The Art of the Creative Commons is a book about peer-to-peer production, providing a unique model of commons from the creative industries. The book expands the knowledge about the role in which an alternative framework of copyright protection (Creative Commons) regulates and establishes norms and conventions within the commons. The book gives insight into a vibrant community that fosters creative projects and a variety of works, from elementary school plays to exhibitions in the Smithsonian or multimillion-dollar Hollywood films.
Taking up the perspective of the creative workforce involved in production and collaboration permits understanding the rules of production that follow an alternative model of production. By analyzing issues of media production, this book engages with current scholarship on critical management, political economy and cultural studies.
MiÅosz MiszczyÅski, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University, Poland. He conducts research in the fields of critical studies of organisations and labour. His work includes publications in Organization, Critical Sociology and European Journal of Cultural Studies.
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Introduction The Art of the Creative Commons
â1âCreative Industries: Opening Copyright with Open Licensing
â2âCreative Commoning: Commons-Based Peer Production and Networked Value of Objects
â3âSound Industry and FreeSound.org
â4âStudying the Art of the Creative Commons
â5âThe Structure of the Book
1âManaging and Organizing Openness in the Digital Economy
â1âOpenness in Business Strategy and Operations
â1.1âOpen Innovation
â3âOpenness in Public Policy
â3.1âOpen Data Movement
â3.2âOpen Scholarship
â3.3âOpen Government
2âCultural, Legal and Organisational Foundations of Digital Commons and Peer-Production
â1âCulture of Resistance and the Roots of the Digital Commons
â2âOpen Licensing: The Legal Foundations of Digital Commoning
â3âPrinciples of Digital Peer Production
3âCreative Commons Political Economy of Creative Peer-to-Peer Production
â1âThe Basic Framework of Copyright in Creative Industries
â2âCreative Industriesâ Crisis in the Digital Era
â3âOpening Creative Industries: Creative Commons as a Remedy to Restrictiveness of Copyright
â4âCreative Commons: Alternative Production and Distribution in Sound Industry
4âCreative Commons Peer-Production and the Quest for Networked Value
â1âMetadata and Content Annotation
â2âSound Scenes and Their Cross-Fertilisation
â3âGrowing Commons: Providing Representation for Underrepresented Sound
â4âSharing Building Blocks: On a Search for Use Value of Content
5âThe Art of Commoning and Content in Context
â1âTechnical Quality and Context
â2âOpenness and Artistic Experimentation
â3âSound Commoning and a Sense of Community
6âAcknowledging Authorship Attribution in the Market Context
â1âAttribution and Reputation
â2âWaiving Attribution
â3âViolation of Creative Commons License
â4âPublic Domain (cc-0) as a Response to Limitations of Protection
â5âConclusion
7âArt for Artâs Sake? Commodifying the Commons
â1âSymbolic Unity of Creative Commons and Creative Industries
â2âMultiple Channel Content Sales
â3âFreemium Mode of Sound and Related Products
â4âExclusivity of Access and Intermediation
â5âCuration and Automated Integration
â6âConclusions
Conclusion The Art of the Creative Commons
â1âCreative Commons and the Opening of the Creative Industries
â2âNetworked Value and the Commons
â3âArtistic Work through Commons-Based Production
â4âCreative Commons in the Political Economy of the Creative Industries
â5âFuture Research on the Art of the Commons
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Scholars and students of digital labour and creative work representing a broad range of disciplines, such as critical management studies, sociology and anthropology.