Pooling Ideas is now officially closed for 2009! For information on the finalists and winners see here.
The Creative Commons Clinic, Creative Commons Australia, ABC Pool and the Ideas Festival invite you to take part in a festival of collaborative innovation – and win fabulous prizes while you’re at it!
Pooling Ideas is now officially closed for 2009! For information on the finalists and winners see here.
When?
2-23 March 2009.
How?
Join Pool and get uploading (and downloading).
What’s happening?
Digital technology has changed the way we create and share our ideas. A world of music, literature, art and video is now available at our fingertips, and it’s all ours to play with, remix and manipulate. But what does this mean for our ideas of creativity and originality, yours and mine?
Over the next few weeks, we invite you to creatively interpret the theme We are what we share, and upload your creation to Pool. It’s free and there are no time limits or format requirements. Just tag your work we are what we share when you upload.
Mash up a film, tweak an artwork, remix a poem. It can be as simple as changing the colours in a photograph or as complex as remixing hundreds of different sounds into a single song.
The entry judged best by the panel of experts wins an internship with ABC Radio National to co-produce an episode of the Night Air. Select entries will be showcased at the Ideas Festival and on the Pool and Creative Commons Australia websites, and discussed at the Ideas We are what we share seminar at the State Library of Queensland on Saturday 28 March, 5-6.30pm.
Where do I get material to remix?
You can remix anything. But for it to be legal, you usually have to be the copyright owner, or have their permission. This is where Creative Commons comes in. With over 160 million different images, sounds, films and written works available on websites from Flickr to ccMixter, Creative Commons is a great source of material that can be legally remixed.
Where to start? You can find a lot of legally remixable material on Pool, or by using the Creative Commons Search engine. Or for more information about finding and using Creative Commons material, see our Pooling Ideas info pack.
Want some inspiration?
Here are some great examples of collaborative works, that are all free for remixing: 
- A Shared Culture by Jesse Dylan
- Text: the moment of absurd transcendental mundanity by Don Cameron
- For Gretchen by Benn DeMole
- Snow in Cities by zeb
- Dialogues with the Prototype by Chris Denaro
Rules
All entries must:
- be copyright compliant. This means that they must incorporate only content that you have created or that has been licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons licence. For more information on finding images, sound and video that can be used in the competition, see our Finding Material info sheet.
- fully credit all material used. This includes providing the author, title, source and licence for any images, music or text you use in your work. For information on tracking and crediting material used, see our Attribution info sheet.
- be made available for remixing. They must be uploaded to Pool under a Creative Commons licence that allows reuse (ie Creative Commons Attribution, Attribution-NonCommercial, Attribution-ShareAlike or Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike). For more information, see our introductory info sheet on Creative Commons licences.
- be uploaded to Pool before 23 March 2009, tag it we are what we share and comply with the Pool submission requirements .
Entries will be judged on originality, creativity and appropriateness to theme.
Prizes
- The winner gets the fabulous trophy pictured, as well as an internship with ABC Radio National to co-produce the Night Air with John Jacobs
- The top 3 entries receive a Creative Commons prize pack, including a USB chock full of remixable material
- All participants will receive a certificate of participation
Contact
For more information contact the Creative Commons Australia or Pool teams.
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