Fair Share allows you to track your work and make sure it is being used by others in the manner that you’ve permitted — via Creative Commons. It’s a smart new idea that I first posted on InfoWantsToBeFree.
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Day: March 4, 2009
Splendid times indeed that we can get something like this — but this is a case where I only like the version that comes intact with the happy ending.
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Fair Share: Claim Your Work
Fair Share is ” a free service that enables you to claim your work, watch how it spreads and learn how it is used across the Web.” Their website states:
If it’s text and published via RSS, you can claim it: Blog posts, poems, recipes, songs, essays, car reviews, game cheats, celebrity scoops, love letters, you name it.
You plug in your RSS feed (full text feeds are strongly preferred), select a Creative Commons license and give us your email address.
We’ll confirm your email address and give you a FairShare feed to add to your RSS feed reader.
Sit back and relax for a few hours while we crank up our engines.
By the time you’ve finished your nap, the different pages on which your work has been reused will start popping into your FairShare feed.
For each page containing your work, we’ll show you how the reuse compares to your license conditions and point you to a handy page where you can see more details.
What does “registered through FairShare” mean?
This is the number of articles or blog posts that have been claimed by our users. FairShare allows you to claim your original work as your own and constantly searches over 35 billion blog and web pages to find where your work has been reused above a certain minimum threshold.
I am not even talking about true transmedia work with developed story lines and expanded narratives; I am just wondering what examples are out there of additional material that has been used by filmmakers, mainstream and the indie DIY side both, to help bring audiences to the films.
Rainn Wilson tweeted about the shorts he did with Slash for The Rocker a few days ago, and I checked them out, but at that time, six months after the release less than 300 people had watched them on YouTube.
We have the videos s that Arin & Susan did for Four Eyed Monsters and set the bar for indie film promotion. We have Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up skits, and Wes Anderson’s short for Darjeeling Express. But what else is there? Why isn’t everyone doing it? I would think that it is by now standard practice, but no. It’s not truly a money issue because there are lots of ways to do work on the cheap.
On Adventureland, we came up with a couple of short pieces that will soon debut on iTunes and elsewhere, but that was the first time that a studio “let” us do it. I want to do it on every film now, and hopefully scripted well in advance.
Let us know what other examples you’ve found.
