The Art of the Creative Commons

Miłosz Miszczyński is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University, Poland. He conducts research in the fields of critical studies of organisations and labour. His work includes publications in Organization, Critical Sociology and European Journal of Cultural Studies.

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Introduction: The Art of the Creative Commons

 1 Creative Industries: Opening Copyright with Open Licensing


 2 Creative Commoning: Commons-Based Peer Production and Networked Value of Objects


 3 Sound Industry and FreeSound.org


 4 Studying the Art of the Creative Commons


 5 The Structure of the Book




1 Managing and Organizing Openness in the Digital Economy

 1 Openness in Business Strategy and Operations

 1.1 Open Innovation


 1.2 Open Business




 2 Participatory Cultures

 2.1 Open Capital


 2.2 Open Production




 3 Openness in Public Policy

 3.1 Open Data Movement


 3.2 Open Scholarship


 3.3 Open Government




2 Cultural, Legal and Organisational Foundations of Digital Commons and Peer-Production

 1 Culture of Resistance and the Roots of the Digital Commons


 2 Open Licensing: The Legal Foundations of Digital Commoning


 3 Principles of Digital Peer Production




3 Creative Commons: Political Economy of Creative Peer-to-Peer Production

 1 The Basic Framework of Copyright in Creative Industries


 2 Creative Industries’ Crisis in the Digital Era


 3 Opening Creative Industries: Creative Commons as a Remedy to Restrictiveness of Copyright


 4 Creative Commons: Alternative Production and Distribution in Sound Industry




4 Creative Commons: Peer-Production and the Quest for Networked Value

 1 Metadata and Content Annotation


 2 Sound Scenes and Their Cross-Fertilisation


 3 Growing Commons: Providing Representation for Underrepresented Sound


 4 Sharing Building Blocks: On a Search for Use Value of Content




5 The Art of Commoning and Content in Context

 1 Technical Quality and Context


 2 Openness and Artistic Experimentation


 3 Sound Commoning and a Sense of Community




6 Acknowledging Authorship: Attribution in the Market Context

 1 Attribution and Reputation


 2 Waiving Attribution


 3 Violation of Creative Commons License


 4 Public Domain (cc-0) as a Response to Limitations of Protection


 5 Conclusion




7 Art for Art’s Sake?: Commodifying the Commons

 1 Symbolic Unity of Creative Commons and Creative Industries


 2 Multiple Channel Content Sales


 3 Freemium Mode of Sound and Related Products


 4 Exclusivity of Access and Intermediation


 5 Curation and Automated Integration


 6 Conclusions




Conclusion The Art of the Creative Commons

 1 Creative Commons and the Opening of the Creative Industries


 2 Networked Value and the Commons


 3 Artistic Work through Commons-Based Production


 4 Creative Commons in the Political Economy of the Creative Industries


 5 Future Research on the Art of the Commons




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