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Idea: Creative Commons multi-genre convention

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 It’s not free publicity, but I think that organizing a multi-genre convention for only Creative Commons-licensed and other freely-licensed works (literature, music, performance art, etc.) would be a good means by which users of Creative Commons and free media licenses from all genres and niches can meet face-to-face, promote their works, and collaborate. It could be massive, and it could lead to the furtherance of a fandom or devoted following for such works.

Of course, there’s the iCommons iSummit, but I’m not sure if it’s going for the sort of elevation that is most associated with fan conventions.

Wikia and WikiFur licensing: to clear up confusion

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If any users of the English WikiFur have noticed talk page announcements posted this Thursday regarding Wikia’s exclusive switch to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license this Friday, we would like to inform all users that WikiFur is already mentioned as an opt-out candidate, as we have already switched to a dual-licensing scheme involving both the CC-by-SA and the GFDL as of the last week. The English WikiFur is already slated for resettlement onto non-Wikia servers owned by by the end of the year (the last and largest WikiFur project to do such), and, as stated in an earlier post by

[info]greenreaper,

all WikiFur subprojects will retain the dual-licensing scheme for the foreseeable future on the new servers.

Free Animation License rough draft

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Admittedly, it sucks at the moment, but I’ve written out a rough draft of the Free Animation License.

Have a looksee; it will certainly change with further additions.

Also, this is meant to cover any imagery that may be used in an animation or slideshow, hence the inclusion of several different image media. However, I especially intend this to be used for SVG animations, since such animations are completely text-based and text-editable (in other words, you should pull up an SVG file like this and open up the “Page Source” window for it in either Firefox or Opera).

In other words, this license is meant to be more like a combination of the GNU Free Documentation license (GFDL, used for text publications, especially Wikipedia) and the Free Art license when applied to text-based graphic animation (2D or 3D), and less like any of the Creative Commons licenses, which have found greater exposure as licenses of choice for those who want free publicity for, I guess you could call it, “binary media”, or media that is processed and manipulated by the machine (most music and graphics files) rather than by text (anything XML based).