creative commons and the cc by license, overview for 2013 open kick-off
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Summary of session from OPEN Kickoff Conference for DOL TAACCCT Round 2 Grantees: Jane Park from Creative Commons will give a brief overview of Creative Commons, Creative Commons license use in education, and Creative Common's integral role in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. She will explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) requirement for TAACCCT program grantees, how the CC BY license works, and the free support CC will offer to grantees around application of the license to grantee materials. More info: http://open4us.org/events/TRANSCRIPT
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http://open4us.org
What is CC BY? What is Creative Commons?
What does it do? How does it work?
Who can use CC? How is CC used in
education? What support can I expect
from CC?
1. CC BY license requirement2. Creative Commons overview3. The CC licenses, esp. CC
BY4. CC & Open Educational
Resources 5. Our free services
The CC BY license requirement
“All successful applicants must allow broad access for others to use and enhance project products and offerings, including authorizing for-profit derivative uses of the courses and associated learning materials by licensing newly developed materials produced with grant funds with a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
The CC BY license requirement
“This license allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted work and requires such users to attribute the work in the manner specified by the Grantee.”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
“Only work that is developed by the grantee with the grant funds is required to be
licensed under the CC BY license.”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
This requirement applies to:
This requirement does not apply to:
Pre-existing copyrighted materials licensed to, or purchased by the grantee from third parties, including
Modifications of such materials
Works created by the grantee without grant funds
Why CC BY?
1. CC BY license requirement2. Creative Commons overview3. The CC licenses, esp. CC
BY4. CC & Open Educational
Resources 5. Our free services
What is Creative Commons? What does it do? How does it work? Who can use CC?
We make sharing content easy, legal, and
scalable.
What do we do?
Because not all sharing is easy.
Or legal.
Especially when you’re sharing with lots of folks
via the Internet.
All rights reserved
In a digital world, most everyone is a creator of copyrighted content.
CC BY-NC-SA by Judy Baxter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/
CC BY-NC “fuzzy copyright” by PugnoM - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/
With Creative Commons, creators can grant copy and reuse permissions in
advance.
Free copyright licenses that creators can
attach to their works.
How do we do it?
http://creativecommons.org/choose
Anyone. Anywhere in the world.
Even machines can read CC licenses! Let me
explain…
Who can use CC licenses?
CC licenses are unique because they are expressed in three ways.
Lawyer Readable
Legal Code
HumanReadable
Deed
MachineReadable Metadata
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CC Affiliate Network
We make sharing content easy, legal, and
scalable.
What do we do?
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500 million works
1. CC BY license requirement2. Creative Commons overview3. The CC licenses, esp. CC
BY4. CC & Open Educational
Resources (OER) 5. Our free services
✓ Customization✓ Accessible versions✓ Translations✓ Evolution of resource over time✓ Affordable versions✓ Innovation✓ Discoverability
http://creativecommons.org/education
Why CC BY?
Easy, Legal, ScalablePublic access to publicly funded educational materials
Making reuse and innovation possible
Why CC BY?
1. CC BY license requirement2. Creative Commons overview3. The CC licenses, esp. CC
BY4. CC & Open Educational
Resources 5. Our free services
✓ Understand CC licenses✓ Apply CC BY to your materials ✓ Find existing OER to use ✓ Attribute other CC-licensed works✓ Follow best practices for above
In addition to hosting this conference…
we will help you:
✓ Direct email & phone assistance [email protected] ✓Custom webinars ✓ On-site assistance✓ http://open4us.org✓ Your idea here…
We will do this through:
Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other
countries. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.
Please attribute Creative Commons with a link to creativecommons.org
