The document discusses making content "free" through open source and free culture licensing. It defines different types of "free", such as the four freedoms of open source software. Creative Commons licenses are presented as a standard way to choose sharing terms for works. Benefits of open licensing include collaborative development and minimizing duplication, while challenges include lack of community and competition benefiting from shared work. The Open Siddur Project is provided as an example of using various Creative Commons licenses and open source development practices to facilitate sharing of religious content.

1. Making `free' work for social entrepreneurship: The benefits and challenges of developing your idea in an open source community Efraim Feinstein The Open Siddur Project PresenTense Jerusalem Hub 19/09/2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License

3. What does “free” mean?

4. How do you make it “free”?

5. “Socially responsible”

6. Benefits

7. Challenges

13. Make and distribute new copies of the work

14. Make new works that build upon the original work (derivative works)

16. Visual art

17. Performance art

18. Music (notation)

19. Music (sound)

20. Computer software

21. …

23. Copyright has reason... Wikimedia Commons , Public domain.

26. Often do not delineate clear boundaries

28. Jurisprudence has tended to follow secular law

29. An interesting topic for more than one shiur ...

30. The web c. 1990 Website User

31. The web now Website User 1 User n

33. A standard copyright notice (book) ...

34. Copyright notice (website)

35. Terms of service (website)

36. Terms of use (website)

37. … or make it “free”... Image Copyright AGoK, CC-BY-SA 2.0, source

39. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

40. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

41. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

43. the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it

44. the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression

45. the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works

47. What rights your users give to you

48. What rights your users give to all other users

50. Standard set of terms that allow authors to choose terms for their work from among a spectrum of rights .

51. Well understood

54. No copyright

55. No attribution required

56. For modified works, should not imply endorsement by the original author (true for all copyright licenses – not really a consequence of copyright)

59. Distribution

60. Modification

63. Distribution

64. Modification

66. All derivative works are also released under the same terms ( copyleft )

69. Open up (some) free culture works for your use (read the licenses!)

70. Collaborative possibilities with other projects

71. The “open source” development model Code repository Developers Users Bug reporting tool Communications media

73. Provide back to the community what they provide to you

74. Failure is not a total loss

77. Business model

78. Gate-keeping

80. Web application (now under development)

81. Blog: http://opensiddur.org

82. Demo: http://shell.jewishliturgy.org:8080/code/apps/builder

84. Public domain data stays in the public domain

86. CC-BY

87. CC-BY-SA

89. General discussion list ( opensiddur-talk )

90. Technical discussion list ( opensiddur-tech )

91. Source code repository (on Github )

92. Live conferences over IRC and Skype

93. Upload page (to be replaced by a web application)

95. Free culture copyright licensing is a legal framework that facilitates sharing

96. Building community is essential for the open source development model

97. Open source has a real meaning

98. Open source won't make your hair grow back

99. Conclusions Use your freedom: Copy. Don't duplicate. Innovate. Share.