This PPT explain the differences between Creative Commons and Copyright license.

1. Copy Right or Creative
Commons
Nelson Imanuel
(Author)

2. Outline
By the end of this presentation, you should;
• Differentiate between Copy Right and Creative Common Licenses
• Know their advantages and disadvantages
• Understand the different types of Creative Common Licenses

3. Copyrights
Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to
make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a
literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the
original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself. A
copyright is subject to limitations based on public interest considerations. Copyrighting
is a legal action protected by government law that grants a creator of an original piece
the exclusive rights to that piece and its distribution. This protects their work and
enables the creator of “intellectual goods” to receive monetary return for their work.
Creative Commons
A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable
the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".A CC license is used when an
author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that
the author has created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might
choose to allow only non-commercial uses of a given work) and protects the people who
use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as
they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author
distributes the work.

4. Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages
1. Creative Commons License
• Creative Commons licenses are simple from a legal point of
view and provide a quick solution to the complexities of
content licensing (Solon, 2011)
• Creative Commons licenses are free to use, widely adopted
and flexible(InfosmART, 2012)
2. Copy Rights
• Establishes a public record of the copyright holder's
ownership.
• Enables copyright holders to sue infringers in federal court.
• If made before or within 5 years of publication, establishes
sufficient evidence in court concerning the validity of the
copyright and the facts stated in the copyright certificate.
Disadvantages
1. Creative Commons License
• Creative Commons is not appropriate for work from
which you intend to gain commercially, either now or in
the future (InfosmAR, 2012)
• You have no control over who will reuse your work, other
than through the license terms you choose to exercise
(InfosmART, 2012; Richards, 2013)
2. Copy Rights
• Limited Dissemination-Copyright protection prohibits
individuals other than the owner from reproducing,
displaying or performing the protected work.
• Limited Protection- Copyright offers limited protection.
For example, copyright protects a particular expression of
an idea (as in images, words or sounds) but it does not
protect the idea or concept itself.

5. Types of Creative Common License
1. Attribution Only– This one is likely the most straightforward of all the Creative Commons licenses because it’s the
one they all build from. This license requires anyone who uses the copyrighted work to provide “appropriate
credit” and indicate what, if any, changes were made. In plain English, it means you have to give credit.
According to the Creative Commons the credit must be in a certain way. Interesting that this is one of the most
broad categories but most people actually get it wrong.

6. 2. Attribution, ShareAlike – This license is often confusing to many people. It carries with it all
the same flexibility as the Attribution Only license but it brings along with it the rights YOU have
to give to YOUR new work. In plain English, this license means that once you complete your
changes to the underlying work then your new work, when shared, carries with it the exact same
license and you can not prohibit others from changing or sharing your work. This license is the
foundation for the idea of open-source works where various people “improve” upon others work.
It’s like hitting the ‘Save’ instead of the ‘Save As’ button.

7. 3. Attribution, No Derivatives – This license is kind of the opposite of what you can do with the Attribution
Only license. You have to give credit, or used in the Creative Commons license “appropriate credit”, but you
can’t change the work in any way. Want to crop it? No. Lighten it up a bit? Nope. Make it black and white?
Again, No. In plain English, this license means you can use the work for ANY – commercial, non-commercial,
educational, work, gaming, or what have you – purpose, so long as you provide the license-required credit and
not alter the work in any way.

8. 4. Attribution, Non-Commercial – Under this license, derivative works are only allowed if they are non-
commercial and acknowledge the original creator. However, the derivate works don’t have to be licensed under
the same terms as the original. This license is a little trickier because there is no clear definition of what
“commercial” means as far as Creative Commons licenses go and thus “non-commercial” is not as black and
white as you may think. Under the Creative Commons license, “commercial” is defined as “primarily intended
for commercial advantage or monetary gain”.

9. 5) Attribution, Non-Commercial, and Share Alike – This license lets others create non-commercial derivative
works that must be licensed under the same terms. Now that we’ve established the basics, this one starts to
put them together. This one makes a change from the prior Attribution, Non-Commercial and adds on the
Share Alike license.

10. Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives – The most restrictive of our six main licenses.
Allows others to download and share its works but not commercially purposes or to create
derivative works. Basically, with this license all you’re able to do is share the work. Of course,
you must provide “appropriate credit”, but you can not modify the work in any manner then
distribute it even if the distribution is not for commercial gain. With this license, all you’re
allowed to do is share it for free with other people and in doing so give credit to the original
creator.

11. References
cc images of copyright - Bing images
Creative Commons CC - Bing images
Creative Commons. (n.d.). About. Retrieved May 2016, from Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/about
InfosmART. (2012, April). Advantages and Disadvantages. Retrieved May 2016, from
InfosmART: http://lib.gsa.ac.uk/infosmart/infosmart-use/infosmart_66.htm
(Creative Commons, n.d.)