Slashdot Mirror


Creative Commons Staff Members Release New Free eBook (creativecommons.org)

ChristianVillum writes: Creative Commons staff-members Sarah Hinchliff Pearson and Paul Stacey have now published Made With Creative Commons, the awaited book they successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2015. "Made With Creative Commons is a book about sharing," explains the book's description. "It is about sharing textbooks, music, data, art, and more. People, organizations, and businesses all over the world are sharing their work using Creative Commons licenses because they want to encourage the public to reuse their works, to copy them, to modify them... But if they are giving their work away to the public for free, how do they make money?

"This is the question this book sets out to answer. There are 24 in-depth examples of different ways to sustain what you do when you share your work. And there are lessons, about how to make money but also about what sharing really looks like -- why we do it and what it can bring to the economy and the world. Full of practical advice and inspiring stories, Made with Creative Commons is a book that will show you what it really means to share."

There's free versions in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats for downloading from the Creative Commons site, and there's also an edit-able version on Google Docs. A small Danish non-profit publisher named Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books is also publishing print copies of the book under a Creative Commons license "to ensure easy sharing," and is making the book available on Amazon or through the publisher's own web site.

27 comments

  1. Looking for volunteers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Currently looking for volunteers who would like to use their mouth as my cock holster. Your mouth will be licesed under the CCL creative commons license. Thank you for your consideration.

    1. Re:Looking for volunteers by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And if they run away with your cock, you will sue them in the very small claims court?

      --
      Ezekiel 23:20
    2. Re: Looking for volunteers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Absurd nonsense.

      Right now, Crapple and Monkeyshit Corp are running away with billions of stupid cocks just fine.

  2. The proper term for this book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    The proper term for this book is propaganda. Then again, Slashdot is pretty much propaganda, too.

    1. Re: The proper term for this book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      is it?

    2. Re:The proper term for this book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Propaganda is, by definition, political. Presenting creative ways to make money from content released under a creative commons license is not politics, it's business.

  3. Nice by nospam007 · · Score: 1

    But I guess the content mafia will give it a subtitle.
    "Piracy 101"

    1. Re:Nice by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      But I guess the content mafia will give it a subtitle.
      "Piracy 101"

      To do that requires violating the CC licensing rules. The book is CC BY-SA, which is a very liberal license - basically you can do what you want, as long as you give attribution and release what you did under the same license.

      So to pirate it requires either locking it up (i.e., somehow slapping "All Rights Reserved" on it) or completely plagiarizing it. (Yes, in a similar fashion you can pirate GPL and other open source code as well - every time someone releases GPL'd software without source, it's technically a pirate copy).

      And this is the true value of open-source and Creative Commons - in that copyright law is required, but instead of the license restricting even what you've been given legally, the license lets you either obey "All Rights Reserved" (you don't accept the open source license, or CC license), or you can get certain freedoms if you follow an alternate path.

  4. It's a blob of binary smeg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    binary documents on the web make me cringe, the whole point of HTML was to prevent that, just open browser, visit web address, read.
    additionally packaging it into a bunch of binary formats is frankly bullshit.

    1. Re:It's a blob of binary smeg by Rockoon · · Score: 2

      I havent looked... are you saying they used an unsafe format like an adobe format ... pdf or something?

      There will be people who defend such a move on odd rationality.. like they will say chrome or firefox is a safe pdf viewer or something.. as if either of those wasn't an even bigger attack surface

      --
      "His name was James Damore."
    2. Re:It's a blob of binary smeg by GrumpySteen · · Score: 1

      Who the hell wants to read a 176 page book in their web browser?

      The epub format is a zip archive containing HTML and CSS style sheets. It's basically an archive of a web site that's been packaged up to make it easy to download and read offline with one of the many readers that are available on every significant OS.

      You can also unzip the epub file and open it in your browser if you're really hung up on the idea that your browser is a good place to read a long document.

    3. Re:It's a blob of binary smeg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Made_with_Creative_Commons-ePub2.epub

  5. I hate Christians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    I hate Christians. They are bigoted assholes, who try to force their anti-gay and anti-women views on everyone else.

    1. Re: I hate Christians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Well at least there is one more totally on-topic bigot here.

    2. Re:I hate Christians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      I hate Christians. They are bigoted assholes, who try to force their anti-gay and anti-women views on everyone else.

      The important thing to remember about Christians is that they are exactly alike and all hold the exact same beliefs. Christians also actively protect their religion's immutable beliefs, so you can always be sure that any person who claims to hold Cristian beliefs is in fact an actual Christian who represents all Christians.
      That's how you know that when Episcopalians allow female and gay bishops, then so do Catholics. It's because they force their belief on everyone else.

      The important thing to remember about Muslims is that they are exactly alike and all hold the exact same beliefs. Muslims also actively protect their religion's immutable beliefs, so you can always be sure that any person who claims to hold Muslim beliefs is in fact an actual Muslim who represents all Muslims.
      That whole thing about the Sunni-Shite split is fake news and the Saudi, the Iranians, Iraqi, Yemeni, and Egyptians are all best friends.

      Ditto for Wiccans.

      Also, all Jews will lie, cheat, and steal from everyone else.
      All African-Americans are lazy, except when they have a chance to rob and rape everyone else, regardless of their gender.
      The British have stiff upper lips
      All Americans are fat

  6. Great! by XSportSeeker · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing... probably has some very interesting cases.

    1. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Thanks for sharing... probably has some very interesting cases.

      Prostitution is one form of sharing that pays well.

  7. Awaited book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Awaited by whom exactly?

  8. WHO IS SETH RICH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Evidence Piling up That Seth Rich Leaked DNC Emails to Wikileaks

    Wikileaks All But Admits the Leaker is Rich

    Julian Assange, the owner of Wikileaks, has hinted several times that Rich is the insider who leaked the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Less than two weeks after Rich was murdered, Wikileaks tweeted that it was offering a $20,000 reward for information.

    On a Dutch news program, Assange said, âoeOur whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. A 27-year-old that works for the DNC was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons, as he was walking down the street in Washington, D.C.â

    In another cryptic tweet on Monday, Assange presciently hinted that someone outside of Wikileaks might identify Rich as the source. Assange also uses the hashtag #SethRich in his tweets about him.

    Censorship of Seth Rich via HTTPS

    Censorship of Seth Rich via HTTPS

    It is now confirmed that web browsers have been told via their updates to block people from viewing Seth Rich content on web sites. This is being done by interfering with HTTPS. Web sites that worked fine a couple days ago jam on pages that contain Seth Rich information. I am seeing this myself, with Firefox. Chrome is not doing this nearly as much. The tactic is to call the web site "unsafe, poorly configured, or an attack site" and then "for your safety, you will not be permitted to proceed". This is precisely why I never made this web site HTTPS, becase there is no reason to do it, and it can be used to destroy web sites

    1. Re:WHO IS SETH RICH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fake news. Trump sucks and so do you.

  9. For the love of Strunk and White ... by thomst · · Score: 1

    ... "EditorDavid," either change your freakin' handle or learn how agreement in number works!!!

    --
    Check out my novel.
    1. Re:For the love of Strunk and White ... by thomst · · Score: 1

      Oh, goodie - someone amended the headline between the time I started the above comment and the time I posted it. So, never

      --
      Check out my novel.
    2. Re:For the love of Strunk and White ... by thomst · · Score: 2

      Goddamn Firefox, anyway. Merely moving my cursor to "preview this post" erased the final word from the above reply - and I failed to notice. (It was "mind," btw.)

      Today is not going well for me ...

      --
      Check out my novel.
    3. Re: For the love of Strunk and White ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for letting us know you're still okay. We thought you might have been using a Samsung Galaxy S7 that just spontaneously exploded mid scente

    4. Re: For the love of Strunk and White ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Turns out that they're blaming the recent Egypt Air crash on an iPad or iPhone. So it looks like no one is sa

  10. Perfect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The book contains loads of case studies and examples of people and organisations putting CC licences on their work. Quite a diverse range too :)

    There are lots of organisations that publish materials not as a profit-making enterprise but to support their other activities and/or core business interests. It makes sense for them to put CC licences on their work so that it can be disseminated more easily, redistributed and promoted for them at no extra cost, and have more people take interest in what they're doing.

    Education is a big example of this. Ed publishing giants like Pearson, McGraw Hill, et al., have made themselves gatekeepers for educators work and are strangling educators with restrictive licences, extortionate fees, and dirty tricks like publishing new "editions" every couple of years that contain no new information, the books are simply reorganised so as to make using older editions too difficult and thereby kill off the second-hand textbook market. CC licensed works allow educators to get on with what they do best without being inhibited by belligerent, profiteering ed publishing corporations.

    1. Re: Perfect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for the one informative comment.
      As to the other comments ... Slashdot, once the open source champion now actively trashes all things open source/creative commons? Amazing how things go full circle.