Creative Commons and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

After sending the DCMS a link to the interviews with Dan Jarvis MP I am told that there is support for Creative Commons on the Flickr site where DCMS photos appear.

http://www.culture.gov.uk/7085.aspx

The policy mentions that there should be attribution for any phoptos that appear on the DCMS website. However not every photo on Flickr is Creative Commons. Jeremy Hunt at the Eden Project is "all rights reserved". Maybe this will change or permission could be given for this blog to use it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedcms/

then you may find it.



code copied above should show Hugh Robertson and his socks. This one definitely Creative Commons. Also it will interest Dan Jarvis and the Labour Friends of the Forces.

If you want content to be reused or linked to, then a Creative Commons licence makes this clear.

The policy on Creative Commons for YouTube may not have been updated as the option is only recent. But it is custom and practice to embed YouTube in blogs, probably part of YouTube conditions.



Broadcast TV is only one option. Online video and social media are also possible. This would work best with a flexible approach to the reuse of content.

The DCMS has issued a report on education in response to Next Gen. The PDF is at this link.

The PDF has an "Open Government Licence" so the thinking around this relates to Creative Commons.

Lokking at a site such as The Internet Archive might be interesting in schools. The discussion around Creative Commons continues.

Dan Jarvis MP - the Tweets from Bristol Wireless

So far not a lot of views for Dan Jarvis MP on YouTube but my plan is to stay near the front of the results for a search on Dan and Jarvis. Should work out even if we have to link to many examples of south west culture.

Thanks for retweets @cllrmartin and wood5y from Bristol Wireless

My next plan is to check out all the links he suggests, copied here in case Twitter replaces them with something more recent

( By the way when I met him at #likeminds @cllrmartin turns out to be very supportive of Exeter in general including Exeter Council IT Department, most public figures, and local media including the Express and Echo. So even though there are the occasional concerns, there may also be some developments)

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@will789gb public sector knows the mantra #opensource, #openstandards, #opendata but has yet to show much action on all 3.
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@will789gb @BristolCouncil @DanJarvisMP @CllrPaul4Cowick UK ought to adopt US stance; if public money involved, work is public property.
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@will789gb PS: have you heard of the Open Government Licence? nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-gover…
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@will789gb of course, @BristolWireless shows the way. "This site’s content is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence."
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@will789gb @BristolCouncil's stuff on Flickr is covered by copyright, not Creative Commons.
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@dorristheloris thanks for the info.
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£1bn cheap labour fund announced by government for their corporate pals gu.com/p/33j82/tw via @guardian
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@dorristheloris @guriben do TPS outfits operate on co-operative principles? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_…
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Creative Commons Interest after Visit to Exeter and Bristol by Dan Jarvis MP

Shadow Culture Minister Dan Jarvis MP is soon to launch a report on culture and cultural industry in the regions. Yesterday he visited Animated Exeter and Sound Gallery and later the Watershed in Bristol. He was a guest on the Wild Show at Phonic FM, situated in the basement of the Exeter Phoenix, close to Sound Gallery.

The Wild Show is presented by Chris Norton. I am often a guest and sometimes present when Chris is away. We both rely on JD who keeps the technology in order and sometimes takes us back to '80s dance music. Yesterday Chris forgot to cue up a record so invited me to add some questions. So there are two clips on YouTube.





Off air I had a conversation with Exeter Councillor Paul Bull who is interested in Creative Commons. I had asked Dan Jarvis why he did not use Creative Commons on his Flickr account. Later I met Paul Bull in the Phoenix bar and he agreed to record a short clip.



So there could be more content from public figures with a Creative Commons licence. It would make it clear that reuse is welcomed.

The clips above are on a Creative Commons licence for YouTube. The lighting is terrible but the sound is ok. There will soon be a Soundcloud recording as broadcast through the Wild Show page on Facebook. Please link to the Wild Show.

Previously, at #likeminds 2010 Joanne Jacobs spoke about Creative Commons during a discussion in a cinema where the lighting was even worse than the Phonic studio. She agreed to repeat her contribution at the Exeter Conference Centre.