cc leeds girl geeks presentation 13th may 2010

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Leeds Girl Geeks@leedsgirlgeeks 13th May 2010

Joscelyn Upendran – CEO lovleCreative Commons UK - Public Project Lead

England & Wales

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http://www.twitter.com/Joscelyn

@CCUnitedKingdom@joscelyn

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Tech start up as a

woman ...?!?• Fast Company February 2009…

• What my mum said ...• What my college lecturer said ...

• Ssh don’t mention You Tube!

• The pitch…• Networking as a woman

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Why did I get involved with CC?

• Wanted to help raise awareness in UK

• Aligned with aims of lovle

• To spread the word and

• alter misconceptions

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What is it?•

US Non Profit Organisation

•Free copyright licences to exercise copyright to suit the copyright holder

•7 years ago now in 100s jurisdictions

•CCUK - www.creativecommons.org.uk

– Twitter - @CCUnitedKingdom

•Promotes easier sharing, innovation & creativity

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Trouble with © …• Automatic © - “All rights reserved” you

have the rights whether you want them or

not– What if copyright owner wants people to copy,

distribute, share, remix, build upon works?

• “Some rights reserved”

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Heard of CC? Have you heardof ...

• Flickr (Yahoo!)

• MIT, Open University, BloomsburyAcademic

• BBC – R&D TV

• Yoko Ono, Gwen Stefani, Curt Smith, NineInch Nails

• The Whitehouse

•Fiat• Cory Doctorow (Tara Hunt & “Whuffie”)

• Wikipedia

• Google & Yahoo! Search

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CCUK

• CC Scotland, CCE&W, CC NI

• UK wide licences

• ...coming soon



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Conclusions & Qs • Tool to exercise copyright - Legal “interoperability ”

• You don’t give up copyright but use it to suit

• Encourages sharing & remixing for greater benefit (viral)

• It’s already happening…

• So go take a look if it could work for you…• Qs?



Leeds Girl Geeks@leedsgirlgeeks 13th May 2010

Joscelyn Upendran – CEO lovleCreative Commons UK - Public Project Lead

England & Wales

This presentation is licenced BY NC SA licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uattribution to: Joscelyn Upendran –


@CCUnitedKingdom@joscelyn

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