I’m pleased to link to a First Monday article I wrote that focuses on motivations for creating derivative works. The article grew out of an earlier post I made (or maybe it was vice -versa). Special thanks to David Wiley for his advice and encouragement and to BYU’s department of Instructional Psychology and Technology for [...]

I just found something I thought was pretty cool! On March 25, 2004, Lawrence Lessig released his book Free Culture with a Creative Commons license that allowed people to access the digital PDF version on the Internet for free. The license also allowed people to legally make derivatives of the work (Free Culture, 2004). The [...]

One of the great things about Creative Commons licenses (in my opinion) is that many of them allow for derivative works to be created. Derivative works are extremely popular in common culture. For example many Walt Disney movies are derivative works of earlier fairy tales (e.g. Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty). Westside Story is a [...]