1. starting 10 p.m. you are listening to wade, found at jamendo.com

2. Towards a Reliable Content Catalog Presentation at the Wizards-of-OS Conference launching RegisteredCommons.org Berlin, 15 September 2006

3. 3 Registered Commons Features ● Register digital works of any type ● Preferring CC licensed works ● Hash signature ● Time-Stamp Service (provided by A-Cert) ● Rich Meta-Data Set ● Unique relation to author A registration service offers added value to the open content community. Both creators and users may benefit, if reliable licensing is required.

4. 4 Supporting Creators ● Personalised certificate as enhanced Commons Deed ● Verification of authors identity ● Timestamp allows proof of publication date & time ● Compatibility to CC licensing scheme ● Author may define Moral Rights ● Collecting Feedback on WikiPage A registration service offers added value to the open content community. Both creators and users may benefit, if reliable licensing is required.

5. 5 Users' Viewpoint ● Proof of authors identity ● Proof of license scheme ● Proof of date, when license was applied ● Altering the work becomes trackable ● Enriched MetaData supports work's reception ● Moral rights clarify usage restrictions in advance Publications or derivates must be build on a secure legal ground. A user may ask an author, to register the work in order to get 100% confidence on the license applied.

6. 6 Organisations' Viewpoint ● Central rights clearing possible ● Content distributors such as radio stations or mobile phone providers can make bulk arrangements ● Usage of ISBN/GRID (Global Release Identifier) ● Legal security offered ● Interfaces to rights collecting societies' EDP-systems Organisations will be able to clear rights without the need to look up each license attached to individual works.

7. 7 Use Cases ● Text documents in research and science ● Audio and visual material created for Higher Education or University ● CourseWare shared amongst teachers ● Open business-models or contracts ● Reliable CC music distribution ● Delivering towards a culture of free contents ● Batch registration of Public Domain content We had developed several use cases for specifying the service portfolio.

8. 8 Perspectives ● Folksonomy tagging ● Find similar / altered releases of work ● Extend License Templates ● Localisation ● Gain rights collecting societies status in negotiations ● Operations and infrastructure will be managed with revenues from professional services ● Issuing signed certificates on paper ● Central rights clearing ● Bulk registration RegisteredCommons 1.0 is starting with a pure registration service. In case of acceptance, we will add more sophisticated service elements.

9. 9 Technical approach ● Employing CreativeCommons API and framework ● Certified Timestamps ● Using generic Free Software ● Secured on operating system level (freeBSD) ● Filesystem Storage ● Metadata in postgreSQL spunQ is an OpenSource database modeller, easy to extend in several coding languages and used for a number of database backends.

10. 10 spunQ / database modelling system ● OpenSource database modelling ● interfaces generated by ontology ● WAI / XHTML ● strict object orientation ● postgresql / mysql / oracle ● Linux / BSD ● performance for large systems SpunQ is used in a number of community portals, business application and public administrations for large systems and big amount of data. ● easy to learn for users/editors/developers ● extend it in php, perl or c

11. 11 Become a part of it ● Get Involved ● Project Wiki: http://RegisteredCommons.org/wiki/ ● Mailing List http://lists.media.coop/mailman/listinfo/rc-info http://lists.media.coop/mailman/listinfo/rc-info ● Feature requests, bug reports and code contribution at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/registeredcommons http://developer.berlios.de/projects/registeredcommons ● Become a shareholder ● 1 share = €100.- (+ liablity for another €100.-) ● 20 shares per person/organisation maximum by statutes ● Talk to us! Service operating is based on the legal framework of a co-operative (“Genossenschaft”), in which anybody can become a voting member by taking shares.

12. 12 Whom to contact ● Eric Poscher User support ep@OSalliance.com ● Jürgen Schmidt APIs js@strg.at ● Andreas Feuerstein Press fea@fhv.at ● Roland Alton-Scheidl Co- operations ras@media.coop ● Joe Benso US contact person joebenso@gmail.com

13. 13 Registered Commons Team ● Jürgen Schmidt, strg.at, Software Architect ● Martin Schmidt, strg.at, Developer ● Eric Poscher, OSalliance.com, Concept ● Peter Steurer, OSalliance.com, Design ● Edith Huber, Fachhochschule St. Pölten, Finances ● Andreas Feuerstein, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Press ● Martina Rüscher, via3 Communications ● Joe Benso, University of Illinios, Chicago, Podcast ● Silvia Fetz, OSalliance.com, Marketing Support ● Roland Alton-Scheidl, OSalliance & media.coop, Project lead A wonderful team was developing RegisteredCommons within a few weeks.

14. 14 Registered Commons Partners Our work is partially funded within the “Copyright Clearing” activity in the Competence Network for Media Design, supported by FFG, Austria. A public-private partnership is developing and hosting the service.

15. 15 Tuxedo Blues Lyrics Woke up this mornin' turned on the news somebody's trying to steal the blues. They try to license E-Major and put my songs in danger It's my favourite blues chord soon it ain't free no more.

16. 16 Tuxedo Blues Lyrics Went to O'Malley's to fetch me some gin sat down at the bar when i saw him walking in His name was Tux he gave me a grin said try open source fella that's how you win.

17. 17 Tuxedo Blues Lyrics cause culture is free and should always be it's creative and common for both you and me let's share this song so we can get along CC 2006Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5

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