Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Crowdsourcing, Remixing, and Creative Commons

  • relate crowd sourcing remixing & relationship of creator to creative commons
  • compare authors views on sharing, intellectual property, originality


Crowd-sourcing
The act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call.

Crowd sourcing is a method of pooling information for the purpose of gearing that information toward a product or creation, which can either occur online on blogs or entertainment websites or offline, on bulletin boards or a classroom/workplace environment. According to Wikipedia, crowd sourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production model. Crowd sourcing is used to present problems and enable submission of ideas that suggest a solution to the problem. These "problems" or prompts are presented to an unknown audience, a "group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions". This audience thus takes part in this participatory culture by submitting solutions. The presenter of the problem then becomes owner of that solution, compensating the participant either monetarily, with prizes, or with recognition.
Notice the “Submit a Tip” button on the bottom left corner on the BroTips website
The teeny, tiny legal print states: By uploading, submitting or otherwise disclosing or distributing content for display or inclusion on this site, you give this site unlimited license in perpetuity to the content and the information therein.”

re·mix
 tr.v. re·mixed, re·mix·ing, re·mix·es 
To recombine (audio tracks or channels from a recording) to produce a new or modified audio recording:

Remixing is taking someone else’s original work, usually an audio clip, and adding personal spins on them as a form of criticizing the piece of work the clip is dubbed with. Originally, the term applied to remixing musical tracks by changing their speed or adding different lyrics over an original beat. Of course with innovation came the expansion of the term to apply to visual clips and even literary texts. Because remixing involves taking an original art source for the purpose of altering it to one’s own form, the question of property and creativity comes in. Some see it as a form of theft, stealing intellectual property, and others see it as a medium for participatory culture to flourish. For this reason, much of the remixing goes unrecognized, for their creators choose to stay on the down low to avoid copyright infringement. Collaboration can be made on remixing. Ideas on how to do so can be pooled through crowd-sourcing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWgO9-AIROI

Creative Commons gives creators or remixers the legal liberty to use original artwork and alter it to any degree with which the original creator of the original work approves of. This, of course, includes licensing which entitles the borrower of the original piece to use it, allowing them to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. 

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