Prompt 15: At the start of a process rather than at the end

Séverine Dusollier sent us three prompts after we met for an afternoon to record a conversation. (We might turn the conversation into a podcast. You'll find the transcript here). Séverine has been a long time close collaborator and inspiration to us. As a lawyer developing critical approaches to copyright and IP, she brings a particular perspective.

In her second prompt, Séverine asks us how it would be possible to already address the conditions of collaboration (at the beginning of a process) rather only when something has been finished (at the end of a process).

From the preamble: "The CC4r understands authorship as inherently collaborative and already-collective."

CC4r announces that it aims not only at giving conditions for reuse, but that it endeavours to embrace authorship as inherently collaborative. Yet, the current state of the licence does not venture into the collective settings of the creation and, as other open licences, mostly organises the use of the work once it is created.

Let’s take this proposition seriously.

• How can CC4r genuinely address and re-imagine the conditions of creative collaboration, allocate rights/responsibilities/no-rights/duties/concerns amongst the participants to a collective project?
  
• How can participants be acknowledged and included?
  
• In which ways could CC4r address attribution?