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Creative Commons Week One:
By Brian Rowe | June 16, 2008
The first week of the internships has been a bit of a rollercoaster. I arrived in San Francisco Sunday the 8th, 14 hours before my fist day of work. I had just attended the Washington State Bar Access to Justice Conference in Vancouver Washington, a great experience in itself. When I got to San Francisco I met up with Tim Hwang, of ROFLCON, another intern at CC and a recent graduate of Harvard. Tim and I are splitting a 3br in the middle of SF with two of his former classmates. Moving in went well. We have a hefty flight of stairs to the house, but the view makes up for it.
My first day at CC I was able to start directly on legal projects, my supervisor Diane Peters, the General Council, had sent me a few project to start on the week before. The first research project I started on was “Can I license different versions of a work under different licenses? For example low resolution images under CC-BY and High Resolution version under CC- BY-NC or 128k version of a song under CC-BY-NC and a Free Lossless Audio Codec under All Right Reserved?” The answers will be published in an FAQ and other educational material to help people navigate their options with copyright licenses; it will be published in the next week or so. It feels great to do research and see it impact a community of authors through free practical recommendations right away. Technology and copyright are strange bed fellows. Copyright applies to new technology or the works created with them but not in a coherent way. The law is crafted to deal with today, and as new developments arise in tech we get the opportunity to explore uncharted realms, this is what makes digital copyright such a challenge and a love for me.
San Francisco has been a great place to start the summer; both the technology and nonprofit communities are very strong here. I look forward to getting out in the community more as the weeks pass. I am back in Seattle currently for a 4 day visit. I spent the weekend with my partner and daughter; it is great to see them, and then Monday and Tuesday at the No Time to Think Conference at University of Washington’s Ischool and Law School. Wednesday I am headed back to San Francisco for a Copyright 2.0 Technology Summit at Google and a CC reception at Stanford Law. Exciting week to come!
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