This document discusses Creative Commons and how it provides copyright licenses and tools to make sharing content legally scalable. It summarizes that (1) Creative Commons licenses allow creators to grant permissions for reuse in advance, (2) Creative Commons provides public domain tools like CC0 and the Public Domain Mark, and (3) Creative Commons is used widely, including by Wikipedia which has over 31 million articles created by 76,000 contributors under Creative Commons licenses.

1. Tools & Resources for
Mountain West Digital
Librarians & Libraries

2. janepark@creativecommons.org
@janedaily
http://schoolofopen.org
http://bit.ly/commonsnews

3. ! Origins in Copyright
! CC Licenses & Tools
! CC + Libraries
! School of Open

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

6. All Rights Reserved

7. A set of exclusive rights
granted to creators of
‘original works of authorship’

9. " Automatic
✓ All Rights Reserved
✓ Lasts a very long time
✓ Keeps getting extended

10. The problem:
Traditional © designed for old
distribution models now
governs the Internet

11. In a digital world, most
everyone is a creator of
copyrighted content.

12. Technically,
it’s so easy to share!

13. Legally?
Not so easy.

14. $750-$150,000 per
copyright infringement

17. With Creative Commons,
creators can grant copy and
reuse permissions in advance.

18. Free legal tools that express
these permissions for you.
How do we do it?

19. " Origins in Copyright
! CC Licenses & Tools
! CC + Libraries
! School of Open

20. (1) Copyright licenses
(2) Public domain tools
Free legal tools

21. (1) Copyright licenses

22. Public Domain Dedication
Licenses

23. All CC licenses are
combinations of 4
elements:
Attribution"
ShareAlike"
NonCommercial"
NoDerivatives"

24. CC licenses are unique because
they are expressed in three ways.

25. Lawyer
Readable
Legal Code

26. Human
Readable
Deed

27. Machine
Readable
Metadata

31. (2) Public domain tools

32. CC0 (read ‘CC Zero’)
Public Domain Mark

33. What’s the difference?

34. CC Zero =
I want to waive all of
MY rights to a work.

35. PD Mark =
For works already in the
public domain.

40. creativecommons.org/publicdomain

41. 74 jurisdictions

42. 500 million works

44. " CC is built on © law
" CC gives creators more
options
" CC minimizes transaction
costs
Some things to remember

45. CC does not affect Fair Use.
CC may grant permissions
beyond Fair Use.
Lastly…

46. Who uses
Creative Commons?

47. Wikipedia: Over 76,000 contributors
working on over 31 million articles in
285 languages

51. How do I find and use
these works?

53. 5
3!

54. 5
4!

56. Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
" Title
" Author
" Source – Link to work
" License – Name + Link
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution

57. Best Practice Example:
You have assembled a textbook consisting
of OER from various sources. Here’s what
a credits page at the end of that textbook
might look like.

63. " Origins in Copyright
" CC Licenses & Tools
! CC + Libraries
! School of Open

64. 1) CC0 for library metadata
2) Tagging resources with
rights info
3) Open license for library
owned content
4) Open policy for university
research

65. 65!

66. 66!

67. 67!

68. 68!

69. 1) CC0 for library metadata
2) Tagging resources with
rights info
3) Open license for library
owned content
4) Open policy for university
research

70. Europeana: 30M metadata items under
CC0, 5 million digital object with PDM
and 2.8 million digital objects under one
of the CC licenses

71. 71!

73. 73!

74. 1) CC0 for library metadata
2) Tagging resources with
rights info
3) Open license for library
owned content
4) Open policy for university
research

75. 75!

76. 76!

77. 1) CC0 for library metadata
2) Tag resources with rights
info
3) Open license for library
owned content
4) Open policy for university
research

78. 78!

79. 79!

80. 1) CC0 for library metadata
2) Tagging resources with
rights info
3) Open license for library
owned content
4) Open policy for university
research

81. " Origins in Copyright
" CC Licenses & Tools
" CC + Libraries
! School of Open

82. http://schoolofopen.org

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87. Except where otherwise noted, this
presentation by Creative Commons is
licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License:
http://creativecommons.org/by/4.0.

88. Note: Please keep in mind that Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are
registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other countries.
Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.
“fuzzy copyright” by Nancy Sims
Source: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/
License: CC BY-NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0
Photo: Students in Jail
Author: Judy Baxter
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/in/photostream/
License: CC BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
Attributions

89. slideshare.net/janeatcc