Videos tagged with Creative Commons

  • Professor James Boyle describes the history of a single song - protesting the government's inept response after Hurricane Katrina - and its century-old lineage in the work of Kanye West, Ray Charles, and others. Each borrowed from others, yet they borrowed in different ways, with different legal rules, in different musical cultures. At the end, we can sense how future music may be shaped and what our musical culture may give up in the process. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

    Recorded on: Nov. 24, 2008

  • Boyle, co-founder of Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, is a leader in the open access movement: he was a founding director of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides licenses that let individual artists choose how to share their work freely; is a co-founder of Science Commons, which aims to expand the Creative Commons mission into the realm of scientific and technical data; and is a co-founder of ccLearn, which works to promote the development of open educational resources.

  • Under the leadership of Richard Danner, Duke Law's senior associate dean for information services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law, the Law School became the first in the country to make all the articles published in its law journals — including back issues — freely accessible online in 1998. In addition, unlike most other law reviews, Duke's journals explicitly allow authors to post articles published in the journals without restriction on freely-accessible third party web sites, as well as on Internet sites under their own control.