project : Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r)

Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r)

description

The CC4r license sets out the conditions for reusing documents written by authors. It is inspired by the principles of free culture, but seeks to respond to a growing unease with licenses that remain tied to the idea of copyright as property, and are based on a universalist approach to openness. CC4r considers, on the contrary, that creation is already part of a collective cultural effort, and wants to remind current and future authors of the social and historical conditions that can be reasons to refrain from distributing and reusing a work.

The CC4r was developed for the Constant worksession Unbound libraries (spring 2020) and followed from discussions during and contributions to the study day Authors of the future (Fall 2019). It is based on the Free Art License and inspired by other licensing projects such as the (Cooperative) Non-Violent Public License and the Decolonial Media license.