Version 4.0 for Education

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Version 4.0 of the CC license suite is ready for you to use!

• What does that mean?• What’s new in 4.0?• What is the same?• Who has upgraded?

Version 4.0 of the CC license suite is ready for you to use!

What does that mean?• What’s new in 4.0?• What is the same?• Who has upgraded?

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Version 4.0 of the CC license suite is ready for you to use!

What does that mean? What’s new in 4.0?• What is the same?• Who has upgraded?

1. Easier to navigate!2. A more global license3. Addresses rights outside

scope of ©4. Common-sense attribution5. Anonymity if desired6. 30 days to correct violations

Pop-up Guides!

Clear Definitions

& Sections

1. Easier to navigate!2. A more global license3. Addresses rights outside

scope of ©4. Common-sense attribution5. Anonymity if desired6. 30 days to correct violations

1. Easier to navigate!2. A more global license3. Addresses rights outside

scope of ©4. Common-sense attribution5. Anonymity if desired6. 30 days to correct violations

Database Rights

CC Licenses now license sui generis database rights. This means that if you see a CC license on a database, you know you have permission to use the database without worrying about what jurisdiction you are using the database in or where the database was created.

Education Example:

You find a database of learning analytics and it has a CC BY 4.0 license on it. This means you are free to reuse the database as long as you give credit to the database creator and abide by the terms of the license.

Moral, Publicity, Privacy, Personality Rights

These rights are waived by the licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow you to reuse the content as intended by the license.

Education Example:

You want to use a headshot a teacher has taken of herself and licensed CC BY 4.0 in a yearbook. Do you have to worry about her publicity rights when it comes to reusing it?

1. Easier to navigate!2. A more global license3. Addresses rights outside

scope of ©4. Common-sense attribution5. Anonymity if desired6. 30 days to correct violations

Common-sense Attribution

Simpler and more flexible. Now made explicit that you can satisfy the attribution requirement with a link to a credits page.

Education Example:

You have created a video about the History of X and can’t attribute all your sources in the video itself. Now you can simply include a link to a page that lists all the credits.

Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)

Title Author Source – Link to work License – Name + Link

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution

Best Practice Example:

You have assembled a textbook consisting of OER from various sources. Here’s what a credits page at the end of that textbook might look like.

Also, if you modify a CC-licensed work…

Indicate that you did so along with your attribution. This makes it easier for downstream users (including you) to know it has changed from the original.

Education Example:

You use another teacher’s lesson plan but replace the classroom activity with your own. Simply note that you changed it so others will know the difference.

Sample Attribution:

American History Lesson by John Doe used under a CC BY license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Activity in Section E changed from original.

1. Easier to navigate!2. A more global license3. Addresses rights outside

scope of ©4. Common-sense attribution5. Anonymity if desired6. 30 days to correct violations

Anonymize your work

Made more explicit in 4.0: you can have your name removed from any version of your work if desired – verbatim reproduction or adaptation.

Education Example:

You draft a white paper that you want others to build on, but don’t want to be credited for the work until it is final. You can ask for your name to be removed from any drafts redistributed online.

1. Easier to navigate!2. A more global license3. Addresses rights outside

scope of ©4. Common-sense attribution5. Anonymity if desired6. 30 days to correct violations

30-day window to correct violations

If you breached a license by mistake, you can now correct your mistake and have your rights reinstated automatically – which means you can continue to use the CC-licensed work.

Education Example:

You forgot to attribute a textbook you used in your curriculum. Instead of permanently losing reuse rights, simply correct your mistake within 30 days of discovery and get your rights reinstated automatically.

recap:

Easier to navigate! A more global license Addresses rights outside

scope of © Common-sense attribution Anonymity if desired 30 days to correct violations

Version 4.0 of the CC license suite is ready for you to use!

What does that mean? What’s new in 4.0? What is the same? Who has upgraded?

NonCommercial Definition

Commercial is still defined as: “primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation”

Education Example

You can continue using NC-licensed educational resources for noncommercial purposes as you were doing!

No Endorsement

Users may not attribute you in a way that suggests you endorse or support their use of your work.

Education Example

Another teacher can’t say that you support their using your lesson plan in their classroom.

Operation of ShareAlike

SA condition is triggered when you derive or adapt material, not when you include it unaltered in a collection.

Education Example

You include a CC BY-SA licensed photo, unaltered, in a Powerpoint for your class. Do you have to license your presentation under CC BY-SA?

Version 4.0 of the CC license suite is ready for you to use!

What does that mean? What’s new in 4.0? What is the same? Who has upgraded?

“Once all academic content is… [CC BY] we believe that

significant new opportunities will emerge for people to use this content; to build on it for

new discoveries and products; and to accelerate

the scientific discovery process.”

and many more

choose 4.0

takeaway:

Version 4.0 is better for:

Governments Public Sector Information

(PSI) Databases Education!

by Creative Commons

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Slides 31-32:Window icon; CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) by Lubos Volkov; http://thenounproject.com/term/window/20953/

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