MikeyPod Interviews Joi Ito of Creative Commons
A couple of years ago I found out about Creative Commons. I watched the videos on their website and I was intrigued by it. Everytime I would create something I would stamp a CC license onto it because I thought it was so cool. A couple of years passed and I got out of the habit of CC’ing everything until the other day. I listened to MikeyPod’s latest podcast where he interviews Joi Ito who is on the board of Creative Commons.
During the interview Joi Ito discusses Flickr and the benefits of having your images on Flickr having a Creative Commons license instead of the standard “All Rights Reserved” license. I would love for more people to use and see my photos. I don’t necessarily care whether I get paid for them or not as long as I get credit for them. I also would prefer that if people use them they have whatever they make be licensed under Creative Commons as well. I opted to change most of my photos to a Creative Commons Share Alike license. I didn’t change them all because I didn’t want photos of my family to be used by a commercial entity, they would not appreciate that. I changed a few of mine to CC, just in case someone decides I’m important enough for a Wikipedia article, someday!
During the interview Joi mentions the reasons people have really horrible pictures of themselves on their Wikipedia pages, that’s because a lot of images have copyright restrictions. I thought that was a really good point to bring up. A lot of people forget about that when they go to a portrait studio and have their photos taken and later on down the road want to have them re-printed but cannot find a photo copy center that will copy them because they are copyrighted by the photography studio. I know many people who have bought scanners because of this!
Also during the interview Joi mentions a plugin for WordPress for inserting Creative Commons meta information into your site. I have installed the plugin, I honestly don’t see where it has changed my source code. I don’t know if it’s suppose to or not. However. I just wanted to do my part of sharing my content to the world, just as long as I get credit and they share alike!
You should check out the interview MikeyPod did, it was really a great interview. Lots of valuable information. The interview has renewed my love of Creative Commons.
Tags: creative commons, joi ito, michael harren, mikeypod, wordpress, wp-cc plugin
August 13th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Thanks for the plug!
I don’t use wordpress so I’m sorry I can’t be of much help… but I just looked at the source for this page and I don’t see the CC metadata.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Hey Joi. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Really glad to hear you on the interview that you did with MikeyPod. I thought there was a lot of great information discussed. It has really renewed my love of Creative Commons.
Yeah. I don’t see anything either, unfortunately. I’ll have to look for something else. Or maybe there is a way to just insert it manually.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I haven’t looked into Creative Commons that much, though I am aware of it. I just tend to feel like that, in this day and age, people are gonna take/use what they want, regardless of whether or not they have permission. Though, if I found someone was using my stuff AND making money from it without my permission, that’d suck.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:58 am
You are correct, Shawno. A lot of people will just take what they want and use it regardless of the license. I try not to. I do try my best to respect the wishes of others. I don’t use a whole lot of creative commons stuff. If I do something I try my best to use my own material. The only time I have to use other people’s material is if I’m adding music to a video. I’m not a musician!