Some Rights Reserved: An Introduction to Creative

Commons

Staff DevelopmentJanuary 29th and 30th, 2008

Molly Kleinman

Outline

• Introduction to Creative Commons

• Overview of the licenses

• How to use CC-licensed materials

• How and why to CC license your own work

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons provides free legal tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.

In their own words

A short video from Creative Commons

Get Creative

Copyright Basics: A bundle of rights

• The right to publish the work• The right to copy the work• The right to prepare derivative works• The right to display or perform the work• The right to license any of the above to

third parties

Copyright exists from the moment of creation, and lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years.

From

“Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain”

by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins

Why Creative Commons?

• Copyright happens automatically

• Copyright lasts from the moment a work is created until 70 years after the death of the creator.

• Copyright comes with several rights, and creators may not want or need all of them.

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The Creative Commons Licenses

A spectrum of rights

Mix and Match Licenses

AttributionNon-CommercialShare AlikeNo Derivative Works

Creators combine the different elements to create a license that suits their needs, and tells you what you can and can’t do with their work.

The six license combinations

AttributionAttribution Share AlikeAttribution No DerivativesAttribution NoncommercialAttribution Noncommercial Share Alike Attribution Noncommercial No

Derivatives

Three kinds of code

1) Human Readable

2) Lawyer Readable

3) Machine Readable

Human Readable Code

Lawyer Readable Code

Machine Readable Code<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License</a>.

Using Creative Commons licensed works

This is the fun part

Where to find CC-licensed stuff

• Flickr• MIT OpenCourseWare • ccMixter• Creative Commons Search Portal

Licensing your work with Creative Commons

All the cool kids are doing it

What would you license?

• Photographs• Slides• Articles• Illustrations• Websites• Blogs• Anything you create and want to

share!

Choosing a license

• Do you hold the copyright?• Are you comfortable with people

profiting from your work?• Are you comfortable with people

changing your work?• Do you want derivatives of your

work to carry Creative Commons licenses?

How to apply a license

• Visit Creative Commons to get code for your website

• Upload a picture to Flickr

In closing…

• Creative Commons works in combination with copyright to help creators specify permitted uses

• There is a wealth of CC-licensed material available online for you to use

• You can join the fun by sharing your own work with Creative Commons licenses

Credits

“CC on Orange,” “CC on DISK” by Yamashita Yohei, http://www.flickr.com/photos/monana7 “Creative Commons Moon” by Jeffrey Beall, http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey “Warhol Creative Commons” by Barbara Galbraith,http://www.flickr.com/photos/bargal“Cameraman” by Felipe Pimentelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/tripulante “Creative Commons” (on denim) by Tim Fritz,http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritztr

Credits, continued

“A Spectrum of Rights” panel by Ryan Junell, http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1Santa with CC logo by Lai Hiu-yeung Ryanne,http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu xkcd comic strip by Randall Munroe, http://xkcd.com “Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain” by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkinshttp://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/

Questions?