…that’s the title of a short paper I’m giving tomorrow at Open Content Licensing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons (pdf) at QUT, with guest star Larry Lessig. I’ll be appearing as a proxy for the Youth Internet Radio Network (YIRN), which I’ve been involved with as a researcher, but which isn’t really “my” project.

YIRN uses ethnographic action research to develop and investigate a network of young content creators and youth-oriented organisations from across Queensland, which includes developing an online space for creative content, collaboration and interaction that will be called www.sticky.net.au when it launches. I’ll be speaking about the principle of intercreativity (as opposed to older ideas about how engagement – such as with government – can be facilitated through top-down content delivery with added-on “interactivity”), and the ways in which creative commons licensing and the participatory, “open architecture” approach YIRN is taking to website design and development aim to support intercreativity, innovation, and enterprise outcomes.

I will then entertain the assembled lawyers and government types with some of the actual creative content, whereupon everyone gets to breathe a sigh of relief and head off to the dinner cruise. If the DVD fails, i may have to do something else to induce the same level of excitement. Damnit, I never should have dropped jazz ballet in grade 2.