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ccHost: Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software

Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) offers more than just licenses. It also develops software and standards to support the six primary Creative Commons licenses. This presentation specifically discusses ccHost (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost), a web-based media sharing software akin to mediawiki and wordpress, whose primary focus is to encourage proper licensing, sharing and remix of many types of media (video, audio, text, image). This software is notably used in the web 2.0-friendly, ccMixter.org, the web's legal music remix website with over 6000 CC-licensed audio tracks. It is also now used by freedesktop-affiliated Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org), a public domain collection of vector-based clip art (10,000+ clip art images).

This presentation discusses how ccHost helps to free media through employing its open services and by using Creative Commons licenses. Also, an overview of how to connect with the Creative Commons Developer Community (CCDC, http://developer.creativecommons.org/) is discussed.

Jon Phillips, Creative Commons, Open Clip Art Library, Inkscape

Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an open source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 13+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. His involvements with mixing culture and software development have been shown internationally at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2006), Sun Yat-Sen University (2006), desktop Developers Conference (2005), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Korea's KAIST (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum, UC-Berkeley's 040404 Conference (2004), USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is a core Open Source developer advocate and developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a scalable vector graphics editor and on the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org), and is writing/producing a book, "CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems." Currently, he is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) in the Design +Technology department and is an Open Source developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org).