Creative Commons Launches CC OpenID Profile
In addition to gaining a slew of information on your rights as a content owner, Creative Commons (CC) is offering new members
another great incentive. In exchange for buying a $50 annual membership, the organization is offering donors the chance to use their network log-in as their OpenID. In other words, if you're the type of person who shares their content for the good of education, art and humanity, now you can wear it like a badge across the networks you frequent.
While it's often misinterpreted as an organization looking to remove copyright from creative works, Creative Commons actually helps content producers decide on the exact uses for their products. For instance, some content owners allow derivative works for non-commercial and educational purposes and some allow for remix pending attribution. The point is that the organization aims to make more content available to the public for experimentation. As works are released to "the commons", artists, educators and innovators learn and build upon them. ReadWriteWeb covered the Creative Commons database and some of its shining case studies in 2008. It make sense that this group would offer OpenID as membership to their service.
OpenID is a decentralized digital identity that allows for easy access to a number of networks. Members benefit from one singular identity and networks benefit from a lowered barrier to membership. In this way, more information is shared across a variety os social landscapes and therefore, as with Creative Commons, there are more opportunities for engagement and education.
Says open source advocate Chris Messina in a recent blog post on CC OpenID:
"Creative Commons is redistributing the brand equity and social capital their members have accrued over the last several years by letting people show and verify their affiliation to the organization.With this simple example, we can start to see the symbiosis of making an intentional choice about identity: Creative Commons finds a new revenue opportunity and members of the community have a way to express their affiliation and promote the brand."
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Saweeet! I'ma get me one. Cheers!
I like the idea of OpenID, but in practice it has so many problems I have given up on it in favor of FB Connect and Twitter. Just because, you know, I need sometging that actually works.
See my response to Chris' post: http://bit.ly/16jAGA - I'm not convinced there is a large revenue opportunity here.
Angus
it looks too buzz
Hey it looks Gud...
Hmm, looks like it's time to use my openID..
This is a great idea. CC adds some security and legal peace of mind and incorporating it with an openID is a good idea in my book.
This is great. CC is something everyone should support. http://AppUseful.com
I posted a comment here a few days ago about how much I liked the idea of OpenID, but how stupid it was that you need a Google OpenID to log in to Google and Facebook OpenID to log in to Facebook and now a CC OpenID to log on to CC and so on. I see the comment has been deleted for some reason, did I touch a controversy subject here at ReadWriteWeb or what happened?
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August 8, 2009 7:02 AM
Strange. I remember your comment! Let me get to the bottom of this. I think it may have been deleted by mistake.
Thanks for finding my comment Dana, but it's been mixed with another comment, a comment that contains some cheesy porn-links. Why they got mixed I don't know, but now I understand why it was deleted ;) Just delete the comment again, I don't want to be a part of this spam ;)
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