CC and Education
Prepared for BuzzEd, Jan 5, 2009
by
Giorgos Cheliotis
Communications and New Media
National University of Singapore
Presentation slides licensed under a CC Attribution (BY) license unless otherwise noted

Photo by furiousgeorge81 (Flickr), BY-NC-SA

©
But the law provides
Everything we
us with a temporary
create belongs to monopoly on the
the Public Domain exploitation of a work
And then there’s
Fair Use

But what if you want to allow
someone to copy or modify
your work?

You can make a private agreement to
grant someone the right to copy or
modify your work
Now what if you, as the copyright owner,
wish to allow everyone in the world to
copy or modify your work?

Wait a minute…
why would you want that?

goodwill
efficiency
promotion/sampling
distribution
education
reputation help
development
contribution
mission
collaboration

Three main options
1. Dedicate your work now to the
public domain (no conditions)
2. Write your own public license to
express some universal conditions
3. Use a Creative Commons or similar
license designed for this purpose

The Creative Commons
licenses
allow you to express
freedoms and restrictions

Everyone can make copies
Freedom No.1

And produce derivatives
Freedom No.2
(unless the author wishes to forbid derivatives)

Everyone has to give
attribution (BY)
Restriction No.1

The author may also ask
others to Share-Alike (SA)
Restriction No.2

Or may ask for No
Derivatives (ND)
Restriction No.3

And may limit uses to Non-
Commercial (NC) only
Restriction No.4

BY NC SA
Photo by Nicola T (Flickr), BY-ND

$1,619,420 USD*
in the first week…
*Source: Wired Magazine

OpenClipArt
BY ND
Photo by Nicola T (Flickr), BY-ND

Photo by Joi Ito

OpenClipArt
BY
Photo by Joi Ito

Collage by Maven (Flickr), BY-NC-SA

How does this work for
education and research?
Access Rights Cognitive
1. Institutional approaches
2. Private initiative

Institutional approaches

Private initiative

SSRN arXiv

Creative Commons Initiatives
Science Commons
(research-oriented)
ccLearn
(education-oriented)

To license your work under CC
follow the instructions on:
http://creativecommons.org/license/
Or upload your work to a website
which utilizes CC licenses, such as:
http://www.scribd.com
http://cnx.org
http://www.flickr.com

But please remember…
• Works licensed under CC are still
governed by Copyright Law
• Using CC does not negate your copyright,
it is your copyright that allows you to share
your work as you see fit
• Non-compliance with any of the terms of the
license could make one liable for copyright
infringement (and will not be viewed kindly by
the respective ‘open access’ communities)

Wanna work together?

Now we have even more reasons to work together…

http://sg.creativecommons.org

Photo by furiousgeorge81 (Flickr), BY-NC-SA
Any questions?
gcheliotis@nus.edu.sg