Contemporary art

This will serve as the working space for the documentation that promotes the use of open licenses to contemporary artists. This project stemmed from the Open GLAM "Building the cultural commons," session at OKFest.

Participants

 * Johanna Berg | Digisam/National Archives Sweden | johanna.berg@riksarkivet.se @riksarkivet.se | @johannaberg
 * Sarah Stierch | Wikimedia | sarahstierch@gmail.com | @sarah_stierch
 * Maarten Zeinstra | Kennisland/CC-NL | mz@kl.nl | @mzeinstra
 * Primavera De Filippi | OKFN/CC-FR | pdefilippi@gmail.com | thisk0
 * Sam Leon | OKFN | sam.leon@okfn.org | @noel_mas
 * Sandra Fauconnier | Wikimedia NL and independent contemporary art historian |  fokky@fauconnier.nl | @sanseveria
 * Joris Pekel | OKFN | joris.pekel@okfn.org | @jpekel | jpekel
 * Sebastiaan ter Burg | Stichting Dat Zou Jij Wel Willen Weten and independent photographer | sebastiaan@ter-burg.nl | @ter_burg

Goal
To develop a documentation guide to share with contemporary artists that promotes the use of open licenses (public domain, Creative Commons). This publication, which will be available CC BY SA, will be geared specifically towards artists and their representatives. It will be able to be utilized by GLAMs, open stuff community members, and organizations  to promote the use of open license in the contemporary art world.

This document will consist of a short booklet - 2-4 pages that explains clearly:
 * Benefits of releasing works via these open licenses
 * Explanation of three types of licenses (see below)
 * Short case studies of contemporary artists doing so with visual examples
 * Resources

This document is meant to be shared with contemporary artists, buyers, collectors, and curators.

Licenses covered

 * CC 0 - "CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those  interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as  possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon,  enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under  copyright or database law. In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose  from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0  empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of  copyright and database protection, and the exclusive rights  automatically granted to creators – the  “no rights reserved”  alternative to our licenses." From: http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
 * CC BY - "This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original  creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.  Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials." From: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
 * CC BY SA - "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new  creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to  “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based  on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow  commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is  recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content  from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects." From: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Questions to explore

 * Where will this document live?
 * Who or where online?


 * What names will be on it?
 * i.e. organizational titles (i.e. Creative Commons, Open Cultuur Data, OKFN, Wikimedia Netherlands), or individual names? Or a combination of both?


 * Who will print it?
 * We have decided that it'll be available in PDF format, and also printed format. Who will fund the printing for this document? Perhaps a grant or funding from Creative Commons?

Timeline

 * October 31: Develop content
 * November 14: Design & layout complete
 * December 1: Being distribution

Resources

 *  (the FAL is a free license designed by and for artists)
 * Case:  − A contemporary artist who publishes reproductions of his artworks under a free-like license.
 * Case: Sebastiaan ter Burg <http://www.sebastiaanterburg.nl/?page_id=61, Dutch photographer who has developed a functional business model by working exclusively under Creative Commons licenses, see his presentation (Dutch) from the Wikimeida Conference in 2011
 * Choosing between licenses: http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses#Criteria_for_choosing_a_license - h- how to choose a license
 * Collaboration and freedom from Arts Council England:http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/our-priorities-2011-15/digital-innovation-and-creative-media/digital-resources/collaboration-and-freedom/
 * World of Free and Open Source Art - http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art
 * Glossary for Beginners in FOSS - http://p2pfoundation.net/Glossary_for_Beginners_in_FOSS_Art
 * Definition of free cultural works - http://freedomdefined.org/Definition