This document discusses Creative Commons licenses and how they enable sharing of content legally and at scale. Creative Commons provides free copyright licenses that allow creators to retain copyright while expressing permissions for others to use their work. There are several types of Creative Commons licenses that differ in the levels of sharing they allow, from most free to least free. The licenses provide human and machine readable options to clearly communicate allowed uses of content. Best practices for attributing content when using Creative Commons licenses are also outlined.

1. Creative Commons Licenses
21-January-2015
with
Paul Stacey
Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)

2. https://stateof.creativecommons.org

6. Traditional © designed
for old distribution
models
The problem:

7. Technically easy to share but
legally not so easy.
Processing speed, bandwidth, storage
Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY

8. creativecommons.org

9. We make sharing
content easy, legal, and
scalable.
What do we do?

10. Free © licenses that
creators can attach
to their works
How do we do it?

11. Retain copyright while at same time
expressing up front a set of permissions.

12. Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives

13. Step 2: Receive a License

14. most free
least free
Not OER
OER

16. Lawyer
Readable
Legal Code

17. Human
Readable
Deed

18. Machine
Readable
Metadata

19. http://creativecommons.org/choose

20. Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
 Title
 Author
 Source – Link to work
 License – Name + Link
Peace Bridge by D'Arcy Norman CC BY

21. http://www.openwa.org/open-attrib-builder

22. 5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the contentRetain
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share your copies of the original content,
revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute

23. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYkfsXT3U63wxQ-dB_WPTx4TZn9nrzWpBfX5RXEQKu4/edit?usp=sharing
“Except where otherwise noted these materials are
licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)”

24. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions
http://bit.ly/1DVWqMY
Remix: Which Creative Commons licensed
resources can be combined with which?

25. http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/cc_tool/license_generator.html
OER Combined License Generator

26. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions
http://bit.ly/1BvN7T3
Revise: Which Creative Commons license can I
use when I adapt or modify work offered under
a Creative Commons license?

27. http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification
Meta Data

28. Q&A by Libby Levi CC BY-SA

29. Difference between “free” and “open”.
Deciding how open to be.
Public funding scenario – “Public should
have access to what the public pays for.”
education, museums, research, government
data, …
Private sector funding scenario – “How does
money work when using Creative Commons
licenses?” Business models for open –
musicians, authors, platforms, …
The Commons

30. Paul Stacey
Creative Commons
web site: http://creativecommons.org
e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org
blog: http://edtechfrontier.com
presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey
News: http://creativecommons.org/weblog
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons
CC Thing of the Day: http://creativecommons.org/weblog