Creative Commons provides copyright licenses for creative works in the digital age. It offers 6 main licenses that vary in terms of allowing commercial use, modifications, and sharing. The licenses use human-readable deeds, lawyer-readable legal code, and machine-readable metadata. Most people choose licenses that allow non-commercial use and derivatives. Courts have upheld Creative Commons licenses. The organization works internationally and many countries now offer national versions of Creative Commons licenses.

1. Creative Commons: Copyright in the digital age For Greater China and Hong Kong creativecommons.org China Mainland: cn.creativecommons.org Taiwan: creativecommons.org.tw Hong Kong (preparatory site): cchk.wetpaint.com

2. balance All Rights Reserved No Rights Reserved © Creative Commons

3. purpose

4. license elements: Attribution No Commercial use No Derivative work Share alike

5. three expressions: Human-Readable: Commons Deed Lawyer-Readable: Legal Code Machine-Readable: Digital Code, Metadata

6. the licenses Licenses Deeds Metadata = Logo + Link Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd) Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) Attribution (by) 6 variations

7. how to publish

8. choose the license

9. license your work

10. deed

11. legal code

12. metadata

13. internationalization

14. Creative Commons International: in contact with 80 countries worldwide

15. 38 Countries have launched national CC licenses

17. first court case

19. CC China Mainland

20. CC uses in Mainland China China Open Resources for Education Yupoo Web 2.0 Start-up

21. CC Taiwan

22. examples in Taiwan Intellectual Property Office Ministry of Education Education Resources

23. more examples in Taiwan Taiwan Digital Art and Information Center Novel in Taiwan CC License Album in Taiwan CC License

24. other examples Magnatune Record Label license music in CC Jamendo Music Platform license music in CC

25. other examples MIT Open Courseware

26. local examples OpenRadio HK Daayu Web 2.0 Start-up

29. Thanks! Rebecca MacKinnon [email_address] This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/