1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,120 2 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,090 BRYAN MATHERS: Hello, my name is Bryan Mathers, from Visual Thinkery. 3 00:00:04,090 --> 00:00:06,370 And here's a few thoughts on being open. 4 00:00:06,370 --> 00:00:09,070 5 00:00:09,070 --> 00:00:13,840 Initially when I started to create stuff a few years ago-- so drawings, 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,840 illustrations from people thinking-- 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:22,660 I think my default mode was a copyright mode, 8 00:00:22,660 --> 00:00:26,230 to protect the thing that you've created if you feel happy with the thing 9 00:00:26,230 --> 00:00:28,380 that you've created. 10 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:33,370 And therefore, being open is somehow counter-intuitive to that copyright 11 00:00:33,370 --> 00:00:37,980 mode, which almost wants to lock your creation away somehow. 12 00:00:37,980 --> 00:00:41,590 Because being open says, put it on a pedestal. 13 00:00:41,590 --> 00:00:42,550 Allow people to see. 14 00:00:42,550 --> 00:00:44,110 It allow people to interact with. 15 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:48,280 Allow people to change it and build on top of it. 16 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,960 And I wonder where that comes from, that sort of default being copyright. 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,970 Maybe it's the school system that we've got that pits us against each other 18 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:00,150 and has us in competition with each other, 19 00:01:00,150 --> 00:01:04,480 and a very definite idea of, well, that was my idea. 20 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:05,830 Maybe that's just how kids are. 21 00:01:05,830 --> 00:01:06,610 I don't know. 22 00:01:06,610 --> 00:01:10,450 But somehow being open seemed counter-intuitive. 23 00:01:10,450 --> 00:01:15,820 And yet by getting stuff out there, obviously 24 00:01:15,820 --> 00:01:17,860 getting feedback, and improving your own work, 25 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:22,300 but also being able to go wide with a creation-- 26 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:25,150 and ultimately Creative Commons licenses provide 27 00:01:25,150 --> 00:01:33,260 a formalizing of the arrangement between me and the commons as a creator, 28 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:35,950 in terms of the terms of the arrangement, 29 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:40,780 saying that, hey, you can change this, hey, you can build on top of it, 30 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:44,486 hey, you know, you can share it, but I do want you to change it. 31 00:01:44,486 --> 00:01:51,280 And I find that just a different way of looking at things that a person 32 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,340 creates. 33 00:01:53,340 --> 00:01:56,170 But it doesn't work without a connected community. 34 00:01:56,170 --> 00:02:01,930 Because the role of a community in allowing a creation to go wide 35 00:02:01,930 --> 00:02:06,160 and having a need for those things at all, or an appreciation for the things 36 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:11,800 that are being created, I think is fundamental, and also just a community 37 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,930 that then respects the arrangement and respects the commons 38 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:20,620 and knows how new things are added to the commons 39 00:02:20,620 --> 00:02:24,970 and knows how things are looked after in the commons. 40 00:02:24,970 --> 00:02:28,980 So essentially, if it wasn't for both a connected community, 41 00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:35,080 that open community, and Creative Commons licenses, 42 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,380 my business wouldn't exist. 43 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:38,034