C3S - Re-inventing a collective society

Slides introducing the Cultural Commons Collective Society, a new European collective society for musical authors and composers.

Transcript

1. C3S CARING FOR FREE CULTURE RE-INVENTING A COLLECTING SOCIETY ! ! ! ! ! ! ! @OLIVERGIERKE // #C3S // WWW.C3S.DE // OCT. 28TH, 2013 // CC BY SA
2. DISCLAIMER
3. DISCLAIMER No official representative Just someone involved (mostly IT) spreading the word
4. OLIVER GIERKE Open Source Software Developer Musician / Producer Running a label at the smallest scope possible Book author (revenues donated to CC) Photo: Florian Pfeiffer
5. COLLECTING SOCIETIES STATUS QUO
6. GEMA
7. GEMA Founded in 1933 ~ 60.000 members Different membership types imply different rights in participation 60% 1:1 accounting, 40% flat Criticism by various stakeholders growing
8. CHALLENGES IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION
9. "What if we could start from scratch?
10. LICENSE MODELS
11. YOU DECIDE WHICH WORKS C3S SHOULD TAKE CARE OF
12. YOU CHOOSE THE LICENSE
13. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
14. CREATIVE COMMONS
15. ATTRIBUTION
16. NON-COMMERCIAL
17. SHARE-ALIKE
18. NO DERIVATIVE WORKS
19. NO DERIVATIVE WORKS Excludes share-alike
21. MEMBERSHIP
22. ALL ASSOCIATES ARE EQUAL
23. ALL ASSOCIATES ARE EQUAL We all make up the rules - not only the 5-top-earning-percent…
24. ALL WORK IS EQUAL
25. ALL WORK IS EQUAL No U VS. E
26. IMPLEMENTATION
27. THE ORGANIZATION
28. C3S
29. C3S Cultural Commons Collecting Society Officially founded September 25th, 2013 in Hamburg A lot of political and organizational hurdles to take Founded as European collecting society
30. THE NUMBERS
31. THE NUMBERS 31.150€ collected by 50 founders 118.922€ raised through crowd-funding Next hurdle: 200.000€ total to get access to funding of NRW
32. THE MISSION
33. THE MISSION Acquire funding to start in 2014 Approach clubs and event organizers first Expecting admission by the DPMA in 2015
34. TECHNICALLY
35. SOFTWARE IS EATING THE WORLD … and the lack of software shouldn’t eat up artist revenues.
36. WE’RE LIVING IN 2013, SO…
37. WE’RE LIVING IN 2013, SO… … automate the heck out of everything
38. BUILD A LOT FROM SCRATCH
39. BUILD A LOT FROM SCRATCH Memberships, licenses, reporting, accounting… Expose APIs to create incentives for collaboration Standardized protocols and data formats
40. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
41. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Foundation for the C3S software systems (Parts of) C3S software to be released as open-source as well (tbd)
42. RE-USE EXISTING TECHNOLOGY
43. AUDIO FINGERPRINTING
44. AUDIO FINGERPRINTING Through software plugins and hardware tools DJ Monitor, kollector.com, TuneSat, MusicTrace
45. PROS & CONS
46. + COMPETITION
47. + COMPETITION Effectively kills the „GEMA-Vermutung“ Will cause the GEMA to move (and it already has)
48. + TRANSPARENT TARIFFS
49. + LESS ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD
50. + AUTOMATED REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING
51. + NO ROOM-BASED TARIFFS
 (FOR C3S WORK)
52. + NO NEGATIVE-BALANCE ACCOUNTS
53. — RAMP UP EFFORTS
54. — TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS
55. HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?
56. BECOME AN ASSOCIATE
57. SPREAD THE WORD
58. HTTP://WWW.C3S.CC