Unleash Your Creativity at Creative Commons Australia

March 11th, 2009 in News, by Head Honcho

Generally, whenever you create a literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual work, you have copyright over that. This means that you have “all rights reserved” - that is, you have exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works.

There is an alternative offered by Creative Commons in which an author can choose to merely have some rights reserved. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which lets an author or creator share his work to the public for free. It seems illogical to just let others copy your work for free, but in this age of open-source innovations, it’s not as crazy as it seems. In fact, there are now over 160 million different images, sounds, films and written works which are CC-licensed.

Creative Commons Australia takes things a step further by holding a competition which lets anyone remix and manipulate a CC material.

The competition, named “Pooling Ideas,” runs from the March 2-23, 2009. The site explains the idea behind the contest:
Digital technology has changed the way we create and share our ideas. A world of music, literature, art and video is now available at our fingertips, and it’s all ours to play with, remix and manipulate. But what does this mean for our ideas of creativity and originality, yours and mine?
Over the next few weeks, we invite you to creatively interpret the theme We are what we share, and upload your creation to Pool. It’s free and there are no time limits or format requirements.

Anyone interested in joining can do anything with CC-provided material. You can tweak an image by adding new elements or by changing the color. You can introduce another instrument to a sound recording. You can edit videos, or mash several videos together. You can remix a poem, or add another chapter to written work. The only limitation is your imagination.

The winner of the competition gets a trophy for you to brag with. More importantly, you can get an internship with Australia’s ABC Radio National to co-produce a Night Air with John Jacobs.  The top three entries also receive a USB disk filled with remixable material. Select works will also be showcased at the Ideas Festival and pulled apart by CC Australia’s panel of experts at the “We Are What We Share” seminar held at the State Library of Queensland on March 28.

Below is a video serving as an example of what an contest entry can look like, and explaining at the same time what Creative Commons is.

Related Links:
  1. StoryMash
  2. Kalabo: Making Online Music Collaboration Possible
  3. Bouncing Off Ideas at shareyourbrain
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