Creative Commons Licenses

21-January-2015

with

Paul Stacey

Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons

Except where otherwise noted these materials

are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)

https://stateof.creativecommons.org

Traditional © designed

for old distribution

models

The problem:

Technically easy to share but

legally not so easy.

Processing speed, bandwidth, storage increasing at lower costs.

Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY

creativecommons.org

We make sharing

content easy, legal, and

scalable.

What do we do?

Free © licenses that

creators can attach

to their works

How do we do it?

Retain copyright while at same time expressing up front a set of permissions.

Step 1: Choose Conditions

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Step 2: Receive a License

most free

least freeNot OER

OER

Lawyer

Readable

Legal Code

Human

Readable

Deed

Machine

Readable

Metadata

http://creativecommons.org/choose

Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)

Title

Author

Source – Link to work

License – Name + Link

Peace Bridge by D'Arcy Norman CC BY

http://www.openwa.org/open-attrib-builder

5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER

• Make, own, and control your own copy of the contentRetain

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse

• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise

• Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something newRemix

• Share your copies of the original content, revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYkfsXT3U63wxQ-dB_WPTx4TZn9nrzWpBfX5RXEQKu4/edit?usp=sharing

“Except where otherwise noted these materials are

licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)”

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions

http://bit.ly/1DVWqMY

Remix: Which Creative Commons licensed

resources can be combined with which?

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/cc_tool/license_generator.html

OER Combined License Generator

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions

http://bit.ly/1BvN7T3

Revise: Which Creative Commons license can I

use when I adapt or modify work offered under

a Creative Commons license?

http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification

Meta Data

Q&A by Libby Levi CC BY-SA

Difference between “free” and “open”.

Deciding how open to be.

Public funding scenario – “Public should

have access to what the public pays for.”

education, museums, research, government

data, …

Private sector funding scenario – “How does

money work when using Creative Commons

licenses?” Business models for open –

musicians, authors, platforms, …

The Commons

Paul Stacey

Creative Commons

web site: http://creativecommons.org

e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org

blog: http://edtechfrontier.com

presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey

News: http://creativecommons.org/weblog

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