Comments on: All (User-Generated) Content Doesn’t Want to Be Free: A Q&A with Cambridge Startup RightsAgent About Its New Approach to Copyrighting http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:30:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Links for January 31st | united diversity http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/comment-page-1/#comment-7049 Links for January 31st | united diversity Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:31:49 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/#comment-7049 [...] All (User-Generated) Content Doesn?t Want to Be Free: A Q&A with Cambridge Startup RightsAgent A... - RightsAgent is rolling out a way for creators to still be liberal and open about sharing their work, while at the same time collecting money for certain uses of it. [...] [...] All (User-Generated) Content Doesn?t Want to Be Free: A Q&A with Cambridge Startup RightsAgent A… – RightsAgent is rolling out a way for creators to still be liberal and open about sharing their work, while at the same time collecting money for certain uses of it. [...]

]]> By: RightsAgent and CC+ - Creative Commons http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/comment-page-1/#comment-6122 RightsAgent and CC+ - Creative Commons Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:50 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/#comment-6122 [...] with more content directories on the way. Although a month late (but nonetheless informative), check out this interview with RightsAgent co-founders John Palfrey and Rudy Rouhana to get a better idea for RightsAgent has [...] [...] with more content directories on the way. Although a month late (but nonetheless informative), check out this interview with RightsAgent co-founders John Palfrey and Rudy Rouhana to get a better idea for RightsAgent has [...]

]]> By:   Licensing and Copyrights for Independent Media by Webernetting.com http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/comment-page-1/#comment-5662   Licensing and Copyrights for Independent Media by Webernetting.com Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:38:55 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/#comment-5662 [...] a good article about how they intend to make it [...] [...] a good article about how they intend to make it [...]

]]> By: RightsAgent Launched. « Jules Pieri http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/comment-page-1/#comment-5458 RightsAgent Launched. « Jules Pieri Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:38:18 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/#comment-5458 [...] a good interview by Wade Roush with the RightsAgent founders, from the newly-launched and consistently excellent X-conomy.  (Full disclosure:  I know the [...] [...] a good interview by Wade Roush with the RightsAgent founders, from the newly-launched and consistently excellent X-conomy.  (Full disclosure:  I know the [...]

]]> By: Elizabeth Stark http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/comment-page-1/#comment-5343 Elizabeth Stark Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:14:18 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/#comment-5343 "But the movement’s feel-good vibe—'Let’s make all content free!'—elided an important point: content creators still need to put dinner on their tables." It seems like you're conflating "free as in beer" with "free as in speech" here. The movement's goal is not to get many people to merely "give away" their work free of charge -- it is to have a free exchange of culture. See my <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/opinion/lweb12copyright.html" rel="nofollow">letter to the editor</a> in the NYTimes for further clarification. RightsAgent is definitely a step in the right direction, as it provides a simple and efficient method for commercial licensing. Congrats to JP, RR, and their team for launching their new venture! “But the movement’s feel-good vibe—’Let’s make all content free!’—elided an important point: content creators still need to put dinner on their tables.”

It seems like you’re conflating “free as in beer” with “free as in speech” here. The movement’s goal is not to get many people to merely “give away” their work free of charge — it is to have a free exchange of culture. See my letter to the editor in the NYTimes for further clarification.

RightsAgent is definitely a step in the right direction, as it provides a simple and efficient method for commercial licensing. Congrats to JP, RR, and their team for launching their new venture!

]]> By: Trevor E Hilder http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/comment-page-1/#comment-5308 Trevor E Hilder Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:22:57 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/14/all-user-generated-content-doesnt-want-to-be-free-a-qa-with-cambridge-startup-rightsagent-about-its-new-approach-to-copyrighting/#comment-5308 This is a really interesting idea. Could you guys please consider how this principle could be applied to content in Second Life and other VR environments? This is a really interesting idea.

Could you guys please consider how this principle could be applied to content in Second Life and other VR environments?

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