Arab Commons
When you follow someone like Anas Tawileh, one won’t be surprised of where he will head next. Never I saw of him anything less than determination and hardware to make it work. “It” here is “Open Source, Open Content, Open Standards” or in one word, Openness. The most recent project he is in, is Arab Commons.
Arab Commons project aim to promoting “Creative Commons” and it’s use in Arab world. The site work on indexing and listing creative work, of art, science, and literature, from Arab creative people, who placed it under the open license of “Creative Commons”. Many Blogs in the Arab workds are under Creative Commons license. As well, most of the photographs taken by many of our best photographers are under Creative Commons in Flickr. I will would like to urge you all to list your creative “products” in Arab Commons, and help make this project succeed.
I am not sure why Creative Commons is being popular, but I think it is deficient in important aspects. I tried to consider it, but found it inapplicable for my person views. In my opinion, it lacks the heart of of being free.
I wanted to use a share-alike license without the “BY:” condition. It was not there!!
The “BY:” condition is found in all their licenses, although for an intellectual object to be free, it has to be freed of ownership… The ownership that is being implied by the “BY:” condition!!
Cheers mate,
Have you checked the Public Domain License:
http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en
This lifts the “BY:” provision.
Creative Commons is all about choice, you can choose as much or as less restrictions as you like.
Anas
Devil’s Mind:
errr.. If you want it to be free from every form of ownership, I gues you don’t need to have any licence for thw work. Just put it out there in the world and put a note on it that the work is freely sharable by anyone without the need for attribution.
Why the heck do you need creative commons for something like this..
Or is there something I don’t understand here?
Well, saying “the work is freely sharable by anyone without the need for attribution” is actually a copyright notice.. Problem is, that even a “Free-Access” license have levels and restrictions .. such as “Attribution”, “Use for commercial Use”, “Allowing derivative work” and so on.. What CC do, is actually “define” what you want, and the legal people at the CC, created a license that translate your basic statement “freely sharable, no attribution” into a legal license that could stand in courts (if needed) and do have a full legal meaning. As well, CC have many levels, and created different licenses to cover each level of “Openness” desired by the creative-work owner.
a year since your last post… are you ok?
I hope that this project will be successful and I hope more progress