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Welcome to the Creative Business in the Digital Era wiki, where you can find the course and teaching material for the Open Rights Group's project on open-IP business models. We're examining how people are experimenting with new ways to run businesses based on freeing up their IP, whether that is the author who gives away his book under Creative Commons licences, or companies that share their intellectual property via an API, or musicians who let you choose how much you want to pay for their music.

We are researching these new and emerging business models, both from primary and secondary sources, and have prepared course material for students and teaching material for course tutors. The course itself was given by ORG on 17, 18 and 19 March 2008, but because these materials are published under a Creative Commons licence, anyone will be able to both contribute and build upon them, localise them to their own market, and give the course to students in their own area.

The project lead for this is Suw Charman, whom you can email at suw [at] openrightsgroup dot org, with support from Michael Holloway, michael [at] openrightsgroup dot org.

We welcome anyone who wants to take part in this project and help with collaborative research to create these educational materials. If you would like to contribute, please create an account, and then you can get cracking.

Contents

The Case Studies

Here are drafts of the three case studies we did. We want to add some more material that came up during the Q&As in the seminars, and also see if there are any unanswered questions from attendees and readers, so they will evolve.

Seminar Materials

We promised we'd put the work book and other seminar materials up, and there they are:

Join the discussion

There is now a mailing list that you can join to talk about open IP in business. Just visit this sign up page and fill in your email address and pick a password.

Attend the seminar

Who should come?

This seminar is aimed at people interested in doing business in the open environment presented by rapidly developing networked communications. You could be a C-level executive or an independent creator, or anyone in between, from any size of company:

  • C-level executives, independents, freelances, entrepreneurs, corporates, SMEs
  • Musicians, record labels, music publishing companies
  • Writers, journalists, publishers
  • Film makers, production companies, broadcasters
  • Visual artists, photographers, artists, illustrators and designers

When and where is it?

The Creative Business in the Digital Era seminar will be delivered as a single full-day course, and as an evening course repeated on two days:

Day Course: 17 March 08, 9.00am to 5.30pm Evening Course: 18 March 08, 6.00pm to 9.00pm Evening Course: 19 March 08, 6.00pm to 9.00pm

All courses will be held at 01zero-one in central London (main entrance is on Hopkins Street):

Westminster Kingsway College Soho Centre Peter Street London W1F 0HS

Cost

This is a subsidised course and is free to attendees. Refreshments and lunch will be provided at the day course; and drinks and nibbles will be available at both evening courses.

How to apply

There are a maximum of 40 places available for the day course, and 50 places for each of the two evening courses. We are anticipating heavy demand for these courses, so we are asking all applicants to tell us a bit about themselves so that we can select a balanced group of attendees. We will in the first instance be looking at which sector you work in and your level of experience, in order to assemble varied group of attendees. We will also be looking for commitment to and interest in open content, as illustrated by the 100 word passage that we ask each applicant to write. Remaining applicants will be selected randomly.

Please download this form, fill in both pages on separate sheets of paper and return to: Creative Business in the Digital Era, Open Rights Group, 7th Floor, 100 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8AL, UK. Any application form which has not been completed fully will be discarded.

Closing date

The closing date is 15 February 2008, and we will respond to all applicants by 29 February 2008.

Curriculum

The Curriculum is still being compiled but the Curriculum page will give you an overview.

Take part in the research

If you'd like to collaborate on this research, then there are several things you can do.

  1. Help out on this wiki. Simply create an account, and then start to contribute your ideas and research. Note that each Article has a related "Discussion" page, accessible by the tab at the top of the page. The main Article page should be used for collating and collaborating on research; if you have questions, you should ask those on the Discussion page. Right now, we are focusing on brainstorming the Research Areas page.
  2. If you see any websites or articles you think are relevant to our research, use the Del.icio.us tag 'org-cbde' (http://del.icio.us/tag/org-cbde) to bring it to our attention. Please do not send bookmarks to ORG's Del.icio.us inbox.
  3. Join the ORG-Discuss mailing list and talk about the issues that we're raising here. The easiest way to sign up is to use the subscription box on the sidebar of the Open Rights Group home page - http://www.openrightsgroup.org/.

If you get stuck, email Michael or Suw at the addresses above.

You can also follow developments via Twitter at http://twitter.com/creativebiz and on the blog at http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/blog/

Preparing the course

The first thing we need to do is to break down the various areas to be covered by the course into bullet points. The Course Overview gives you an idea of what we are aiming to achieve. The Curriculum then takes a look at the areas we hope to cover. There's quite a lot of ideas there, but we need to ensure that we can deliver all of this in one day (six hours), so we can't get too enthusiastic! We also need to consider our Research Areas, and firstly list the different examples of open IP business models, with examples of people using them. Then we can narrow down the list to the most interesting ones, which we will then research.

  • Course Overview - Broad introduction into what we hope to achieve with the course
  • Curriculum - Identifying and clarifying the different areas of knowledge of concern for this course
  • Research Areas - Listing the particular practitioners which we will study, organised according to their area (format / media) of creative production
  • Research Methodology - How we will go about both our primary and secondary research
  • Course Timetables - How will we deliver the course?

Promoting the course and encouraging participation

We would very much like to encourage other communities to participate in this venture, not just ORG supporters. If you know of communities of musicians, film makers, photographers, writers, business people, etc. who might be interested, please list them on our Communities page, and feel free to draw this project to their attention.

Press and Blog coverage

It's always nice to know what people are saying about us. Please do feel free to add URLs to this page.

Useful links

How to use the wiki

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Further Resources

  • Own-it "offers free (yes - free!) online advice to help you solve your IP issues. This could lead to a free one-to-one advice session with specialist lawyers!"
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