I love knitting. I love the Creative Commons. I hope wearing this hat will get people asking me about what Creative Commons is.
Do you want to learn more about Creative Commons too? Ok. Try:
- Flickr’s Creative Commons Site
- An Article showing why Canada should apply Creative Commons licenses to its publications.
- BoingBoing.net’s ‘copyfight’ tag that tends to be fairly pro-Creative Commons.
- Laurence Lessig’s (founder of Creative Commons) blog
- A list of books released under creative commons license (HINT: maybe add these to your catalogue?)
Also, I should make a note that the Creative Commons logo is not a creative commons licensed item. I did ask permission to use it and got a ‘no – but do you really think we would want to put the resources into suing someone who is going to knit a creative commons hat with no intention to make a profit from it?’ response. In short, if you want to make your own creative commons hat, you should do it in such a way that will not make the CC organization want to put resources into suing you. They are an open organization, it shouldn’t be hard to figure out how to keep that from happening!
Tags: creative commons, knitting, sharing, toque, touque
I love the hat!
I love it! Hope you don’t mind me sharing your project here: http://www.slaw.ca/2009/11/23/the-creative-commons-toque/
Cheers!
Connie
Love the hat! Will you be sharing the pattern on Ravelry? https://www.ravelry.com/
Social networking meets knitting – what could be better?
The wider point here is that all copyright reallocates profits in favour of owners rather than producers. Creative commons is still a copyright licence, and thus exists within the existing paradigm of copyright protection.
http://youwillbejudged.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/the-commons/