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- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Yay Google!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Looking at a terrible disaster such as the recording industry, it sounds absolutely critical to completely rethink how IP is licensed and shared. Way to go Google.
Although this amount sounds almost insignificant, it's supporting something in the right direction. Hey, journey of a thousand miles begins with a small step. - neszis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30They give to charity and you say "evil" because you don't think it's enough? Don't be an ass.
- nethenm, on 04/01/2008, -0/+11Google is going to donate $30,000 to Captain Crunch? I know, it truly is hard for pirates these days. I am sure that any amount will help him out.
- oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@rhettnyedotorg
Just because you don't think that Google is not giving enough to the right people doesn't mean they aren't. My boss knows the CEO of google.org (the charitible organization dedicated to spending Google.com's charity money); the mission statement of google.org is to "eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems." Creative Commons is small potatoes compared to the real issues of the world.
And google.org probably isn't going to (directly) help prevent RIAA lawsuits... ever. They have a significant investment in Google Video (and YouTube) that is going to make it terribly painful on their potential earnings to directly involve themselves in lawsuits between (RI|MP)AA organizations and copyright infringers.
"Do no evil" is not the same as "prevent all evil". - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That is probably the stupidest (or at least most self serving) comment I've ever read.... And I just came from reading comments on Anne Coulter!
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Is this a joke? People get impressed by this amount of money.
Microsoft had a giving campaing during last month, October, where it matched employee donations, and in one month they raised $63 million dollars.
Yeap, that's right, that's what a one month campaign resulted in. 58% of the employees at MS contributed and MS added $1 for each $1 the employees gave.
I can't believe people are getting impressed when a multi billion dollar corporation donates $30k. Sure that is good, too, but not at all impressive. - NerveBand, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Google, Congrats on Matching Microsoft's sweet donation of $30,000 previously. Now lets see you push it towards the sky.
(For those of you who forgot, remember Microsoft donated to CC as well. But everyone thought Microsoft was doing it to fix its "image") - NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Thats 30,000 junior bacon cheese burgers!
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Well, considering they're a corporation, rather than individuals, it's quite a bit different, especially considering 30,000 IS a significant sum for creative commons. Hell, this is even only a drop in Google's philanthropic bucket. But when's the last time you saw Microsoft (not specificly Bill/Mellinda Gates), Ford, Exxon, Toshiba, Time Warner, Sony, or Phillip Moris (in cases they aren't forced to by law) give ANYTHING to charity? It's a great example among corporations that have revenues, especially because it supports a worthy cause.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This is like Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs
Steve jobs: I will give a small portion of my sales from ipod nano in red colour to charity, mostly as good PR to sell more nanos
Bill Gates: Here, have a few billion
30,000 is nothing for google, at least they gave something. - MikeDubb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Honestly guys, this is basically Google tipping their hat to CC. Any money is good money, especially to NPOs. If you give a NPO millions of dollars, it would completely change their dynamic.. and probably ***** them in the end.
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This just in, the Booberry is up 20 points.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I think it's equivalent to cheering for you if you're a millionaire and give a homeless guy $500. That would cover his food expenses for at least a month (if he doesn't waste that money on useless causes). Now that's generous, isn't it?
- ajpiano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How much money does the Creative Commons Corporation actually need? I couldn't find an operations budget for the organisation, but it is ludicrous to scoff at this donation becuase it doesn't end in a lot of zeroes.
- sirsteveh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9You folks that are complaining about $30K not being enough:
Have you considered that CC may not /need/ $x bajillion? Not everyone spends like money's going out of style, you know.
Incidentally, the CC license isn't just for music/art. You can use it for program code, too; I prefer release my code under Attribution-ShareAlike rather than the GPL these days. - mkrygeri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Right here I challenge all of you to beat Google's donation to CC.
1200 of us give $25.
Then we'll ask google to match it...again. :)
methinks they will..
http://creativecommons.org/support/donate
Post donation as diggnation. - Tochi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Before taxes...
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Google Grants has donated $33M in advertising to more than 850 non-profit organizations in 10 countries. Current Google Grants participants include the Grameen Foundation USA, Doctors Without Borders, Room to Read, and the Make-a-Wish Foundation"
whats this the equivilent of, plus if you head over to www.google.org you will see that they do much much more
feel like giving a homeless guy a couple weeks pay? - neszis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Google Book Search doesn't break copyright. Those books have fallen out of copyright or have been donated to Google.
- Egoist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So that makes their donation worth less?
- rgrimble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I know Ford gives to charity, because I work for them.
- lordfoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good on Google
More later though I hope. They've certainly got a vested interest. - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Honestly I don't think KanTalk (John Draper's current company) diserves it quite as much as Creative Commons.... Nor is Crunch TV that great of a podcast...
- smohan123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good move, Google. Great publicity, great charity.
- Egoist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Exactly how much have you given to charity and NFPs this year? Please tell us so that we can all devalue your contributions.
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7$30 grand is a big amount of money for a little organisation. that can hire one person for a year. that is rather nice.
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had to dig you up. Nonetheless, it's still good and $30,000 buys a lot of good for Creative Commons. Is this Google.org doing the giving or Google the profit-seeking corp?
Ponder: CC and Google (read: "the people at... ") share some of the same goals, what with all the freely-shared information. Seeing these pages made me happy:
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/scarystories/
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/shakespeare/
Also ponder: Both CC and Google need a celebrity spokesperson. Nominations?
Once every google googles a google emerges from the google. - Book of Google Ch.1v.5 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4No one would be whining if google gave 0$ to CC. Instead they give a small amount, thus they are being greedy with their money? This is a corporation, not a charity. They don't give money away anywhere that they don't expect a return (goodwill or otherwise). There is no middle ground with you people.
- silentex, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8I believe $30,000 is quite generous, considering the group that they're giving it to. Now, if they were to hand out $30,000 to the Red Cross or a humanitarian group . . . then, by all means, bitch about it.
- h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For all these people complaining that Google didn't give enough, at least they gave something. If somebody walked up to you and handed you $1,000 would you complain that it wasn't $20,000?
- ChrisCree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If that's the case then it makes sense. Thanks!
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You mean "$0.00003", not "$0.0003".
- yossarian24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ rhettydotorg
i wasn't sure that following a countries laws were considered "selling out"
Google has done more for this organization than give it money... 30,000 for non-profits is big, and now more people have heard of it, and the cause just because It is connected to a headline maker like google - mlinksva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google also gave $30k last year and accepted four CC mentored projects for Summer of Code. Yay Google, indeed!
@mkrygeri: Great idea. :) If you don't have cash CC just added another way to help -- watch ad-supported videos at http://creativecommons.org/support/videos -- you (not you in particular!) might learn something, too. :)
disclaimer: I work for CC. - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Because they have to. Once businesses reach X amount of profit they have to donate Y percent to charity.
- cdibona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We'd be pleased to match it to to another 30k, I'll ask the CC people to keep an eye on the digg donations.
(Our group, the open source programs office, did that donation). - marbant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hey, it's thomas from popurls; i'm running an auction for CC fundraising on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230046794467 - WebsterJTC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Was i the only one that opened the article to see what "CC" stood for?
- lordfoul, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2***** RyeBrye get your stats from somewhere other than your ass.
- MourningZoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4That's good, way to go Google! :)
- neszis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1...what the hell, man?
- bdawg923, on 11/07/2007, -6/+4Google FTW.
- neszis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1People, stop whining about it not being enough. You realize that Google can't exactly give 10% of its revenue to EVERY SINGLE CHARITY that exists. It gives here and there, which is more than you can say for a lot of corporations. What are you going to tell them, "Pick one charity and stick with it?"
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Pirated Video Clips: $1 billion
Legal shared media: $0.0003 billion - ChrisCree, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0If Creative Commons is about copyright protection, doesn't Google's donating to them conflict a little with their whole project to scan in all those books for the Google Book Search? (http://books.google.com/)
- matthewvl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1i've never ever used the creative commons search in the search bar on firefox. at least I know what it does now.
- alteveer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2it's just sad that ms can raise $63+ mil for republicans, but google can only give $30k to freedom. how's that for spin? also, generous my ***** ass. cc (for you ***** out there, creative commons) deserves far more - they are a better way of doing things in a jungle of money grubbers and corporate greed. weak. weak google. and put notepad as a shortcut instead of docs/spreadsheets goddammit.
- oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0should have been a reply =/
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