CREATIVE COMMONS & THE FUTURE OF SHARING

JEA/NSPA CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON, DC

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

ESTHER WOJCICKI, CC CHAIR

Palo Alto High Journalism

• CC is a non-profit organization that works to increase the amount of CREATIVE WORKS available for FREE and LEGAL

• SHARING• REPURPOSING• MIXING

CREATIVE COMMONS (CC) WHAT IS IT?

Has around 30 employees and hundreds of volunteers around the world in 43 countries.

We do not offer legal advice per se.

We offer free legal and technical tools that allow creators to publish and share their works on more flexible terms than standard copyright.

Why do we need new tools?

Digitaltechnologies have

revolutionized howcreative works aremade, distributed,

and used

WHAT CONSTITUTES CREATIVE WORKS?

• TEXT• IMAGES• VIDEOS

• ART WORK• MUSIC

• ANYTHING CREATIVE

Everyday we use

Movies PicturesMusic Text

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DID YOU KNOW?

• Anything you create is by default automatically copyrighted?

• You do NOT need to file any paperwork

• It is “All Rights Reserved or

•COPYRIGHT covers everything you use – textbooks, photos, music, videos, lesson plans.

•COPYRIGHT covers everything you do – copying, emailing, modifying, sharing with colleagues

•On the web, TV, radio, in film

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COPYRIGHT

• Emailing that book chapter to a friend or colleague?• Posting a picture/video/article

onto your learning space?• Using a cartoon or drawing in

a handout?• Uploading resources you

found to your own web space?• Copying a lesson plan and

posting it to a educational resource repository?

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Creative Commons licenses focus on alternatives to

“all rights reserved”

• Creative Commons means “Some rights reserved”

• That means you still retain ownership but you are MODIFYING your rights

The Symbol looks like this

• Creative Commons

Creative Commons provides tools for creators to grant permission ahead of time

Original slide by Creative Commons Australia

These permissions include

the right to copy/distribute,

perform, display, build upon, and remix.

• These tools are for managing your own copyright

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So that you can collaborate and share material with anyone.

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So how does it work?

Four License Conditions

Six Licenses

Mark

your website

http://creativecommons.org

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

Mark

your works

Some

rights reserved

Why would students/teachers want to license their work with CC

licenses?

1. To share & collaborate with other students & teachers

2. To get more people to read,see, or hear their work. It will spread quickly on the web. It is like free PR for your work.

This is the Creative Commons web site www.creativecommons.org

Firefox supports CC searches

• Creative Commons Search

Facts about CC

• Creative Commons is in 43 countries with 19 additional countries in the process of adopting the licenses.

• More than 300 million objects are tagged with Creative Commons licenses

Open Educational Resources

Sharing resources(OER)

Here is one important use of CC licensed work on the web

Open Educational Resources (OER)are

materials, tools, and mediaused for teaching and learning

that arefree from copyright restrictions

or publicly licensedfor anyone

to use, adapt, and redistribute.

discovered.creativecommons.org/search

Open Education Resource Search Engine

opened.creativecommons.org

Student Journalism 2.0

• Is a funded by a MacArthur grant

• We are looking at student interest in and reaction to CC licenses

• It would be great to get other schools involved and get feedback from schools around the country.

Palo Alto High is one of the schools in the research group

• The goal is to get student opinion

• We have class discussions

• We have set up an option for students to license their work with CC licenses

• Students are free to use a license or not use one

• Student reaction is being documented

CC option on http:// voice.paly.net

This is what it looks like when a student chooses to use a CC license.

Would you like to participate?

• Student Journalism 2.0 welcomes any school that wants to participate

• Send us your feedback. What do you students think?

• You do not need to offer a CC license option

• If you are interested, email me at esther @creativecommons.org

Thank you for your attention!

Esther Wojcicki,Creative Commons

Palo Alto High Journalismesther @creativecommons.org