creativecommons – Nate Angell

Open Licensing Over TV Dinners and Smoothies

Nate Angell on 18 Jan 2018

Image of a TV dinner in a foil tray with different Creative Commons licenses badges on the different food items. This work, “CC TV Dinner” by Nate Angell is licensed under CC BY, and is a derivative of “tv dinner 1" by adrigu (https://flic.kr/p/6AMLDF) used under CC BY, and various Creative Commons license buttons by Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads) used under CC BY.

An offhand, only half-serious comment I made in the Creative Commons open education slack channel in response to a very worthy question from BCCampus’ Amanda Coolidge led to a new (?) metaphor to help explain the different open-licensing implications between collecting and redistributing a group of works with different open licenses versus actually remixing several works to form a new, derivative work: hereafter known as the TV dinner vs the smoothie.