Creative Commons provides free and easy-to-use legal tools that allow creators to change their copyright terms from "all rights reserved" to "some rights reserved." They offer several licenses that allow for varying levels of commercial and derivative use of a work as long as proper attribution is given. Creative Commons aims to increase the amount of creativity available in the public domain for free sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. Their licenses provide a standardized way for authors to grant certain copyright permissions to their creative works.

1. Copyright & Creative Commons
Dianna Magnoni, Director, Library/Knowledge Lab, Olin College
Hope Tillman, Director, Libraries, Babson College
February 2009

2. • Creative Commons works to increase the amount
of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific
content) in “the commons” — that body of work
available to the public for free and legal
• sharing,
• use,
• repurposing, and
Creative Commons • remixing.
Introductory Video: • CC provides free, easy-to-use legal tools
Get Creative providing a simple standardized way to grant
Flash movie licensed under Creative
Commons License. copyright permissions to their creative work.
• Licenses enable authors to easily change their
copyright terms from the default of “all rights
reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

3. Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses
Attribution: This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon
your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original
creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms
of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
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Attribution Share Alike: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you
and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is
often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based
on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow
commercial use.
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Attribution No Derivatives: This license allows for redistribution,
commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along
unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
View License Deed | View Legal Code

4. Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses
Attribution Non-Commercial: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your
work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you
and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the
same terms.
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Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike: This license lets others remix, tweak, & build
upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new
creations under the identical terms. Others can download & redistribute your work
just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, & produce
new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same
license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
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Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives: This license is the most restrictive of our
six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free
advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share
them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t
change them in any way or use them commercially.
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Example: MIT Creative Commons License for Courseware

5. Nuts & Bolts of CC
http://creativecommons.org/license/
• Fill in the information about your
work.
• Select your chosen license.
• Select the contents of the box
where the code has been
generated and copy it, or, have it
emailed to yourself.
• When you choose a license, they
provide tools and tutorials that let
you add license information to
your own site, or to one of several
free hosting services that have
incorporated Creative Commons.

6. Open Access Communities
Open Content Alliance
Contributors:
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Content_Alliance
Science Commons is the scientific channel within
Creative Commons
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) - is a nonprofit
organization with goal to increase open access to
scientific and medical literature.
PubMed Central (NIH ) provides access to many open
access journals
PubMed Central Journals — Full List for coverage and
search options

7. Searching the open universe
Content Directories:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Direct
ories
ccLearn: the educational community
http://learn.creativecommons.org/
with its suggested search engines
http://learn.creativecommons.org/education-search-engines
OER Commons
OER Recommender
Bridge over Wisla from
Creative Commons Universal Education www.coolimagebank.gr
Search
http://uesearch.creativecommons.org/search/
http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/

8. Open Access Directories/Archives
Directory of Open Access Journals: This directory provides records for more
than 3,850 open access scholarly journals available in full-text.
See Technology and Engineering
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories provides a list of academic
open access repositories as well as search screens to aid in locating
repositories and content.
See Engineering Ethics
Open Access Text Archive: open for any type of text, many using CC licenses.
See History of Science

9. Open Courseware
• Open Courseware Consortium
– http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
• Stanford Open Courseware
– http://see.stanford.edu/
• Tufts Open Courseware
– http://ocw.tufts.edu/
• MIT Open Courseware
– http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

10. Other Open Educational Resources
• Connexions.org
• Project Merlot
• TED Talks

11. Connexions: Content Commons: http://cnx.org
• Connexions is an environment for
collaboratively developing, freely sharing,
and rapidly publishing scholarly content on
the Web.
• Mission: to reinvent how we write, edit,
publish, and use textbooks and other
learning materials.
• All content is free to use and reuse under
the Creative Commons "attribution" license.
Collaborative Statistics • Connexions is a non-profit start-up
written by Barbara Illowsky
and Susan Dean
launched at Rice University in 1999

12. Project Merlot
• Putting educational
innovations into practice
• Find peer reviewed online
teaching and learning
materials. Share advice and
expertise about education with
expert colleagues. Be
recognized for your
contributions to quality
education
• Shared lesson plans, activities,
interactive learning
• Pedagogic collection

13. TED Talks
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Its annual conference now brings together the
world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who
are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in
18 minutes).
Ted Talks March 2007
Larry Lessig – The TED Talks lectures cover a broad set of topics
The Law is Strangling Creativity including science, arts and design, politics,
culture, business, global issues, technology and
development, and entertainment.
Approximately 370 TED talks are provided for free
viewing online. These videos are released under
a Creative Commons license.

14. New publishing models
Academic Earth - platform built on open courses, showcasing
video lectures from the world’s top scholars. Viewer
grading of courses.
Bloomsbury Academic – will print short runs, print on
demand, and make titles available online via Creative
Commons license
Flat World Knowledge – titles available online for free and for
sale. Faculty can integrate in their course management
systems. As a by-product they will sell things of value to
their market: more convenient ways to consumer the free
book (print, audio, pdf) and study aids.
Lulu: Self publishing
• Eliminates traditional barriers to publishing with its tools
for easily formatting digital content.
• Enables content creators and owners – authors and
educators, videographers and musicians, businesses and
nonprofits, professionals and amateurs – to bring their
work directly to their audience.

15. Additional Resources
http://creativecommons.org/videos/ Creative Commons flash movies licensed under Creative Commons license:
Lawrence Lessig
• His speech on the history of Creative Commons.
• Books: (most available both for sale and freely with Creative Commons license)
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. 2008. (Olin Library KF3020 .L47 2008)
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. 2004. (Olin Library KF2979 .L47 2004)
The Future of Ideas. The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. 2002. (Olin Library K1401 .L47 2002)
Viral Spiral: How the Commons Built a Digital Republic of Their Own. David Bollier. 2009. (on order for Olin).
• Colbert interview with Larry Lessig on Remixing, 8 January 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwvIdr21Uw&feature=related
– Dance remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhmSjXmbbtQ&feature=related
– The final remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvvhDngERXo
Jessica Coates. Creative Commons in the Classroom: http://www.slideshare.net/Jessicacoates/creative-commons-
in-the-classroom-presentation. October 2008.
Curriki.org – This online community gives teachers, students and parents access to a peer-reviewed K-12
curricula, and online collaboration tools worldwide to break down barriers of the educational divide.
Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, it is now an independent nonprofit.
ResearchChannel - consortium of universities and research organizations headquartered at University of
Washington Seattle, hosts extensive video-on-demand library.
A view of Creative Commons Resources by format:
Text: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Text (Ex.: Blue Planet Almanac)
Images: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image (Ex.: Flickr Creative Commons option:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Video: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Video (Ex.: Berklee Shares

16. Readings
• Delia Bradshaw. Sloan gives free teaching materials. Financial Times, January 28, 2009
• Molly Kleinman. The Beauty of “Some Rights Reserved: Introducing Creative Commons
to Librarians, Faculty, and Students. C&RL News, November 2008, pp. 594-597.
• Joel Thierstein, Education in the Digital Age. EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2009.
The January/February issue highlights the topic of openness, including a feature on
open/closed textbooks with commentary from all sides of the issue: publishers,
students, authors, and institutions
• Rimmer, Matthew. Digital copyright and the consumer revolution : hands off my iPod.
Edward Elgar, 2007. Olin College KF3030.1 .R56 2007
• Steve R. Gordon. The future of the music business : how to succeed with the new digital
technologies : a guide for artists and entrepreneurs. Backbeat Books, 2005. Babson
College. ML3790 .G67 2005.
• Jeffrey R. Young. New For-Profit Web Site Repackages Free Lecture Videos
From Colleges. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, February 2, 2009.
• New Low-Cost University Plans to Use Social-Networking Tools. The Chronicle of Higher
Education: Wired Campus, 27 January 2009.

17. Thank you for coming
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