Creative Commons for Librarians

Slide 1: Some Rights Reserved: An Introduction to Creative Commons Staff Development January 29th and 30th, 2008 Molly Kleinman

Slide 2: Outline • Introduction to Creative Commons • Overview of the licenses • How to use CC- licensed materials • How and why to CC license your own work

Slide 3: 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.

Slide 4: In their own words A short video from Creative Commons Get Creative

Slide 5: 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.

Slide 6: From “ B ound by L aw: Tales from the Public Domain” by K eith A oki, James B oyle, and Jennifer Jenkins

Slide 7: 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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Slide 9: The Creative Commons Licenses A spectrum of rights

Slide 10: Mix and Match Licenses Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike No 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.

Slide 11: The six license combinations Attribution Attribution Share Alike Attribution No Derivatives Attribution Noncommercial Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives

Slide 12: Three kinds of code 1) Human Readable 2) Lawyer Readable 3) Machine Readable

Slide 13: Human Readable Code

Slide 14: Lawyer Readable Code

Slide 15: 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>.

Slide 16: Using Creative Commons licensed works This is the fun part

Slide 17: Where to find CC-licensed stuff • Flickr • MIT OpenCourseWare • ccMixter • Creative Commons Search Portal

Slide 18: Licensing your work with Creative Commons All the cool kids are doing it

Slide 19: What would you license? • Photographs • Slides • Articles • Illustrations • Websites • Blogs • Anything you create and want to share!

Slide 20: 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?

Slide 21: How to apply a license • Visit Creative Commons to get code for your website • Upload a picture to Flickr

Slide 22: 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

Slide 23: 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 Pimentel http://www.flickr.com/photos/tripulante “Creative Commons” (on denim) by Tim Fritz, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritztr

Slide 24: Credits, continued “A Spectrum of Rights” panel by Ryan Junell, http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1 Santa 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 Jenkins http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/

Slide 25: Questions?