Win a Creative Commons Tshirt
We will be launching a largely online magazine related to Creative Commons and copyright issues in southern Africa next month. Please comment on this post with your vote for one of the titles below – or suggestion something new. We’ll draw a random post and send that person one of the cool Creative Commons Tshirts that have just arrived from San Francisco.
Free Culture Southern Africa
New Copyright
CopyDev
Innovate
Copyshare
Innovation Commons
Copy Commons
If I had to I would vote for ‘Copy commons’
BUT how about:
Copy Rights
Copy cat
The one’s below are just bad puns for kicks:
Copy-You-Late (that’s just a joke)
Oppie Copy : )
Copy coffee : )
Comment by Elan Lohmann — @ 5:02 am
Innovation Commons or Innovate. CopyDev sounds like a unix command line, Copy Commons sounds like the photocopy room, and New Copyright sounds like the reform wing of WIPO, like New Conservatives
.
Comment by Stephen Marquard — @ 5:04 am
Free Culture Southern Africa – mos def
Comment by Anonymous — @ 5:32 am
Free Culture Southern Africa
Comment by nathaniel — @ 5:33 am
My suggestions (in nor particular order) :
1. Commons-Sense
2. ShareAbility
3. Share-it-ies (as in “…begin at home”)
4. Outovate(since “innovate” already exists…)
5. Comm-u-nity
6. E-novational
7. Hep
The last one -
Hep — adj : informed about the latest trends [syn: hip, hip to(p)];
Hep – High Energy (Particle) Physics
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
Notes:
1. By the way: this is a list of potential anagrams, randomly
generated..go-C:
http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi?cpw=1&phrase=Creative+Common
2. .. and also
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=creative
and
http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=commons (less inspiring…)
Good luck!
Baaa-zzzzuunnnngggg!
Rudy
Comment by Rudy — @ 5:55 am
Common Eileen
House of Commons
CopyWrite
Commonism
Comment by derek — @ 3:04 pm
There are many good suggestions in the previous posts:
Meraka is already taken, I like Commons-Sense the most.
Comment by Dwayen Bailey — @ 3:04 pm
Why not just stick with CC.za, or a variant like CC-ZA?
The CC logo is and will be the strongest brand of Creative Commons; you can both leverage off it and enhance it. Describes what you want to do without limiting future expansion and it will appeal to the geeks without being impenetrable to anyone else. It also leaves room for a great logo that you can use across all local activities.
Comment by Phillip — @ 3:13 pm
Free Culture Southern Africa
I think its the most optimistic name and reflects the core idea behind creativecommons.
Comment by Kerryn — @ 4:20 pm
Of your options, Free Culture South Africa. I quite like Commons-Sense – it doubles as “information about the state of the Commons”. No suggestions I’m willing to admit to having, though.
Comment by Neil Blakey-Milner — @ 4:46 pm
I think Free Culture South Africa works really nicely, or even “new Culture South Africa” with some funky grungy logo work, would really pan out.
Who is doing layout, design, etc. of this puppy?
- HF: It’s starting really small, with a very small budget, so yours truly will be doing it all in the beginning – hopefully once we’ve shown how awesome it is, we’ll have pots of cash to spread around
Comment by Bradley Whittingotn — @ 6:45 pm
Common Creations
It strengthens the point that open licensing encourages creativity, it invites people to submit “creations” to the magazine, and it leverages the CC logo.
Commons-Sense is nice, but a bit Paine-ful.
Comment by David Gibson — @ 7:11 pm
Agree with Phillip, CC[za] is the best for branding. Great opportunities for really bold logo etc. Second in line Commons-Sense. Not that keen on Free Culture …
Comment by Alastair — @ 6:49 am
HF: Wow! thanks for all the comments – remember that this is a *southern* African regional mag (Rather than just SA). Cool ideas about logos for CC[za], though – we’ll be developing some branding and marketing materials and this will help a lot.
I’m leaning towards Rudy’s ‘Commons-Sense’ – I think it incorporates a lot of the ideas about how Creative Commons and copyright innovations can be good for very practical reasons – and the fact that its not just about culture, art and all those lovely hippy concepts, but about economic development too.
Comment by Heather Ford — @ 8:20 am