Introduction to

Creative Commons

Prepared by :

Suheil Hassab Elrasoul

Tel:0912885661

Email:suheil2004@hotmail.com

Job:The National Council for Press&Publication

Out line What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons Movement Why CC? Who Uses CC? Culture CC Licences CC Baseline Rights #1&#2 CC Licence Elements International CC Other CC Work The CC Web site CC Mailing Lists Accrediting Use

What is Creative Commons?Creative Commons defines the spectrum of

possibilities between full copyright (all rights reserved) and the public domain (no rights reserved)

CC licences allow creators to retain copyright, while inviting certain uses of the work, a "some rights reserved" copyright

Creative Commons MovementAs mentioned previously the CC movement evolved

from open source software ideas and licencesUS lawyer Lawrence Lessig established the public

domain Web site site after participating in an unsuccessful lawsuit

Lessig decided he wanted to “attempt to redesign copyright from within”

CC was officially founded in 2001 after Lessig received a grant from the Centre for Public Domain (CPD)

Lessig was assisted by IPR and IT experts (including James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Eric Saltzman, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred) and fellows and students from Harvard Law School

Many respected experts now sit on the board of directors

Why CC?The idea of universal access to research, education, and

culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.

Who Uses CC?

Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

The best known users of Creative Commons licenses. You can also search hundreds of millions of CC licensed works and choose a license for your own.

Wikipedia Google Flickr

Culture

The goal at Creative Commons is to increase cultural creativity in “the commons” — the body of work freely available to the public for legal use, We realize there’s an inherent conflict between innovative digital culture and archaic copyright laws. Our licenses help bridge that conflict so that the Internet can reach its full potential.

CC LicencesThe idea of the movement was to create licences

that were:easy-to-useUsed current copyright law to achieve their effectWould allow creators to share their work with the

public whilst maintaining certain control over it There are now 16 million works using CC licences

(wikipedia)

CC Baseline Rights #1Every licence will help you

retain your copyrightannounce that other people's fair use, first sale, and

free expression rights are not affected by the licenceEvery licence requires licencees

to get your permission to do any of the things you choose to restrict e.g., make a commercial use, create a derivative work

to keep any copyright notice intact on all copies to link to your licence from copies of the worknot to alter the terms of the licence not to use technology to restrict other licencees' lawful

uses of the work (note this includes technical protection measures)

CC Baseline Rights #2Every licence allows licencees, provided they live

up to your conditionsto copy the work to distribute it to display or perform it publicly to make digital public performances of it (e.g.,

webcasting) to shift the work into another format as a

verbatim copy Every licence

applies worldwide lasts for the duration of the work's copyright is not revocable

CC Licence ElementsAttribution: The work is made available to the

public with the baseline rights, but only if the author receives proper credit

Non-commercial: The work can be copied, displayed and distributed by the public, but only if these actions are for non-commercial purposes

No derivative works: This licence grants baseline rights, but it does not allow derivative works to be created from the original

Share-Alike: Derivative works can be created and distributed based on the original, but only if the same type of licence is used, which generates a “viral” licence

The 6 main CC Licences

by Attribution

by-nc Attribution-NonCommercial

by-sa Attribution-ShareAlike

by-nd Attribution-NoDerivs

by-nc-sa Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

by-nc-nd Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

The Licence

Licence FormatsCommons deed

(human readable)

Legal licence (lawyer readable)

RDF/XMLMachine readable

International CCCC licences originally written using an American

legal modelThe licences were popular and adopted by users all

around the worldHowever, there was a possibility that there might

be validity problems in some jurisdictions iCommons - offshoot of the licensing project

dedicated to the drafting and eventual adoption of jurisdiction-specific licences24 jurisdictions have completed licences

(17/11/05)13 jurisdictions licences are being developed at least 70 local jurisdiction licenses expected

CC United KingdomComplexities of UK law have meant the creation of

two different set of licencesCC United Kingdom: England and Wales

Completed April 2005Licence ported by Programme in Comparative

Media Law and Policy at Oxford University CC United Kingdom: Scotland

Still being developed – working draftLicence being ported by the AHRB Centre for

Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at Edinburgh University

Also CC Ireland

Other CC WorkScience CommonsSearchingTools - CC Publisher, CC lookup, browser pluginsFundraisingWeb log and mailing lists

The CC Web site

CC Mailing ListsVarious discussion lists including:

CommunityNew licencesDeveloping nationsEducationBusiness ideasMetadataSoftware development

Accessible from CC Web site

Accrediting UseThe proper way to accredit use of CC-licensed work

is to:to keep intact any copyright notices for the Workcredit the author, licensor and/or other parties

(such as a wiki or journal) in the manner they specify

the title of the Workthe Uniform Resource Identifier for the work if

specified by the author and/or licensor

Refrences www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/events/cc/cc-intro.ppt

Guadamuz and Jordan Hatcher This ppt is available at: http://www.intrallect.com/cie-study/index.htm

Thanks For You Attentions