Last night, PLUG and Csociety co-hosted a CC presentation with Nathan Yergler as the presenter. By nature, I am a very artistic and creative person. I see programming as an art form just as I see my music, drawings, and photography so the CC presentation really appealed to me. I had many questions to ask and Nathan answered them very well and actually really helped further my interest in CC and Free Culture. One of the major revelations I had durring this presentation was you can infact make a living off of CC and that there is actually quite a bit of coding involved in CC work.
Basically, CC is aiming to make the licensing/copyright information just as integral to the file stream as the actual content of the data. This means that all programs that deal with the media (basically every program that deals with content that copyright law covers) must be able to deal with the licensing information as well. There are two ways to achieve this. One is to have a few developers exclusively go through all the currently popular media manipulation and viewing programs and write extensions/patches/etc. that will extend the functionality. The other option is to try and talk to as many development teams of these media programs as possible and try to get them to implement this functionality themselves (most likely using some type of library or toolkit made by CC developers). The optimal model would probably be to have a balance between the two models.
Anyway, I have a lot of cool ideas that could really help the CC movement and after bouncing them off Nathan, he seemed to really be interested in them. I’m thinking about writing an Epiphany extension that will parse and view copyright information to at least make people aware that everything they are viewing is copyrighted in some way unless stated otherwise.
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