A collective book gathering contributions from CC international project leads and other authors.

Danièle Bourcier, Pompeu Casanovas, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Catharina Maracke (editors), Intelligent Multimedia. Sharing Creative Works in a Digital World, European Press Academic Publishing, Florence, June 2010, 412 p.

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Abstract:

The development of affordable computer technologies coupled with the advances in multimedia technology enable the transformation of users in cultural actors. The notion of « Intelligent Multimedia » – which is the title of this book – summarizes this social and technical transformation. The Semantic Web, among other technologies, facilitates access to and processing of multimedia and informational works. Consumers become prosumers in the new stages of the Web. However, the possibilities offered by the technologies are not always accompanied by the law. Lawrence Lessig, one of the Creative Commons founders, pointed out a paradox in the Foreword of our previous book International Commons at the Digital Age – La création en partage (Romillat, Paris, 2004). First, copyright is essential to the dignity and often the incentives of creative authors. Second, the existing system of copyright is insanely complex and often harmful to the interest of creators. Today, copyright law could change towards an ecology of innovation and open access leading to the transformation of both technical protocols and governance. Creative Commons is one instrument to overcome legal barriers for disseminating, sharing and reusing all this knowledge and creativity.

Table of contents:

Foreword: Intelligent Multimedia: Research Projects and Related Workshops
(Danièle Bourcier, Pompeu Casanovas, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Catharina Maracke)

Introduction: Intelligent Multimedia, Creative Commons and Web 3.0
(Danièle Bourcier, Pompeu Casanovas, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Catharina Maracke)

SECTION I

CREATIVE COMMONS AND DIGITAL RIGHTS: A NEW KIND OF GOVERNANCE

Commons Digital Works: Thinking Governance
(Danièle Bourcier)

From Free Culture to Open Data: Technical Requirements for Access and Authorship
(Melanie Dulong de Rosnay)

Creative Commons International. The International License Porting Project – Origins, Experiences, and Challenges
(Catharina Maracke)

Open Sourcing Regulation: The Development of the Creative Commons, Licences as a Form of Commons Based Peer Production
(Prodromos Tsiavos, Edgar Whitley)

Is a Tech Commons possible? Enabling a Commons of Technological Register Rights Content Suitable for Open Innovation
(John Hendrik Weitzmann)

Open Licensing’s Impact on Higher Education Resources: Colombian and Catalan Approaches
(Carolina Botero, Ignasi Labastida)

The Use of Creative Commons Licensing to Enable Open Access to Public Sector Information and Publicly Funded Research Results. An Overview of Recent Australian Developments.
(Anne Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper, Brian Fitzgerald)

Legal Commons and Social Commons. Creativity and Innovation in the Global Peripheries
(Ronaldo Lemos)

Collecting Societies and Creative Commons Licensing
(Herkko Hietanen)

The SeLiLi Project : Free Advice on Free Licenses
(Juan Carlos De Martin, Andrea Glorioso)

 

SECTION II

MULTIMEDIA AND AWMANAGING DIGITAL CONTENTS

Virtual Culture and the Public Space
(Victòria Camps)

Regulation and Co-Regulation in the Public Space 2.0
(Joan Barata)

A Catalan Code of Best Practices for the Audiovisual Sector
(Emma Teodoro, Núria Galera, Jorge González-Conejero, Pompeu Casanovas)

Privacy-Preserving Digital Rights Management
(Antoni Roig)

Enhancing Electronic Contracts with Semantics. The Case of Multimedia Content Distribution
(Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, Jaime Delgado)

Natural Language Oriented Engineering of a Copyright Ontology for Controlled Natural Language Presentation
(Roberto García, Rosa Gil)

LiquidPublications and Its Technical and Legal Challenges
(Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Joseph R. Wakeling, Judith Simon, Gloria Origgi, Roberto Casati)

Intelligent Multimedia Content Retrieval in Parliaments
(Elena Sánchez-Nielsen, Francisco Chávez-Gutiérrez)

The Ontomedia Project: ODR, Relational Justice, Multimedia
(Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas, José Manuel López-Cobo, Álvaro, Cabrerizo, Juan Antonio Prieto)

Emotional Speech Analysis in the Mediation and Court Environments
(Ciro Gracia, Xavier Binefa, Marta Poblet)

Diarization for the Annotation of Legal Videos
(Ciro Gracia, Xavier Binefa, Emma Teodoro, Núria Galera)

Legal Multimedia. Management and Semantic Annotation for Improved Search and Retrieval
(Jorge González-Conejero, Emma Teodoro, Núria Galera)