the creative commons project: sharing knowledge in the digital age enrico bertacchini...

The Creative Commons Project: The Creative Commons Project:

Sharing Knowledge in the Digital AgeSharing Knowledge in the Digital Age

Enrico BertacchiniEnrico Bertacchini

enrico.bertacchini@unito.it

• Officially launched in 2001

• No-profit corporation based in the

USA (Stanford).

• Founder: Lawrence Lessig

Creative Commons HistoryCreative Commons History

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©All rights reserved

(and then some more)

No rights

reserved

(copyright is dead)

Some rights

reserved

• Release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use

• Inspiration: GNU General Public License for software

• Objectives:

− Creators retain copyright while licensing works as

free for certain uses, on certain conditions − Develop web application to help people dedicate their

creative works to the public domain (sharing)

Creative Commons Project /1Creative Commons Project /1

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Creative Commons Project /2Creative Commons Project /2

• Fields of application:

− Copyright protected works: websites, scholarship,

music, film, photography, literature, courseware,

etc.

• Database???

• Geographical Data???

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Licensing PossibilitiesLicensing Possibilities

AttributionAttribution ( (always)always)

No Commercial UseNo Commercial Use

No Derivative WorksNo Derivative Works

Share AlikeShare Alike

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Creative Commons LicensesCreative Commons Licenses

6 variations:6 variations:

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike

Attribution Non-commercial

Attribution No Derivatives

Attribution Share Alike

Attribution

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Digital CodeDigital Code

• Machine readable code: Metadata

• Bit describing other bits

• Expression, Description, Search

• No Digital Right Management

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Creative Commons InternationalCreative Commons International

• Project launched in 2003

• Adapt CC Licenses to national jurisdictions: “License Porting”

• Create an international networks of copyright experts

• Co-ordinate working groups for legal research

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CC WorldwideCC Worldwide

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Science Commons ProjectScience Commons Project

• Project launched by CC in 2006

• Science Commons serves the advancement of science by removing unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation.

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Science Commons ProjectScience Commons Project

3 main fields of application:

PublicationsPublications

LicensesLicenses

DataData

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Science Commons - PublicationsScience Commons - Publications

Open AccessUsing CC Licensing

Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi, and BioMed Central

Scholar's Copyright Addendum EngineHelps scholars negotiate the rights to use and distribute

their work via self-archiving (not yet international)

Open Access Law ProgramProvides a comprehensive set of resources promoting

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Science Commons - LicensesScience Commons - Licenses

Biological Materials Transfer Agreement Project

Developing and deploying standard, modular contracts to lower the costs of transferring physical biological materials

Using Creative Commons methodology

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Science Commons – DataScience Commons – Data

Neurocommons ProjectOpen Source knowledge management platform for biological

research (applied to neuroscience)Phase 1:

pilot project to organize and structure knowledge by applying text mining and natural language processing to open

biomedical abstractsPhase 2:

development of a data analysis software system, released under BSD Open Source License

Goal:viable open source platform based on open content and open

Web standards16

ReferencesReferences

www.creativecommons.orgwww.creativecommons.it

www.sciencecommons.org

This presentation is released under a Creative Commons

Attribuzione 2.5 Italia License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/it/)

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