While quickly scrolling through my daily Skimm e-mail this past week, I came across an interesting article about CC licenses in Indonesia (you can read it here).
I think it would be a pretty fair assumption to say that we have all browsed creative commons at least once or twice within the span of this class. Whether you’re searching for audio, images, or video, the licenses make it so easy to integrate these things into your projects safely. Recently, it has come to attention that Indonesian copyright law had previously made licensing with Creative Commons a much more difficult process. Due to their policy of “license recordation”, it was nearly useless to even have such a platform for open licensing agreements at all. After much work on behalf of the CC team however, the Copyright Office in Indonesia has removed the license recordal mandate for the provision of open licenses with Creative Commons. These changes should be enacted by the start of the new year.
This is really interesting to me, because it shows that countries outside of the United States may have very different restrictions on media reuse and creation. After using creative commons for nearly every project we’ve had in this course, I think it is easy to take for granted how amazing it is to have a public space to share and circulate creativity. The issues of accessibility and credibility are not to be taken lightly, especially in our growing digital world. Personally, I would have found it very frustrating to not have access to the works I have used in many of my own creative projects, so I’m glad that Creative Commons exists internationally. These new changes in Indonesian copyright law have massive implications for international growth of a free media movement. Good work, CC Team.
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