A brief introduction to U.S. Copyright law and the Creative Commons license. A history of copyright law will be presented leading up to the current state, along with a justification for Creative Commons as a mechanism to allow the sharing of creative works. Will conclude with an explanation of a specific example of a Creative Commons licensed project, the Notacon book.
The Notacon big book-o-fun
In a nutshell - A series of blank books passed about the con wherein all are encouraged to draw, sketch, scribble, write poetry, code, their manifesto, pretty much whatever. After the con is over the books will be scanned and converted into downloadable PDF published online under a creative commons license freely available to anyone.
Slightly expanded explanation - There will be volunteers (ie anybody I can rope into doing the job) who will carry the blanks books and various writing tools about Notacon and anyone who wishes to write in a book just needs to ask a book minion (volunteer). The book minions will be recognizable by the colorful "hello my name is" book minion sticker they'll have visable on thier person. Inside the front covers of each book will be the rules of the project and a notice stating that everyone who contributes to the book is freely giving copyright for the page(s) they write on to Notacon. As to rules they are very simple 1) No defacing or writing upon another person's page(s) thats just not cool. 2) No writing of slander, libel, or anything that could land the author/publisher/editor/Notacon officials or representatives in jail.