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Ownership structures for creative works – such as Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Use, Public Domain – abound. This week, Kenneth Crews, the director of the Copyright Office at Columbia University, speaks with us about some of the distinctions, and the ways to make sure your work is protected as much or as little as possible.

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Radio Berkman 132: Learning to Share

How can the average person learn to share? The answer to this question and more on this week’s Radio Berkman.

Sharing is nice – that’s a lesson ingrained in us before we’re even old enough to go to school. Whether it’s sharing your toys, sharing your time, or sharing your work, sharing is just what nice people do for each other – the only exception being sharing germs. That is NOT nice.

The idea of sharing is a little more complicated when you’re a grown up. Some people will shell out big bucks for your eyewitness photos or video of Bigfoot, or the rights to your rap dedication to lolcats. And when a price tag can be put on any video, photograph, or written work you’re responsible for, the instinct would be to hold on a little tighter. With the cost of creative technology and digital distribution rapidly approaching zero, the need to play grown up with creative works is coming earlier and earlier.

But is there still room for caring and sharing in all of this?

This week David Weinberger speaks to Kenneth Crews, the director of the Copyright Advisory office at Columbia University and a scholar of Copyright law, about how we can share.

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Kenneth Crews is the director of the Copyright Advisory office at Columbia University and a scholar of Copyright law. You can find his blogs and podcasts at copyright.columbia.edu

This episode of Radio Berkman was produced by me Daniel Dennis Jones – with help this week from the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and the Harvard Law School Library – from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Metadata: http://copyright.columbia.edu