{"id":593,"date":"2005-04-25T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-06-22T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:11:47","slug":"commons-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/commons-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"commons sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"creatice commons sense\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/za.creativecommons.org\/images\/header.jpg?w=500\" \/>  Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/za.creativecommons.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/07\/commons-sense-conference-25-27-may\/\">commons sense<\/a> conference, by <a href=\"http:\/\/za.creativecommons.org\">creative commons SA<\/a>, is coming up (25-27 May), so Christo and I had a great meeting with Heather and Sylvia today, to discuss possible connections, presenters, artworks, blogs, etc.  For those of you unaware, Creative Commons is a great new way of dealing with digital copyright, and share licenses&#8230;. For example, this blog is under a creative commons &quot;non-commercial share-alike&quot; license, which means you can copy, edit, change and use anything I publish, so long as you credit me, and don&#8217;t make money (if you make money, you gots to negotiate with me to gimme some).  It&#8217;s kind of an arts and information-based open source, um, thing. And the digital copyright man, himself (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/\">larry lessig<\/a>), will be hangin&#8217; out in joburg, giving talks, and generally spreading creative commons cheer. There are also blog and artwork contests, with cash prizes &#8211; so get involved! Follow any of the many CC links for more&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the commons sense conference, by creative commons SA, is coming up (25-27 May), so Christo and I had a great meeting with Heather and Sylvia today, to discuss possible connections, presenters, artworks, blogs, etc. For those of you unaware, Creative Commons is a great new way of dealing with digital copyright, and share licenses&#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,27,4,9,2,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-creative-commons","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-9z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1298,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/the-cc-salon\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":0},"title":"the CC Salon","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 August 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Remix. Sample. Mash up. Reconstruct. Reformulate. Remake. Reproduce. Reshuffle. Transform. Recreate. Modify. Reassemble. Revamp. Rejuvenate.These are the words that make corporate copyright protectors shudder and free culture creators grin with glee.The 'remix' has become one of the most powerful tools of the digital age. But the legal barriers to taking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"cc Salon, Johannesburg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/invite-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/creative-commons\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":1},"title":"creative commons","author":"nathaniel","date":"21 October 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Even tho I was informed months ago, I had totally forgotten that Creative Commons, South Africa was already underway. I was then sent this great cartoon, from Jo-Anne Green over at turbulence \/ networked_performance (a born South African, now living in the States), which led me to heaps more information.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":589,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/crazy-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":2},"title":"crazy days","author":"nathaniel","date":"21 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the virtual silence, everyone - been a bit hektik with the upcoming show (hope to see you on Friday at Franchise!). Other goings-on this week and after: There's a screening of Joyti Mistry's film at Wits tonight, 6pm (head of television) Great show, according to the amiable Zingi\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;creative commons&quot;","block_context":{"text":"creative commons","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/creative-commons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":609,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/lil-larry-lessig\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":3},"title":"li&#8217;l larry lessig","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 May 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Lawrence Lessig giving his presentation to a bunch of Joburgers at Wits Lawrence Lessig, digital copyright guru, Stanford Professor of Law, advocate of creativity, and chairman for creative commons, gave a talk to a bunch of artists and businesspeople over at Wits yesterday afternoon. It was really great. Most of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1480,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/uhuru-productions-presents-the-global-commons\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":4},"title":"Uhuru Productions presents: The Global Commons","author":"nathaniel","date":"21 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of CC stars answer some basic but important questions: a documentary of the iSummit in Brazil last year! via iCommons and dotSUB, by Rehad Desai from Uhuru Productions and under CC Attribution Share Alike.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":612,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/blogging-the-commons\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":5},"title":"blogging the commons","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 May 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"me & the double L (that's the larry to the lessig) remix Howdy y'all. Am at the commons sense conference, and was just on a panel discussion with Megan Knight (PhD Wits), Vincent Maher (New Media Lab, Rhodes\/Grahamstown) and Matthew Buckland (Mail & Guardian online). It was a pretty cool\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}