Learning with the Fang

The response to my call for some conversation around my earlier CreativeCommonsDRM post has been so great that I have decided to bring a little video mashup I made (but was afraid to publish) out into the open as a way of moving the debate forward and perhaps testing some of the boundaries.

My little 3:12 imovie contains the picture above as part of my initial attempts to digest and understand comments made by Stephen Downes and Prof Lawrence Lessig in podcasts that inspired me.  I wanted to share the imovie as ‘CC: BY’ but since Stephen Downes licensed some of his work that I used as ‘CC: BY-NC’ that could be a problem.  Furthermore, the imovie was shown at a public commercial event and I felt that publishing it online might make me look like an idiot in the eyes of the highly respected people it features, possibly offend Stephen or worse, land me in legal trouble.

Stephen and I have since made contact and he assures me all is fine – in fact, since I am not attempting to sell the content he feels I probably haven’t violated the ‘NC’ aspect of his license at all.

So here are my questions for this round of the debate:

- Did I violate the ‘NC’ license by showing the imove at a commercial event?

- Did I violate any other term or condition I am not yet aware of?

- Do the rolling credits within the movie constitute adequeate Attribuition?

- If I did ’sell the content’ for $10AUD what should I do?

- If I did ’sell the content’ for $10,000,000USD what should I do?  (you get the idea – at some point ‘who cares’ becomes ‘I want my share – or your greedy &##^’

Looking forward to another round of helpful debate (tagged as CreativeCommonsDRM pls)

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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