{"product_id":"2940013070530","title":"Cultivating Creative Commons: From Creative Regulation to Regulatory Commons","description":"The CC project offers a solution to the problem of not being able to reuse material for creative reasons due to Copyright restrictions (Creative Commons, 2006a). In this context, CC may be seen as an effort to mitigate the extremities of the current Copyright system by establishing a voluntary system of reserving only some Copyrights (Brown, Paharia, Junell and Walker, 2002). CC implements such a solution through a series of standard, free of cost, public licences that are complemented by meta-data allowing the easy identification and reuse of CC licensed works (Creative Commons, 2004a) (section 6.1).\u003cbr\u003eWhile the aforementioned description of the CC project constitutes a valid first\u003cbr\u003eapproach to the CC phenomenon, this thesis also explores about another issue, perhaps of a more fundamental nature: In the area of Copyright we witness a steady pattern of what is described in this research as the regulatory distantiation phenomenon (section 3.6): increasingly fewer and fewer actors have the ability, practical and legal, to provide input to the formation of regulation that involves more and more people; while regulation becomes more pervasive, access to its formation becomes more exclusive. We illustrate this aspect by examining the interaction between Copyright and Technology (chapter 3) as well as by conducting a critical review of Lessig’s early work on regulation and the Internet (chapter 4) and a positioning of his wok within regulatory\u003cbr\u003etheory, FLOSS research and Information Infrastructures design (sections 4.5.1-4.5.3).\u003cbr\u003eThis alienation from the regulatory means of production is at the crux of the Copyright-technology interaction problem (section 3.1). The eradication of the Commons (section 3.3) and the exclusion of a class of new creators from the use of a series of creative resources (section 3.2) are, to the author of this thesis, the symptoms of the greater\u003cbr\u003eproblem of eradication of the regulatory commons (sections 4.4.1 to 4.4.2), of the\u003cbr\u003eexclusion of this new class of creators from the regulatory formation process. It is in the\u003cbr\u003econtext of Copyright and CC that the question of how to overcome regulatory\u003cbr\u003edistantiation is posed (section 4.4.3); not because CC or Copyright lack seriousness, as\u003cbr\u003eLessig’s aforementioned quote may lead the reader to conclude, but rather because of\u003cbr\u003etwo more practical reasons: first, because the investigation of a very specific area in\u003cbr\u003ewhich the distantiation problem occurs allows its comprehensive analysis; and second,\u003cbr\u003ebecause the CC project provides a good initial model for how to solve the distantiation\u003cbr\u003eproblem.\u003cbr\u003eViewing the CC project as one that solely and directly seeks to establish a creative\u003cbr\u003ecommons, though appealing in its simplicity, it raises serious consistency problems,\u003cbr\u003emost of which have been identified by the relevant critique. Chapter two is exclusively\u003cbr\u003edevoted to a brief presentation of the CC and its critique. We present the basic\u003cbr\u003econstituent parts of the CC critique and explain why an alternative to the mainstream\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding of CC is required.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079175782640,"sku":"2940013070530","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013070530_p0.jpg?v=1763576396","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013070530","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}