ZEROPOD #6- Copy This Content! - Nate Angell from Creative Commons (Audio-only Version for Spotify)

Aug 26 / 2023

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Welcome to Episode 6 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Nate Angell from Creative Commons to chat about how his organization created the very licensing protocol that allowed Nouns to be built — CC0.

 

We delve into the history of copyright, and the delicate balance to strike between protecting creators and the public good. We also talk about the intersection of blockchain and licensing, and the important daily work of the Creative Commons Org.

 

But don’t worry, it’s not all serious— we also keep it pretty weird with “The Nounicles of Nounlandia” and not just one but, inexplicably, 5 separate mentions of fax machine technology.

 

As with all our content, this recording is CC0… So please, Copy This Content.

 

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Teaser: I think Joshua is lying.

0:18 - ZEROPOD Intro

01:26 - The Nate Angell origin story

3:16 - Open Educational Resources vs. The Big Textbook Grift

5:30 - Joining the Commons

6:21 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 1

8:37 - The Creative Commons Licenses

9:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 2

11:56 - What is Creative Commons?

14:45 - Open Source licensing, but for content.

16:17 - Joshua The Reappearing Man

16:29 - Comic Book Collection Show and Tell

18:57 - Copyright Strikes This Podcast

20:44- The History of Copyright

23:00 - The Copyright Tradeoff

27:09 - The Mickey Mouse Rule

28:16 - What is CC0?

28:48- How does blockchain affect this dynamic

30:30 - Nate on the Nouns Experiment

31:03 - Welcome to Nounlandia

32:40 - Can a brand become ubiquitous faster with open licensing?

34:36 - Nouns: A Movie

37:57 - CC0 in the Context of Education and Science Research

42:20 - The Nonicles of Nounlandia

42:45 - Should works ever automatically go into the Public Domain?

44:32 - Striking the balance

46:17 - The difficulty for artists of making something popular

48:30 - CC0 is an Experiment Too

48:52 - CC0 is actually not a License

49:46 - Special Guest

50:19 - A Day in the Life of Creative Commons work

52:54 - A Day in the Life Part 2

53:59 - AI and Copyright

54:37 - Open Climate Campaign

55:50 - Josh’s Hot Take: No Such Thing as Big Brains

57:29 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 3

59:17 - Copyright as a protector of the gatekeepers

61:01 - Is Creative Commons looking at Smart Contracts?

63:50 - How can Creative Commons stay ahead of the curve?

65:01 - Sustainability and the Future of Creative Commons

68:25 - Nate on Nouns (Again)

69:07 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 4

70:40 - Crypto is like Camping

72:34 - What’s up with Opepen?

73:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 5

73:50 - Toady Explains Opepen

76:59 - Opepen and Nouns: The Power of CC0 + LoFi Art

79:14 - Outro

 

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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.

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