, there would be no "
6679 "print-book sales at all, and the costs associated with getting the book to "
6680 "print would be lost. Surprisingly, Bloomsbury found that sales of the print "
6681 "versions of these books were 10 to 20 percent higher than normal. Frances "
6682 "found it intriguing that the Creative Commons–licensed free online book acts "
6683 "as a marketing vehicle for the print format."
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6689 "Frances began to look at customer interest in the three forms of the book: "
6690 "1) the Creative Commons–licensed free online book in PDF form, 2) the "
6691 "printed book, and 3) a digital version of the book on an aggregator platform "
6692 "with enhanced features. She thought of this as the “ice cream model”: the "
6693 "free PDF was vanilla ice cream, the printed book was an ice cream cone, and "
6694 "the enhanced e-book was an ice cream sundae."
6697 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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6700 "After a while, Frances had an epiphany—what if there was a way to get "
6701 "libraries to underwrite the costs of making these books up until they’re "
6702 "ready be printed, in other words, cover the fixed costs of getting to the "
6703 "first digital copy? Then you could either bring down the cost of the printed "
6704 "book, or do a whole bunch of interesting things with the printed book and "
6705 "e-book—the ice cream cone or sundae part of the model."
6708 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
6709 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5192
6711 "This idea is similar to the article-processing charge some open-access "
6712 "journals charge researchers to cover publishing costs. Frances began to "
6713 "imagine a coalition of libraries paying for the prepress costs—a "
6714 "“book-processing charge”—and providing everyone in the world with an "
6715 "open-access version of the books released under a Creative Commons license."
6718 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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6721 "This idea really took hold in her mind. She didn’t really have a name for it "
6722 "but began talking about it and making presentations to see if there was "
6723 "interest. The more she talked about it, the more people agreed it had "
6724 "appeal. She offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who could come up with a "
6725 "good name for the idea. Her husband came up with Knowledge Unlatched, and "
6726 "after two years of generating interest, she decided to move forward and "
6727 "launch a community interest company (a UK term for not-for-profit social "
6728 "enterprises) in 2012."
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6734 "She describes the business model in a paper called Knowledge Unlatched: "
6735 "Toward an Open and Networked Future for Academic Publishing:"
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6739 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5218
6741 "Publishers offer titles for sale reflecting origination costs only via "
6742 "Knowledge Unlatched."
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6746 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5224
6748 "Individual libraries select titles either as individual titles or as "
6749 "collections (as they do from library suppliers now)."
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6753 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5230
6755 "Their selections are sent to Knowledge Unlatched specifying the titles to be "
6756 "purchased at the stated price(s)."
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6760 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5236
6762 "The price, called a Title Fee (set by publishers and negotiated by Knowledge "
6763 "Unlatched), is paid to publishers to cover the fixed costs of publishing "
6764 "each of the titles that were selected by a minimum number of libraries to "
6765 "cover the Title Fee."
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6769 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5245
6771 "Publishers make the selected titles available Open Access (on a Creative "
6772 "Commons or similar open license) and are then paid the Title Fee which is "
6773 "the total collected from the libraries."
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6778 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.pinter.org.uk/pdfs/Toward_an_Open.pdf\"/>"
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6784 "Publishers make print copies, e-Pub, and other digital versions of selected "
6785 "titles available to member libraries at a discount that reflects their "
6786 "contribution to the Title Fee and incentivizes membership.<placeholder "
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6793 "The first round of this model resulted in a collection of twenty-eight "
6794 "current titles from thirteen recognized scholarly publishers being "
6795 "unlatched. The target was to have two hundred libraries participate. The "
6796 "cost of the package per library was capped at $1,680, which was an average "
6797 "price of sixty dollars per book, but in the end they had nearly three "
6798 "hundred libraries sharing the costs, and the price per book came in at just "
6799 "under forty-three dollars."
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6812 "The open-access, Creative Commons versions of these twenty-eight books are "
6813 "still available online.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Most books "
6814 "have been licensed with CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND. Authors are the copyright "
6815 "holder, not the publisher, and negotiate choice of license as part of the "
6816 "publishing agreement. Frances has found that most authors want to retain "
6817 "control over the commercial and remix use of their work. Publishers list the "
6818 "book in their catalogs, and the noncommercial restriction in the Creative "
6819 "Commons license ensures authors continue to get royalties on sales of "
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6826 "There are three cost variables to consider for each round: the overall cost "
6827 "incurred by the publishers, total cost for each library to acquire all the "
6828 "books, and the individual price per book. The fee publishers charge for each "
6829 "title is a fixed charge, and Knowledge Unlatched calculates the total amount "
6830 "for all the books being unlatched at a time. The cost of an order for each "
6831 "library is capped at a maximum based on a minimum number of libraries "
6832 "participating. If the number of participating libraries exceeds the minimum, "
6833 "then the cost of the order and the price per book go down for each library."
6836 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
6837 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5293
6839 "The second round, recently completed, unlatched seventy-eight books from "
6840 "twenty-six publishers. For this round, Frances was experimenting with the "
6841 "size and shape of the offerings. Books were being bundled into eight small "
6842 "packages separated by subject (including Anthropology, History, Literature, "
6843 "Media and Communications, and Politics), of around ten books per package. "
6844 "Three hundred libraries around the world have to commit to at least six of "
6845 "the eight packages to enable unlatching. The average cost per book was just "
6846 "under fifty dollars. The unlatching process took roughly ten months. It "
6847 "started with a call to publishers for titles, followed by having a library "
6848 "task force select the titles, getting authors’ permissions, getting the "
6849 "libraries to pledge, billing the libraries, and finally, unlatching."
6852 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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6855 "The longest part of the whole process is getting libraries to pledge and "
6856 "commit funds. It takes about five months, as library buy-in has to fit "
6857 "within acquisition cycles, budget cycles, and library-committee meetings."
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6863 "Knowledge Unlatched informs and recruits libraries through social media, "
6864 "mailing lists, listservs, and library associations. Of the three hundred "
6865 "libraries that participated in the first round, 80 percent are also "
6866 "participating in the second round, and there are an additional eighty new "
6867 "libraries taking part. Knowledge Unlatched is also working not just with "
6868 "individual libraries but also library consortia, which has been getting even "
6869 "more libraries involved."
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6875 "Knowledge Unlatched is scaling up, offering 150 new titles in the second "
6876 "half of 2016. It will also offer backlist titles, and in 2017 will start to "
6877 "make journals open access too."
6880 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
6881 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5329
6883 "Knowledge Unlatched deliberately chose monographs as the initial type of "
6884 "book to unlatch. Monographs are foundational and important, but also "
6885 "problematic to keep going in the standard closed publishing model."
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6891 "The cost for the publisher to get to a first digital copy of a monograph is "
6892 "$5,000 to $50,000. A good one costs in the $10,000 to $15,000 "
6893 "range. Monographs typically don’t sell a lot of copies. A publisher who in "
6894 "the past sold three thousand copies now typically sells only three "
6895 "hundred. That makes unlatching monographs a low risk for publishers. For the "
6896 "first round, it took five months to get thirteen publishers. For the second "
6897 "round, it took one month to get twenty-six."
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6902 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/featured-authors-section/\"/>"
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6908 "Authors don’t generally make a lot of royalties from monographs. Royalties "
6909 "range from zero dollars to 5 to 10 percent of receipts. The value to the "
6910 "author is the awareness it brings to them; when their book is being read, it "
6911 "increases their reputation. Open access through unlatching generates many "
6912 "more downloads and therefore awareness. (On the Knowledge Unlatched website, "
6913 "you can find interviews with the twenty-eight round-one authors describing "
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6919 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5355
6921 "Library budgets are constantly being squeezed, partly due to the inflation "
6922 "of journal subscriptions. But even without budget constraints, academic "
6923 "libraries are moving away from buying physical copies. An academic library "
6924 "catalog entry is typically a URL to wherever the book is hosted. Or if they "
6925 "have enough electronic storage space, they may download the digital file "
6926 "into their digital repository. Only secondarily do they consider getting a "
6927 "print book, and if they do, they buy it separately from the digital version."
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6931 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5366
6933 "Knowledge Unlatched offers libraries a compelling economic argument. Many of "
6934 "the participating libraries would have bought a copy of the monograph "
6935 "anyway, but instead of paying $95 for a print copy or $150 for a digital "
6936 "multiple-use copy, they pay $50 to unlatch. It costs them less, and it opens "
6937 "the book to not just the participating libraries, but to the world."
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6941 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5374
6943 "Not only do the economics make sense, but there is very strong alignment "
6944 "with library mandates. The participating libraries pay less than they would "
6945 "have in the closed model, and the open-access book is available to all "
6946 "libraries. While this means nonparticipating libraries could be seen as free "
6947 "riders, in the library world, wealthy libraries are used to paying more than "
6948 "poor libraries and accept that part of their money should be spent to "
6949 "support open access. “Free ride” is more like community responsibility. By "
6950 "the end of March 2016, the round-one books had been downloaded nearly eighty "
6951 "thousand times in 175 countries."
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6955 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5386
6957 "For publishers, authors, and librarians, the Knowledge Unlatched model for "
6958 "monographs is a win-win-win."
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6964 "In the first round, Knowledge Unlatched’s overheads were covered by "
6965 "grants. In the second round, they aim to demonstrate the model is "
6966 "sustainable. Libraries and publishers will each pay a 7.5 percent service "
6967 "charge that will go toward Knowledge Unlatched’s running costs. With plans "
6968 "to scale up in future rounds, Frances figures they can fully recover costs "
6969 "when they are unlatching two hundred books at a time. Moving forward, "
6970 "Knowledge Unlatched is making investments in technology and "
6971 "processes. Future plans include unlatching journals and older books."
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6977 "Frances believes that Knowledge Unlatched is tapping into new ways of "
6978 "valuing academic content. It’s about considering how many people can find, "
6979 "access, and use your content without pay barriers. Knowledge Unlatched taps "
6980 "into the new possibilities and behaviors of the digital world. In the "
6981 "Knowledge Unlatched model, the content-creation process is exactly the same "
6982 "as it always has been, but the economics are different. For Frances, "
6983 "Knowledge Unlatched is connected to the past but moving into the future, an "
6984 "evolution rather than a revolution."
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6989 msgid "Lumen Learning"
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6995 "Lumen Learning is a for-profit company helping educational institutions use "
6996 "open educational resources (OER). Founded in 2013 in the U.S."
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7001 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://lumenlearning.com\"/>"
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7007 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for custom "
7008 "services, grant funding"
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7013 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 21, 2015"
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7019 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: David Wiley and Kim "
7020 "Thanos, cofounders"
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7025 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://lumenlearning.com/innovative-projects/\"/>"
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7031 "Cofounded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and "
7032 "education-technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning is dedicated to "
7033 "improving student success, bringing new ideas to pedagogy, and making "
7034 "education more affordable by facilitating adoption of open educational "
7035 "resources. In 2012, David and Kim partnered on a grant-funded project called "
7036 "the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
7037 "id=\"0\"/> It involved a set of fully open general-education courses across "
7038 "eight colleges predominantly serving at-risk students, with goals to "
7039 "dramatically reduce textbook costs and collaborate to improve the courses to "
7040 "help students succeed. David and Kim exceeded those goals: the cost of the "
7041 "required textbooks, replaced with OER, decreased to zero dollars, and "
7042 "average student-success rates improved by 5 to 10 percent when compared with "
7043 "previous years. After a second round of funding, a total of more than "
7044 "twenty-five institutions participated in and benefited from this project. It "
7045 "was career changing for David and Kim to see the impact this initiative had "
7046 "on low-income students. David and Kim sought further funding from the Bill "
7047 "and Melinda Gates Foundation, who asked them to define a plan to scale their "
7048 "work in a financially sustainable way. That is when they decided to create "
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7055 "David and Kim went back and forth on whether it should be a nonprofit or "
7056 "for- profit. A nonprofit would make it a more comfortable fit with the "
7057 "education sector but meant they’d be constantly fund-raising and seeking "
7058 "grants from philanthropies. Also, grants usually require money to be used "
7059 "in certain ways for specific deliverables. If you learn things along the way "
7060 "that change how you think the grant money should be used, there often isn’t "
7061 "a lot of flexibility to do so."
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7065 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5470
7067 "But as a for-profit, they’d have to convince educational institutions to pay "
7068 "for what Lumen had to offer. On the positive side, they’d have more control "
7069 "over what to do with the revenue and investment money; they could make "
7070 "decisions to invest the funds or use them differently based on the situation "
7071 "and shifting opportunities. In the end, they chose the for-profit status, "
7072 "with its different model for and approach to sustainability."
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7078 "Right from the start, David and Kim positioned Lumen Learning as a way to "
7079 "help institutions engage in open educational resources, or OER. OER are "
7080 "teaching, learning, and research materials, in all different media, that "
7081 "reside in the public domain or are released under an open license that "
7082 "permits free use and repurposing by others."
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7088 "Originally, Lumen did custom contracts for each institution. This was "
7089 "complicated and challenging to manage. However, through that process "
7090 "patterns emerged which allowed them to generalize a set of approaches and "
7091 "offerings. Today they don’t customize as much as they used to, and instead "
7092 "they tend to work with customers who can use their off-the-shelf "
7093 "options. Lumen finds that institutions and faculty are generally very good "
7094 "at seeing the value Lumen brings and are willing to pay for it. Serving "
7095 "disadvantaged learner populations has led Lumen to be very pragmatic; they "
7096 "describe what they offer in quantitative terms—with facts and figures—and in "
7097 "a way that is very student-focused. Lumen Learning helps colleges and "
7101 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
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7103 msgid "replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment courses with OER;"
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7107 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5509
7109 "provide enrolled students day one access to Lumen’s fully customizable OER "
7110 "course materials through the institution’s learning-management system;"
7113 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
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7116 "measure improvements in student success with metrics like passing rates, "
7117 "persistence, and course completion; and"
7120 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
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7123 "collaborate with faculty to make ongoing improvements to OER based on "
7124 "student success research."
7127 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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7130 "Lumen has developed a suite of open, Creative Commons–licensed courseware in "
7131 "more than sixty-five subjects. All courses are freely and publicly available "
7132 "right off their website. They can be copied and used by others as long as "
7133 "they provide attribution to Lumen Learning following the terms of the "
7134 "Creative Commons license."
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7140 "Then there are three types of bundled services that cost money. One option, "
7141 "which Lumen calls Candela courseware, offers integration with the "
7142 "institution’s learning-management system, technical and pedagogical support, "
7143 "and tracking of effectiveness. Candela courseware costs institutions ten "
7144 "dollars per enrolled student."
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7150 "A second option is Waymaker, which offers the services of Candela but adds "
7151 "personalized learning technologies, such as study plans, automated messages, "
7152 "and assessments, and helps instructors find and support the students who "
7153 "need it most. Waymaker courses cost twenty-five dollars per enrolled "
7157 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7158 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5551
7160 "The third and emerging line of business for Lumen is providing guidance and "
7161 "support for institutions and state systems that are pursuing the development "
7162 "of complete OER degrees. Often called Z-Degrees, these programs eliminate "
7163 "textbook costs for students in all courses that make up the degree (both "
7164 "required and elective) by replacing commercial textbooks and other "
7165 "expensive resources with OER."
7168 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7169 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5560
7171 "Lumen generates revenue by charging for their value-added tools and services "
7172 "on top of their free courses, just as solar-power companies provide the "
7173 "tools and services that help people use a free resource—sunlight. And "
7174 "Lumen’s business model focuses on getting the institutions to pay, not the "
7175 "students. With projects they did prior to Lumen, David and Kim learned that "
7176 "students who have access to all course materials from day one have greater "
7177 "success. If students had to pay, Lumen would have to restrict access to "
7178 "those who paid. Right from the start, their stance was that they would not "
7179 "put their content behind a paywall. Lumen invests zero dollars in "
7180 "technologies and processes for restricting access—no digital rights "
7181 "management, no time bombs. While this has been a challenge from a "
7182 "business-model perspective, from an open-access perspective, it has "
7183 "generated immense goodwill in the community."
7186 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7187 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5577
7189 "In most cases, development of their courses is funded by the institution "
7190 "Lumen has a contract with. When creating new courses, Lumen typically works "
7191 "with the faculty who are teaching the new course. They’re often part of the "
7192 "institution paying Lumen, but sometimes Lumen has to expand the team and "
7193 "contract faculty from other institutions. First, the faculty identifies all "
7194 "of the course’s learning outcomes. Lumen then searches for, aggregates, and "
7195 "curates the best OER they can find that addresses those learning needs, "
7196 "which the faculty reviews."
7199 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7200 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5588
7202 "Sometimes faculty like the existing OER but not the way it is presented. The "
7203 "open licensing of existing OER allows Lumen to pick and choose from images, "
7204 "videos, and other media to adapt and customize the course. Lumen creates new "
7205 "content as they discover gaps in existing OER. Test-bank items and feedback "
7206 "for students on their progress are areas where new content is frequently "
7207 "needed. Once a course is created, Lumen puts it on their platform with all "
7208 "the attributions and links to the original sources intact, and any of "
7209 "Lumen’s new content is given an Attribution (CC BY) license."
7212 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7213 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5599
7215 "Using only OER made them experience firsthand how complex it could be to mix "
7216 "differently licensed work together. A common strategy with OER is to place "
7217 "the Creative Commons license and attribution information in the website’s "
7218 "footer, which stays the same for all pages. This doesn’t quite work, "
7219 "however, when mixing different OER together."
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7223 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5607
7225 "Remixing OER often results in multiple attributions on every page of every "
7226 "course—text from one place, images from another, and videos from yet "
7227 "another. Some are licensed as Attribution (CC BY), others as "
7228 "Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). If this information is put within the "
7229 "text of the course, faculty members sometimes try to edit it and students "
7230 "find it a distraction. Lumen dealt with this challenge by capturing the "
7231 "license and attribution information as metadata, and getting it to show up "
7232 "at the end of each page."
7235 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7236 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5618
7238 "Lumen’s commitment to open licensing and helping low-income students has led "
7239 "to strong relationships with institutions, open-education enthusiasts, and "
7240 "grant funders. People in their network generously increase the visibility of "
7241 "Lumen through presentations, word of mouth, and referrals. Sometimes the "
7242 "number of general inquiries exceed Lumen’s sales capacity."
7245 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7246 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5626
7248 "To manage demand and ensure the success of projects, their strategy is to be "
7249 "proactive and focus on what’s going on in higher education in different "
7250 "regions of the United States, watching out for things happening at the "
7251 "system level in a way that fits with what Lumen offers. A great example is "
7252 "the Virginia community college system, which is building out "
7253 "Z-Degrees. David and Kim say there are nine other U.S. states with similar "
7254 "system-level activity where Lumen is strategically focusing its "
7255 "efforts. Where there are projects that would require a lot of resources on "
7256 "Lumen’s part, they prioritize the ones that would impact the largest number "
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7263 "As a business, Lumen is committed to openness. There are two core "
7264 "nonnegotiables: Lumen’s use of CC BY, the most permissive of the Creative "
7265 "Commons licenses, for all the materials it creates; and day-one access for "
7266 "students. Having clear nonnegotiables allows them to then engage with the "
7267 "education community to solve for other challenges and work with institutions "
7268 "to identify new business models that achieve institution goals, while "
7269 "keeping Lumen healthy."
7272 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7273 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5649
7275 "Openness also means that Lumen’s OER must necessarily be nonexclusive and "
7276 "nonrivalrous. This represents several big challenges for the business model: "
7277 "Why should you invest in creating something that people will be reluctant to "
7278 "pay for? How do you ensure that the investment the diverse education "
7279 "community makes in OER is not exploited? Lumen thinks we all need to be "
7280 "clear about how we are benefiting from and contributing to the open "
7284 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
7285 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5659
7287 "In the OER sector, there are examples of corporations, and even "
7288 "institutions, acting as free riders. Some simply take and use open resources "
7289 "without paying anything or contributing anything back. Others give back the "
7290 "minimum amount so they can save face. Sustainability will require those "
7291 "using open resources to give back an amount that seems fair or even give "
7292 "back something that is generous."
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7296 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5668
7298 "Lumen does track institutions accessing and using their free content. They "
7299 "proactively contact those institutions, with an estimate of how much their "
7300 "students are saving and encouraging them to switch to a paid model. Lumen "
7301 "explains the advantages of the paid model: a more interactive relationship "
7302 "with Lumen; integration with the institution’s learning-management system; a "
7303 "guarantee of support for faculty and students; and future sustainability "
7304 "with funding supporting the evolution and improvement of the OER they are "
7308 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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7311 "Lumen works hard to be a good corporate citizen in the OER community. For "
7312 "David and Kim, a good corporate citizen gives more than they take, adds "
7313 "unique value, and is very transparent about what they are taking from "
7314 "community, what they are giving back, and what they are monetizing. Lumen "
7315 "believes these are the building blocks of a sustainable model and strives "
7316 "for a correct balance of all these factors."
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7320 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:5688
7322 "Licensing all the content they produce with CC BY is a key part of giving "
7323 "more value than they take. They’ve also worked hard at finding the right "
7324 "structure for their value-add and how to package it in a way that is "
7325 "understandable and repeatable."
7328 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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7331 "As of the fall 2016 term, Lumen had eighty-six different open courses, "
7332 "working relationships with ninety-two institutions, and more than "
7333 "seventy-five thousand student enrollments. Lumen received early start-up "
7334 "funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, "
7335 "and the Shuttleworth Foundation. Since then, Lumen has also attracted "
7336 "investment funding. Over the last three years, Lumen has been roughly 60 "
7337 "percent grant funded, 20 percent revenue earned, and 20 percent funded with "
7338 "angel capital. Going forward, their strategy is to replace grant funding "
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7345 "In creating Lumen Learning, David and Kim say they’ve landed on solutions "
7346 "they never imagined, and there is still a lot of learning taking place. For "
7347 "them, open business models are an emerging field where we are all learning "
7348 "through sharing. Their biggest recommendations for others wanting to pursue "
7349 "the open model are to make your commitment to open resources public, let "
7350 "people know where you stand, and don’t back away from it. It really is about "
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7356 msgid "Jonathan Mann"
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7362 "Jonathan Mann is a singer and songwriter who is most well known as the “Song "
7363 "A Day” guy. Based in the U.S."
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7369 "<ulink url=\"http://jonathanmann.net\"/> and <ulink "
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7376 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for custom "
7377 "services, pay-what-you-want, crowdfunding (subscription-based), charging for "
7378 "in-person version (speaking engagements and musical performances)"
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7383 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 22, 2016"
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7389 "Jonathan Mann thinks of his business model as “hustling”—seizing nearly "
7390 "every opportunity he sees to make money. The bulk of his income comes from "
7391 "writing songs under commission for people and companies, but he has a wide "
7392 "variety of income sources. He has supporters on the crowdfunding site "
7393 "Patreon. He gets advertising revenue from YouTube and Bandcamp, where he "
7394 "posts all of his music. He gives paid speaking engagements about creativity "
7395 "and motivation. He has been hired by major conferences to write songs "
7396 "summarizing what speakers have said in the conference sessions."
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7402 "His entrepreneurial spirit is coupled with a willingness to take action "
7403 "quickly. A perfect illustration of his ability to act fast happened in 2010, "
7404 "when he read that Apple was having a conference the following day to address "
7405 "a snafu related to the iPhone 4. He decided to write and post a song about "
7406 "the iPhone 4 that day, and the next day he got a call from the public "
7407 "relations people at Apple wanting to use and promote his video at the Apple "
7408 "conference. The song then went viral, and the experience landed him in Time "
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7415 "Jonathan’s successful “hustling” is also about old-fashioned persistence. He "
7416 "is currently in his eighth straight year of writing one song each day. He "
7417 "holds the Guinness World Record for consecutive daily songwriting, and he is "
7418 "widely known as the “song-a-day guy.”"
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7424 "He fell into this role by, naturally, seizing a random opportunity a friend "
7425 "alerted him to seven years ago—an event called Fun-A-Day, where people are "
7426 "supposed to create a piece of art every day for thirty-one days straight. He "
7427 "was in need of a new project, so he decided to give it a try by writing and "
7428 "posting a song each day. He added a video component to the songs because he "
7429 "knew people were more likely to watch video online than simply listening to "
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7436 "He had a really good time doing the thirty-one-day challenge, so he decided "
7437 "to see if he could continue it for one year. He never stopped. He has "
7438 "written and posted a new song literally every day, seven days a week, since "
7439 "he began the project in 2009. When he isn’t writing songs that he is hired "
7440 "to write by clients, he writes songs about whatever is on his mind that "
7441 "day. His songs are catchy and mostly lighthearted, but they often contain at "
7442 "least an undercurrent of a deeper theme or meaning. Occasionally, they are "
7443 "extremely personal, like the song he cowrote with his exgirlfriend "
7444 "announcing their breakup. Rain or shine, in sickness or health, Jonathan "
7445 "posts and writes a song every day. If he is on a flight or otherwise "
7446 "incapable of getting Internet access in time to meet the deadline, he will "
7447 "prepare ahead and have someone else post the song for him."
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7453 "Over time, the song-a-day gig became the basis of his livelihood. In the "
7454 "beginning, he made money one of two ways. The first was by entering a wide "
7455 "variety of contests and winning a handful. The second was by having the "
7456 "occasional song and video go some varying degree of viral, which would bring "
7457 "more eyeballs and mean that there were more people wanting him to write "
7458 "songs for them. Today he earns most of his money this way."
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7464 "His website explains his gig as “taking any message, from the super simple "
7465 "to the totally complicated, and conveying that message through a heartfelt, "
7466 "fun and quirky song.” He charges $500 to create a produced song and $300 for "
7467 "an acoustic song. He has been hired for product launches, weddings, "
7468 "conferences, and even Kickstarter campaigns like the one that funded the "
7469 "production of this book."
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7475 "Jonathan can’t recall when exactly he first learned about Creative Commons, "
7476 "but he began applying CC licenses to his songs and videos as soon as he "
7477 "discovered the option. “CC seems like such a no-brainer,” Jonathan said. “I "
7478 "don’t understand how anything else would make sense. It seems like such an "
7479 "obvious thing that you would want your work to be able to be shared.”"
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7485 "His songs are essentially marketing for his services, so obviously the "
7486 "further his songs spread, the better. Using CC licenses helps grease the "
7487 "wheels, letting people know that Jonathan allows and encourages them to "
7488 "copy, interact with, and remix his music. “If you let someone cover your "
7489 "song or remix it or use parts of it, that’s how music is supposed to work,” "
7490 "Jonathan said. “That is how music has worked since the beginning of "
7491 "time. Our me-me, mine-mine culture has undermined that.”"
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7497 "There are some people who cover his songs fairly regularly, and he would "
7498 "never shut that down. But he acknowledges there is a lot more he could do to "
7499 "build community. “There is all of this conventional wisdom about how to "
7500 "build an audience online, and I generally think I don’t do any of that,” "
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7507 "He does have a fan community he cultivates on Bandcamp, but it isn’t his "
7508 "major focus. “I do have a core audience that has stuck around for a really "
7509 "long time, some even longer than I’ve been doing song-a-day,” he "
7510 "said. “There is also a transitional aspect that drop in and get what they "
7511 "need and then move on.” Focusing less on community building than other "
7512 "artists makes sense given Jonathan’s primary income source of writing custom "
7513 "songs for clients."
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7519 "Jonathan recognizes what comes naturally to him and leverages those "
7520 "skills. Through the practice of daily songwriting, he realized he has a gift "
7521 "for distilling complicated subjects into simple concepts and putting them to "
7522 "music. In his song “How to Choose a Master Password,” Jonathan explained the "
7523 "process of creating a secure password in a silly, simple song. He was hired "
7524 "to write the song by a client who handed him a long technical blog post from "
7525 "which to draw the information. Like a good (and rare) journalist, he "
7526 "translated the technical concepts into something understandable."
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7532 "When he is hired by a client to write a song, he first asks them to send a "
7533 "list of talking points and other information they want to include in the "
7534 "song. He puts all of that into a text file and starts moving things around, "
7535 "cutting and pasting until the message starts to come together. The first "
7536 "thing he tries to do is grok the core message and develop the chorus. Then "
7537 "he looks for connections or parts he can make rhyme. The entire process "
7538 "really does resemble good journalism, but of course the final product of his "
7539 "work is a song rather than news. “There is something about being challenged "
7540 "and forced to take information that doesn’t seem like it should be sung "
7541 "about or doesn’t seem like it lends itself to a song,” he said. “I find that "
7542 "creative challenge really satisfying. I enjoy getting lost in that process.”"
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7548 "Jonathan admits that in an ideal world, he would exclusively write the music "
7549 "he wanted to write, rather than what clients hire him to write. But his "
7550 "business model is about capitalizing on his strengths as a songwriter, and "
7551 "he has found a way to keep it interesting for himself."
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7557 "Jonathan uses nearly every tool possible to make money from his art, but he "
7558 "does have lines he won’t cross. He won’t write songs about things he "
7559 "fundamentally does not believe in, and there are times he has turned down "
7560 "jobs on principle. He also won’t stray too much from his natural style. “My "
7561 "style is silly, so I can’t really accommodate people who want something "
7562 "super serious,” Jonathan said. “I do what I do very easily, and it’s part of "
7563 "who I am.” Jonathan hasn’t gotten into writing commercials for the same "
7564 "reasons; he is best at using his own unique style rather than mimicking "
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7571 "Jonathan’s song-a-day commitment exemplifies the power of habit and "
7572 "grit. Conventional wisdom about creative productivity, including advice in "
7573 "books like the best-seller The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, routinely "
7574 "emphasizes the importance of ritual and action. No amount of planning can "
7575 "replace the value of simple practice and just doing. Jonathan Mann’s work is "
7576 "a living embodiment of these principles."
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7582 "When he speaks about his work, he talks about how much the song-a-day "
7583 "process has changed him. Rather than seeing any given piece of work as "
7584 "precious and getting stuck on trying to make it perfect, he has become "
7585 "comfortable with just doing. If today’s song is a bust, tomorrow’s song "
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7592 "Jonathan seems to have this mentality about his career more generally. He is "
7593 "constantly experimenting with ways to make a living while sharing his work "
7594 "as widely as possible, seeing what sticks. While he has major "
7595 "accomplishments he is proud of, like being in the Guinness World Records or "
7596 "having his song used by Steve Jobs, he says he never truly feels successful."
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7602 "“Success feels like it’s over,” he said. “To a certain extent, a creative "
7603 "person is not ever going to feel completely satisfied because then so much "
7604 "of what drives you would be gone.”"
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7609 msgid "Noun Project"
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7616 "display visual icons from a global network of designers. Founded in 2010 in "
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7634 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: October 6, 2015"
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7639 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Edward Boatman, cofounder"
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7645 "The Noun Project creates and shares visual language. There are millions who "
7646 "use Noun Project symbols to simplify communication across borders, "
7647 "languages, and cultures."
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7653 "The original idea for the Noun Project came to cofounder Edward Boatman "
7654 "while he was a student in architecture design school. He’d always done a lot "
7655 "of sketches and started to draw what used to fascinate him as a child, like "
7656 "trains, sequoias, and bulldozers. He began thinking how great it would be "
7657 "if he had a simple image or small icon of every single object or concept on "
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7664 "When Edward went on to work at an architecture firm, he had to make a lot of "
7665 "presentation boards for clients. But finding high-quality sources for "
7666 "symbols and icons was difficult. He couldn’t find any website that could "
7667 "provide them. Perhaps his idea for creating a library of icons could "
7668 "actually help people in similar situations."
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7674 "With his partner, Sofya Polyakov, he began collecting symbols for a website "
7675 "and writing a business plan. Inspiration came from the book Professor and "
7676 "the Madman, which chronicles the use of crowdsourcing to create the Oxford "
7677 "English Dictionary in 1870. Edward began to imagine crowdsourcing icons and "
7678 "symbols from volunteer designers around the world."
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7691 "Then Edward got laid off during the recession, which turned out to be a huge "
7692 "catalyst. He decided to give his idea a go, and in 2010 Edward and Sofya "
7693 "launched the Noun Project with a Kickstarter campaign, back when Kickstarter "
7694 "was in its infancy.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> They thought "
7695 "it’d be a good way to introduce the global web community to their "
7696 "idea. Their goal was to raise $1,500, but in twenty days they got over "
7697 "$14,000. They realized their idea had the potential to be something much "
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7704 "They created a platform where symbols and icons could be uploaded, and "
7705 "Edward began recruiting talented designers to contribute their designs, a "
7706 "process he describes as a relatively easy sell. Lots of designers have old "
7707 "drawings just gathering “digital dust” on their hard drives. It’s easy to "
7708 "convince them to finally share them with the world."
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7714 "The Noun Project currently has about seven thousand designers from around "
7715 "the world. But not all submissions are accepted. The Noun Project’s "
7716 "quality-review process means that only the best works become part of its "
7717 "collection. They make sure to provide encouraging, constructive feedback "
7718 "whenever they reject a piece of work, which maintains and builds the "
7719 "relationship they have with their global community of designers."
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7725 "Creative Commons is an integral part of the Noun Project’s business model; "
7726 "this decision was inspired by Chris Anderson’s book Free: The Future of "
7727 "Radical Price, which introduced Edward to the idea that you could build a "
7728 "business model around free content."
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7734 "Edward knew he wanted to offer a free visual language while still providing "
7735 "some protection and reward for its contributors. There is a tension between "
7736 "those two goals, but for Edward, Creative Commons licenses bring this "
7737 "idealism and business opportunity together elegantly. He chose the "
7738 "Attribution (CC BY) license, which means people can download the icons for "
7739 "free and modify them and even use them commercially. The requirement to give "
7740 "attribution to the original creator ensures that the creator can build a "
7741 "reputation and get global recognition for their work. And if they simply "
7742 "want to offer an icon that people can use without having to give credit, "
7743 "they can use CC0 to put the work into the public domain."
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7749 "Noun Project’s business model and means of generating revenue have evolved "
7750 "significantly over time. Their initial plan was to sell T-shirts with the "
7751 "icons on it, which in retrospect Edward says was a horrible idea. They did "
7752 "get a lot of email from people saying they loved the icons but asking if "
7753 "they could pay a fee instead of giving attribution. Ad agencies (among "
7754 "others) wanted to keep marketing and presentation materials clean and free "
7755 "of attribution statements. For Edward, “That’s when our lightbulb went off.”"
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7761 "They asked their global network of designers whether they’d be open to "
7762 "receiving modest remuneration instead of attribution. Designers saw it as a "
7763 "win-win. The idea that you could offer your designs for free and have a "
7764 "global audience and maybe even make some money was pretty exciting for most "
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7771 "The Noun Project first adopted a model whereby using an icon without giving "
7772 "attribution would cost $1.99 per icon. The model’s second iteration added a "
7773 "subscription component, where there would be a monthly fee to access a "
7774 "certain number of icons—ten, fifty, a hundred, or five hundred. However, "
7775 "users didn’t like these hard-count options. They preferred to try out many "
7776 "similar icons to see which worked best before eventually choosing the one "
7777 "they wanted to use. So the Noun Project moved to an unlimited model, whereby "
7778 "users have unlimited access to the whole library for a flat monthly "
7779 "fee. This service is called NounPro and costs $9.99 per month. Edward says "
7780 "this model is working well—good for customers, good for creators, and good "
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7787 "Customers then began asking for an application-programming interface (API), "
7788 "which would allow Noun Project icons and symbols to be directly accessed "
7789 "from within other applications. Edward knew that the icons and symbols would "
7790 "be valuable in a lot of different contexts and that they couldn’t possibly "
7791 "know all of them in advance, so they built an API with a lot of "
7792 "flexibility. Knowing that most API applications would want to use the icons "
7793 "without giving attribution, the API was built with the aim of charging for "
7794 "its use. You can use what’s called the “Playground API” for free to test how "
7795 "it integrates with your application, but full implementation will require "
7796 "you to purchase the API Pro version."
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7802 "The Noun Project shares revenue with its international designers. For "
7803 "one-off purchases, the revenue is split 70 percent to the designer and 30 "
7804 "percent to Noun Project."
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7810 "The revenue from premium purchases (the subscription and API options) is "
7811 "split a little differently. At the end of each month, the total revenue from "
7812 "subscriptions is divided by Noun Project’s total number of downloads, "
7813 "resulting in a rate per download—for example, it could be $0.13 per download "
7814 "for that month. For each download, the revenue is split 40 percent to the "
7815 "designer and 60 percent to the Noun Project. (For API usage, it’s per use "
7816 "instead of per download.) Noun Project’s share is higher this time as it’s "
7817 "providing more service to the user."
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7822 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://thenounproject.com/handbook/royalties/#getting_paid\"/>"
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7828 "The Noun Project tries to be completely transparent about their royalty "
7829 "structure.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> They tend to over "
7830 "communicate with creators about it because building trust is the top "
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7837 "For most creators, contributing to the Noun Project is not a full-time job "
7838 "but something they do on the side. Edward categorizes monthly earnings for "
7839 "creators into three broad categories: enough money to buy beer; enough to "
7840 "pay the bills; and most successful of all, enough to pay the rent."
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7846 "Recently the Noun Project launched a new app called Lingo. Designers can "
7847 "use Lingo to organize not just their Noun Project icons and symbols but also "
7848 "their photos, illustrations, UX designs, et cetera. You simply drag any "
7849 "visual item directly into Lingo to save it. Lingo also works for teams so "
7850 "people can share visuals with each other and search across their combined "
7851 "collections. Lingo is free for personal use. A pro version for $9.99 per "
7852 "month lets you add guests. A team version for $49.95 per month allows up to "
7853 "twenty-five team members to collaborate, and to view, use, edit, and add new "
7854 "assets to each other’s collections. And if you subscribe to NounPro, you "
7855 "can access Noun Project from within Lingo."
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7861 "The Noun Project gives a ton of value away for free. A very large percentage "
7862 "of their roughly one million members have a free account, but there are "
7863 "still lots of paid accounts coming from digital designers, advertising and "
7864 "design agencies, educators, and others who need to communicate ideas "
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7871 "For Edward, “creating, sharing, and celebrating the world’s visual language” "
7872 "is the most important aspect of what they do; it’s their stated mission. It "
7873 "differentiates them from others who offer graphics, icons, or clip art."
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7879 "Noun Project creators agree. When surveyed on why they participate in the "
7880 "Noun Project, this is how designers rank their reasons: 1) to support the "
7881 "Noun Project mission, 2) to promote their own personal brand, and 3) to "
7882 "generate money. It’s striking to see that money comes third, and mission, "
7883 "first. If you want to engage a global network of contributors, it’s "
7884 "important to have a mission beyond making money."
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7890 "In Edward’s view, Creative Commons is central to their mission of sharing "
7891 "and social good. Using Creative Commons makes the Noun Project’s mission "
7892 "genuine and has generated a lot of their initial traction and "
7893 "credibility. CC comes with a built-in community of users and fans."
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7899 "Edward told us, “Don’t underestimate the power of a passionate community "
7900 "around your product or your business. They are going to go to bat for you "
7901 "when you’re getting ripped in the media. If you go down the road of choosing "
7902 "to work with Creative Commons, you’re taking the first step to building a "
7903 "great community and tapping into a really awesome community that comes with "
7904 "it. But you need to continue to foster that community through other "
7905 "initiatives and continue to nurture it.”"
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7911 "The Noun Project nurtures their creators’ second motivation—promoting a "
7912 "personal brand—by connecting every icon and symbol to the creator’s name and "
7913 "profile page; each profile features their full collection. Users can also "
7914 "search the icons by the creator’s name."
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7920 "The Noun Project also builds community through Iconathons—hackathons for "
7921 "icons.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> In partnership with a "
7922 "sponsoring organization, the Noun Project comes up with a theme (e.g., "
7923 "sustainable energy, food bank, guerrilla gardening, human rights) and a list "
7924 "of icons that are needed, which designers are invited to create at the "
7925 "event. The results are vectorized, and added to the Noun Project using CC0 "
7926 "so they can be used by anyone for free."
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7932 "Providing a free version of their product that satisfies a lot of their "
7933 "customers’ needs has actually enabled the Noun Project to build the paid "
7934 "version, using a service-oriented model. The Noun Project’s success lies in "
7935 "creating services and content that are a strategic mix of free and paid "
7936 "while staying true to their mission—creating, sharing, and celebrating the "
7937 "world’s visual language. Integrating Creative Commons into their model has "
7938 "been key to that goal."
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7943 msgid "Open Data Institute"
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7949 "The Open Data Institute is an independent nonprofit that connects, equips, "
7950 "and inspires people around the world to innovate with data. Founded in 2012 "
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7962 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: grant and government "
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7968 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: November 11, 2015"
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7981 "Cofounded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the "
7982 "London-based Open Data Institute (ODI) offers data-related training, events, "
7983 "consulting services, and research. For ODI, Creative Commons licenses are "
7984 "central to making their own business model and their customers’ open. CC BY "
7985 "(Attribution), CC BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike), and CC0 (placed in the "
7986 "public domain) all play a critical role in ODI’s mission to help people "
7987 "around the world innovate with data."
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7993 "Data underpins planning and decision making across all aspects of "
7994 "society. Weather data helps farmers know when to plant their crops, flight "
7995 "time data from airplane companies helps us plan our travel, data on local "
7996 "housing informs city planning. When this data is not only accurate and "
7997 "timely, but open and accessible, it opens up new possibilities. Open data "
7998 "can be a resource businesses use to build new products and services. It can "
7999 "help governments measure progress, improve efficiency, and target "
8000 "investments. It can help citizens improve their lives by better "
8001 "understanding what is happening around them."
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8007 "The Open Data Institute’s 2012–17 business plan starts out by describing its "
8008 "vision to establish itself as a world-leading center and to research and be "
8009 "innovative with the opportunities created by the UK government’s open data "
8010 "policy. (The government was an early pioneer in open policy and open-data "
8011 "initiatives.) It goes on to say that the ODI wants to—"
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8017 "demonstrate the commercial value of open government data and how open-data "
8018 "policies affect this;"
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8023 msgid "develop the economic benefits case and business models for open data;"
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8028 msgid "help UK businesses use open data; and"
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8041 "show how open data can improve public services.<placeholder "
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8048 "ODI is very explicit about how it wants to make open business models, and "
8049 "defining what this means. Jeni Tennison, ODI’s technical director, puts it "
8050 "this way: “There is a whole ecosystem of open—open-source software, open "
8051 "government, open-access research—and a whole ecosystem of data. ODI’s work "
8052 "cuts across both, with an emphasis on where they overlap—with open data.” "
8053 "ODI’s particular focus is to show open data’s potential for revenue."
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8059 "As an independent nonprofit, ODI secured £10 million over five years from "
8060 "the UK government via Innovate UK, an agency that promotes innovation in "
8061 "science and technology. For this funding, ODI has to secure matching funds "
8062 "from other sources, some of which were met through a $4.75-million "
8063 "investment from the Omidyar Network."
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8069 "Jeni started out as a developer and technical architect for data.gov.uk, the "
8070 "UK government’s pioneering open-data initiative. She helped make data sets "
8071 "from government departments available as open data. She joined ODI in 2012 "
8072 "when it was just starting up, as one of six people. It now has a staff of "
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8079 "ODI strives to have half its annual budget come from the core UK government "
8080 "and Omidyar grants, and the other half from project-based research and "
8081 "commercial work. In Jeni’s view, having this balance of revenue sources "
8082 "establishes some stability, but also keeps them motivated to go out and "
8083 "generate these matching funds in response to market needs."
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8089 "On the commercial side, ODI generates funding through memberships, training, "
8090 "and advisory services."
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8095 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://directory.theodi.org/members\"/>"
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8101 "You can join the ODI as an individual or commercial member. Individual "
8102 "membership is pay-what-you-can, with options ranging from £1 to "
8103 "£100. Members receive a newsletter and related communications and a discount "
8104 "on ODI training courses and the annual summit, and they can display an "
8105 "ODI-supporter badge on their website. Commercial membership is divided into "
8106 "two tiers: small to medium size enterprises and nonprofits at £720 a year, "
8107 "and corporations and government organizations at £2,200 a year. Commercial "
8108 "members have greater opportunities to connect and collaborate, explore the "
8109 "benefits of open data, and unlock new business opportunities. (All members "
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8116 "ODI provides standardized open data training courses in which anyone can "
8117 "enroll. The initial idea was to offer an intensive and academically oriented "
8118 "diploma in open data, but it quickly became clear there was no market for "
8119 "that. Instead, they offered a five-day-long public training course, which "
8120 "has subsequently been reduced to three days; now the most popular course is "
8121 "one day long. The fee, in addition to the time commitment, can be a barrier "
8122 "for participation. Jeni says, “Most of the people who would be able to pay "
8123 "don’t know they need it. Most who know they need it can’t pay.” "
8124 "Public-sector organizations sometimes give vouchers to their employees so "
8125 "they can attend as a form of professional development."
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8131 "ODI customizes training for clients as well, for which there is more "
8132 "demand. Custom training usually emerges through an established relationship "
8133 "with an organization. The training program is based on a definition of "
8134 "open-data knowledge as applicable to the organization and on the skills "
8135 "needed by their high-level executives, management, and technical staff. The "
8136 "training tends to generate high interest and commitment."
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8142 "Education about open data is also a part of ODI’s annual summit event, where "
8143 "curated presentations and speakers showcase the work of ODI and its members "
8144 "across the entire ecosystem. Tickets to the summit are available to the "
8145 "public, and hundreds of people and organizations attend and participate. In "
8146 "2014, there were four thematic tracks and over 750 attendees."
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8152 "In addition to memberships and training, ODI provides advisory services to "
8153 "help with technical-data support, technology development, change management, "
8154 "policies, and other areas. ODI has advised large commercial organizations, "
8155 "small businesses, and international governments; the focus at the moment is "
8156 "on government, but ODI is working to shift more toward commercial "
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8162 msgid "On the commercial side, the following value propositions seem to resonate:"
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8168 "Data-driven insights. Businesses need data from outside their business to "
8169 "get more insight. Businesses can generate value and more effectively pursue "
8170 "their own goals if they open up their own data too. Big data is a hot topic."
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8176 "Open innovation. Many large-scale enterprises are aware they don’t innovate "
8177 "very well. One way they can innovate is to open up their data. ODI "
8178 "encourages them to do so even if it exposes problems and challenges. The key "
8179 "is to invite other people to help while still maintaining organizational "
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8186 "Corporate social responsibility. While this resonates with businesses, ODI "
8187 "cautions against having it be the sole reason for making data open. If a "
8188 "business is just thinking about open data as a way to be transparent and "
8189 "accountable, they can miss out on efficiencies and opportunities."
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8195 "During their early years, ODI wanted to focus solely on the United "
8196 "Kingdom. But in their first year, large delegations of government visitors "
8197 "from over fifty countries wanted to learn more about the UK government’s "
8198 "open-data practices and how ODI saw that translating into economic "
8199 "value. They were contracted as a service provider to international "
8200 "governments, which prompted a need to set up international ODI “nodes.”"
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8206 "Nodes are franchises of the ODI at a regional or city level. Hosted by "
8207 "existing (for-profit or not-for-profit) organizations, they operate locally "
8208 "but are part of the global network. Each ODI node adopts the charter, a set "
8209 "of guiding principles and rules under which ODI operates. They develop and "
8210 "deliver training, connect people and businesses through membership and "
8211 "events, and communicate open-data stories from their part of the "
8212 "world. There are twenty-seven different nodes across nineteen countries. ODI "
8213 "nodes are charged a small fee to be part of the network and to use the "
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8220 "<ulink url=\"http://theodi.org/odi-startup-programme\"/>; <ulink "
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8227 "ODI also runs programs to help start-ups in the UK and across Europe develop "
8228 "a sustainable business around open data, offering mentoring, advice, "
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8235 "A big part of ODI’s business model revolves around community "
8236 "building. Memberships, training, summits, consulting services, nodes, and "
8237 "start-up programs create an ever-growing network of open-data users and "
8238 "leaders. (In fact, ODI even operates something called an Open Data Leaders "
8239 "Network.) For ODI, community is key to success. They devote significant time "
8240 "and effort to build it, not just online but through face-to-face events."
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8245 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://certificates.theodi.org\"/>"
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8249 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6413
8251 "ODI has created an online tool that organizations can use to assess the "
8252 "legal, practical, technical, and social aspects of their open data. If it is "
8253 "of high quality, the organization can earn ODI’s Open Data Certificate, a "
8254 "globally recognized mark that signals that their open data is useful, "
8255 "reliable, accessible, discoverable, and supported.<placeholder "
8256 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8259 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8260 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6421
8262 "Separate from commercial activities, the ODI generates funding through "
8263 "research grants. Research includes looking at evidence on the impact of open "
8264 "data, development of open-data tools and standards, and how to deploy open "
8268 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8269 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6427
8271 "Creative Commons 4.0 licenses cover database rights and ODI recommends CC "
8272 "BY, CC BY-SA, and CC0 for data releases. ODI encourages publishers of data "
8273 "to use Creative Commons licenses rather than creating new “open licenses” of "
8277 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8278 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6433
8280 "For ODI, open is at the heart of what they do. They also release any "
8281 "software code they produce under open-source-software licenses, and "
8282 "publications and reports under CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses. ODI’s mission is "
8283 "to connect and equip people around the world so they can innovate with "
8284 "data. Disseminating stories, research, guidance, and code under an open "
8285 "license is essential for achieving that mission. It also demonstrates that "
8286 "it is perfectly possible to generate sustainable revenue streams that do not "
8287 "rely on restrictive licensing of content, data, or code. People pay to have "
8288 "ODI experts provide training to them, not for the content of the training; "
8289 "people pay for the advice ODI gives them, not for the methodologies they "
8290 "use. Producing open content, data, and source code helps establish "
8291 "credibility and creates leads for the paid services that they "
8292 "offer. According to Jeni, “The biggest lesson we have learned is that it is "
8293 "completely possible to be open, get customers, and make money.”"
8296 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8297 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6451
8299 "To serve as evidence of a successful open business model and return on "
8300 "investment, ODI has a public dashboard of key performance indicators. Here "
8301 "are a few metrics as of April 27, 2016:"
8304 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8305 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6459
8307 "Total amount of cash investments unlocked in direct investments in ODI, "
8308 "competition funding, direct contracts, and partnerships, and income that ODI "
8309 "nodes and ODI start-ups have generated since joining the ODI program: £44.5 "
8313 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8314 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6467
8315 msgid "Total number of active members and nodes across the globe: 1,350"
8318 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8319 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6473
8320 msgid "Total sales since ODI began: £7.44 million"
8323 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8324 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6478
8326 "Total number of unique people reached since ODI began, in person and online: "
8330 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8331 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6484
8332 msgid "Total Open Data Certificates created: 151,000"
8335 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para><footnote><para>
8336 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6490
8337 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://dashboards.theodi.org/company/all\"/>"
8340 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8341 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6489
8343 "Total number of people trained by ODI and its nodes since ODI began: "
8344 "5,080<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8347 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
8348 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6496
8352 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8353 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6499
8355 "Opendesk is a for-profit company offering an online platform that connects "
8356 "furniture designers around the world with customers and local makers who "
8357 "bring the designs to life. Founded in 2014 in the UK."
8360 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8361 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6505
8362 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc\"/>"
8365 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8366 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6507 MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8922
8368 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging a transaction "
8372 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8373 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6510
8374 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: November 4, 2015"
8377 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8378 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6513
8380 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Nick Ierodiaconou and "
8381 "Joni Steiner, cofounders"
8384 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8385 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6521
8387 "Opendesk is an online platform that connects furniture designers around the "
8388 "world not just with customers but also with local registered makers who "
8389 "bring the designs to life. Opendesk and the designer receive a portion of "
8390 "every sale that is made by a maker."
8393 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8394 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6527
8396 "Cofounders Nick Ierodiaconou and Joni Steiner studied and worked as "
8397 "architects together. They also made goods. Their first client was Mint "
8398 "Digital, who had an interest in open licensing. Nick and Joni were exploring "
8399 "digital fabrication, and Mint’s interest in open licensing got them to "
8400 "thinking how the open-source world may interact and apply to physical "
8401 "goods. They sought to design something for their client that was also "
8402 "reproducible. As they put it, they decided to “ship the recipe, but not the "
8403 "goods.” They created the design using software, put it under an open "
8404 "license, and had it manufactured locally near the client. This was the start "
8405 "of the idea for Opendesk. The idea for Wikihouse—another open project "
8406 "dedicated to accessible housing for all—started as discussions around the "
8407 "same table. The two projects ultimately went on separate paths, with "
8408 "Wikihouse becoming a nonprofit foundation and Opendesk a for-profit company."
8411 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8412 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6544
8414 "When Nick and Joni set out to create Opendesk, there were a lot of questions "
8415 "about the viability of distributed manufacturing. No one was doing it in a "
8416 "way that was even close to realistic or competitive. The design community "
8417 "had the intent, but fulfilling this vision was still a long way away."
8420 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8421 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6551
8423 "And now this sector is emerging, and Nick and Joni are highly interested in "
8424 "the commercialization aspects of it. As part of coming up with a business "
8425 "model, they began investigating intellectual property and licensing "
8426 "options. It was a thorny space, especially for designs. Just what aspect of "
8427 "a design is copyrightable? What is patentable? How can allowing for digital "
8428 "sharing and distribution be balanced against the designer’s desire to still "
8429 "hold ownership? In the end, they decided there was no need to reinvent the "
8430 "wheel and settled on using Creative Commons."
8433 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8434 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6562
8436 "When designing the Opendesk system, they had two goals. They wanted anyone, "
8437 "anywhere in the world, to be able to download designs so that they could be "
8438 "made locally, and they wanted a viable model that benefited designers when "
8439 "their designs were sold. Coming up with a business model was going to be "
8443 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8444 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6569
8446 "They gave a lot of thought to three angles—the potential for social sharing, "
8447 "allowing designers to choose their license, and the impact these choices "
8448 "would have on the business model."
8451 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8452 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6574
8454 "In support of social sharing, Opendesk actively advocates for (but doesn’t "
8455 "demand) open licensing. And Nick and Joni are agnostic about which Creative "
8456 "Commons license is used; it’s up to the designer. They can be proprietary or "
8457 "choose from the full suite of Creative Commons licenses, deciding for "
8458 "themselves how open or closed they want to be."
8461 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8462 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6585
8463 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc/designers\"/>"
8466 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8467 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6582
8469 "For the most part, designers love the idea of sharing content. They "
8470 "understand that you get positive feedback when you’re attributed, what Nick "
8471 "and Joni called “reputational glow.” And Opendesk does an awesome job "
8472 "profiling the designers.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8475 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8476 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6588
8478 "While designers are largely OK with personal sharing, there is a concern "
8479 "that someone will take the design and manufacture the furniture in bulk, "
8480 "with the designer not getting any benefits. So most Opendesk designers "
8481 "choose the Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC)."
8484 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8485 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6595
8487 "Anyone can download a design and make it themselves, provided it’s for "
8488 "noncommercial use — and there have been many, many downloads. Or users can "
8489 "buy the product from Opendesk, or from a registered maker in Opendesk’s "
8490 "network, for on-demand personal fabrication. The network of Opendesk makers "
8491 "currently is made up of those who do digital fabrication using a "
8492 "computer-controlled CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machining device that "
8493 "cuts shapes out of wooden sheets according to the specifications in the "
8497 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8498 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6612
8499 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc/open-making/makers/\"/>"
8502 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8503 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6605
8505 "Makers benefit from being part of Opendesk’s network. Making furniture for "
8506 "local customers is paid work, and Opendesk generates business for them. Joni "
8507 "said, “Finding a whole network and community of makers was pretty easy "
8508 "because we built a site where people could write in about their "
8509 "capabilities. Building the community by learning from the maker community is "
8510 "how we have moved forward.” Opendesk now has relationships with hundreds of "
8511 "makers in countries all around the world.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
8515 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8516 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6615
8518 "The makers are a critical part of the Opendesk business model. Their model "
8519 "builds off the makers’ quotes. Here’s how it’s expressed on Opendesk’s "
8523 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8524 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6620
8526 "When customers buy an Opendesk product directly from a registered maker, "
8530 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8531 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6626
8533 "the manufacturing cost as set by the maker (this covers material and labour "
8534 "costs for the product to be manufactured and any extra assembly costs "
8535 "charged by the maker)"
8538 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8539 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6633
8541 "a design fee for the designer (a design fee that is paid to the designer "
8542 "every time their design is used)"
8545 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8546 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6639
8548 "a percentage fee to the Opendesk platform (this supports the infrastructure "
8549 "and ongoing development of the platform that helps us build out our "
8553 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8554 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6646
8556 "a percentage fee to the channel through which the sale is made (at the "
8557 "moment this is Opendesk, but in the future we aim to open this up to "
8558 "third-party sellers who can sell Opendesk products through their own "
8559 "channels—this covers sales and marketing fees for the relevant channel)"
8562 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8563 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6655
8565 "a local delivery service charge (the delivery is typically charged by the "
8566 "maker, but in some cases may be paid to a third-party delivery partner)"
8569 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8570 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6662
8572 "charges for any additional services the customer chooses, such as on-site "
8573 "assembly (additional services are discretionary—in many cases makers will be "
8574 "happy to quote for assembly on-site and designers may offer bespoke design "
8578 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para><footnote><para>
8579 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6671
8580 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.opendesk.cc/open-making/join\"/>"
8583 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8584 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6670
8586 "local sales taxes (variable by customer and maker location)<placeholder "
8587 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
8590 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8591 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6676
8592 msgid "They then go into detail how makers’ quotes are created:"
8595 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8596 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6679
8598 "When a customer wants to buy an Opendesk . . . they are provided with a "
8599 "transparent breakdown of fees including the manufacturing cost, design fee, "
8600 "Opendesk platform fee and channel fees. If a customer opts to buy by getting "
8601 "in touch directly with a registered local maker using a downloaded Opendesk "
8602 "file, the maker is responsible for ensuring the design fee, Opendesk "
8603 "platform fee and channel fees are included in any quote at the time of "
8604 "sale. Percentage fees are always based on the underlying manufacturing cost "
8605 "and are typically apportioned as follows:"
8608 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8609 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6692
8611 "manufacturing cost: fabrication, finishing and any other costs as set by the "
8612 "maker (excluding any services like delivery or on-site assembly)"
8615 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8616 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6699
8617 msgid "design fee: 8 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8620 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8621 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6704
8622 msgid "platform fee: 12 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8625 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8626 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6709
8627 msgid "channel fee: 18 percent of the manufacturing cost"
8630 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8631 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6714
8632 msgid "sales tax: as applicable (depends on product and location)"
8635 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8636 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6719
8638 "Opendesk shares revenue with their community of designers. According to "
8639 "Nick and Joni, a typical designer fee is around 2.5 percent, so Opendesk’s 8 "
8640 "percent is more generous, and providing a higher value to the designer."
8643 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8644 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6725
8646 "The Opendesk website features stories of designers and makers. Denis Fuzii "
8647 "published the design for the Valovi Chair from his studio in São Paulo. His "
8648 "designs have been downloaded over five thousand times in ninety-five "
8649 "countries. I.J. CNC Services is Ian Jinks, a professional maker based in the "
8650 "United Kingdom. Opendesk now makes up a large proportion of his business."
8653 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8654 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6733
8656 "To manage resources and remain effective, Opendesk has so far focused on a "
8657 "very narrow niche—primarily office furniture of a certain simple aesthetic, "
8658 "which uses only one type of material and one manufacturing technique. This "
8659 "allows them to be more strategic and more disruptive in the market, by "
8660 "getting things to market quickly with competitive prices. It also reflects "
8661 "their vision of creating reproducible and functional pieces."
8664 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8665 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6742
8667 "On their website, Opendesk describes what they do as “open making”: "
8668 "“Designers get a global distribution channel. Makers get profitable jobs and "
8669 "new customers. You get designer products without the designer price tag, a "
8670 "more social, eco-friendly alternative to mass-production and an affordable "
8671 "way to buy custom-made products.”"
8674 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8675 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6750
8677 "Nick and Joni say that customers like the fact that the furniture has a "
8678 "known provenance. People really like that their furniture was designed by a "
8679 "certain international designer but was made by a maker in their local "
8680 "community; it’s a great story to tell. It certainly sets apart Opendesk "
8681 "furniture from the usual mass-produced items from a store."
8684 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
8685 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6763
8686 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://openmaking.is\"/>"
8689 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8690 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6758
8692 "Nick and Joni are taking a community-based approach to define and evolve "
8693 "Opendesk and the “open making” business model. They’re engaging thought "
8694 "leaders and practitioners to define this new movement. They have a separate "
8695 "Open Making site, which includes a manifesto, a field guide, and an "
8696 "invitation to get involved in the Open Making community.<placeholder "
8697 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> People can submit ideas and discuss the "
8698 "principles and business practices they’d like to see used."
8701 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8702 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6767
8704 "Nick and Joni talked a lot with us about intellectual property (IP) and "
8705 "commercialization. Many of their designers fear the idea that someone could "
8706 "take one of their design files and make and sell infinite number of pieces "
8707 "of furniture with it. As a consequence, most Opendesk designers choose the "
8708 "Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC)."
8711 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8712 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6775
8714 "Opendesk established a set of principles for what their community considers "
8715 "commercial and noncommercial use. Their website states:"
8718 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8719 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6779
8720 msgid "It is unambiguously commercial use when anyone:"
8723 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8724 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6784
8725 msgid "charges a fee or makes a profit when making an Opendesk"
8728 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8729 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6789
8730 msgid "sells (or bases a commercial service on) an Opendesk"
8733 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8734 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6794
8736 "It follows from this that noncommercial use is when you make an Opendesk "
8737 "yourself, with no intention to gain commercial advantage or monetary "
8738 "compensation. For example, these qualify as noncommercial:"
8741 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8742 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6802
8744 "you are an individual with your own CNC machine, or access to a shared CNC "
8745 "machine, and will personally cut and make a few pieces of furniture yourself"
8748 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8749 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6809
8751 "you are a student (or teacher) and you use the design files for educational "
8752 "purposes or training (and do not intend to sell the resulting pieces)"
8755 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
8756 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6816
8758 "you work for a charity and get furniture cut by volunteers, or by employees "
8759 "at a fab lab or maker space"
8762 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8763 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6822
8765 "Whether or not people technically are doing things that implicate IP, Nick "
8766 "and Joni have found that people tend to comply with the wishes of creators "
8767 "out of a sense of fairness. They have found that behavioral economics can "
8768 "replace some of the thorny legal issues. In their business model, Nick and "
8769 "Joni are trying to suspend the focus on IP and build an open business model "
8770 "that works for all stakeholders—designers, channels, manufacturers, and "
8771 "customers. For them, the value Opendesk generates hangs off “open,” not IP."
8774 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8775 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6833
8777 "The mission of Opendesk is about relocalizing manufacturing, which changes "
8778 "the way we think about how goods are made. Commercialization is integral to "
8779 "their mission, and they’ve begun to focus on success metrics that track how "
8780 "many makers and designers are engaged through Opendesk in revenue-making "
8784 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8785 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6840
8787 "As a global platform for local making, Opendesk’s business model has been "
8788 "built on honesty, transparency, and inclusivity. As Nick and Joni describe "
8789 "it, they put ideas out there that get traction and then have faith in "
8793 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
8794 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6847
8798 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8799 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6850
8801 "OpenStax is a nonprofit that provides free, openly licensed textbooks for "
8802 "high-enrollment introductory college courses and Advanced Placement "
8803 "courses. Founded in 2012 in the U.S."
8806 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8807 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6855
8808 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.openstaxcollege.org\"/>"
8811 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8812 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6857
8814 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: grant funding, charging "
8815 "for custom services, charging for physical copies (textbook sales)"
8818 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8819 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6861
8820 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 16, 2015"
8823 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
8824 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6864
8826 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: David Harris, "
8830 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
8831 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:6872
8833 "OpenStax is an extension of a program called Connexions, which was started "
8834 "in 1999 by Dr. Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of "
8835 "Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, "
8836 "Texas. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional textbooks and courses, "
8837 "Dr. Baraniuk wanted to provide authors and learners a way to share and "
8838 "freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and "
8839 "reports. Today, Connexions (now called OpenStax CNX) is one of the world’s "
8840 "best libraries of customizable educational materials, all licensed with "
8841 "Creative Commons and available to anyone, anywhere, anytime—for free."
8844 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8847 "In 2008, while in a senior leadership role at WebAssign and looking at ways "
8848 "to reduce the risk that came with relying on publishers, David Harris began "
8849 "investigating open educational resources (OER) and discovered Connexions. A "
8850 "year and a half later, Connexions received a grant to help grow the use of "
8851 "OER so that it could meet the needs of students who couldn’t afford "
8852 "textbooks. David came on board to spearhead this effort. Connexions became "
8853 "OpenStax CNX; the program to create open textbooks became OpenStax College, "
8854 "now simply called OpenStax."
8857 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8860 "David brought with him a deep understanding of the best practices of "
8861 "publishing along with where publishers have inefficiencies. In David’s view, "
8862 "peer review and high standards for quality are critically important if you "
8863 "want to scale easily. Books have to have logical scope and sequence, they "
8864 "have to exist as a whole and not in pieces, and they have to be easy to "
8865 "find. The working hypothesis for the launch of OpenStax was to "
8866 "professionally produce a turnkey textbook by investing effort up front, with "
8867 "the expectation that this would lead to rapid growth through easy downstream "
8868 "adoptions by faculty and students."
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8875 "url=\"http://news.rice.edu/files/2016/01/0119-OPENSTAX-2016Infographic-lg-1tahxiu.jpg\"/>"
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8881 "In 2012, OpenStax College launched as a nonprofit with the aim of producing "
8882 "high-quality, peer-reviewed full-color textbooks that would be available for "
8883 "free for the twenty-five most heavily attended college courses in the "
8884 "nation. Today they are fast approaching that number. There is data that "
8885 "proves the success of their original hypothesis on how many students they "
8886 "could help and how much money they could help save.<placeholder "
8887 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Professionally produced content scales "
8888 "rapidly. All with no sales force!"
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8894 "OpenStax textbooks are all Attribution (CC BY) licensed, and each textbook "
8895 "is available as a PDF, an e-book, or web pages. Those who want a physical "
8896 "copy can buy one for an affordable price. Given the cost of education and "
8897 "student debt in North America, free or very low-cost textbooks are very "
8898 "appealing. OpenStax encourages students to talk to their professor and "
8899 "librarians about these textbooks and to advocate for their use."
8902 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8905 "Teachers are invited to try out a single chapter from one of the textbooks "
8906 "with students. If that goes well, they’re encouraged to adopt the entire "
8907 "book. They can simply paste a URL into their course syllabus, for free and "
8908 "unlimited access. And with the CC BY license, teachers are free to delete "
8909 "chapters, make changes, and customize any book to fit their needs."
8912 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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8915 "Any teacher can post corrections, suggest examples for difficult concepts, "
8916 "or volunteer as an editor or author. As many teachers also want supplemental "
8917 "material to accompany a textbook, OpenStax also provides slide "
8918 "presentations, test banks, answer keys, and so on."
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8923 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://openstax.org/adopters\"/>"
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8929 "Institutions can stand out by offering students a lower-cost education "
8930 "through the use of OpenStax textbooks; there’s even a textbook-savings "
8931 "calculator they can use to see how much students would save. OpenStax keeps "
8932 "a running list of institutions that have adopted their "
8933 "textbooks.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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8939 "Unlike traditional publishers’ monolithic approach of controlling "
8940 "intellectual property, distribution, and so many other aspects, OpenStax has "
8941 "adopted a model that embraces open licensing and relies on an extensive "
8942 "network of partners."
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8948 "Up-front funding of a professionally produced all-color turnkey textbook is "
8949 "expensive. For this part of their model, OpenStax relies on "
8950 "philanthropy. They have initially been funded by the William and Flora "
8951 "Hewlett Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Bill and "
8952 "Melinda Gates Foundation, the 20 Million Minds Foundation, the Maxfield "
8953 "Foundation, the Calvin K. Kazanjian Foundation, and Rice University. To "
8954 "develop additional titles and supporting technology is probably still going "
8955 "to require philanthropic investment."
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8961 "However, ongoing operations will not rely on foundation grants but instead "
8962 "on funds received through an ecosystem of over forty partners, whereby a "
8963 "partner takes core content from OpenStax and adds features that it can "
8964 "create revenue from. For example, WebAssign, an online homework and "
8965 "assessment tool, takes the physics book and adds algorithmically generated "
8966 "physics problems, with problem-specific feedback, detailed solutions, and "
8967 "tutorial support. WebAssign resources are available to students for a fee."
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8973 "Another example is Odigia, who has turned OpenStax books into interactive "
8974 "learning experiences and created additional tools to measure and promote "
8975 "student engagement. Odigia licenses its learning platform to "
8976 "institutions. Partners like Odigia and WebAssign give a percentage of the "
8977 "revenue they earn back to OpenStax, as mission-support fees. OpenStax has "
8978 "already published revisions of their titles, such as Introduction to "
8979 "Sociology 2e, using these funds."
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8985 "In David’s view, this approach lets the market operate at peak "
8986 "efficiency. OpenStax’s partners don’t have to worry about developing "
8987 "textbook content, freeing them up from those development costs and letting "
8988 "them focus on what they do best. With OpenStax textbooks available at no "
8989 "cost, they can provide their services at a lower cost—not free, but still "
8990 "saving students money. OpenStax benefits not only by receiving "
8991 "mission-support fees but through free publicity and marketing. OpenStax "
8992 "doesn’t have a sales force; partners are out there showcasing their "
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8999 "OpenStax’s cost of sales to acquire a single student is very, very low and "
9000 "is a fraction of what traditional players in the market face. This year, "
9001 "Tyton Partners is actually evaluating the costs of sales for an OER effort "
9002 "like OpenStax in comparison with incumbents. David looks forward to sharing "
9003 "these findings with the community."
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9007 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7005
9009 "While OpenStax books are available online for free, many students still want "
9010 "a print copy. Through a partnership with a print and courier company, "
9011 "OpenStax offers a complete solution that scales. OpenStax sells tens of "
9012 "thousands of print books. The price of an OpenStax sociology textbook is "
9013 "about twenty-eight dollars, a fraction of what sociology textbooks usually "
9014 "cost. OpenStax keeps the prices low but does aim to earn a small margin on "
9015 "each book sold, which also contributes to ongoing operations."
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9021 "Campus-based bookstores are part of the OpenStax solution. OpenStax "
9022 "collaborates with NACSCORP (the National Association of College Stores "
9023 "Corporation) to provide print versions of their textbooks in the "
9024 "stores. While the overall cost of the textbook is significantly less than a "
9025 "traditional textbook, bookstores can still make a profit on sales. Sometimes "
9026 "students take the savings they have from the lower-priced book and use it to "
9027 "buy other things in the bookstore. And OpenStax is trying to break the "
9028 "expensive behavior of excessive returns by having a no-returns policy. This "
9029 "is working well, since the sell-through of their print titles is virtually a "
9033 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
9034 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7028
9036 "David thinks of the OpenStax model as “OER 2.0.” So what is OER 1.0? "
9037 "Historically in the OER field, many OER initiatives have been locally funded "
9038 "by institutions or government ministries. In David’s view, this results in "
9039 "content that has high local value but is infrequently adopted "
9040 "nationally. It’s therefore difficult to show payback over a time scale that "
9044 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9047 "OER 2.0 is about OER intended to be used and adopted on a national level "
9048 "right from the start. This requires a bigger investment up front but pays "
9049 "off through wide geographic adoption. The OER 2.0 process for OpenStax "
9050 "involves two development models. The first is what David calls the "
9051 "acquisition model, where OpenStax purchases the rights from a publisher or "
9052 "author for an already published book and then extensively revises it. The "
9053 "OpenStax physics textbook, for example, was licensed from an author after "
9054 "the publisher released the rights back to the authors. The second model is "
9055 "to develop a book from scratch, a good example being their biology book."
9058 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9061 "The process is similar for both models. First they look at the scope and "
9062 "sequence of existing textbooks. They ask questions like what does the "
9063 "customer need? Where are students having challenges? Then they identify "
9064 "potential authors and put them through a rigorous evaluation—only one in ten "
9065 "authors make it through. OpenStax selects a team of authors who come "
9066 "together to develop a template for a chapter and collectively write the "
9067 "first draft (or revise it, in the acquisitions model). (OpenStax doesn’t do "
9068 "books with just a single author as David says it risks the project going "
9069 "longer than scheduled.) The draft is peer-reviewed with no less than three "
9070 "reviewers per chapter. A second draft is generated, with artists producing "
9071 "illustrations and visuals to go along with the text. The book is then "
9072 "copyedited to ensure grammatical correctness and a singular voice. Finally, "
9073 "it goes into production and through a final proofread. The whole process is "
9074 "very time-consuming."
9077 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9080 "All the people involved in this process are paid. OpenStax does not rely on "
9081 "volunteers. Writers, reviewers, illustrators, and editors are all paid an "
9082 "up-front fee—OpenStax does not use a royalty model. A best-selling author "
9083 "might make more money under the traditional publishing model, but that is "
9084 "only maybe 5 percent of all authors. From David’s perspective, 95 percent of "
9085 "all authors do better under the OER 2.0 model, as there is no risk to them "
9086 "and they earn all the money up front."
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9092 "David thinks of the Attribution license (CC BY) as the “innovation license.” "
9093 "It’s core to the mission of OpenStax, letting people use their textbooks in "
9094 "innovative ways without having to ask for permission. It frees up the whole "
9095 "market and has been central to OpenStax being able to bring on "
9096 "partners. OpenStax sees a lot of customization of their materials. By "
9097 "enabling frictionless remixing, CC BY gives teachers control and academic "
9101 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
9102 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7086
9104 "Using CC BY is also a good example of using strategies that traditional "
9105 "publishers can’t. Traditional publishers rely on copyright to prevent others "
9106 "from making copies and heavily invest in digital rights management to ensure "
9107 "their books aren’t shared. By using CC BY, OpenStax avoids having to deal "
9108 "with digital rights management and its costs. OpenStax books can be copied "
9109 "and shared over and over again. CC BY changes the rules of engagement and "
9110 "takes advantage of traditional market inefficiencies."
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9116 "As of September 16, 2016, OpenStax has achieved some impressive "
9117 "results. From the OpenStax at a Glance fact sheet from their recent press "
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9122 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7103
9123 msgid "Books published: 23"
9126 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
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9128 msgid "Students who have used OpenStax: 1.6 million"
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9133 msgid "Money saved for students: $155 million"
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9138 msgid "Money saved for students in the 2016/17 academic year: $77 million"
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9144 "Schools that have used OpenStax: 2,668 (This number reflects all "
9145 "institutions using at least one OpenStax textbook. Out of 2,668 schools, 517 "
9146 "are two-year colleges, 835 four-year colleges and universities, and 344 "
9147 "colleges and universities outside the U.S.)"
9150 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9153 "While OpenStax has to date been focused on the United States, there is "
9154 "overseas adoption especially in the science, technology, engineering, and "
9155 "math (STEM) fields. Large scale adoption in the United States is seen as a "
9156 "necessary precursor to international interest."
9159 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
9160 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7140
9162 "OpenStax has primarily focused on introductory-level college courses where "
9163 "there is high enrollment, but they are starting to think about verticals—a "
9164 "broad offering for a specific group or need. David thinks it would be "
9165 "terrific if OpenStax could provide access to free textbooks through the "
9166 "entire curriculum of a nursing degree, for example."
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9172 "Finally, for OpenStax success is not just about the adoption of their "
9173 "textbooks and student savings. There is a human aspect to the work that is "
9174 "hard to quantify but incredibly important. They get emails from students "
9175 "saying how OpenStax saved them from making difficult choices like buying "
9176 "food or a textbook. OpenStax would also like to assess the impact their "
9177 "books have on learning efficiency, persistence, and completion. By building "
9178 "an open business model based on Creative Commons, OpenStax is making it "
9179 "possible for every student who wants access to education to get it."
9182 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
9183 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7161
9184 msgid "Amanda Palmer"
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9189 msgid "Amanda Palmer is a musician, artist, and writer. Based in the U.S."
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9194 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://amandapalmer.net\"/>"
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9200 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: crowdfunding "
9201 "(subscription-based), pay-what-you-want, charging for physical copies (book "
9202 "and album sales), charg-ing for in-person version (performances), selling "
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9208 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 15, 2015"
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9215 "url=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/04/16/amanda-palmer-uncut-the-kickstarter-queen-on-spotify-patreon-and-taylor-swift/#44e20ce46d67\"/>"
9218 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9221 "Since the beginning of her career, Amanda Palmer has been on what she calls "
9222 "a “journey with no roadmap,” continually experimenting to find new ways to "
9223 "sustain her creative work.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
9226 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9229 "In her best-selling book, The Art of Asking, Amanda articulates exactly what "
9230 "she has been and continues to strive for—“the ideal sweet spot . . . in "
9231 "which the artist can share freely and directly feel the reverberations of "
9232 "their artistic gifts to the community, and make a living doing that.”"
9235 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9238 "While she seems to have successfully found that sweet spot for herself, "
9239 "Amanda is the first to acknowledge there is no silver bullet. She thinks the "
9240 "digital age is both an exciting and frustrating time for creators. “On the "
9241 "one hand, we have this beautiful shareability,” Amanda said. “On the other, "
9242 "you’ve got a bunch of confused artists wondering how to make money to buy "
9243 "food so we can make more art.”"
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9249 "Amanda began her artistic career as a street performer. She would dress up "
9250 "in an antique wedding gown, paint her face white, stand on a stack of milk "
9251 "crates, and hand out flowers to strangers as part of a silent dramatic "
9252 "performance. She collected money in a hat. Most people walked by her without "
9253 "stopping, but an essential few stopped to watch and drop some money into her "
9254 "hat to show their appreciation. Rather than dwelling on the majority of "
9255 "people who ignored her, she felt thankful for those who stopped. “All I "
9256 "needed was . . . some people,” she wrote in her book. “Enough people. Enough "
9257 "to make it worth coming back the next day, enough people to help me make "
9258 "rent and put food on the table. Enough so I could keep making art.”"
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9264 "Amanda has come a long way from her street-performing days, but her career "
9265 "remains dominated by that same sentiment—finding ways to reach “her crowd” "
9266 "and feeling gratitude when she does. With her band the Dresden Dolls, Amanda "
9267 "tried the traditional path of signing with a record label. It didn’t take "
9268 "for a variety of reasons, but one of them was that the label had absolutely "
9269 "no interest in Amanda’s view of success. They wanted hits, but making music "
9270 "for the masses was never what Amanda and the Dresden Dolls set out to do."
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9276 "After leaving the record label in 2008, she began experimenting with "
9277 "different ways to make a living. She released music directly to the public "
9278 "without involving a middle man, releasing digital files on a “pay what you "
9279 "want” basis and selling CDs and vinyl. She also made money from live "
9280 "performances and merchandise sales. Eventually, in 2012 she decided to try "
9281 "her hand at the sort of crowdfunding we know so well today. Her Kickstarter "
9282 "project started with a goal of $100,000, and she made $1.2 million. It "
9283 "remains one of the most successful Kickstarter projects of all time."
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9289 "Today, Amanda has switched gears away from crowdfunding for specific "
9290 "projects to instead getting consistent financial support from her fan base "
9291 "on Patreon, a crowdfunding site that allows artists to get recurring "
9292 "donations from fans. More than eight thousand people have signed up to "
9293 "support her so she can create music, art, and any other creative “thing” "
9294 "that she is inspired to make. The recurring pledges are made on a “per "
9295 "thing” basis. All of the content she makes is made freely available under an "
9296 "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA)."
9299 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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9302 "Making her music and art available under Creative Commons licensing "
9303 "undoubtedly limits her options for how she makes a living. But sharing her "
9304 "work has been part of her model since the beginning of her career, even "
9305 "before she discovered Creative Commons. Amanda says the Dresden Dolls used "
9306 "to get ten emails per week from fans asking if they could use their music "
9307 "for different projects. They said yes to all of the requests, as long as it "
9308 "wasn’t for a completely for-profit venture. At the time, they used a "
9309 "short-form agreement written by Amanda herself. “I made everyone sign that "
9310 "contract so at least I wouldn’t be leaving the band vulnerable to someone "
9311 "later going on and putting our music in a Camel cigarette ad,” Amanda "
9312 "said. Once she discovered Creative Commons, adopting the licenses was an "
9313 "easy decision because it gave them a more formal, standardized way of doing "
9314 "what they had been doing all along. The NonCommercial licenses were a "
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9321 "Amanda embraces the way her fans share and build upon her music. In The Art "
9322 "of Asking, she wrote that some of her fans’ unofficial videos using her "
9323 "music surpass the official videos in number of views on YouTube. Rather than "
9324 "seeing this sort of thing as competition, Amanda celebrates it. “We got into "
9325 "this because we wanted to share the joy of music,” she said."
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9331 "This is symbolic of how nearly everything she does in her career is "
9332 "motivated by a desire to connect with her fans. At the start of her career, "
9333 "she and the band would throw concerts at house parties. As the gatherings "
9334 "grew, the line between fans and friends was completely blurred. “Not only "
9335 "did most our early fans know where I lived and where we practiced, but most "
9336 "of them had also been in my kitchen,” Amanda wrote in The Art of Asking."
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9342 "Even though her fan base is now huge and global, she continues to seek this "
9343 "sort of human connection with her fans. She seeks out face-to-face contact "
9344 "with her fans every chance she can get. Her hugely successful Kickstarter "
9345 "featured fifty concerts at house parties for backers. She spends hours in "
9346 "the signing line after shows. It helps that Amanda has the kind of dynamic, "
9347 "engaging personality that instantly draws people to her, but a big component "
9348 "of her ability to connect with people is her willingness to "
9349 "listen. “Listening fast and caring immediately is a skill unto itself,” "
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9356 "Another part of the connection fans feel with Amanda is how much they know "
9357 "about her life. Rather than trying to craft a public persona or image, she "
9358 "essentially lives her life as an open book. She has written openly about "
9359 "incredibly personal events in her life, and she isn’t afraid to be "
9360 "vulnerable. Having that kind of trust in her fans—the trust it takes to be "
9361 "truly honest—begets trust from her fans in return. When she meets fans for "
9362 "the first time after a show, they can legitimately feel like they know her."
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9368 "“With social media, we’re so concerned with the picture looking palatable "
9369 "and consumable that we forget that being human and showing the flaws and "
9370 "exposing the vulnerability actually create a deeper connection than just "
9371 "looking fantastic,” Amanda said. “Everything in our culture is telling us "
9372 "otherwise. But my experience has shown me that the risk of making yourself "
9373 "vulnerable is almost always worth it.”"
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9379 "Not only does she disclose intimate details of her life to them, she sleeps "
9380 "on their couches, listens to their stories, cries with them. In short, she "
9381 "treats her fans like friends in nearly every possible way, even when they "
9382 "are complete strangers. This mentality—that fans are friends—is completely "
9383 "intertwined with Amanda’s success as an artist. It is also intertwined with "
9384 "her use of Creative Commons licenses. Because that is what you do with your "
9385 "friends—you share."
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9391 "After years of investing time and energy into building trust with her fans, "
9392 "she has a strong enough relationship with them to ask for support—through "
9393 "pay-what-you-want donations, Kickstarter, Patreon, or even asking them to "
9394 "lend a hand at a concert. As Amanda explains it, crowdfunding (which is "
9395 "really what all of these different things are) is about asking for support "
9396 "from people who know and trust you. People who feel personally invested in "
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9403 "“When you openly, radically trust people, they not only take care of you, "
9404 "they become your allies, your family,” she wrote. There really is a feeling "
9405 "of solidarity within her core fan base. From the beginning, Amanda and her "
9406 "band encouraged people to dress up for their shows. They consciously "
9407 "cultivated a feeling of belonging to their “weird little family.”"
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9413 "This sort of intimacy with fans is not possible or even desirable for every "
9414 "creator. “I don’t take for granted that I happen to be the type of person "
9415 "who loves cavorting with strangers,” Amanda said. “I recognize that it’s not "
9416 "necessarily everyone’s idea of a good time. Everyone does it "
9417 "differently. Replicating what I have done won’t work for others if it isn’t "
9418 "joyful to them. It’s about finding a way to channel energy in a way that is "
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9425 "Yet while Amanda joyfully interacts with her fans and involves them in her "
9426 "work as much as possible, she does keep one job primarily to herself—writing "
9427 "the music. She loves the creativity with which her fans use and adapt her "
9428 "work, but she intentionally does not involve them at the first stage of "
9429 "creating her artistic work. And, of course, the songs and music are what "
9430 "initially draw people to Amanda Palmer. It is only once she has connected to "
9431 "people through her music that she can then begin to build ties with them on "
9432 "a more personal level, both in person and online. In her book, Amanda "
9433 "describes it as casting a net. It starts with the art and then the bond "
9434 "strengthens with human connection."
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9440 "For Amanda, the entire point of being an artist is to establish and maintain "
9441 "this connection. “It sounds so corny,” she said, “but my experience in forty "
9442 "years on this planet has pointed me to an obvious truth—that connection with "
9443 "human beings feels so much better and more fulfilling than approaching art "
9444 "through a capitalist lens. There is no more satisfying end goal than having "
9445 "someone tell you that what you do is genuinely of value to them.”"
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9451 "As she explains it, when a fan gives her a ten-dollar bill, usually what "
9452 "they are saying is that the money symbolizes some deeper value the music "
9453 "provided them. For Amanda, art is not just a product; it’s a "
9454 "relationship. Viewed from this lens, what Amanda does today is not that "
9455 "different from what she did as a young street performer. She shares her "
9456 "music and other artistic gifts. She shares herself. And then rather than "
9457 "forcing people to help her, she lets them."
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9462 msgid "PLOS (Public Library of Science)"
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9468 "PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit that publishes a library of "
9469 "academic journals and other scientific literature. Founded in 2000 in the "
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9481 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging content "
9482 "creators an author processing charge to be featured in the journal"
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9487 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 7, 2016"
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9492 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Louise Page, publisher"
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9498 "The Public Library of Science (PLOS) began in 2000 when three leading "
9499 "scientists—Harold E. Varmus, Patrick O. Brown, and Michael Eisen—started an "
9500 "online petition. They were calling for scientists to stop submitting papers "
9501 "to journals that didn’t make the full text of their papers freely available "
9502 "immediately or within six months. Although tens of thousands signed the "
9503 "petition, most did not follow through. In August 2001, Patrick and Michael "
9504 "announced that they would start their own nonprofit publishing operation to "
9505 "do just what the petition promised. With start-up grant support from the "
9506 "Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, PLOS was launched to provide new "
9507 "open-access journals for biomedicine, with research articles being released "
9508 "under Attribution (CC BY) licenses."
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9514 "Traditionally, academic publishing begins with an author submitting a "
9515 "manuscript to a publisher. After in-house technical and ethical "
9516 "considerations, the article is then peer-reviewed to determine if the "
9517 "quality of the work is acceptable for publishing. Once accepted, the "
9518 "publisher takes the article through the process of copyediting, typesetting, "
9519 "and eventual publishing in a print or online publication. Traditional "
9520 "journal publishers recover costs and earn profit by charging a subscription "
9521 "fee to libraries or an access fee to users wanting to read the journal or "
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9528 "For Louise Page, the current publisher of PLOS, this traditional model "
9529 "results in inequity. Access is restricted to those who can pay. Most "
9530 "research is funded through government-appointed agencies, that is, with "
9531 "public funds. It’s unjust that the public who funded the research would be "
9532 "required to pay again to access the results. Not everyone can afford the "
9533 "ever-escalating subscription fees publishers charge, especially when library "
9534 "budgets are being reduced. Restricting access to the results of scientific "
9535 "research slows the dissemination of this research and advancement of the "
9536 "field. It was time for a new model."
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9542 "That new model became known as open access. That is, free and open "
9543 "availability on the Internet. Open-access research articles are not behind a "
9544 "paywall and do not require a login. A key benefit of open access is that it "
9545 "allows people to freely use, copy, and distribute the articles, as they are "
9546 "primarily published under an Attribution (CC BY) license (which only "
9547 "requires the user to provide appropriate attribution). And more importantly, "
9548 "policy makers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, educators, and students around the "
9549 "world have free and timely access to the latest research immediately on "
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9556 "However, open access requires rethinking the business model of research "
9557 "publication. Rather than charge a subscription fee to access the journal, "
9558 "PLOS decided to turn the model on its head and charge a publication fee, "
9559 "known as an article-processing charge. This up-front fee, generally paid by "
9560 "the funder of the research or the author’s institution, covers the expenses "
9561 "such as editorial oversight, peer-review management, journal production, "
9562 "online hosting, and support for discovery. Fees are per article and are "
9563 "billed upon acceptance for publishing. There are no additional charges based "
9564 "on word length, figures, or other elements."
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9570 "Calculating the article-processing charge involves taking all the costs "
9571 "associated with publishing the journal and determining a cost per article "
9572 "that collectively recovers costs. For PLOS’s journals in biology, medicine, "
9573 "genetics, computational biology, neglected tropical diseases, and pathogens, "
9574 "the article-processing charge ranges from $2,250 to "
9575 "$2,900. Article-publication charges for PLOS ONE, a journal started in 2006, "
9576 "are just under $1,500."
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9582 "PLOS believes that lack of funds should not be a barrier to "
9583 "publication. Since its inception, PLOS has provided fee support for "
9584 "individuals and institutions to help authors who can’t afford the "
9585 "article-processing charges."
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9591 "Louise identifies marketing as one area of big difference between PLOS and "
9592 "traditional journal publishers. Traditional journals have to invest heavily "
9593 "in staff, buildings, and infrastructure to market their journal and convince "
9594 "customers to subscribe. Restricting access to subscribers means that tools "
9595 "for managing access control are necessary. They spend millions of dollars on "
9596 "access-control systems, staff to manage them, and sales staff. With PLOS’s "
9597 "open-access publishing, there’s no need for these massive expenses; the "
9598 "articles are free, open, and accessible to all upon "
9599 "publication. Additionally, traditional publishers tend to spend more on "
9600 "marketing to libraries, who ultimately pay the subscription fees. PLOS "
9601 "provides a better service for authors by promoting their research directly "
9602 "to the research community and giving the authors exposure. And this "
9603 "encourages other authors to submit their work for publication."
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9609 "For Louise, PLOS would not exist without the Attribution license (CC "
9610 "BY). This makes it very clear what rights are associated with the content "
9611 "and provides a safe way for researchers to make their work available while "
9612 "ensuring they get recognition (appropriate attribution). For PLOS, all of "
9613 "this aligns with how they think research content should be published and "
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9620 "PLOS also has a broad open-data policy. To get their research paper "
9621 "published, PLOS authors must also make their data available in a public "
9622 "repository and provide a data-availability statement."
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9628 "Business-operation costs associated with the open-access model still largely "
9629 "follow the existing publishing model. PLOS journals are online only, but the "
9630 "editorial, peer-review, production, typesetting, and publishing stages are "
9631 "all the same as for a traditional publisher. The editorial teams must be top "
9632 "notch. PLOS has to function as well as or better than other premier "
9633 "journals, as researchers have a choice about where to publish."
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9639 "Researchers are influenced by journal rankings, which reflect the place of a "
9640 "journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that "
9641 "journal, and the prestige associated with it. PLOS journals rank high, even "
9642 "though they are relatively new."
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9648 "The promotion and tenure of researchers are partially based how many times "
9649 "other researchers cite their articles. Louise says when researchers want to "
9650 "discover and read the work of others in their field, they go to an online "
9651 "aggregator or search engine, and not typically to a particular journal. The "
9652 "CC BY licensing of PLOS research articles ensures easy access for readers "
9653 "and generates more discovery and citations for authors."
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9659 "Louise believes that open access has been a huge success, progressing from a "
9660 "movement led by a small cadre of researchers to something that is now "
9661 "widespread and used in some form by every journal publisher. PLOS has had a "
9662 "big impact. In 2012 to 2014, they published more open-access articles than "
9663 "BioMed Central, the original open-access publisher, or anyone else."
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9669 "PLOS further disrupted the traditional journal-publishing model by "
9670 "pioneering the concept of a megajournal. The PLOS ONE megajournal, launched "
9671 "in 2006, is an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal that is much "
9672 "larger than a traditional journal, publishing thousands of articles per year "
9673 "and benefiting from economies of scale. PLOS ONE has a broad scope, covering "
9674 "science and medicine as well as social sciences and the humanities. The "
9675 "review and editorial process is less subjective. Articles are accepted for "
9676 "publication based on whether they are technically sound rather than "
9677 "perceived importance or relevance. This is very important in the current "
9678 "debate about the integrity and reproducibility of research because negative "
9679 "or null results can then be published as well, which are generally rejected "
9680 "by traditional journals. PLOS ONE, like all the PLOS journals, is online "
9681 "only with no print version. PLOS passes on the financial savings accrued "
9682 "through economies of scale to researchers and the public by lowering the "
9683 "article-processing charges, which are below that of other journals. PLOS ONE "
9684 "is the biggest journal in the world and has really set the bar for "
9685 "publishing academic journal articles on a large scale. Other publishers see "
9686 "the value of the PLOS ONE model and are now offering their own "
9687 "multidisciplinary forums for publishing all sound science."
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9693 "Louise outlined some other aspects of the research-journal business model "
9694 "PLOS is experimenting with, describing each as a kind of slider that could "
9695 "be adjusted to change current practice."
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9701 "One slider is time to publication. Time to publication may shorten as "
9702 "journals get better at providing quicker decisions to authors. However, "
9703 "there is always a trade-off with scale, as the bigger the volume of "
9704 "articles, the more time the approval process inevitably takes."
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9710 "Peer review is another part of the process that could change. It’s possible "
9711 "to redefine what peer review actually is, when to review, and what "
9712 "constitutes the final article for publication. Louise talked about the "
9713 "potential to shift to an open-review process, placing the emphasis on "
9714 "transparency rather than double-blind reviews. Louise thinks we’re moving "
9715 "into a direction where it’s actually beneficial for an author to know who is "
9716 "reviewing their paper and for the reviewer to know their review will be "
9717 "public. An open-review process can also ensure everyone gets credit; right "
9718 "now, credit is limited to the publisher and author."
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9724 "Louise says research with negative outcomes is almost as important as "
9725 "positive results. If journals published more research with negative "
9726 "outcomes, we’d learn from what didn’t work. It could also reduce how much "
9727 "the research wheel gets reinvented around the world."
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9733 "Another adjustable practice is the sharing of articles at early preprint "
9734 "stages. Publication of research in a peer-reviewed journal can take a long "
9735 "time because articles must undergo extensive peer review. The need to "
9736 "quickly circulate current results within a scientific community has led to a "
9737 "practice of distributing pre-print documents that have not yet undergone "
9738 "peer review. Preprints broaden the peer-review process, allowing authors to "
9739 "receive early feedback from a wide group of peers, which can help revise and "
9740 "prepare the article for submission. Offsetting the advantages of preprints "
9741 "are author concerns over ensuring their primacy of being first to come up "
9742 "with findings based on their research. Other researches may see findings the "
9743 "preprint author has not yet thought of. However, preprints help researchers "
9744 "get their discoveries out early and establish precedence. A big challenge is "
9745 "that researchers don’t have a lot of time to comment on preprints."
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9751 "What constitutes a journal article could also change. The idea of a research "
9752 "article as printed, bound, and in a library stack is outdated. Digital and "
9753 "online open up new possibilities, such as a living document evolving over "
9754 "time, inclusion of audio and video, and interactivity, like discussion and "
9755 "recommendations. Even the size of what gets published could change. With "
9756 "these changes the current form factor for what constitutes a research "
9757 "article would undergo transformation."
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9762 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://collections.plos.org\"/>"
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9767 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://plos.org/article-level-metrics\"/>"
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9773 "As journals scale up, and new journals are introduced, more and more "
9774 "information is being pushed out to readers, making the experience feel like "
9775 "drinking from a fire hose. To help mitigate this, PLOS aggregates and "
9776 "curates content from PLOS journals and their network of blogs.<placeholder "
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9778 "Metrics, which helps users assess research most relevant to the field "
9779 "itself, based on indicators like usage, citations, social bookmarking and "
9780 "dissemination activity, media and blog coverage, discussions, and "
9781 "ratings.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> Louise believes that the "
9782 "journal model could evolve to provide a more friendly and interactive user "
9783 "experience, including a way for readers to communicate with authors."
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9789 "The big picture for PLOS going forward is to combine and adjust these "
9790 "experimental practices in ways that continue to improve accessibility and "
9791 "dissemination of research, while ensuring its integrity and reliability. The "
9792 "ways they interlink are complex. The process of change and adjustment is "
9793 "not linear. PLOS sees itself as a very flexible publisher interested in "
9794 "exploring all the permutations research-publishing can take, with authors "
9795 "and readers who are open to experimentation."
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9801 "For PLOS, success is not about revenue. Success is about proving that "
9802 "scientific research can be communicated rapidly and economically at scale, "
9803 "for the benefit of researchers and society. The CC BY license makes it "
9804 "possible for PLOS to publish in a way that is unfettered, open, and fast, "
9805 "while ensuring that the authors get credit for their work. More than two "
9806 "million scientists, scholars, and clinicians visit PLOS every month, with "
9807 "more than 135,000 quality articles to peruse for free."
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9813 "Ultimately, for PLOS, its authors, and its readers, success is about making "
9814 "research discoverable, available, and reproducible for the advancement of "
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9826 "The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to art and "
9827 "history. Founded in 1800 in the Netherlands"
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9845 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 11, 2015"
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9851 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Lizzy Jongma, the data "
9852 "manager of the collections information department"
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9858 "The Rijksmuseum, a national museum in the Netherlands dedicated to art and "
9859 "history, has been housed in its current building since 1885. The monumental "
9860 "building enjoyed more than 125 years of intensive use before needing a "
9861 "thorough overhaul. In 2003, the museum was closed for renovations. Asbestos "
9862 "was found in the roof, and although the museum was scheduled to be closed "
9863 "for only three to four years, renovations ended up taking ten years. During "
9864 "this time, the collection was moved to a different part of Amsterdam, which "
9865 "created a physical distance with the curators. Out of necessity, they "
9866 "started digitally photographing the collection and creating metadata "
9867 "(information about each object to put into a database). With the renovations "
9868 "going on for so long, the museum became largely forgotten by the public. Out "
9869 "of these circumstances emerged a new and more open model for the museum."
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9875 "By the time Lizzy Jongma joined the Rijksmuseum in 2011 as a data manager, "
9876 "staff were fed up with the situation the museum was in. They also realized "
9877 "that even with the new and larger space, it still wouldn’t be able to show "
9878 "very much of the whole collection—eight thousand of over one million works "
9879 "representing just 1 percent. Staff began exploring ways to express "
9880 "themselves, to have something to show for all of the work they had been "
9881 "doing. The Rijksmuseum is primarily funded by Dutch taxpayers, so was there "
9882 "a way for the museum provide benefit to the public while it was closed? They "
9883 "began thinking about sharing Rijksmuseum’s collection using information "
9884 "technology. And they put up a card-catalog like database of the entire "
9885 "collection online."
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9891 "It was effective but a bit boring. It was just data. A hackathon they were "
9892 "invited to got them to start talking about events like that as having "
9893 "potential. They liked the idea of inviting people to do cool stuff with "
9894 "their collection. What about giving online access to digital representations "
9895 "of the one hundred most important pieces in the Rijksmuseum collection? That "
9896 "eventually led to why not put the whole collection online?"
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9907 "Then, Lizzy says, Europeana came along. Europeana is Europe’s digital "
9908 "library, museum, and archive for cultural heritage.<placeholder "
9909 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> As an online portal to museum collections all "
9910 "across Europe, Europeana had become an important online platform. In October "
9911 "2010 Creative Commons released CC0 and its public-domain mark as tools "
9912 "people could use to identify works as free of known copyright. Europeana was "
9913 "the first major adopter, using CC0 to release metadata about their "
9914 "collection and the public domain mark for millions of digital works in their "
9915 "collection. Lizzy says the Rijksmuseum initially found this change in "
9916 "business practice a bit scary, but at the same time it stimulated even more "
9917 "discussion on whether the Rijksmuseum should follow suit."
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9923 "They realized that they don’t “own” the collection and couldn’t "
9924 "realistically monitor and enforce compliance with the restrictive licensing "
9925 "terms they currently had in place. For example, many copies and versions of "
9926 "Vermeer’s Milkmaid (part of their collection) were already online, many of "
9927 "them of very poor quality. They could spend time and money policing its use, "
9928 "but it would probably be futile and wouldn’t make people stop using their "
9929 "images online. They ended up thinking it’s an utter waste of time to hunt "
9930 "down people who use the Rijksmuseum collection. And anyway, restricting "
9931 "access meant the people they were frustrating the most were schoolkids."
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9937 "In 2011 the Rijksmuseum began making their digital photos of works known to "
9938 "be free of copyright available online, using Creative Commons CC0 to place "
9939 "works in the public domain. A medium-resolution image was offered for free, "
9940 "but a high-resolution version cost forty euros. People started paying, but "
9941 "Lizzy says getting the money was frequently a nightmare, especially from "
9942 "overseas customers. The administrative costs often offset revenue, and "
9943 "income above costs was relatively low. In addition, having to pay for an "
9944 "image of a work in the public domain from a collection owned by the Dutch "
9945 "government (i.e., paid for by the public) was contentious and frustrating "
9946 "for some. Lizzy says they had lots of fierce debates about what to do."
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9952 "In 2013 the Rijksmuseum changed its business model. They Creative Commons "
9953 "licensed their highest-quality images and released them online for "
9954 "free. Digitization still cost money, however; they decided to define "
9955 "discrete digitization projects and find sponsors willing to fund each "
9956 "project. This turned out to be a successful strategy, generating high "
9957 "interest from sponsors and lower administrative effort for the "
9958 "Rijksmuseum. They started out making 150,000 high-quality images of their "
9959 "collection available, with the goal to eventually have the entire collection "
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9964 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7787
9966 "Releasing these high-quality images for free reduced the number of "
9967 "poor-quality images that were proliferating. The high-quality image of "
9968 "Vermeer’s Milkmaid, for example, is downloaded two to three thousand times a "
9969 "month. On the Internet, images from a source like the Rijksmuseum are more "
9970 "trusted, and releasing them with a Creative Commons CC0 means they can "
9971 "easily be found in other platforms. For example, Rijksmuseum images are now "
9972 "used in thousands of Wikipedia articles, receiving ten to eleven million "
9973 "views per month. This extends Rijksmuseum’s reach far beyond the scope of "
9974 "its website. Sharing these images online creates what Lizzy calls the “Mona "
9975 "Lisa effect,” where a work of art becomes so famous that people want to see "
9976 "it in real life by visiting the actual museum."
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9982 "Every museum tends to be driven by the number of physical visitors. The "
9983 "Rijksmuseum is primarily publicly funded, receiving roughly 70 percent of "
9984 "its operating budget from the government. But like many museums, it must "
9985 "generate the rest of the funding through other means. The admission fee has "
9986 "long been a way to generate revenue generation, including for the "
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9993 "As museums create a digital presence for themselves and put up digital "
9994 "representations of their collection online, there’s frequently a worry that "
9995 "it will lead to a drop in actual physical visits. For the Rijksmuseum, this "
9996 "has not turned out to be the case. Lizzy told us the Rijksmuseum used to get "
9997 "about one million visitors a year before closing and now gets more than two "
9998 "million a year. Making the collection available online has generated "
9999 "publicity and acts as a form of marketing. The Creative Commons mark "
10000 "encourages reuse as well. When the image is found on protest leaflets, milk "
10001 "cartons, and children’s toys, people also see what museum the image comes "
10002 "from and this increases the museum’s visibility."
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10007 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio\"/>"
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10013 "In 2011 the Rijksmuseum received €1 million from the Dutch lottery to create "
10014 "a new web presence that would be different from any other museum’s. In "
10015 "addition to redesigning their main website to be mobile friendly and "
10016 "responsive to devices like the iPad, the Rijksmuseum also created the "
10017 "Rijksstudio, where users and artists could use and do various things with "
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10024 "The Rijksstudio gives users access to over two hundred thousand high-quality "
10025 "digital representations of masterworks from the collection. Users can zoom "
10026 "in to any work and even clip small parts of images they like. Rijksstudio is "
10027 "a bit like Pinterest. You can “like” works and compile your personal "
10028 "favorites, and you can share them with friends or download them free of "
10029 "charge. All the images in the Rijksstudio are copyright and royalty free, "
10030 "and users are encouraged to use them as they like, for private or even "
10031 "commercial purposes."
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10037 "Users have created over 276,000 Rijksstudios, generating their own themed "
10038 "virtual exhibitions on a wide variety of topics ranging from tapestries to "
10039 "ugly babies and birds. Sets of images have also been created for educational "
10040 "purposes including use for school exams."
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10046 "Some contemporary artists who have works in the Rijksmuseum collection "
10047 "contacted them to ask why their works were not included in the "
10048 "Rijksstudio. The answer was that contemporary artists’ works are still bound "
10049 "by copyright. The Rijksmuseum does encourage contemporary artists to use a "
10050 "Creative Commons license for their works, usually a CC BY-SA license "
10051 "(Attribution-ShareAlike), or a CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) if they "
10052 "want to preclude commercial use. That way, their works can be made available "
10053 "to the public, but within limits the artists have specified."
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10060 "url=\"http://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/175696771/fringe-kimono-silk-kimono-kimono-robe\"/>"
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10066 "The Rijksmuseum believes that art stimulates entrepreneurial activity. The "
10067 "line between creative and commercial can be blurry. As Lizzy says, even "
10068 "Rembrandt was commercial, making his livelihood from selling his "
10069 "paintings. The Rijksmuseum encourages entrepreneurial commercial use of the "
10070 "images in Rijksstudio. They’ve even partnered with the DIY marketplace Etsy "
10071 "to inspire people to sell their creations. One great example you can find on "
10072 "Etsy is a kimono designed by Angie Johnson, who used an image of an "
10073 "elaborate cabinet along with an oil painting by Jan Asselijn called The "
10074 "Threatened Swan.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/>"
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10080 "<ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award\"/>; the 2014 "
10081 "award: <ulink url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award-2014\"/>; "
10082 "the 2015 award: <ulink "
10083 "url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award-2015\"/>"
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10090 "url=\"http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/142328--nominees-rijksstudio-award/creaties/ba595afe-452d-46bd-9c8c-48dcbdd7f0a4\"/>"
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10096 "In 2013 the Rijksmuseum organized their first high-profile design "
10097 "competition, known as the Rijksstudio Award.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
10098 "id=\"0\"/> With the call to action Make Your Own Masterpiece, the "
10099 "competition invites the public to use Rijksstudio images to make new "
10100 "creative designs. A jury of renowned designers and curators selects ten "
10101 "finalists and three winners. The final award comes with a prize of "
10102 "€10,000. The second edition in 2015 attracted a staggering 892 top-class "
10103 "entries. Some award winners end up with their work sold through the "
10104 "Rijksmuseum store, such as the 2014 entry featuring makeup based on a "
10105 "specific color scheme of a work of art.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
10106 "id=\"1\"/> The Rijksmuseum has been thrilled with the results. Entries "
10107 "range from the fun to the weird to the inspirational. The third "
10108 "international edition of the Rijksstudio Award started in September 2016."
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10114 "For the next iteration of the Rijksstudio, the Rijksmuseum is considering an "
10115 "upload tool, for people to upload their own works of art, and enhanced "
10116 "social elements so users can interact with each other more."
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10120 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:7899
10122 "Going with a more open business model generated lots of publicity for the "
10123 "Rijksmuseum. They were one of the first museums to open up their collection "
10124 "(that is, give free access) with high-quality images. This strategy, along "
10125 "with the many improvements to the Rijksmuseum’s website, dramatically "
10126 "increased visits to their website from thirty-five thousand visits per month "
10127 "to three hundred thousand."
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10133 "The Rijksmuseum has been experimenting with other ways to invite the public "
10134 "to look at and interact with their collection. On an international day "
10135 "celebrating animals, they ran a successful bird-themed event. The museum put "
10136 "together a showing of two thousand works that featured birds and invited "
10137 "bird-watchers to identify the birds depicted. Lizzy notes that while museum "
10138 "curators know a lot about the works in their collections, they may not know "
10139 "about certain details in the paintings such as bird species. Over eight "
10140 "hundred different birds were identified, including a specific species of "
10141 "crane bird that was unknown to the scientific community at the time of the "
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10148 "For the Rijksmuseum, adopting an open business model was scary. They came "
10149 "up with many worst-case scenarios, imagining all kinds of awful things "
10150 "people might do with the museum’s works. But Lizzy says those fears did not "
10151 "come true because “ninety-nine percent of people have respect for great "
10152 "art.” Many museums think they can make a lot of money by selling things "
10153 "related to their collection. But in Lizzy’s experience, museums are usually "
10154 "bad at selling things, and sometimes efforts to generate a small amount of "
10155 "money block something much bigger—the real value that the collection "
10156 "has. For Lizzy, clinging to small amounts of revenue is being penny-wise but "
10157 "pound-foolish. For the Rijksmuseum, a key lesson has been to never lose "
10158 "sight of its vision for the collection. Allowing access to and use of their "
10159 "collection has generated great promotional value—far more than the previous "
10160 "practice of charging fees for access and use. Lizzy sums up their "
10161 "experience: “Give away; get something in return. Generosity makes people "
10162 "happy to join you and help out.”"
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10172 msgid "Shareable is an online magazine about sharing. Founded in 2009 in the U.S."
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10177 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.shareable.net\"/>"
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10183 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: grant funding, "
10184 "crowdfunding (project-based), donations, sponsorships"
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10189 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 24, 2016"
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10195 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Neal Gorenflo, cofounder "
10196 "and executive editor"
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10202 "In 2013, Shareable faced an impasse. The nonprofit online publication had "
10203 "helped start a sharing movement four years prior, but over time, they "
10204 "watched one part of the movement stray from its ideals. As giants like Uber "
10205 "and Airbnb gained ground, attention began to center on the “sharing economy” "
10206 "we know now—profit-driven, transactional, and loaded with venture-capital "
10207 "money. Leaders of corporate start-ups in this domain invited Shareable to "
10208 "advocate for them. The magazine faced a choice: ride the wave or stand on "
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10215 "As an organization, Shareable decided to draw a line in the sand. In 2013, "
10216 "the cofounder and executive editor Neal Gorenflo wrote an opinion piece in "
10217 "the PandoDaily that charted Shareable’s new critical stance on the Silicon "
10218 "Valley version of the sharing economy, while contrasting it with aspects of "
10219 "the real sharing economy like open-source software, participatory budgeting "
10220 "(where citizens decide how a public budget is spent), cooperatives, and "
10221 "more. He wrote, “It’s not so much that collaborative consumption is dead, "
10222 "it’s more that it risks dying as it gets absorbed by the ‘Borg.’”"
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10228 "Neal said their public critique of the corporate sharing economy defined "
10229 "what Shareable was and is. He does not think the magazine would still be "
10230 "around had they chosen differently. “We would have gotten another type of "
10231 "audience, but it would have spelled the end of us,” he said. “We are a "
10232 "small, mission-driven organization. We would never have been able to weather "
10233 "the criticism that Airbnb and Uber are getting now.”"
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10239 "Interestingly, impassioned supporters are only a small sliver of Shareable’s "
10240 "total audience. Most are casual readers who come across a Shareable story "
10241 "because it happens to align with a project or interest they have. But "
10242 "choosing principles over the possibility of riding the coattails of the "
10243 "major corporate players in the sharing space saved Shareable’s "
10244 "credibility. Although they became detached from the corporate sharing "
10245 "economy, the online magazine became the voice of the “real sharing economy” "
10246 "and continued to grow their audience."
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10252 "Shareable is a magazine, but the content they publish is a means to "
10253 "furthering their role as a leader and catalyst of a movement. Shareable "
10254 "became a leader in the movement in 2009. “At that time, there was a sharing "
10255 "movement bubbling beneath the surface, but no one was connecting the dots,” "
10256 "Neal said. “We decided to step into that space and take on that role.” The "
10257 "small team behind the nonprofit publication truly believed sharing could be "
10258 "central to solving some of the major problems human beings face—resource "
10259 "inequality, social isolation, and global warming."
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10265 "They have worked hard to find ways to tell stories that show different "
10266 "metrics for success. “We wanted to change the notion of what constitutes the "
10267 "good life,” Neal said. While they started out with a very broad focus on "
10268 "sharing generally, today they emphasize stories about the physical commons "
10269 "like “sharing cities” (i.e., urban areas managed in a sustainable, "
10270 "cooperative way), as well as digital platforms that are run "
10271 "democratically. They particularly focus on how-to content that help their "
10272 "readers make changes in their own lives and communities."
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10278 "More than half of Shareable’s stories are written by paid journalists that "
10279 "are contracted by the magazine. “Particularly in content areas that are a "
10280 "priority for us, we really want to go deep and control the quality,” Neal "
10281 "said. The rest of the content is either contributed by guest writers, often "
10282 "for free, or written by other publications from their network of content "
10283 "publishers. Shareable is a member of the Post Growth Alliance, which "
10284 "facilitates the sharing of content and audiences among a large and growing "
10285 "group of mostly nonprofits. Each organization gets a chance to present "
10286 "stories to the group, and the organizations can use and promote each other’s "
10287 "stories. Much of the content created by the network is licensed with "
10288 "Creative Commons."
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10294 "All of Shareable’s original content is published under the Attribution "
10295 "license (CC BY), meaning it can be used for any purpose as long as credit is "
10296 "given to Shareable. Creative Commons licensing is aligned with Shareable’s "
10297 "vision, mission, and identity. That alone explains the organization’s "
10298 "embrace of the licenses for their content, but Neal also believes CC "
10299 "licensing helps them increase their reach. “By using CC licensing,” he said, "
10300 "“we realized we could reach far more people through a formal and informal "
10301 "network of republishers or affiliates. That has definitely been the "
10302 "case. It’s hard for us to measure the reach of other media properties, but "
10303 "most of the outlets who republish our work have much bigger audiences than "
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10310 "In addition to their regular news and commentary online, Shareable has also "
10311 "experimented with book publishing. In 2012, they worked with a traditional "
10312 "publisher to release Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in an "
10313 "Age of Crisis. The CC-licensed book was available in print form for purchase "
10314 "or online for free. To this day, the book—along with their CC-licensed guide "
10315 "Policies for Shareable Cities—are two of the biggest generators of traffic "
10316 "on their website."
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10322 "In 2016, Shareable self-published a book of curated Shareable stories called "
10323 "How to: Share, Save Money and Have Fun. The book was available for sale, but "
10324 "a PDF version of the book was available for free. Shareable plans to offer "
10325 "the book in upcoming fund-raising campaigns."
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10331 "This recent book is one of many fund-raising experiments Shareable has "
10332 "conducted in recent years. Currently, Shareable is primarily funded by "
10333 "grants from foundations, but they are actively moving toward a more "
10334 "diversified model. They have organizational sponsors and are working to "
10335 "expand their base of individual donors. Ideally, they will eventually be a "
10336 "hundred percent funded by their audience. Neal believes being fully "
10337 "community-supported will better represent their vision of the world."
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10343 "For Shareable, success is very much about their impact on the world. This is "
10344 "true for Neal, but also for everyone who works for Shareable. “We attract "
10345 "passionate people,” Neal said. At times, that means employees work so hard "
10346 "they burn out. Neal tries to stress to the Shareable team that another part "
10347 "of success is having fun and taking care of yourself while you do something "
10348 "you love. “A central part of human beings is that we long to be on a great "
10349 "adventure with people we love,” he said. “We are a species who look over the "
10350 "horizon and imagine and create new worlds, but we also seek the comfort of "
10351 "hearth and home.”"
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10357 "In 2013, Shareable ran its first crowdfunding campaign to launch their "
10358 "Sharing Cities Network. Neal said at first they were on pace to fail "
10359 "spectacularly. They called in their advisers in a panic and asked for "
10360 "help. The advice they received was simple—“Sit your ass in a chair and start "
10361 "making calls.” That’s exactly what they did, and they ended up reaching "
10362 "their $50,000 goal. Neal said the campaign helped them reach new people, but "
10363 "the vast majority of backers were people in their existing base."
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10369 "For Neal, this symbolized how so much of success comes down to "
10370 "relationships. Over time, Shareable has invested time and energy into the "
10371 "relationships they have forged with their readers and supporters. They have "
10372 "also invested resources into building relationships between their readers "
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10379 "Shareable began hosting events in 2010. These events were designed to bring "
10380 "the sharing community together. But over time they realized they could reach "
10381 "far more people if they helped their readers to host their own events. “If "
10382 "we wanted to go big on a conference, there was a huge risk and huge staffing "
10383 "needs, plus only a fraction of our community could travel to the event,” "
10384 "Neal said. Enabling others to create their own events around the globe "
10385 "allowed them to scale up their work more effectively and reach far more "
10386 "people. Shareable has catalyzed three hundred different events reaching over "
10387 "twenty thousand people since implementing this strategy three years "
10388 "ago. Going forward, Shareable is focusing the network on creating and "
10389 "distributing content meant to spur local action. For instance, Shareable "
10390 "will publish a new CC-licensed book in 2017 filled with ideas for their "
10391 "network to implement."
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10397 "Neal says Shareable stumbled upon this strategy, but it seems to perfectly "
10398 "encapsulate just how the commons is supposed to work. Rather than a "
10399 "one-size-fits-all approach, Shareable puts the tools out there for people "
10400 "take the ideas and adapt them to their own communities."
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10411 "Siyavula is a for-profit educational-technology company that creates "
10412 "textbooks and integrated learning experiences. Founded in 2012 in South "
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10430 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: April 5, 2016"
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10435 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Mark Horner, CEO"
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10441 "Openness is a key principle for Siyavula. They believe that every learner "
10442 "and teacher should have access to high-quality educational resources, as "
10443 "this forms the basis for long-term growth and development. Siyavula has been "
10444 "a pioneer in creating high-quality open textbooks on mathematics and science "
10445 "subjects for grades 4 to 12 in South Africa."
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10451 "In terms of creating an open business model that involves Creative Commons, "
10452 "Siyavula—and its founder, Mark Horner—have been around the block a few "
10453 "times. Siyavula has significantly shifted directions and strategies to "
10454 "survive and prosper. Mark says it’s been very organic."
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10460 "It all started in 2002, when Mark and several other colleagues at the "
10461 "University of Cape Town in South Africa founded the Free High School Science "
10462 "Texts project. Most students in South Africa high schools didn’t have access "
10463 "to high-quality, comprehensive science and math textbooks, so Mark and his "
10464 "colleagues set out to write them and make them freely available."
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10475 "As physicists, Mark and his colleagues were advocates of open-source "
10476 "software. To make the books open and free, they adopted the Free Software "
10477 "Foundation’s GNU Free Documentation License.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
10478 "id=\"0\"/> They chose LaTeX, a typesetting program used to publish "
10479 "scientific documents, to author the books. Over a period of five years, the "
10480 "Free High School Science Texts project produced math and physical-science "
10481 "textbooks for grades 10 to 12."
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10487 "In 2007, the Shuttleworth Foundation offered funding support to make the "
10488 "textbooks available for trial use at more schools. Surveys before and after "
10489 "the textbooks were adopted showed there were no substantial criticisms of "
10490 "the textbooks’ pedagogical content. This pleased both the authors and "
10491 "Shuttleworth; Mark remains incredibly proud of this accomplishment."
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10497 "But the development of new textbooks froze at this stage. Mark shifted his "
10498 "focus to rural schools, which didn’t have textbooks at all, and looked into "
10499 "the printing and distribution options. A few sponsors came on board but not "
10500 "enough to meet the need."
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10505 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.capetowndeclaration.org\"/>"
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10511 "In 2007, Shuttleworth and the Open Society Institute convened a group of "
10512 "open-education activists for a small but lively meeting in Cape Town. One "
10513 "result was the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, a statement of "
10514 "principles, strategies, and commitment to help the open-education movement "
10515 "grow.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Shuttleworth also invited "
10516 "Mark to run a project writing open content for all subjects for K–12 in "
10517 "English. That project became Siyavula."
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10523 "They wrote six original textbooks. A small publishing company offered "
10524 "Shuttleworth the option to buy out the publisher’s existing K–9 content for "
10525 "every subject in South African schools in both English and Afrikaans. A deal "
10526 "was struck, and all the acquired content was licensed with Creative Commons, "
10527 "significantly expanding the collection beyond the six original books."
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10533 "Mark wanted to build out the remaining curricula collaboratively through "
10534 "communities of practice—that is, with fellow educators and writers. Although "
10535 "sharing is fundamental to teaching, there can be a few challenges when you "
10536 "create educational resources collectively. One concern is legal. It is "
10537 "standard practice in education to copy diagrams and snippets of text, but of "
10538 "course this doesn’t always comply with copyright law. Another concern is "
10539 "transparency. Sharing what you’ve authored means everyone can see it and "
10540 "opens you up to criticism. To alleviate these concerns, Mark adopted a "
10541 "team-based approach to authoring and insisted the curricula be based "
10542 "entirely on resources with Creative Commons licenses, thereby ensuring they "
10543 "were safe to share and free from legal repercussions."
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10548 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://cnx.org\"/>"
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10554 "Not only did Mark want the resources to be shareable, he wanted all teachers "
10555 "to be able to remix and edit the content. Mark and his team had to come up "
10556 "with an open editable format and provide tools for editing. They ended up "
10557 "putting all the books they’d acquired and authored on a platform called "
10558 "Connexions.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Siyavula trained many "
10559 "teachers to use Connexions, but it proved to be too complex and the "
10560 "textbooks were rarely edited."
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10566 "Then the Shuttleworth Foundation decided to completely restructure its work "
10567 "as a foundation into a fellowship model (for reasons completely unrelated to "
10568 "Siyavula). As part of that transition in 2009–10, Mark inherited Siyavula as "
10569 "an independent entity and took ownership over it as a Shuttleworth fellow."
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10575 "Mark and his team experimented with several different strategies. They "
10576 "tried creating an authoring and hosting platform called Full Marks so that "
10577 "teachers could share assessment items. They tried creating a service called "
10578 "Open Press, where teachers could ask for open educational resources to be "
10579 "aggregated into a package and printed for them. These services never really "
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10586 "Then the South African government approached Siyavula with an interest in "
10587 "printing out the original six Free High School Science Texts (math and "
10588 "physical-science textbooks for grades 10 to 12) for all high school "
10589 "students in South Africa. Although at this point Siyavula was a bit "
10590 "discouraged by open educational resources, they saw this as a big "
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10597 "They began to conceive of the six books as having massive marketing "
10598 "potential for Siyavula. Printing Siyavula books for every kid in South "
10599 "Africa would give their brand huge exposure and could drive vast amounts of "
10600 "traffic to their website. In addition to print books, Siyavula could also "
10601 "make the books available on their website, making it possible for learners "
10602 "to access them using any device—computer, tablet, or mobile phone."
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10608 "Mark and his team began imagining what they could develop beyond what was in "
10609 "the textbooks as a service they charge for. One key thing you can’t do well "
10610 "in a printed textbook is demonstrate solutions. Typically, a one-line answer "
10611 "is given at the end of the book but nothing on the process for arriving at "
10612 "that solution. Mark and his team developed practice items and detailed "
10613 "solutions, giving learners plenty of opportunity to test out what they’ve "
10614 "learned. Furthermore, an algorithm could adapt these practice items to the "
10615 "individual needs of each learner. They called this service Intelligent "
10616 "Practice and embedded links to it in the open textbooks."
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10622 "The costs for using Intelligent Practice were set very low, making it "
10623 "accessible even to those with limited financial means. Siyavula was going "
10624 "for large volumes and wide-scale use rather than an expensive product "
10625 "targeting only the high end of the market."
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10631 "The government distributed the books to 1.5 million students, but there was "
10632 "an unexpected wrinkle: the books were delivered late. Rather than wait, "
10633 "schools who could afford it provided students with a different textbook. The "
10634 "Siyavula books were eventually distributed, but with well-off schools mainly "
10635 "using a different book, the primary market for Siyavula’s Intelligent "
10636 "Practice service inadvertently became low-income learners."
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10642 "Siyavula’s site did see a dramatic increase in traffic. They got five "
10643 "hundred thousand visitors per month to their math site and the same number "
10644 "to their science site. Two-fifths of the traffic was reading on a “feature "
10645 "phone” (a nonsmartphone with no apps). People on basic phones were reading "
10646 "math and science on a two-inch screen at all hours of the day. To Mark, it "
10647 "was quite amazing and spoke to a need they were servicing."
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10653 "At first, the Intelligent Practice services could only be paid using a "
10654 "credit card. This proved problematic, especially for those in the low-income "
10655 "demographic, as credit cards were not prevalent. Mark says Siyavula got a "
10656 "harsh business-model lesson early on. As he describes it, it’s not just "
10657 "about product, but how you sell it, who the market is, what the price is, "
10658 "and what the barriers to entry are."
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10664 "Mark describes this as the first version of Siyavula’s business model: open "
10665 "textbooks serving as marketing material and driving traffic to your site, "
10666 "where you can offer a related service and convert some people into a paid "
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10673 "For Mark a key decision for Siyavula’s business was to focus on how they can "
10674 "add value on top of their basic service. They’ll charge only if they are "
10675 "adding unique value. The actual content of the textbook isn’t unique at all, "
10676 "so Siyavula sees no value in locking it down and charging for it. Mark "
10677 "contrasts this with traditional publishers who charge over and over again "
10678 "for the same content without adding value."
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10684 "Version two of Siyavula’s business model was a big, ambitious idea—scale "
10685 "up. They also decided to sell the Intelligent Practice service to schools "
10686 "directly. Schools can subscribe on a per-student, per-subject basis. A "
10687 "single subscription gives a learner access to a single subject, including "
10688 "practice content from every grade available for that subject. Lower "
10689 "subscription rates are provided when there are over two hundred students, "
10690 "and big schools have a price cap. A 40 percent discount is offered to "
10691 "schools where both the science and math departments subscribe."
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10697 "Teachers get a dashboard that allows them to monitor the progress of an "
10698 "entire class or view an individual learner’s results. They can see the "
10699 "questions that learners are working on, identify areas of difficulty, and be "
10700 "more strategic in their teaching. Students also have their own personalized "
10701 "dashboard, where they can view the sections they’ve practiced, how many "
10702 "points they’ve earned, and how their performance is improving."
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10708 "Based on the success of this effort, Siyavula decided to substantially "
10709 "increase the production of open educational resources so they could provide "
10710 "the Intelligent Practice service for a wider range of books. Grades 10 to 12 "
10711 "math and science books were reworked each year, and new books created for "
10712 "grades 4 to 6 and later grades 7 to 9."
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10717 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.siyavula.com/products-primary-school.html\"/>"
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10723 "In partnership with, and sponsored by, the Sasol Inzalo Foundation, Siyavula "
10724 "produced a series of natural sciences and technology workbooks for grades 4 "
10725 "to 6 called Thunderbolt Kids that uses a fun comic-book style.<placeholder "
10726 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> It’s a complete curriculum that also comes with "
10727 "teacher’s guides and other resources."
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10733 "Through this experience, Siyavula learned they could get sponsors to help "
10734 "fund openly licensed textbooks. It helped that Siyavula had by this time "
10735 "nailed the production model. It cost roughly $150,000 to produce a book in "
10736 "two languages. Sponsors liked the social-benefit aspect of textbooks "
10737 "unlocked via a Creative Commons license. They also liked the exposure their "
10738 "brand got. For roughly $150,000, their logo would be visible on books "
10739 "distributed to over one million students."
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10745 "The Siyavula books that are reviewed, approved, and branded by the "
10746 "government are freely and openly available on Siyavula’s website under an "
10747 "Attribution-NoDerivs license (CC BY-ND) —NoDerivs means that these books "
10748 "cannot be modified. Non-government-branded books are available under an "
10749 "Attribution license (CC BY), allowing others to modify and redistribute the "
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10756 "Although the South African government paid to print and distribute hard "
10757 "copies of the books to schoolkids, Siyavula itself received no funding from "
10758 "the government. Siyavula initially tried to convince the government to "
10759 "provide them with five rand per book (about US35¢). With those funds, Mark "
10760 "says that Siyavula could have run its entire operation, built a "
10761 "community-based model for producing more books, and provide Intelligent "
10762 "Practice for free to every child in the country. But after a lengthy "
10763 "negotiation, the government said no."
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10769 "Using Siyavula books generated huge savings for the government. Providing "
10770 "students with a traditionally published grade 12 science or math textbook "
10771 "costs around 250 rand per book (about US$18). Providing the Siyavula "
10772 "version cost around 36 rand (about $2.60), a savings of over 200 rand per "
10773 "book. But none of those savings were passed on to Siyavula. In retrospect, "
10774 "Mark thinks this may have turned out in their favor as it allowed them to "
10775 "remain independent from the government."
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10781 "Just as Siyavula was planning to scale up the production of open textbooks "
10782 "even more, the South African government changed its textbook policy. To save "
10783 "costs, the government declared there would be only one authorized textbook "
10784 "for each grade and each subject. There was no guarantee that Siyavula’s "
10785 "would be chosen. This scared away potential sponsors."
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10791 "Rather than producing more textbooks, Siyavula focused on improving its "
10792 "Intelligent Practice technology for its existing books. Mark calls this "
10793 "version three of Siyavula’s business model—focusing on the technology that "
10794 "provides the revenue-generating service and generating more users of this "
10795 "service. Version three got a significant boost in 2014 with an investment by "
10796 "the Omidyar Network (the philanthropic venture started by eBay founder "
10797 "Pierre Omidyar and his spouse), and continues to be the model Siyavula uses "
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10804 "Mark says sales are way up, and they are really nailing Intelligent "
10805 "Practice. Schools continue to use their open textbooks. The "
10806 "government-announced policy that there would be only one textbook per "
10807 "subject turned out to be highly contentious and is in limbo."
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10813 "Siyavula is exploring a range of enhancements to their business model. These "
10814 "include charging a small amount for assessment services provided over the "
10815 "phone, diversifying their market to all English-speaking countries in "
10816 "Africa, and setting up a consortium that makes Intelligent Practice free to "
10817 "all kids by selling the nonpersonal data Intelligent Practice collects."
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10823 "Siyavula is a for-profit business but one with a social mission. Their "
10824 "shareholders’ agreement lists lots of requirements around openness for "
10825 "Siyavula, including stipulations that content always be put under an open "
10826 "license and that they can’t charge for something that people volunteered to "
10827 "do for them. They believe each individual should have access to the "
10828 "resources and support they need to achieve the education they "
10829 "deserve. Having educational resources openly licensed with Creative Commons "
10830 "means they can fulfill their social mission, on top of which they can build "
10831 "revenue-generating services to sustain the ongoing operation of Siyavula. In "
10832 "terms of open business models, Mark and Siyavula may have been around the "
10833 "block a few times, but both he and the company are stronger for it."
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10844 "SparkFun is an online electronics retailer specializing in open "
10845 "hardware. Founded in 2003 in the U.S."
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10850 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.sparkfun.com\"/>"
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10856 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: charging for physical "
10857 "copies (electronics sales)"
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10862 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: February 29, 2016"
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10867 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Nathan Seidle, founder"
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10873 "SparkFun founder and former CEO Nathan Seidle has a picture of himself "
10874 "holding up a clone of a SparkFun product in an electronics market in China, "
10875 "with a huge grin on his face. He was traveling in China when he came across "
10876 "their LilyPad wearable technology being made by someone else. His reaction "
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10883 "“Being copied is the greatest earmark of flattery and success,” Nathan "
10884 "said. “I thought it was so cool that they were selling to a market we were "
10885 "never going to get access to otherwise. It was evidence of our impact on the "
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10892 "This worldview runs through everything SparkFun does. SparkFun is an "
10893 "electronics manufacturer. The company sells its products directly to the "
10894 "public online, and it bundles them with educational tools to sell to schools "
10895 "and teachers. SparkFun applies Creative Commons licenses to all of its "
10896 "schematics, images, tutorial content, and curricula, so anyone can make "
10897 "their products on their own. Being copied is part of the design."
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10903 "Nathan believes open licensing is good for the world. “It touches on our "
10904 "natural human instinct to share,” he said. But he also strongly believes it "
10905 "makes SparkFun better at what they do. They encourage copying, and their "
10906 "products are copied at a very fast rate, often within ten to twelve weeks of "
10907 "release. This forces the company to compete on something other than product "
10908 "design, or what most commonly consider their intellectual property."
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10914 "“We compete on business principles,” Nathan said. “Claiming your territory "
10915 "with intellectual property allows you to get comfy and rest on your "
10916 "laurels. It gives you a safety net. We took away that safety net.”"
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10922 "The result is an intense company-wide focus on product development and "
10923 "improvement. “Our products are so much better than they were five years "
10924 "ago,” Nathan said. “We used to just sell products. Now it’s a product plus a "
10925 "video, a seventeen-page hookup guide, and example firmware on three "
10926 "different platforms to get you up and running faster. We have gotten better "
10927 "because we had to in order to compete. As painful as it is for us, it’s "
10928 "better for the customers.”"
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10934 "SparkFun parts are available on eBay for lower prices. But people come "
10935 "directly to SparkFun because SparkFun makes their lives easier. The example "
10936 "code works; there is a service number to call; they ship replacement parts "
10937 "the day they get a service call. They invest heavily in service and "
10938 "support. “I don’t believe businesses should be competing with IP "
10939 "[intellectual property] barriers,” Nathan said. “This is the stuff they "
10940 "should be competing on.”"
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10946 "SparkFun’s company history began in Nathan’s college dorm room. He spent a "
10947 "lot of time experimenting with and building electronics, and he realized "
10948 "there was a void in the market. “If you wanted to place an order for "
10949 "something,” he said, “you first had to search far and wide to find it, and "
10950 "then you had to call or fax someone.” In 2003, during his third year of "
10951 "college, he registered <ulink url=\"http://sparkfun.com\"/> and started "
10952 "reselling products out of his bedroom. After he graduated, he started making "
10953 "and selling his own products."
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10959 "Once he started designing his own products, he began putting the software "
10960 "and schematics online to help with technical support. After doing some "
10961 "research on licensing options, he chose Creative Commons licenses because he "
10962 "was drawn to the “human-readable deeds” that explain the licensing terms in "
10963 "simple terms. SparkFun still uses CC licenses for all of the schematics and "
10964 "firmware for the products they create."
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10970 "The company has grown from a solo project to a corporation with 140 "
10971 "employees. In 2015, SparkFun earned $33 million in revenue. Selling "
10972 "components and widgets to hobbyists, professionals, and artists remains a "
10973 "major part of SparkFun’s business. They sell their own products, but they "
10974 "also partner with Arduino (also profiled in this book) by manufacturing "
10975 "boards for resale using Arduino’s brand."
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10981 "SparkFun also has an educational department dedicated to creating a hands-on "
10982 "curriculum to teach students about electronics using prototyping "
10983 "parts. Because SparkFun has always been dedicated to enabling others to "
10984 "re-create and fix their products on their own, the more recent focus on "
10985 "introducing young people to technology is a natural extension of their core "
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10992 "“We have the burden and opportunity to educate the next generation of "
10993 "technical citizens,” Nathan said. “Our goal is to affect the lives of three "
10994 "hundred and fifty thousand high school students by 2020.”"
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11000 "The Creative Commons license underlying all of SparkFun’s products is "
11001 "central to this mission. The license not only signals a willingness to "
11002 "share, but it also expresses a desire for others to get in and tinker with "
11003 "their products, both to learn and to make their products better. SparkFun "
11004 "uses the Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA), which is a “copyleft” "
11005 "license that allows people to do anything with the content as long as they "
11006 "provide credit and make any adaptations available under the same licensing "
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11013 "From the beginning, Nathan has tried to create a work environment at "
11014 "SparkFun that he himself would want to work in. The result is what appears "
11015 "to be a pretty fun workplace. The U.S. company is based in Boulder, "
11016 "Colorado. They have an eighty-thousand-square-foot facility (approximately "
11017 "seventy-four-hundred square meters), where they design and manufacture their "
11018 "products. They offer public tours of the space several times a week, and "
11019 "they open their doors to the public for a competition once a year."
11022 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11023 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8607
11025 "The public event, called the Autonomous Vehicle Competition, brings in a "
11026 "thousand to two thousand customers and other technology enthusiasts from "
11027 "around the area to race their own self-created bots against each other, "
11028 "participate in training workshops, and socialize. From a business "
11029 "perspective, Nathan says it’s a terrible idea. But they don’t hold the event "
11030 "for business reasons. “The reason we do it is because I get to travel and "
11031 "have interactions with our customers all the time, but most of our employees "
11032 "don’t,” he said. “This event gives our employees the opportunity to get "
11033 "face-to-face contact with our customers.” The event infuses their work with "
11034 "a human element, which makes it more meaningful."
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11038 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8621
11040 "Nathan has worked hard to imbue a deeper meaning into the work SparkFun "
11041 "does. The company is, of course, focused on being fiscally responsible, but "
11042 "they are ultimately driven by something other than money. “Profit is not the "
11043 "goal; it is the outcome of a well-executed plan,” Nathan said. “We focus on "
11044 "having a bigger impact on the world.” Nathan believes they get some of the "
11045 "brightest and most amazing employees because they aren’t singularly focused "
11046 "on the bottom line."
11049 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11050 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8631
11052 "The company is committed to transparency and shares all of its financials "
11053 "with its employees. They also generally strive to avoid being another "
11054 "soulless corporation. They actively try to reveal the humans behind the "
11055 "company, and they work to ensure people coming to their site don’t find only "
11056 "unchanging content."
11059 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11060 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8638
11062 "SparkFun’s customer base is largely made up of industrious electronics "
11063 "enthusiasts. They have customers who are regularly involved in the company’s "
11064 "customer support, independently responding to questions in forums and "
11065 "product-comment sections. Customers also bring product ideas to the "
11066 "company. SparkFun regularly sifts through suggestions from customers and "
11067 "tries to build on them where they can. “From the beginning, we have been "
11068 "listening to the community,” Nathan said. “Customers would identify a pain "
11069 "point, and we would design something to address it.”"
11072 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11075 "However, this sort of customer engagement does not always translate to "
11076 "people actively contributing to SparkFun’s projects. The company has a "
11077 "public repository of software code for each of its devices online. On a "
11078 "particularly active project, there will only be about two dozen people "
11079 "contributing significant improvements. The vast majority of projects are "
11080 "relatively untouched by the public. “There is a theory that if you "
11081 "open-source it, they will come,” Nathan said. “That’s not really true.”"
11084 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11087 "Rather than focusing on cocreation with their customers, SparkFun instead "
11088 "focuses on enabling people to copy, tinker, and improve products on their "
11089 "own. They heavily invest in tutorials and other material designed to help "
11090 "people understand how the products work so they can fix and improve things "
11091 "independently. “What gives me joy is when people take open-source layouts "
11092 "and then build their own circuit boards from our designs,” Nathan said."
11095 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11096 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8670
11098 "Obviously, opening up the design of their products is a necessary step if "
11099 "their goal is to empower the public. Nathan also firmly believes it makes "
11100 "them more money because it requires them to focus on how to provide maximum "
11101 "value. Rather than designing a new product and protecting it in order to "
11102 "extract as much money as possible from it, they release the keys necessary "
11103 "for others to build it themselves and then spend company time and resources "
11104 "on innovation and service. From a short-term perspective, SparkFun may lose "
11105 "a few dollars when others copy their products. But in the long run, it makes "
11106 "them a more nimble, innovative business. In other words, it makes them the "
11107 "kind of company they set out to be."
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11115 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
11116 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8687
11118 "TeachAIDS is a nonprofit that creates educational materials designed to "
11119 "teach people around the world about HIV and AIDS. Founded in 2005 in the "
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11124 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8692
11125 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://teachaids.org\"/>"
11128 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
11129 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8694
11130 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: sponsorships"
11133 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><blockquote><para>
11134 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8696
11135 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: March 24, 2016"
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11139 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8699
11141 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Piya Sorcar, the CEO, and "
11142 "Shuman Ghosemajumder, the chair"
11145 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11146 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8707
11148 "TeachAIDS is an unconventional media company with a conventional revenue "
11149 "model. Like most media companies, they are subsidized by "
11150 "advertising. Corporations pay to have their logos appear on the educational "
11151 "materials TeachAIDS distributes."
11154 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11155 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8713
11157 "But unlike most media companies, Teach-AIDS is a nonprofit organization with "
11158 "a purely social mission. TeachAIDS is dedicated to educating the global "
11159 "population about HIV and AIDS, particularly in parts of the world where "
11160 "education efforts have been historically unsuccessful. Their educational "
11161 "content is conveyed through interactive software, using methods based on the "
11162 "latest research about how people learn. TeachAIDS serves content in more "
11163 "than eighty countries around the world. In each instance, the content is "
11164 "translated to the local language and adjusted to conform to local norms and "
11165 "customs. All content is free and made available under a Creative Commons "
11169 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11170 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8726
11172 "TeachAIDS is a labor of love for founder and CEO Piya Sorcar, who earns a "
11173 "salary of one dollar per year from the nonprofit. The project grew out of "
11174 "research she was doing while pursuing her doctorate at Stanford "
11175 "University. She was reading reports about India, noting it would be the next "
11176 "hot zone of people living with HIV. Despite international and national "
11177 "entities pouring in hundreds of millions of dollars on HIV-prevention "
11178 "efforts, the reports showed knowledge levels were still low. People were "
11179 "unaware of whether the virus could be transmitted through coughing and "
11180 "sneezing, for instance. Supported by an interdisciplinary team of experts at "
11181 "Stanford, Piya conducted similar studies, which corroborated the previous "
11182 "research. They found that the primary cause of the limited understanding was "
11183 "that HIV, and issues relating to it, were often considered too taboo to "
11184 "discuss comprehensively. The other major problem was that most of the "
11185 "education on this topic was being taught through television advertising, "
11186 "billboards, and other mass-media campaigns, which meant people were only "
11187 "receiving bits and pieces of information."
11190 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11193 "In late 2005, Piya and her team used research-based design to create new "
11194 "educational materials and worked with local partners in India to help "
11195 "distribute them. As soon as the animated software was posted online, Piya’s "
11196 "team started receiving requests from individuals and governments who were "
11197 "interested in bringing this model to more countries. “We realized fairly "
11198 "quickly that educating large populations about a topic that was considered "
11199 "taboo would be challenging. We began by identifying optimal local partners "
11200 "and worked toward creating an effective, culturally appropriate education,” "
11204 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11207 "Very shortly after the initial release, Piya’s team decided to spin the "
11208 "endeavor into an independent nonprofit out of Stanford University. They also "
11209 "decided to use Creative Commons licenses on the materials."
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11215 "Given their educational mission, TeachAIDS had an obvious interest in seeing "
11216 "the materials as widely shared as possible. But they also needed to preserve "
11217 "the integrity of the medical information in the content. They chose the "
11218 "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license (CC BY-NC-ND), which essentially "
11219 "gives the public the right to distribute only verbatim copies of the "
11220 "content, and for noncommercial purposes. “We wanted attribution for "
11221 "TeachAIDS, and we couldn’t stand by derivatives without vetting them,” the "
11222 "cofounder and chair Shuman Ghosemajumder said. “It was almost a no-brainer "
11223 "to go with a CC license because it was a plug-and-play solution to this "
11224 "exact problem. It has allowed us to scale our materials safely and quickly "
11225 "worldwide while preserving our content and protecting us at the same time.”"
11228 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11229 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8779
11231 "Choosing a license that does not allow adaptation of the content was an "
11232 "outgrowth of the careful precision with which TeachAIDS crafts their "
11233 "content. The organization invests heavily in research and testing to "
11234 "determine the best method of conveying the information. “Creating "
11235 "high-quality content is what matters most to us,” Piya said. “Research "
11236 "drives everything we do.”"
11239 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11240 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8787
11242 "One important finding was that people accept the message best when it comes "
11243 "from familiar voices they trust and admire. To achieve this, TeachAIDS "
11244 "researches cultural icons that would best resonate with their target "
11245 "audiences and recruits them to donate their likenesses and voices for use in "
11246 "the animated software. The celebrities involved vary for each localized "
11247 "version of the materials."
11250 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11251 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8796
11253 "Localization is probably the single-most important aspect of the way "
11254 "TeachAIDS creates its content. While each regional version builds from the "
11255 "same core scientific materials, they pour a lot of resources into "
11256 "customizing the content for a particular population. Because they use a CC "
11257 "license that does not allow the public to adapt the content, TeachAIDS "
11258 "retains careful control over the localization process. The content is "
11259 "translated into the local language, but there are also changes in substance "
11260 "and format to reflect cultural differences. This process results in minor "
11261 "changes, like choosing different idioms based on the local language, and "
11262 "significant changes, like creating gendered versions for places where people "
11263 "are more likely to accept information from someone of the same gender."
11266 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11267 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8811
11269 "The localization process relies heavily on volunteers. Their volunteer base "
11270 "is deeply committed to the cause, and the organization has had better luck "
11271 "controlling the quality of the materials when they tap volunteers instead of "
11272 "using paid translators. For quality control, TeachAIDS has three separate "
11273 "volunteer teams translate the materials from English to the local language "
11274 "and customize the content based on local customs and norms. Those three "
11275 "versions are then analyzed and combined into a single master "
11276 "translation. TeachAIDS has additional teams of volunteers then translate "
11277 "that version back into English to see how well it lines up with the original "
11278 "materials. They repeat this process until they reach a translated version "
11279 "that meets their standards. For the Tibetan version, they went through this "
11280 "cycle eleven times."
11283 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11286 "TeachAIDS employs full-time employees, contractors, and volunteers, all in "
11287 "different capacities and organizational configurations. They are careful to "
11288 "use people from diverse backgrounds to create the materials, including "
11289 "teachers, students, and doctors, as well as individuals experienced in "
11290 "working in the NGO space. This diversity and breadth of knowledge help "
11291 "ensure their materials resonate with people from all walks of life. "
11292 "Additionally, TeachAIDS works closely with film writers and directors to "
11293 "help keep the concepts entertaining and easy to understand. The inclusive, "
11294 "but highly controlled, creative process is undertaken entirely by people who "
11295 "are specifically brought on to help with a particular project, rather than "
11296 "ongoing staff. The final product they create is designed to require zero "
11297 "training for people to implement in practice. “In our research, we found we "
11298 "can’t depend on people passing on the information correctly, even if they "
11299 "have the best of intentions,” Piya said. “We need materials where you can "
11300 "push play and they will work.”"
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11306 "Piya’s team was able to produce all of these versions over several years "
11307 "with a head count that never exceeded eight full-time employees. The "
11308 "organization is able to reduce costs by relying heavily on volunteers and "
11309 "in-kind donations. Nevertheless, the nonprofit needed a sustainable revenue "
11310 "model to subsidize content creation and physical distribution of the "
11311 "materials. Charging even a low price was simply not an option. “Educators "
11312 "from various nonprofits around the world were just creating their own "
11313 "materials using whatever they could find for free online,” Shuman said. “The "
11314 "only way to persuade them to use our highly effective model was to make it "
11315 "completely free.”"
11318 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11319 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8859
11321 "Like many content creators offering their work for free, they settled on "
11322 "advertising as a funding model. But they were extremely careful not to let "
11323 "the advertising compromise their credibility or undermine the heavy "
11324 "investment they put into creating quality content. Sponsors of the content "
11325 "have no ability to influence the substance of the content, and they cannot "
11326 "even create advertising content. Sponsors only get the right to have their "
11327 "logo appear before and after the educational content. All of the content "
11328 "remains branded as TeachAIDS."
11331 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11332 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8870
11334 "TeachAIDS is careful not to seek funding to cover the costs of a specific "
11335 "project. Instead, sponsorships are structured as unrestricted donations to "
11336 "the nonprofit. This gives the nonprofit more stability, but even more "
11337 "importantly, it enables them to subsidize projects being localized for an "
11338 "area with no sponsors. “If we just created versions based on where we could "
11339 "get sponsorships, we would only have materials for wealthier countries,” "
11343 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11344 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8880
11346 "As of 2016, TeachAIDS has dozens of sponsors. “When we go into a new "
11347 "country, various companies hear about us and reach out to us,” Piya "
11348 "said. “We don’t have to do much to find or attract them.” They believe the "
11349 "sponsorships are easy to sell because they offer so much value to "
11350 "sponsors. TeachAIDS sponsorships give corporations the chance to reach new "
11351 "eyeballs with their brand, but at a much lower cost than other advertising "
11352 "channels. The audience for TeachAIDS content also tends to skew young, which "
11353 "is often a desirable demographic for brands. Unlike traditional advertising, "
11354 "the content is not time-sensitive, so an investment in a sponsorship can "
11355 "benefit a brand for many years to come."
11358 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11359 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8893
11361 "Importantly, the value to corporate sponsors goes beyond commercial "
11362 "considerations. As a nonprofit with a clearly articulated social mission, "
11363 "corporate sponsorships are donations to a cause. “This is something "
11364 "companies can be proud of internally,” Shuman said. Some companies have even "
11365 "built publicity campaigns around the fact that they have sponsored these "
11369 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11372 "The core mission of TeachAIDS—ensuring global access to life-saving "
11373 "education—is at the root of everything the organization does. It underpins "
11374 "the work; it motivates the funders. The CC license on the materials they "
11375 "create furthers that mission, allowing them to safely and quickly scale "
11376 "their materials worldwide. “The Creative Commons license has been a game "
11377 "changer for TeachAIDS,” Piya said."
11380 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
11381 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8912
11382 msgid "Tribe of Noise"
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11388 "Tribe of Noise is a for-profit online music platform serving the film, TV, "
11389 "video, gaming, and in-store-media industries. Founded in 2008 in the "
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11395 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.tribeofnoise.com\"/>"
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11400 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: January 26, 2016"
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11406 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewee</emphasis>: Hessel van Oorschot, "
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11413 "In the early 2000s, Hessel van Oorschot was an entrepreneur running a "
11414 "business where he coached other midsize entrepreneurs how to create an "
11415 "online business. He also coauthored a number of workbooks for small- to "
11416 "medium-size enterprises to use to optimize their business for the "
11417 "Web. Through this early work, Hessel became familiar with the principles of "
11418 "open licensing, including the use of open-source software and Creative "
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11425 "In 2005, Hessel and Sandra Brandenburg launched a niche video-production "
11426 "initiative. Almost immediately, they ran into issues around finding and "
11427 "licensing music tracks. All they could find was standard, cold "
11428 "stock-music. They thought of looking up websites where you could license "
11429 "music directly from the musician without going through record labels or "
11430 "agents. But in 2005, the ability to directly license music from a rights "
11431 "holder was not readily available."
11434 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
11435 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:8955
11437 "They hired two lawyers to investigate further, and while they uncovered five "
11438 "or six examples, Hessel found the business models lacking. The lawyers "
11439 "expressed interest in being their legal team should they decide to pursue "
11440 "this as an entrepreneurial opportunity. Hessel says, “When lawyers are "
11441 "interested in a venture like this, you might have something special.” So "
11442 "after some more research, in early 2008, Hessel and Sandra decided to build "
11446 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11449 "Building a platform posed a real chicken-and-egg problem. The platform had "
11450 "to build an online community of music-rights holders and, at the same time, "
11451 "provide the community with information and ideas about how the new economy "
11452 "works. Community willingness to try new music business models requires a "
11453 "trust relationship."
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11459 "In July 2008, Tribe of Noise opened its virtual doors with a couple hundred "
11460 "musicians willing to use the CC BY-SA license (Attribution-ShareAlike) for a "
11461 "limited part of their repertoire. The two entrepreneurs wanted to take the "
11462 "pain away for media makers who wanted to license music and solve the "
11463 "problems the two had personally experienced finding this music."
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11468 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.instoremusicservice.com\"/>"
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11474 "As they were growing the community, Hessel got a phone call from a company "
11475 "that made in-store music playlists asking if they had enough music licensed "
11476 "with Creative Commons that they could use. Stores need quality, "
11477 "good-listening music but not necessarily hits, a bit like a radio show "
11478 "without the DJ. This opened a new opportunity for Tribe of Noise. They "
11479 "started their In-store Music Service, using music (licensed with CC BY-SA) "
11480 "uploaded by the Tribe of Noise community of musicians.<placeholder "
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11487 "In most countries, artists, authors, and musicians join a collecting society "
11488 "that manages the licensing and helps collect the royalties. Copyright "
11489 "collecting societies in the European Union usually hold monopolies in their "
11490 "respective national markets. In addition, they require their members to "
11491 "transfer exclusive administration rights to them of all of their works. "
11492 "This complicates the picture for Tribe of Noise, who wants to represent "
11493 "artists, or at least a portion of their repertoire. Hessel and his legal "
11494 "team reached out to collecting societies, starting with those in the "
11495 "Netherlands. What would be the best legal way forward that would respect the "
11496 "wishes of composers and musicians who’d be interested in trying out new "
11497 "models like the In-store Music Service? Collecting societies at first were "
11498 "hesitant and said no, but Tribe of Noise persisted arguing that they "
11499 "primarily work with unknown artists and provide them exposure in parts of "
11500 "the world where they don’t get airtime normally and a source of revenue—and "
11501 "this convinced them that it was OK. However, Hessel says, “We are still "
11502 "fighting for a good cause every single day.”"
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11508 "Instead of building a large sales force, Tribe of Noise partnered with big "
11509 "organizations who have lots of clients and can act as a kind of Tribe of "
11510 "Noise reseller. The largest telecom network in the Netherlands, for example, "
11511 "sells Tribe’s In-store Music Service subscriptions to their business "
11512 "clients, which include fashion retailers and fitness centers. They have a "
11513 "similar deal with the leading trade association representing hotels and "
11514 "restaurants in the country. Hessel hopes to “copy and paste” this service "
11515 "into other countries where collecting societies understand what you can do "
11516 "with Creative Commons. Outside of the Netherlands, early adoptions have "
11517 "happened in Scandinavia, Belgium, and the U.S."
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11523 "Tribe of Noise doesn’t pay the musicians up front; they get paid when their "
11524 "music ends up in Tribe of Noise’s in-store music channels. The musicians’ "
11525 "share is 42.5 percent. It’s not uncommon in a traditional model for the "
11526 "artist to get only 5 to 10 percent, so a share of over 40 percent is a "
11527 "significantly better deal. Here’s how they give an example on their "
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11533 msgid "<ulink url=\"http://www.tribeofnoise.com/info_instoremusic.php\"/>"
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11539 "A few of your songs [licensed with CC BY-SA], for example five in total, are "
11540 "selected for a bespoke in-store music channel broadcasting at a large "
11541 "retailer with 1,000 stores nationwide. In this case the overall playlist "
11542 "contains 350 songs so the musician’s share is 5/350 = 1.43%. The license fee "
11543 "agreed with this retailer is US$12 per month per play-out. So if 42.5% is "
11544 "shared with the Tribe musicians in this playlist and your share is 1.43%, "
11545 "you end up with US$12 * 1000 stores * 0.425 * 0.0143 = US$73 per "
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11552 "Tribe of Noise has another model that does not involve Creative Commons. In "
11553 "a survey with members, most said they liked the exposure using Creative "
11554 "Commons gets them and the way it lets them reach out to others to share and "
11555 "remix. However, they had a bit of a mental struggle with Creative Commons "
11556 "licenses being perpetual. A lot of musicians have the mind-set that one day "
11557 "one of their songs may become an overnight hit. If that happened the CC "
11558 "BY-SA license would preclude them getting rich off the sale of that song."
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11564 "Hessel’s legal team took this feedback and created a second model and "
11565 "separate area of the platform called Tribe of Noise Pro. Songs uploaded to "
11566 "Tribe of Noise Pro aren’t Creative Commons licensed; Tribe of Noise has "
11567 "instead created a “nonexclusive exploitation” contract, similar to a "
11568 "Creative Commons license but allowing musicians to opt out whenever they "
11569 "want. When you opt out, Tribe of Noise agrees to take your music off the "
11570 "Tribe of Noise platform within one to two months. This lets the musician "
11571 "reuse their song for a better deal."
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11575 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9065
11577 "Tribe of Noise Pro is primarily geared toward media makers who are looking "
11578 "for music. If they buy a license from this catalog, they don’t have to state "
11579 "the name of the creator; they just license the song for a specific "
11580 "amount. This is a big plus for media makers. And musicians can pull their "
11581 "repertoire at any time. Hessel sees this as a more direct and clean deal."
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11587 "Lots of Tribe of Noise musicians upload songs to both Tribe of Noise Pro and "
11588 "the community area of Tribe of Noises. There aren’t that many artists who "
11589 "upload only to Tribe of Noise Pro, which has a smaller repertoire of music "
11590 "than the community area."
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11596 "Hessel sees the two as complementary. Both are needed for the model to "
11597 "work. With a whole generation of musicians interested in the sharing "
11598 "economy, the community area of Tribe of Noise is where they can build trust, "
11599 "create exposure, and generate money. And after that, musicians may become "
11600 "more interested in exploring other models like Tribe of Noise Pro."
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11606 "Every musician who joins Tribe of Noise gets their own home page and free "
11607 "unlimited Web space to upload as much of their own music as they like. Tribe "
11608 "of Noise is also a social network; fellow musicians and professionals can "
11609 "vote for, comment on, and like your music. Community managers interact with "
11610 "and support members, and music supervisors pick and choose from the uploaded "
11611 "songs for in-store play or to promote them to media producers. Members "
11612 "really like having people working for the platform who truly engage with "
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11619 "Another way Tribe of Noise creates community and interest is with contests, "
11620 "which are organized in partnership with Tribe of Noise clients. The client "
11621 "specifies what they want, and any member can submit a song. Contests usually "
11622 "involve prizes, exposure, and money. In addition to building member "
11623 "engagement, contests help members learn how to work with clients: listening "
11624 "to them, understanding what they want, and creating a song to meet that "
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11631 "Tribe of Noise now has twenty-seven thousand members from 192 countries, and "
11632 "many are exploring do-it-yourself models for generating revenue. Some came "
11633 "from music labels and publishers, having gone through the traditional way of "
11634 "music licensing and now seeing if this new model makes sense for "
11635 "them. Others are young musicians, who grew up with a DIY mentality and see "
11636 "little reason to sign with a third party or hand over some of the "
11637 "control. Still a small but growing group of Tribe members are pursuing a "
11638 "hybrid model by licensing some of their songs under CC BY-SA and opting in "
11639 "others with collecting societies like ASCAP or BMI."
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11645 "It’s not uncommon for performance-rights organizations, record labels, or "
11646 "music publishers to sign contracts with musicians based on exclusivity. Such "
11647 "an arrangement prevents those musicians from uploading their music to Tribe "
11648 "of Noise. In the United States, you can have a collecting society handle "
11649 "only some of your tracks, whereas in many countries in Europe, a collecting "
11650 "society prefers to represent your entire repertoire (although the European "
11651 "Commission is making some changes). Tribe of Noise deals with this issue all "
11652 "the time and gives you a warning whenever you upload a song. If collecting "
11653 "societies are willing to be open and flexible and do the most they can for "
11654 "their members, then they can consider organizations like Tribe of Noise as a "
11655 "nice add-on, generating more exposure and revenue for the musicians they "
11656 "represent. So far, Tribe of Noise has been able to make all this work "
11657 "without litigation."
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11663 "For Hessel the key to Tribe of Noise’s success is trust. The fact that "
11664 "Creative Commons licenses work the same way all over the world and have been "
11665 "translated into all languages really helps build that trust. Tribe of Noise "
11666 "believes in creating a model where they work together with musicians. They "
11667 "can only do that if they have a live and kicking community, with people who "
11668 "think that the Tribe of Noise team has their best interests in "
11669 "mind. Creative Commons makes it possible to create a new business model for "
11670 "music, a model that’s based on trust."
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11675 msgid "Wikimedia Foundation"
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11681 "The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia "
11682 "and its sister projects. Founded in 2003 in the U.S."
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11692 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Revenue model</emphasis>: donations"
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11697 msgid "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interview date</emphasis>: December 18, 2015"
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11703 "<emphasis role=\"strong\">Interviewees</emphasis>: Luis Villa, former Chief "
11704 "Officer of Community Engagement, and Stephen LaPorte, legal counsel"
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11709 msgid "Nearly every person with an online presence knows Wikipedia."
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11715 "In many ways, it is the preeminent open project: The online encyclopedia is "
11716 "created entirely by volunteers. Anyone in the world can edit the "
11717 "articles. All of the content is available for free to anyone online. All of "
11718 "the content is released under a Creative Commons license that enables people "
11719 "to reuse and adapt it for any purpose."
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11725 "As of December 2016, there were more than forty-two million articles in the "
11726 "295 language editions of the online encyclopedia, according to—what "
11727 "else?—the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia."
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11733 "The Wikimedia Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that owns "
11734 "the Wikipedia domain name and hosts the site, along with many other related "
11735 "sites like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The foundation employs about two "
11736 "hundred and eighty people, who all work to support the projects it "
11737 "hosts. But the true heart of Wikipedia and its sister projects is its "
11738 "community. The numbers of people in the community are variable, but about "
11739 "seventy-five thousand volunteers edit and improve Wikipedia articles every "
11740 "month. Volunteers are organized in a variety of ways across the globe, "
11741 "including formal Wikimedia chapters (mostly national), groups focused on a "
11742 "particular theme, user groups, and many thousands who are not connected to a "
11743 "particular organization."
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11749 "As Wikimedia legal counsel Stephen LaPorte told us, “There is a common "
11750 "saying that Wikipedia works in practice but not in theory.” While it "
11751 "undoubtedly has its challenges and flaws, Wikipedia and its sister projects "
11752 "are a striking testament to the power of human collaboration."
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11758 "Because of its extraordinary breadth and scope, it does feel a bit like a "
11759 "unicorn. Indeed, there is nothing else like Wikipedia. Still, much of what "
11760 "makes the projects successful—community, transparency, a strong mission, "
11761 "trust—are consistent with what it takes to be successfully Made with "
11762 "Creative Commons more generally. With Wikipedia, everything just happens at "
11763 "an unprecedented scale."
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11769 "The story of Wikipedia has been told many times. For our purposes, it is "
11770 "enough to know the experiment started in 2001 at a small scale, inspired by "
11771 "the crazy notion that perhaps a truly open, collaborative project could "
11772 "create something meaningful. At this point, Wikipedia is so ubiquitous and "
11773 "ingrained in our digital lives that the fact of its existence seems less "
11774 "remarkable. But outside of software, Wikipedia is perhaps the single most "
11775 "stunning example of successful community cocreation. Every day, seven "
11776 "thousand new articles are created on Wikipedia, and nearly fifteen thousand "
11777 "edits are made every hour."
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11783 "The nature of the content the community creates is ideal for asynchronous "
11784 "cocreation. “An encyclopedia is something where incremental community "
11785 "improvement really works,” Luis Villa, former Chief Officer of Community "
11786 "Engagement, told us. The rules and processes that govern cocreation on "
11787 "Wikipedia and its sister projects are all community-driven and vary by "
11788 "language edition. There are entire books written on the intricacies of "
11789 "their systems, but generally speaking, there are very few exceptions to the "
11790 "rule that anyone can edit any article, even without an account on their "
11791 "system. The extensive peer-review process includes elaborate systems to "
11792 "resolve disputes, methods for managing particularly controversial subject "
11793 "areas, talk pages explaining decisions, and much, much more. The Wikimedia "
11794 "Foundation’s decision to leave governance of the projects to the community "
11795 "is very deliberate. “We look at the things that the community can do well, "
11796 "and we want to let them do those things,” Stephen told us. Instead, the "
11797 "foundation focuses its time and resources on what the community cannot do as "
11798 "effectively, like the software engineering that supports the technical "
11799 "infrastructure of the sites. In 2015-16, about half of the foundation’s "
11800 "budget went to direct support for the Wikimedia sites."
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11806 "Some of that is directed at servers and general IT support, but the "
11807 "foundation also invests a significant amount on architecture designed to "
11808 "help the site function as effectively as possible. “There is a constantly "
11809 "evolving system to keep the balance in place to avoid Wikipedia becoming the "
11810 "world’s biggest graffiti wall,” Luis said. Depending on how you measure it, "
11811 "somewhere between 90 to 98 percent of edits to Wikipedia are positive. Some "
11812 "portion of that success is attributable to the tools Wikimedia has in place "
11813 "to try to incentivize good actors. “The secret to having any healthy "
11814 "community is bringing back the right people,” Luis said. “Vandals tend to "
11815 "get bored and go away. That is partially our model working, and partially "
11816 "just human nature.” Most of the time, people want to do the right thing."
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11822 "Wikipedia not only relies on good behavior within its community and on its "
11823 "sites, but also by everyone else once the content leaves Wikipedia. All of "
11824 "the text of Wikipedia is available under an Attribution-ShareAlike license "
11825 "(CC BY-SA), which means it can be used for any purpose and modified so long "
11826 "as credit is given and anything new is shared back with the public under the "
11827 "same license. In theory, that means anyone can copy the content and start a "
11828 "new Wikipedia. But as Stephen explained, “Being open has only made Wikipedia "
11829 "bigger and stronger. The desire to protect is not always what is best for "
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11837 "url=\"http://gimletmedia.com/episode/14-the-art-of-making-and-fixing-mistakes/\"/>"
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11843 "Of course, the primary reason no one has successfully co-opted Wikipedia is "
11844 "that copycat efforts do not have the Wikipedia community to sustain what "
11845 "they do. Wikipedia is not simply a source of up-to-the-minute content on "
11846 "every given topic—it is also a global patchwork of humans working together "
11847 "in a million different ways, in a million different capacities, for a "
11848 "million different reasons. While many have tried to guess what makes "
11849 "Wikipedia work as well it does, the fact is there is no single "
11850 "explanation. “In a movement as large as ours, there is an incredible "
11851 "diversity of motivations,” Stephen said. For example, there is one editor of "
11852 "the English Wikipedia edition who has corrected a single grammatical error "
11853 "in articles more than forty-eight thousand times.<placeholder "
11854 "type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Only a fraction of Wikipedia users are also "
11855 "editors. But editing is not the only way to contribute to Wikipedia. “Some "
11856 "donate text, some donate images, some donate financially,” Stephen told "
11857 "us. “They are all contributors.”"
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11863 "But the vast majority of us who use Wikipedia are not contributors; we are "
11864 "passive readers. The Wikimedia Foundation survives primarily on individual "
11865 "donations, with about $15 as the average. Because Wikipedia is one of the "
11866 "ten most popular websites in terms of total page views, donations from a "
11867 "small portion of that audience can translate into a lot of money. In the "
11868 "2015-16 fiscal year, they received more than $77 million from more than five "
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11875 "The foundation has a fund-raising team that works year-round to raise money, "
11876 "but the bulk of their revenue comes in during the December campaign in "
11877 "Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United "
11878 "States. They engage in extensive user testing and research to maximize the "
11879 "reach of their fund-raising campaigns. Their basic fund-raising message is "
11880 "simple: We provide our readers and the world immense value, so give "
11881 "back. Every little bit helps. With enough eyeballs, they are right."
11884 #. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
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11887 "The vision of the Wikimedia Foundation is a world in which every single "
11888 "human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. They work to "
11889 "realize this vision by empowering people around the globe to create "
11890 "educational content made freely available under an open license or in the "
11891 "public domain. Stephen and Luis said the mission, which is rooted in the "
11892 "same philosophy behind Creative Commons, drives everything the foundation "
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11899 "The philosophy behind the endeavor also enables the foundation to be "
11900 "financially sustainable. It instills trust in their readership, which is "
11901 "critical for a revenue strategy that relies on reader donations. It also "
11902 "instills trust in their community."
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11908 "Any given edit on Wikipedia could be motivated by nearly an infinite number "
11909 "of reasons. But the social mission of the project is what binds the global "
11910 "community together. “Wikipedia is an example of how a mission can motivate "
11911 "an entire movement,” Stephen told us."
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11917 "Of course, what results from that movement is one of the Internet’s great "
11918 "public resources. “The Internet has a lot of businesses and stores, but it "
11919 "is missing the digital equivalent of parks and open public spaces,” Stephen "
11920 "said. “Wikipedia has found a way to be that open public space.”"
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12102 "Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery. Regina, SK: University "
12103 "of Regina Press, 2015. uofrpress.ca/publications/Free-Knowledge (licensed "
12104 "under CC BY-NC-ND)."
12107 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12108 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9469
12110 "Eyal, Nir. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. With Ryan "
12111 "Hoover. New York: Portfolio, 2014."
12114 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12115 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9473
12117 "Farley, Joshua, and Ida Kubiszewski. “The Economics of Information in a "
12118 "Post-Carbon Economy.” Chap. 11 in Elliott and Hepting, Free Knowledge."
12121 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12122 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9478
12124 "Foster, William Landes, Peter Kim, and Barbara Christiansen. “Ten Nonprofit "
12125 "Funding Models.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009. <ulink "
12126 "url=\"http://ssir.org/articles/entry/ten_nonprofit_funding_models\"/>."
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12130 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9484
12132 "Frischmann, Brett M. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared "
12133 "Resources. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012."
12136 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12137 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9488
12139 "Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg, "
12140 "eds. Governing Knowledge Commons. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014."
12143 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12144 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9493
12146 "Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. "
12147 "Strandburg. “Governing Knowledge Commons.” Chap. 1 in Frischmann, Madison, "
12148 "and Strandburg, Governing Knowledge Commons."
12151 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12152 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9498
12154 "Gansky, Lisa. The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing. Reprint with "
12155 "new epilogue. New York: Portfolio, 2012."
12158 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12159 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9502
12161 "Grant, Adam. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. New "
12162 "York: Viking, 2013."
12165 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12166 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9506
12168 "Haiven, Max. Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity "
12169 "and the Commons. New York: Zed Books, 2014."
12172 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12173 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9510
12175 "Harris, Malcom, ed. Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the "
12176 "Age of Crisis. With Neal Gorenflo. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2012."
12179 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12180 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9515
12182 "Hermida, Alfred. Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters. Toronto: "
12183 "Doubleday Canada, 2014."
12186 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
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12189 "Hyde, Lewis. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. New York: "
12190 "Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010."
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12196 "———. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. 2nd Vintage "
12197 "Books edition. New York: Vintage Books, 2007."
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12201 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9527
12203 "Kelley, Tom, and David Kelley. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Potential "
12204 "within Us All. New York: Crown, 2013."
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12210 "Kelly, Marjorie. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution; "
12211 "Journeys to a Generative Economy. San Francisco:"
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12216 msgid "Berrett-Koehler, 2012."
12219 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12220 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9538
12222 "Kleon, Austin. Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get "
12223 "Discovered. New York: Workman, 2014."
12226 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12227 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9542
12229 "———. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being "
12230 "Creative. New York: Workman, 2012."
12233 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12234 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9546
12236 "Kramer, Bryan. Shareology: How Sharing Is Powering the Human Economy. New "
12237 "York: Morgan James, 2016."
12240 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12241 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9550
12243 "Lee, David. “Inside Medium: An Attempt to Bring Civility to the Internet.” "
12244 "BBC News, March 3, 2016. <ulink "
12245 "url=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35709680\"/>"
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12249 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9555
12251 "Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid "
12252 "Economy. New York: Penguin Press, 2008."
12255 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12256 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9559
12258 "Menzies, Heather. Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good: A Memoir and "
12259 "Manifesto. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2014."
12262 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12263 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9563
12265 "Mason, Paul. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. New York: Farrar, Straus "
12266 "and Giroux, 2015."
12269 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12270 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9567
12272 "New York Times Customer Insight Group. The Psychology of Sharing: Why Do "
12273 "People Share Online? New York: New York Times Customer Insight Group, 2011. "
12274 "<ulink url=\"http://www.iab.net/media/file/POSWhitePaper.pdf\"/>."
12277 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12278 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9573
12280 "Osterwalder, Alex, and Yves Pigneur. Business Model Generation. Hoboken, "
12281 "NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010. A preview of the book is available at <ulink "
12282 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation\"/>."
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12286 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9579
12288 "Osterwalder, Alex, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda, and Adam Smith. Value "
12289 "Proposition Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2014. A preview of the "
12290 "book is available at <ulink "
12291 "url=\"http://strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design\"/>."
12294 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12295 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9585
12297 "Palmer, Amanda. The Art of Asking: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let "
12298 "People Help. New York: Grand Central, 2014."
12301 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
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12304 "Pekel, Joris. Democratising the Rijksmuseum: Why Did the Rijksmuseum Make "
12305 "Available Their Highest Quality Material without Restrictions, and What Are "
12306 "the Results? The Hague, Netherlands: Europeana Foundation, 2014. <ulink "
12307 "url=\"http://pro.europeana.eu/publication/democratising-the-rijksmuseum\"/> "
12308 "(licensed under CC BY-SA)."
12311 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12312 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9597
12314 "Ramos, José Maria, ed. The City as Commons: A Policy Reader. Melbourne, "
12315 "Australia: Commons Transition Coalition, 2016. <ulink "
12316 "url=\"http://www.academia.edu/27143172/The_City_as_Commons_a_Policy_Reader\"/> "
12317 "(licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
12320 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12321 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9603
12323 "Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open "
12324 "Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Rev. ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly "
12325 "Media, 2001. See esp. “The Magic Cauldron.” <ulink "
12326 "url=\"http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/\"/>."
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12330 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9609
12332 "Ries, Eric. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous "
12333 "Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown "
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12340 "Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the "
12341 "Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. New York: Palgrave "
12345 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
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12347 msgid "Rowe, Jonathan. Our Common Wealth. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013."
12350 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12351 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9623
12353 "Rushkoff, Douglas. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the "
12354 "Enemy of Prosperity. New York: Portfolio, 2016."
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12358 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9627
12360 "Sandel, Michael J. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. New "
12361 "York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012."
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12367 "Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into "
12368 "Collaborators. London, England: Penguin Books, 2010."
12371 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
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12374 "Slee, Tom. What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy. New York: OR "
12378 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12379 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9639
12381 "Stephany, Alex. The Business of Sharing: Making in the New Sharing "
12382 "Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015."
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12388 "Stepper, John. Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life. New York: "
12389 "Ikigai Press, 2015."
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12393 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9647
12395 "Sull, Donald, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a "
12396 "Complex World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015."
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12402 "Sundararajan, Arun. The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise "
12403 "of Crowd-Based Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016."
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12408 msgid "Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds. New York: Anchor Books, 2005."
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12414 "Tapscott, Don, and Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology "
12415 "Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Toronto: "
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12422 "Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. With Mark "
12423 "Reiter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006."
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12429 "Tkacz, Nathaniel. Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. Chicago: "
12430 "University of Chicago Press, 2015."
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12436 "Van Abel, Bass, Lucas Evers, Roel Klaassen, and Peter Troxler, eds. Open "
12437 "Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, "
12438 "with Creative Commons Netherlands; Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for "
12439 "Design and Fashion; and the Waag Society, 2011. <ulink "
12440 "url=\"http://opendesignnow.org\"/> (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)."
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12446 "Van den Hoff, Ronald. Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society "
12447 "3.0. Utrecht, the Netherlands: Society 3.0 Foundation, 2014. <ulink "
12448 "url=\"http://society30.com/get-the-book/\"/> (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND)."
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12454 "Von Hippel, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. London: MIT Press, 2005. <ulink "
12455 "url=\"http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm\"/> (licensed under CC "
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12462 "Whitehurst, Jim. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and "
12463 "Performance. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015."
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12468 msgid "Acknowledgments"
12471 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12472 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9698
12474 "We extend special thanks to Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley, the Creative "
12475 "Commons Board, and all of our Creative Commons colleagues for "
12476 "enthusiastically supporting our work. Special gratitude to the William and "
12477 "Flora Hewlett Foundation for the initial seed funding that got us started on "
12481 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12482 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9705
12484 "Huge appreciation to all the Made with Creative Commons interviewees for "
12485 "sharing their stories with us. You make the commons come alive. Thanks for "
12489 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12490 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9710
12492 "We interviewed more than the twenty-four organizations profiled in this "
12493 "book. We extend special thanks to Gooru, OERu, Sage Bionetworks, and Medium "
12494 "for sharing their stories with us. While not featured as case studies in "
12495 "this book, you all are equally interesting, and we encourage our readers to "
12496 "visit your sites and explore your work."
12499 #. type: Content of: <book><chapter><para>
12500 #: MadewithCreativeCommonsmostup-to-dateversion.xml:9718
12502 "This book was made possible by the generous support of 1,687 Kickstarter "
12503 "backers listed below. We especially acknowledge our many Kickstarter "
12504 "co-editors who read early drafts of our work and provided invaluable "
12505 "feedback. Heartfelt thanks to all of you."
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12511 "Co-editor Kickstarter backers (alphabetically by first name): Abraham "
12512 "Taherivand, Alan Graham, Alfredo Louro, Anatoly Volynets, Aurora Thornton, "
12513 "Austin Tolentino, Ben Sheridan, Benedikt Foit, Benjamin Costantini, Bernd "
12514 "Nurnberger, Bernhard Seefeld, Bethanye Blount, Bradford Benn, Bryan Mock, "
12515 "Carmen Garcia Wiedenhoeft, Carolyn Hinchliff, Casey Milford, Cat Cooper, "
12516 "Chip McIntosh, Chris Thorne, Chris Weber, Chutika Udomsinn, Claire Wardle, "
12517 "Claudia Cristiani, Cody Allard, Colleen Cressman, Craig Thomler, Creative "
12518 "Commons Uruguay, Curt McNamara, Dan Parson, Daniel Dominguez, Daniel Morado, "
12519 "Darius Irvin, Dave Taillefer, David Lewis, David Mikula, David Varnes, David "
12520 "Wiley, Deborah Nas, Diderik van Wingerden, Dirk Kiefer, Dom Lane, Domi "
12521 "Enders, Douglas Van Houweling, Dylan Field, Einar Joergensen, Elad Wieder, "
12522 "Elie Calhoun, Erika Reid, Evtim Papushev, Fauxton Software, Felix "
12523 "Maximiliano Obes, Ferdies Food Lab, Gatien de Broucker, Gaurav Kapil, Gavin "
12524 "Romig-Koch, George Baier IV, George De Bruin, Gianpaolo Rando, Glenn Otis "
12525 "Brown, Govindarajan Umakanthan, Graham Bird, Graham Freeman, Hamish MacEwan, "
12526 "Harry Kaczka, Humble Daisy, Ian Capstick, Iris Brest, James Cloos, Jamie "
12527 "Stevens, Jamil Khatib, Jane Finette, Jason Blasso, Jason E. Barkeloo, Jay M "
12528 "Williams, Jean-Philippe Turcotte, Jeanette Frey, Jeff De Cagna, Jérôme "
12529 "Mizeret, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, Jessy Kate Schingler, Jim O’Flaherty, "
12530 "Jim Pellegrini, Jiří Marek, Jo Allum, Joachim von Goetz, Johan Adda, John "
12531 "Benfield, John Bevan, Jonas Öberg, Jonathan Lin, JP Rangaswami, Juan Carlos "
12532 "Belair, Justin Christian, Justin Szlasa, Kate Chapman, Kate Stewart, Kellie "
12533 "Higginbottom, Kendra Byrne, Kevin Coates, Kristina Popova, Kristoffer Steen, "
12534 "Kyle Simpson, Laurie Racine, Leonardo Bueno Postacchini, Leticia Britos "
12535 "Cavagnaro, Livia Leskovec, Louis-David Benyayer, Maik Schmalstich, Mairi "
12536 "Thomson, Marcia Hofmann, Maria Liberman, Marino Hernandez, Mario R. Hemsley, "
12537 "MD, Mark Cohen, Mark Mullen, Mary Ellen Davis, Mathias Bavay, Matt Black, "
12538 "Matt Hall, Max van Balgooy, Médéric Droz-dit-Busset, Melissa Aho, Menachem "
12539 "Goldstein, Michael Harries, Michael Lewis, Michael Weiss, Miha Batic, Mike "
12540 "Stop Continues, Mike Stringer, Mustafa K Calik, MD, Neal Stimler, Niall "
12541 "McDonagh, Niall Twohig, Nicholas Norfolk, Nick Coghlan, Nicole Hickman, "
12542 "Nikki Thompson, Norrie Mailer, Omar Kaminski, OpenBuilds, Papp István Péter, "
12543 "Pat Sticks, Patricia Brennan, Paul and Iris Brest, Paul Elosegui, Penny "
12544 "Pearson, Peter Mengelers, Playground Inc., Pomax, Rafaela Kunz, Rajiv "
12545 "Jhangiani, Rayna Stamboliyska, Rob Berkley, Rob Bertholf, Robert Jones, "
12546 "Robert Thompson, Ronald van den Hoff, Rusi Popov, Ryan Merkley, S Searle, "
12547 "Salomon Riedo, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Samuel Tait, Sarah McGovern, Scott "
12548 "Gillespie, Seb Schmoller, Sharon Clapp, Sheona Thomson, Siena Oristaglio, "
12549 "Simon Law, Solomon Simon, Stefano Guidotti, Subhendu Ghosh, Susan Chun, "
12550 "Suzie Wiley, Sylvain Carle, Theresa Bernardo, Thomas Hartman, Thomas Kent, "
12551 "Timothée Planté, Timothy Hinchliff, Traci Long DeForge, Trevor Hogue, "
12552 "Tumuult, Vickie Goode, Vikas Shah, Virginia Kopelman, Wayne Mackintosh, "
12553 "William Peter Nash, Winie Evers, Wolfgang Renninger, Xavier Antoviaque, "
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12560 "All other Kickstarter backers (alphabetically by first name): A. Lee, Aaron "
12561 "C. Rathbun, Aaron Stubbs, Aaron Suggs, Abdul Razak Manaf, Abraham "
12562 "Taherivand, Adam Croom, Adam Finer, Adam Hansen, Adam Morris, Adam Procter, "
12563 "Adam Quirk, Adam Rory Porter, Adam Simmons, Adam Tinworth, Adam Zimmerman, "
12564 "Adrian Ho, Adrian Smith, Adriane Ruzak, Adriano Loconte, Al Sweigart, Alain "
12565 "Imbaud, Alan Graham, Alan M. Ford, Alan Swithenbank, Alan Vonlanthen, Albert "
12566 "O’Connor, Alec Foster, Alejandro Suarez Cebrian, Aleks Degtyarev, Alex "
12567 "Blood, Alex C. Ion, Alex Ross Shaw, Alexander Bartl, Alexander Brown, "
12568 "Alexander Brunner, Alexander Eliesen, Alexander Hawson, Alexander Klar, "
12569 "Alexander Neumann, Alexander Plaum, Alexander Wendland, Alexandre "
12570 "Rafalovitch, Alexey Volkow, Alexi Wheeler, Alexis Sevault, Alfredo Louro, "
12571 "Ali Sternburg, Alicia Gibb & Lunchbox Electronics, Alison Link, Alison "
12572 "Pentecost, Alistair Boettiger, Alistair Walder, Alix Bernier, Allan "
12573 "Callaghan, Allen Riddell, Allison Breland Crotwell, Allison Jane Smith, "
12574 "Álvaro Justen, Amanda Palmer, Amanda Wetherhold, Amit Bagree, Amit Tikare, "
12575 "Amos Blanton, Amy Sept, Anatoly Volynets, Anders Ericsson, Andi Popp, André "
12576 "Bose Do Amaral, Andre Dickson, André Koot, André Ricardo, Andre van Rooyen, "
12577 "Andre Wallace, Andrea Bagnacani, Andrea Pepe, Andrea Pigato, Andreas "
12578 "Jagelund, Andres Gomez Casanova, Andrew A. Farke, Andrew Berhow, Andrew "
12579 "Hearse, Andrew Matangi, Andrew R McHugh, Andrew Tam, Andrew Turvey, Andrew "
12580 "Walsh, Andrew Wilson, Andrey Novoseltsev, Andy McGhee, Andy Reeve, Andy "
12581 "Woods, Angela Brett, Angeliki Kapoglou, Angus Keenan, Anne-Marie Scott, "
12582 "Antero Garcia, Antoine Authier, Antoine Michard, Anton Kurkin, Anton "
12583 "Porsche, Antònia Folguera, António Ornelas, Antonis Triantafyllakis, aois21 "
12584 "publishing, April Johnson, Aria F. Chernik, Ariane Allan, Ariel Katz, "
12585 "Arithmomaniac, Arnaud Tessier, Arnim Sommer, Ashima Bawa, Ashley Elsdon, "
12586 "Athanassios Diacakis, Aurora Thornton, Aurore Chavet Henry, Austin "
12587 "Hartzheim, Austin Tolentino, Avner Shanan, Axel Pettersson, Axel "
12588 "Stieglbauer, Ay Okpokam, Barb Bartkowiak, Barbara Lindsey, Barry Dayton, "
12589 "Bastian Hougaard, Ben Chad, Ben Doherty, Ben Hansen, Ben Nuttall, Ben "
12590 "Rosenthal, Ben Sheridan, Benedikt Foit, Benita Tsao, Benjamin Costantini, "
12591 "Benjamin Daemon, Benjamin Keele, Benjamin Pflanz, Berglind Ósk Bergsdóttir, "
12592 "Bernardo Miguel Antunes, Bernd Nurnberger, Bernhard Seefeld, Beth Gis, Beth "
12593 "Tillinghast, Bethanye Blount, Bill Bonwitt, Bill Browne, Bill Keaggy, Bill "
12594 "Maiden, Bill Rafferty, Bill Scanlon, Bill Shields, Bill Slankard, BJ Becker, "
12595 "Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Bjørn Otto Wallevik, BK Bitner, Bo Ilsøe Hansen, Bo "
12596 "Sprotte Kofod, Bob Doran, Bob Recny, Bob Stuart, Bonnie Chiu, Boris Mindzak, "
12597 "Boriss Lariushin, Borjan Tchakaloff, Brad Kik, Braden Hassett, Bradford "
12598 "Benn, Bradley Keyes, Bradley L’Herrou, Brady Forrest, Brandon McGaha, Branka "
12599 "Tokic, Brant Anderson, Brenda Sullivan, Brendan O’Brien, Brendan Schlagel, "
12600 "Brett Abbott, Brett Gaylor, Brian Dysart, Brian Lampl, Brian Lipscomb, Brian "
12601 "S. Weis, Brian Schrader, Brian Walsh, Brian Walsh, Brooke Dukes, Brooke "
12602 "Schreier Ganz, Bruce Lerner, Bruce Wilson, Bruno Boutot, Bruno Girin, Bryan "
12603 "Mock, Bryant Durrell, Bryce Barbato, Buzz Technology Limited, Byung-Geun "
12604 "Jeon, C. Glen Williams, C. L. Couch, Cable Green, Callum Gare, Cameron "
12605 "Callahan, Cameron Colby Thomson, Cameron Mulder, Camille Bissuel / Nylnook, "
12606 "Candace Robertson, Carl Morris, Carl Perry, Carl Rigney, Carles Mateu, "
12607 "Carlos Correa Loyola, Carlos Solis, Carmen Garcia Wiedenhoeft, Carol Long, "
12608 "Carol marquardsen, Caroline Calomme, Caroline Mailloux, Carolyn Hinchliff, "
12609 "Carolyn Rude, Carrie Cousins, Carrie Watkins, Casey Hunt, Casey Milford, "
12610 "Casey Powell Shorthouse, Cat Cooper, Cecilie Maria, Cedric Howe, Cefn Hoile, "
12611 "@ShrimpingIt, Celia Muller, Ces Keller, Chad Anderson, Charles Butler, "
12612 "Charles Carstensen, Charles Chi Thoi Le, Charles Kobbe, Charles S. Tritt, "
12613 "Charles Stanhope, Charlotte Ong-Wisener, Chealsye Bowley, Chelle Destefano, "
12614 "Chenpang Chou, Cheryl Corte, Cheryl Todd, Chip Dickerson, Chip McIntosh, "
12615 "Chris Bannister, Chris Betcher, Chris Coleman, Chris Conway, Chris Foote "
12616 "(Spike), Chris Hurst, Chris Mitchell, Chris Muscat Azzopardi, Chris "
12617 "Niewiarowski, Chris Opperwall, Chris Stieha, Chris Thorne, Chris Weber, "
12618 "Chris Woolfrey, Chris Zabriskie, Christi Reid, Christian Holzberger, "
12619 "Christian Schubert, Christian Sheehy, Christian Thibault, Christian Villum, "
12620 "Christian Wachter, Christina Bennett, Christine Henry, Christine Rico, "
12621 "Christopher Burrows, Christopher Chan, Christopher Clay, Christopher Harris, "
12622 "Christopher Opiah, Christopher Swenson, Christos Keramitsis, Chuck Roslof, "
12623 "Chutika Udomsinn, Claire Wardle, Clare Forrest, Claudia Cristiani, Claudio "
12624 "Gallo, Claudio Ruiz, Clayton Dewey, Clement Delort, Cliff Church, Clint "
12625 "Lalonde, Clint O’Connor, Cody Allard, Cody Taylor, Colin Ayer, Colin "
12626 "Campbell, Colin Dean, Colin Mutchler, Colleen Cressman, Comfy Nomad, Connie "
12627 "Roberts, Connor Bär, Connor Merkley, Constantin Graf, Corbett Messa, Cory "
12628 "Chapman, Cosmic Wombat Games, Craig Engler, Craig Heath, Craig Maloney, "
12629 "Craig Thomler, Creative Commons Uruguay, Crina Kienle, Cristiano Gozzini, "
12630 "Curt McNamara, D C Petty, D. Moonfire, D. Rohhyn, D. Schulz, Dacian Herbei, "
12631 "Dagmar M. Meyer, Dan Mcalister, Dan Mohr, Dan Parson, Dana Freeman, Dana "
12632 "Ospina, Dani Leviss, Daniel Bustamante, Daniel Demmel, Daniel Dominguez, "
12633 "Daniel Dultz, Daniel Gallant, Daniel Kossmann, Daniel Kruse, Daniel Morado, "
12634 "Daniel Morgan, Daniel Pimley, Daniel Sabo, Daniel Sobey, Daniel Stein, "
12635 "Daniel Wildt, Daniele Prati, Danielle Moss, Danny Mendoza, Dario "
12636 "Taraborelli, Darius Irvin, Darius Whelan, Darla Anderson, Dasha Brezinova, "
12637 "Dave Ainscough, Dave Bull, Dave Crosby, Dave Eagle, Dave Moskovitz, Dave "
12638 "Neeteson, Dave Taillefer, Dave Witzel, David Bailey, David Cheung, David "
12639 "Eriksson, David Gallagher, David H. Bronke, David Hartley, David Hellam, "
12640 "David Hood, David Hunter, David jlaietta, David Lewis, David Mason, David "
12641 "Mcconville, David Mikula, David Nelson, David Orban, David Parry, David "
12642 "Spira, David T. Kindler, David Varnes, David Wiley, David Wormley, Deborah "
12643 "Nas, Denis Jean, dennis straub, Dennis Whittle, Denver Gingerich, Derek "
12644 "Slater, Devon Cooke, Diana Pasek-Atkinson, Diane Johnston Graves, Diane "
12645 "K. Kovacs, Diane Trout, Diderik van Wingerden, Diego Cuevas, Diego De La "
12646 "Cruz, Dimitrie Grigorescu, Dina Marie Rodriguez, Dinah Fabela, Dirk Haun, "
12647 "Dirk Kiefer, Dirk Loop, DJ Fusion - FuseBox Radio Broadcast, Dom jurkewitz, "
12648 "Dom Lane, Domi Enders, Domingo Gallardo, Dominic de Haas, Dominique "
12649 "Karadjian, Dongpo Deng, Donnovan Knight, Door de Flines, Doug Fitzpatrick, "
12650 "Doug Hoover, Douglas Craver, Douglas Van Camp, Douglas Van Houweling, "
12651 "Dr. Braddlee, Drew Spencer, Duncan Sample, Durand D’souza, Dylan Field, E C "
12652 "Humphries, Eamon Caddigan, Earleen Smith, Eden Sarid, Eden Spodek, Eduardo "
12653 "Belinchon, Eduardo Castro, Edwin Vandam, Einar Joergensen, Ejnar Brendsdal, "
12654 "Elad Wieder, Elar Haljas, Elena Valhalla, Eli Doran, Elias Bouchi, Elie "
12655 "Calhoun, Elizabeth Holloway, Ellen Buecher, Ellen Kaye- Cheveldayoff, Elli "
12656 "Verhulst, Elroy Fernandes, Emery Hurst Mikel, Emily Catedral, Enrique "
12657 "Mandujano R., Eric Astor, Eric Axelrod, Eric Celeste, Eric Finkenbiner, Eric "
12658 "Hellman, Eric Steuer, Erica Fletcher, Erik Hedman, Erik Lindholm Bundgaard, "
12659 "Erika Reid, Erin Hawley, Erin McKean of Wordnik, Ernest Risner, Erwan "
12660 "Bousse, Erwin Bell, Ethan Celery, Étienne Gilli, Eugeen Sablin, Evan "
12661 "Tangman, Evonne Okafor, Evtim Papushev, Fabien Cambi, Fabio Natali, Fauxton "
12662 "Software, Felix Deierlein, Felix Gebauer, Felix Maximiliano Obes, Felix "
12663 "Schmidt, Felix Zephyr Hsiao, Ferdies Food Lab, Fernand Deschambault, Filipe "
12664 "Rodrigues, Filippo Toso, Fiona MacAlister, fiona.mac.uk, Floor Scheffer, "
12665 "Florent Darrault, Florian Hähnel, Florian Schneider, Floyd Wilde, Foxtrot "
12666 "Games, Francis Clarke, Francisco Rivas-Portillo, Francois Dechery, Francois "
12667 "Grey, François Gros, François Pelletier, Fred Benenson, Frédéric Abella, "
12668 "Frédéric Schütz, Fredrik Ekelund, Fumi Yamazaki, Gabor Sooki-Toth, Gabriel "
12669 "Staples, Gabriel Véjar Valenzuela, Gal Buki, Gareth Jordan, Garrett Heath, "
12670 "Gary Anson, Gary Forster, Gatien de Broucker, Gaurav Kapil, Gauthier de "
12671 "Valensart, Gavin Gray, Gavin Romig-Koch, Geoff Wood, Geoffrey Lehr, George "
12672 "Baier IV, George De Bruin, George Lawie, George Strakhov, Gerard Gorman, "
12673 "Geronimo de la Lama, Gianpaolo Rando, Gil Stendig, Gino Cingolani Trucco, "
12674 "Giovanna Sala, Glen Moffat, Glenn D. Jones, Glenn Otis Brown, Global Lives "
12675 "Project, Gorm Lai, Govindarajan Umakanthan, Graham Bird, Graham Freeman, "
12676 "Graham Heath, Graham Jones, Graham Smith-Gordon, Graham Vowles, Greg "
12677 "Brodsky, Greg Malone, Grégoire Detrez, Gregory Chevalley, Gregory Flynn, "
12678 "Grit Matthias, Gui Louback, Guillaume Rischard, Gustavo Vaz de Carvalho "
12679 "Gonçalves, Gustin Johnson, Gwen Franck, Gwilym Lucas, Haggen So, Håkon T "
12680 "Sønderland, Hamid Larbi, Hamish MacEwan, Hannes Leo, Hans Bickhofe, Hans de "
12681 "Raad, Hans Vd Horst, Harold van Ingen, Harold Watson, Harry Chapman, Harry "
12682 "Kaczka, Harry Torque, Hayden Glass, Hayley Rosenblum, Heather Leson, Helen "
12683 "Crisp, Helen Michaud, Helen Qubain, Helle Rekdal Schønemann, Henrique Flach "
12684 "Latorre Moreno, Henry Finn, Henry Kaiser, Henry Lahore, Henry Steingieser, "
12685 "Hermann Paar, Hillary Miller, Hironori Kuriaki, Holly Dykes, Holly Lyne, "
12686 "Hubert Gertis, Hugh Geenen, Humble Daisy, Hüppe Keith, Iain Davidson, Ian "
12687 "Capstick, Ian Johnson, Ian Upton, Icaro Ferracini, Igor Lesko, Imran Haider, "
12688 "Inma de la Torre, Iris Brest, Irwin Madriaga, Isaac Sandaljian, Isaiah "
12689 "Tanenbaum, Ivan F. Villanueva B., J P Cleverdon, Jaakko Tammela Jr, Jacek "
12690 "Darken Gołębiowski, Jack Hart, Jacky Hood, Jacob Dante Leffler, Jaime Perla, "
12691 "Jaime Woo, Jake Campbell, Jake Loeterman, Jakes Rawlinson, James Allenspach, "
12692 "James Chesky, James Cloos, James Docherty, James Ellars, James K Wood, James "
12693 "Tyler, Jamie Finlay, Jamie Stevens, Jamil Khatib, Jan E Ellison, Jan Gondol, "
12694 "Jan Sepp, Jan Zuppinger, Jane Finette, jane Lofton, Jane Mason, Jane Park, "
12695 "Janos Kovacs, Jasmina Bricic, Jason Blasso, Jason Chu, Jason Cole, Jason "
12696 "E. Barkeloo, Jason Hibbets, Jason Owen, Jason Sigal, Jay M Williams, Jazzy "
12697 "Bear Brown, JC Lara, Jean-Baptiste Carré, Jean-Philippe Dufraigne, "
12698 "Jean-Philippe Turcotte, Jean-Yves Hemlin, Jeanette Frey, Jeff Atwood, Jeff "
12699 "De Cagna, Jeff Donoghue, Jeff Edwards, Jeff Hilnbrand, Jeff Lowe, Jeff "
12700 "Rasalla, Jeff Ski Kinsey, Jeff Smith, Jeffrey L Tucker, Jeffrey Meyer, Jen "
12701 "Garcia, Jens Erat, Jeppe Bager Skjerning, Jeremy Dudet, Jeremy Russell, "
12702 "Jeremy Sabo, Jeremy Zauder, Jerko Grubisic, Jerome Glacken, Jérôme Mizeret, "
12703 "Jessica Dickinson Goodman, Jessica Litman, Jessica Mackay, Jessy Kate "
12704 "Schingler, Jesús Longás Gamarra, Jesus Marin, Jim Matt, Jim Meloy, Jim "
12705 "O’Flaherty, Jim Pellegrini, Jim Tittsler, Jimmy Alenius, Jiří Marek, Jo "
12706 "Allum, Joachim Brandon LeBlanc, Joachim Pileborg, Joachim von Goetz, Joakim "
12707 "Bang Larsen, Joan Rieu, Joanna Penn, João Almeida, Jochen Muetsch, Jodi "
12708 "Sandfort, Joe Cardillo, Joe Carpita, Joe Moross, Joerg Fricke, Johan Adda, "
12709 "Johan Meeusen, Johannes Förstner, Johannes Visintini, John Benfield, John "
12710 "Bevan, John C Patterson, John Crumrine, John Dimatos, John Feyler, John "
12711 "Huntsman, John Manoogian III, John Muller, John Ober, John Paul Blodgett, "
12712 "John Pearce, John Shale, John Sharp, John Simpson, John Sumser, John Weeks, "
12713 "John Wilbanks, John Worland, Johnny Mayall, Jollean Matsen, Jon Alberdi, Jon "
12714 "Andersen, Jon Cohrs, Jon Gotlin, Jon Schull, Jon Selmer Friborg, Jon Smith, "
12715 "Jonas Öberg, Jonas Weitzmann, Jonathan Campbell, Jonathan Deamer, Jonathan "
12716 "Holst, Jonathan Lin, Jonathan Schmid, Jonathan Yao, Jordon Kalilich, Jörg "
12717 "Schwarz, Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez, Joseph Mcarthur, Joseph Noll, Joseph "
12718 "Sullivan, Joseph Tucker, Josh Bernhard, Josh Tong, Joshua Tobkin, JP "
12719 "Rangaswami, Juan Carlos Belair, Juan Irming, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Juan Pablo "
12720 "Marin Diaz, Judith Newman, Judy Tuan, Jukka Hellén, Julia Benson-Slaughter, "
12721 "Julia Devonshire, Julian Fietkau, Julie Harboe, Julien Brossoit, Julien "
12722 "Leroy, Juliet Chen, Julio Terra, Julius Mikkelä, Justin Christian, Justin "
12723 "Grimes, Justin Jones, Justin Szlasa, Justin Walsh, JustinChung.com, K. J. "
12724 "Przybylski, Kaloyan Raev, Kamil Śliwowski, Kaniska Padhi, Kara Malenfant, "
12725 "Kara Monroe, Karen Pe, Karl Jahn, Karl Jonsson, Karl Nelson, Kasia "
12726 "Zygmuntowicz, Kat Lim, Kate Chapman, Kate Stewart, Kathleen Beck, Kathleen "
12727 "Hanrahan, Kathryn Abuzzahab, Kathryn Deiss, Kathryn Rose, Kathy Payne, Katie "
12728 "Lynn Daniels, Katie Meek, Katie Teague, Katrina Hennessy, Katriona Main, "
12729 "Kavan Antani, Keith Adams, Keith Berndtson, MD, Keith Luebke, Kellie "
12730 "Higginbottom, Ken Friis Larsen, Ken Haase, Ken Torbeck, Kendel Ratley, "
12731 "Kendra Byrne, Kerry Hicks, Kevin Brown, Kevin Coates, Kevin Flynn, Kevin "
12732 "Rumon, Kevin Shannon, Kevin Taylor, Kevin Tostado, Kewhyun Kelly-Yuoh, Kiane "
12733 "l’Azin, Kianosh Pourian, Kiran Kadekoppa, Kit Walsh, Klaus Mickus, Konrad "
12734 "Rennert, Kris Kasianovitz, Kristian Lundquist, Kristin Buxton, Kristina "
12735 "Popova, Kristofer Bratt, Kristoffer Steen, Kumar McMillan, Kurt Whittemore, "
12736 "Kyle Pinches, Kyle Simpson, L Eaton, Lalo Martins, Lane Rasberry, Larry "
12737 "Garfield, Larry Singer, Lars Josephsen, Lars Klaeboe, Laura Anne Brown, "
12738 "Laura Billings, Laura Ferejohn, Lauren Pedersen, Laurence Gonsalves, Laurent "
12739 "Muchacho, Laurie Racine, Laurie Reynolds, Lawrence M. Schoen, Leandro "
12740 "Pangilinan, Leigh Verlandson, Lenka Gondolova, Leonardo Bueno Postacchini, "
12741 "leonardo menegola, Lesley Mitchell, Leslie Krumholz, Leticia Britos "
12742 "Cavagnaro, Levi Bostian, Leyla Acaroglu, Liisa Ummelas, Lilly Kashmir "
12743 "Marques, Lior Mazliah, Lisa Bjerke, Lisa Brewster, Lisa Canning, Lisa "
12744 "Cronin, Lisa Di Valentino, Lisandro Gaertner, Livia Leskovec, Liynn "
12745 "Worldlaw, Liz Berg, Liz White, Logan Cox, Loki Carbis, Lora Lynn, Lorna "
12746 "Prescott, Lou Yufan, Louie Amphlett, Louis-David Benyayer, Louise Denman, "
12747 "Luca Corsato, Luca Lesinigo, Luca Palli, Luca Pianigiani, Luca S.G. de "
12748 "Marinis, Lucas Lopez, Lukas Mathis, Luke Chamberlin, Luke Chesser, Luke "
12749 "Woodbury, Lulu Tang, Lydia Pintscher, M Alexander Jurkat, Maarten Sander, "
12750 "Macie J Klosowski, Magnus Adamsson, Magnus Killingberg, Mahmoud Abu-Wardeh, "
12751 "Maik Schmalstich, Maiken Håvarstein, Maira Sutton, Mairi Thomson, Mandy "
12752 "Wultsch, Manickkavasakam Rajasekar, Marc Bogonovich, Marc Harpster, Marc "
12753 "Martí, Marc Olivier Bastien, Marc Stober, Marc-André Martin, Marcel de "
12754 "Leeuwe, Marcel Hill, Marcia Hofmann, Marcin Olender, Marco Massarotto, Marco "
12755 "Montanari, Marco Morales, Marcos Medionegro, Marcus Bitzl, Marcus Norrgren, "
12756 "Margaret Gary, Mari Moreshead, Maria Liberman, Marielle Hsu, Marino "
12757 "Hernandez, Mario Lurig, Mario R. Hemsley, MD, Marissa Demers, Mark Chandler, "
12758 "Mark Cohen, Mark De Solla Price, Mark Gabby, Mark Gray, Mark Koudritsky, "
12759 "Mark Kupfer, Mark Lednor, Mark McGuire, Mark Moleda, Mark Mullen, Mark "
12760 "Murphy, Mark Perot, Mark Reeder, Mark Spickett, Mark Vincent Adams, Mark "
12761 "Waks, Mark Zuccarell II, Markus Deimann, Markus Jaritz, Markus Luethi, "
12762 "Marshal Miller, Marshall Warner, Martijn Arets, Martin Beaudoin, Martin "
12763 "Decky, Martin DeMello, Martin Humpolec, Martin Mayr, Martin Peck, Martin "
12764 "Sanchez, Martino Loco, Martti Remmelgas, Martyn Eggleton, Martyn Lewis, Mary "
12765 "Ellen Davis, Mary Heacock, Mary Hess, Mary Mi, Masahiro Takagi, Mason Du, "
12766 "Massimo V.A. Manzari, Mathias Bavay, Mathias Nicolajsen Kjærgaard, Matias "
12767 "Kruk, Matija Nalis, Matt Alcock, Matt Black, Matt Broach, Matt Hall, Matt "
12768 "Haughey, Matt Lee, Matt Plec, Matt Skoss, Matt Thompson, Matt Vance, Matt "
12769 "Wagstaff, Matteo Cocco, Matthew Bendert, Matthew Bergholt, Matthew Darlison, "
12770 "Matthew Epler, Matthew Hawken, Matthew Heimbecker, Matthew Orstad, Matthew "
12771 "Peterworth, Matthew Sheehy, Matthew Tucker, Adaptive Handy Apps, LLC, "
12772 "Mattias Axell, Max Green, Max Kossatz, Max lupo, Max Temkin, Max van "
12773 "Balgooy, Médéric Droz-dit-Busset, Megan Ingle, Megan Wacha, Meghan "
12774 "Finlayson, Melissa Aho, Melissa Sterry, Melle Funambuline, Menachem "
12775 "Goldstein, Micah Bridges, Michael Ailberto, Michael Anderson, Michael "
12776 "Andersson Skane, Michael C. Stewart, Michael Carroll, Michael Cavette, "
12777 "Michael Crees, Michael David Johas Teener, Michael Dennis Moore, Michael "
12778 "Freundt Karlsen, Michael Harries, Michael Hawel, Michael Lewis, Michael May, "
12779 "Michael Murphy, Michael Murvine, Michael Perkins, Michael Sauers, Michael "
12780 "St.Onge, Michael Stanford, Michael Stanley, Michael Underwood, Michael "
12781 "Weiss, Michael Wright, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Michaela Voigt, Michal "
12782 "Rosenn, Michał Szymański, Michel Gallez, Michell Zappa, Michelle Heeyeon "
12783 "You, Miha Batic, Mik Ishmael, Mikael Andersson, Mike Chelen, Mike Habicher, "
12784 "Mike Maloney, Mike Masnick, Mike McDaniel, Mike Pouraryan, Mike Sheldon, "
12785 "Mike Stop Continues, Mike Stringer, Mike Wittenstein, Mikkel Ovesen, Mikołaj "
12786 "Podlaszewski, Millie Gonzalez, Mindi Lovell, Mindy Lin, Mirko “Macro” "
12787 "Fichtner, Mitch Featherston, Mitchell Adams, Molika Oum, Molly Shaffer Van "
12788 "Houweling, Monica Mora, Morgan Loomis, Moritz Schubert, Mrs. Paganini, "
12789 "Mushin Schilling, Mustafa K Calik, MD, Myk Pilgrim, Myra Harmer, Nadine "
12790 "Forget-Dubois, Nagle Industries, LLC, Nah Wee Yang, Natalie Brown, Natalie "
12791 "Freed, Nathan D Howell, Nathan Massey, Nathan Miller, Neal Gorenflo, Neal "
12792 "McBurnett, Neal Stimler, Neil Wilson, Nele Wollert, Neuchee Chang, Niall "
12793 "McDonagh, Niall Twohig, Nic McPhee, Nicholas Bentley, Nicholas Koran, "
12794 "Nicholas Norfolk, Nicholas Potter, Nick Bell, Nick Coghlan, Nick Isaacs, "
12795 "Nick M. Daly, Nick Vance, Nickolay Vedernikov, Nicky Weaver-Weinberg, Nico "
12796 "Prin, Nicolas Weidinger, Nicole Hickman, Niek Theunissen, Nigel Robertson, "
12797 "Nikki Thompson, Nikko Marie, Nikola Chernev, Nils Lavesson, Noah "
12798 "Blumenson-Cook, Noah Fang, Noah Kardos-Fein, Noah Meyerhans, Noel Hanigan, "
12799 "Noel Hart, Norrie Mailer, O.P. Gobée, Ohad Mayblum, Olivia Wilson, Olivier "
12800 "De Doncker, Olivier Schulbaum, Olle Ahnve, Omar Kaminski, Omar Willey, "
12801 "OpenBuilds, Ove Ødegård, Øystein Kjærnet, Pablo López Soriano, Pablo "
12802 "Vasquez, Pacific Design, Paige Mackay, Papp István Péter, Paris Marx, Parker "
12803 "Higgins, Pasquale Borriello, Pat Allan, Pat Hawks, Pat Ludwig, Pat Sticks, "
12804 "Patricia Brennan, Patricia Rosnel, Patricia Wolf, Patrick Berry, Patrick "
12805 "Beseda, Patrick Hurley, Patrick M. Lozeau, Patrick McCabe, Patrick "
12806 "Nafarrete, Patrick Tanguay, Patrick von Hauff, Patrik Kernstock, Patti J "
12807 "Ryan, Paul A Golder, Paul and Iris Brest, Paul Bailey, Paul Bryan, Paul "
12808 "Bunkham, Paul Elosegui, Paul Hibbitts, Paul Jacobson, Paul Keller, Paul "
12809 "Rowe, Paul Timpson, Paul Walker, Pavel Dostál, Peeter Sällström Randsalu, "
12810 "Peggy Frith, Pen-Yuan Hsing, Penny Pearson, Per Åström, Perry Jetter, Péter "
12811 "Fankhauser, Peter Hirtle, Peter Humphries, Peter Jenkins, Peter Langmar, "
12812 "Peter le Roux, Peter Marinari, Peter Mengelers, Peter O’Brien, Peter Pinch, "
12813 "Peter S. Crosby, Peter Wells, Petr Fristedt, Petr Viktorin, Petronella "
12814 "Jeurissen, Phil Flickinger, Philip Chung, Philip Pangrac, Philip R. Skaggs "
12815 "Jr., Philip Young, Philippa Lorne Channer, Philippe Vandenbroeck, Pierluigi "
12816 "Luisi, Pierre Suter, Pieter-Jan Pauwels, Playground Inc., Pomax, Popenoe, "
12817 "Pouhiou Noenaute, Prilutskiy Kirill, Print3Dreams Ltd., Quentin Coispeau, "
12818 "R. Smith, Race DiLoreto, Rachel Mercer, Rafael Scapin, Rafaela Kunz, Rain "
12819 "Doggerel, Raine Lourie, Rajiv Jhangiani, Ralph Chapoteau, Randall Kirby, "
12820 "Randy Brians, Raphaël Alexandre, Raphaël Schröder, Rasmus Jensen, Rayn "
12821 "Drahps, Rayna Stamboliyska, Rebecca Godar, Rebecca Lendl, Rebecca Weir, "
12822 "Regina Tschud, Remi Dino, Ric Herrero, Rich McCue, Richard “TalkToMeGuy” "
12823 "Olson, Richard Best, Richard Blumberg, Richard Fannon, Richard Heying, "
12824 "Richard Karnesky, Richard Kelly, Richard Littauer, Richard Sobey, Richard "
12825 "White, Richard Winchell, Rik ToeWater, Rita Lewis, Rita Wood, Riyadh Al "
12826 "Balushi, Rob Balder, Rob Berkley, Rob Bertholf, Rob Emanuele, Rob McAuliffe, "
12827 "Rob McKaughan, Rob Tillie, Rob Utter, Rob Vincent, Robert Gaffney, Robert "
12828 "Jones, Robert Kelly, Robert Lawlis, Robert McDonald, Robert Orzanna, Robert "
12829 "Paterson Hunter, Robert R. Daniel Jr., Robert Ryan-Silva, Robert Thompson, "
12830 "Robert Wagoner, Roberto Selvaggio, Robin DeRosa, Robin Rist Kildal, Rodrigo "
12831 "Castilhos, Roger Bacon, Roger Saner, Roger So, Roger Solé, Roger Tregear, "
12832 "Roland Tanglao, Rolf and Mari von Walthausen, Rolf Egstad, Rolf Schaller, "
12833 "Ron Zuijlen, Ronald Bissell, Ronald van den Hoff, Ronda Snow, Rory Landon "
12834 "Aronson, Ross Findlay, Ross Pruden, Ross Williams, Rowan Skewes, Roy Ivy "
12835 "III, Ruben Flores, Rupert Hitzenberger, Rusi Popov, Russ Antonucci, Russ "
12836 "Spollin, Russell Brand, Rute Correia, Ruth Ann Carpenter, Ruth White, Ryan "
12837 "Mentock, Ryan Merkley, Ryan Price, Ryan Sasaki, Ryan Singer, Ryan Voisin, "
12838 "Ryan Weir, S Searle, Salem Bin Kenaid, Salomon Riedo, Sam Hokin, Sam "
12839 "Twidale, Samantha Levin, Samantha-Jayne Chapman, Samarth Agarwal, Sami "
12840 "Al-AbdRabbuh, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Samuel Goëta, Samuel Hauser, Samuel "
12841 "Landete, Samuel Oliveira Cersosimo, Samuel Tait, Sandra Fauconnier, Sandra "
12842 "Markus, Sandy Bjar, Sandy ONeil, Sang-Phil Ju, Sanjay Basu, Santiago Garcia, "
12843 "Sara Armstrong, Sara Lucca, Sara Rodriguez Marin, Sarah Brand, Sarah Cove, "
12844 "Sarah Curran, Sarah Gold, Sarah McGovern, Sarah Smith, Sarinee "
12845 "Achavanuntakul, Sasha Moss, Sasha VanHoven, Saul Gasca, Scott Abbott, Scott "
12846 "Akerman, Scott Beattie, Scott Bruinooge, Scott Conroy, Scott Gillespie, "
12847 "Scott Williams, Sean Anderson, Sean Johnson, Sean Lim, Sean Wickett, Seb "
12848 "Schmoller, Sebastiaan Bekker, Sebastiaan ter Burg, Sebastian Makowiecki, "
12849 "Sebastian Meyer, Sebastian Schweizer, Sebastian Sigloch, Sebastien Huchet, "
12850 "Seokwon Yang, Sergey Chernyshev, Sergey Storchay, Sergio Cardoso, Seth "
12851 "Drebitko, Seth Gover, Seth Lepore, Shannon Turner, Sharon Clapp, Shauna "
12852 "Redmond, Shawn Gaston, Shawn Martin, Shay Knohl, Shelby Hatfield, Sheldon "
12853 "(Vila) Widuch, Sheona Thomson, Si Jie, Sicco van Sas, Siena Oristaglio, "
12854 "Simon Glover, Simon John King, Simon Klose, Simon Law, Simon Linder, Simon "
12855 "Moffitt, Solomon Kahn, Solomon Simon, Soujanna Sarkar, Stanislav Trifonov, "
12856 "Stefan Dumont, Stefan Jansson, Stefan Langer, Stefan Lindblad, Stefano "
12857 "Guidotti, Stefano Luzardi, Stephan Meißl, Stéphane Wojewoda, Stephanie "
12858 "Pereira, Stephen Gates, Stephen Murphey, Stephen Pearce, Stephen Rose, "
12859 "Stephen Suen, Stephen Walli, Stevan Matheson, Steve Battle, Steve Fisches, "
12860 "Steve Fitzhugh, Steve Guen-gerich, Steve Ingram, Steve Kroy, Steve Midgley, "
12861 "Steve Rhine, Steven Kasprzyk, Steven Knudsen, Steven Melvin, Stig-Jørund "
12862 "B. Ö. Arnesen, Stuart Drewer, Stuart Maxwell, Stuart Reich, Subhendu Ghosh, "
12863 "Sujal Shah, Sune Bøegh, Susan Chun, Susan R Grossman, Suzie Wiley, Sven "
12864 "Fielitz, Swan/Starts, Sylvain Carle, Sylvain Chery, Sylvia Green, Sylvia van "
12865 "Bruggen, Szabolcs Berecz, T. L. Mason, Tanbir Baeg, Tanya Hart, Tara Tiger "
12866 "Brown, Tara Westover, Tarmo Toikkanen, Tasha Turner Lennhoff, Tathagat "
12867 "Varma, Ted Timmons, Tej Dhawan, Teresa Gonczy, Terry Hook, Theis Madsen, "
12868 "Theo M. Scholl, Theresa Bernardo, Thibault Badenas, Thomas Bacig, Thomas "
12869 "Boehnlein, Thomas Bøvith, Thomas Chang, Thomas Hartman, Thomas Kent, Thomas "
12870 "Morgan, Thomas Philipp-Edmonds, Thomas Thrush, Thomas Werkmeister, Tieg "
12871 "Zaharia, Tieu Thuy Nguyen, Tim Chambers, Tim Cook, Tim Evers, Tim Nichols, "
12872 "Tim Stahmer, Timothée Planté, Timothy Arfsten, Timothy Hinchliff, Timothy "
12873 "Vollmer, Tina Coffman, Tisza Gergő, Tobias Schonwetter, Todd Brown, Todd "
12874 "Pousley, Todd Sattersten, Tom Bamford, Tom Caswell, Tom Goren, Tom Kent, Tom "
12875 "MacWright, Tom Maillioux, Tom Merkli, Tom Merritt, Tom Myers, Tom Olijhoek, "
12876 "Tom Rubin, Tommaso De Benetti, Tommy Dahlen, Tony Ciak, Tony Nwachukwu, "
12877 "Torsten Skomp, Tracey Depellegrin, Tracey Henton, Tracey James, Traci Long "
12878 "DeForge, Trent Yarwood, Trevor Hogue, Trey Blalock, Trey Hunner, Tryggvi "
12879 "Björgvinsson, Tumuult, Tushar Roy, Tyler Occhiogrosso, Udo Blenkhorn, Uri "
12880 "Sivan, Vanja Bobas, Vantharith Oum, Vaughan jenkins, Veethika Mishra, Vic "
12881 "King, Vickie Goode, Victor DePina, Victor Grigas, Victoria Klassen, "
12882 "Victorien Elvinger, VIGA Manufacture, Vikas Shah, Vinayak S.Kaujalgi, "
12883 "Vincent O’Leary, Violette Paquet, Virginia Gentilini, Virginia Kopelman, "
12884 "Vitor Menezes, Vivian Marthell, Wayne Mackintosh, Wendy Keenan, Werner "
12885 "Wiethege, Wesley Derbyshire, Widar Hellwig, Willa Köerner, William "
12886 "Bettridge-Radford, William Jefferson, William Marshall, William Peter Nash, "
12887 "William Ray, William Robins, Willow Rosenberg, Winie Evers, Wolfgang "
12888 "Renninger, Xavier Antoviaque, Xavier Hugonet, Xavier Moisant, Xueqi Li, "
12889 "Yancey Strickler, Yann Heurtaux, Yasmine Hajjar, Yu-Hsian Sun, Yves "
12890 "Deruisseau, Zach Chandler, Zak Zebrowski, Zane Amiralis and Joshua de Haan, "
12891 "ZeMarmot Open Movie"