Cape Town workshop introduces new ideas for Creative Commons
One of the most exciting things that came out of the APC’s Tuesday ccSA workshop in Cape Town was a discussion around derivative works. Philipp Schmidt from Bridges.org explained that his organisation used a cc licence that didn’t allow derivatives, but that they still wanted to encourage derivatives like translations and transporting into formats for sensory-disabled people. It seems that there has been a lot of interest in ’splitting’ up derivatives into different types - especially since there is so much value in translation and ‘porting’ to braille and other formats.
We are therefore making a submission to cc HQ that authors can choose which types of derivative works they want to allow. Thanks to Bridges.org for hosting us and for those who participated for the great insights!