Patrick Fulton & Sara NodineWarren D. Allen Music Library

Do you…

• Want to let people share and use your photographs, but not allow companies to sell them?

• Want to find access to course materials from the world’s top universities?

• Want to encourage readers to re-publish your blog posts, as long as they give you credit?

• Want to find songs that you can use and remix, royalty-free?

Source: creativecommons.org

Use the Creative Commons!

“A nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.”

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

Vision: “Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research and education, full participation in culture – to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.”

Source: creativecommons.org

History of CC

• Founded in 2001

• Supported by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain (Duke University)

• First licenses released in 2002 free to the public

• Dedicated projects in education launched in 2007

• 2008: the new Nine Inch Nails album was released under CC

• In its first 7 years – estimated 350 million CC licensed works

• October 2013 – CC Workshop with musicians in Melanesia

Who is using CC?

Before licensing…

• Irrevocability

•Appropriateness of the material

•Nature and adequacy of rights

• Type of license

•Additional provisions

Considerations for licensees• Understand the license

• Legal code – not just human-readable deed

• Permission granted for what you want to do

• Version of the license

• Scope of the license

• What exactly is being licensed

• Clear rights with any third parties

• Know your obligations

• Provide attribution

• Do not restrict others from exercising rights

• Determine what you can do with adaptations

• Termination is automatic when you fail to comply

The Licenses• Three “layers”

• Legal Code

• Human-Readable – “The Common Deed”

• Machine-Readable

• Six different licenses

• Attribution

• Attribution-NoDerivs

• Attribution-ShareAlike

• Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike

• Attribution-NonCommercial

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Attribution(CC BY)

• Allows others to:

• Distribute

• Remix

• Tweak

• Build upon

• Benefit commercially even

• As long as…

• Credit the creator

Attribution-NoDerivs(CC BY-ND)

• Allows others to:

• Commercial redistribute

• Non-commercial redistribute

• As long as…

• Unchanged

• Complete

• Credits the creator

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

(CC BY-NC-SA)

• Allows others to non-commercially:

• Remix

• Tweak

• Build upon

• As long as…

• Credit the creator

• License the new creation under identical terms

Attribution-ShareAlike(CC BY-SA)

• Allows others to:

• Remix

• Tweak

• Build upon

• Benefit commercially even

• As long as…

• Credit the creator

• License the new creation under identical terms

Attribution-NonCommerical

(CC BY-NC)

• Allows others to non-commercially:

• Remix

• Tweak

• Build upon

• As long as…

• Credit the creator

Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs

(CC BY-NC-ND)

• Allows others to:

• Download

• Share

• As long as…

• Credit the creator

Some rights reserved

CC for Flickr Images

Marking a Presentation

CC on IMSLP

Questions?

Licensed by: Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Created by:Patrick Fulton & Sara NodineWarren D. Allen Music Library