Creative Commons provides free copyright licenses to enable legal sharing and reuse of creative works. Their mission is to build a more equitable and innovative world by unlocking the full potential of the internet. They offer six main licenses that allow others to distribute, remix, tweak or build upon a work as long as they provide attribution to the original creator. These licenses provide flexible options for creators to choose how others can use their work, either commercially or non-commercially, with or without changes allowed. Creative Commons aims to accomplish great things through a shared creative wealth.

1. Creative Commons
Cayla Bamberger and Toby Teitel

2. Mission
Statement
“Creative Commons helps you
legally share your knowledge and
creativity to build a more equitable,
accessible, and innovative world --
unlocking the full potential of the
internet to drive a new era of
development, growth and
productivity.”

3. “With a network of staff, board,
and affiliates around the world,
Creative Commons provides
free, easy-to-use copyright
licenses to make a simple and
standardized way to give the
public permission to share and
use your creative work -- on
conditions of your choice.”

4. Background Info
Enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the provision of
free legal tools
Share creative wealth to accomplish great things and create a vibrant culture
If you create anything, all rights are reserved… but what about when you want
people to use your work and build upon it?
Use Creative Commons! Gives free copyright license to tell people what parts of
your creative work can be used freely: what they can and cannot do with your
material
Allows for a new world of seamless collaboration

5. General License
Information
Licenses allow material to be shared and
reused under terms that are flexible and
legally sound.
Creative Commons offers six copyright
licenses.
1. Attribution: others may distribute/remix/tweak/build
upon your work, even commercially, as long as they
credit your original creation
2. Attribution-ShareAlike: see terms of “attribution”
and others must license their new creation under
the same terms as the original
3. Attribution-NoDerivs: others may distribute, even
commercially, as long as the creation is passed
along unchanged and with credit
4. Attribution-NonCommercial: see terms of
“attribution”; however, the creation must be
noncommercial
5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike:
combination of “attribution-sharealike” and
“attribution-noncommercial”
6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs:
combination of “attribution-noderivs” and
“attribution-noncommercial”

6. Creative
Commons
Platforms

7. Shameless Maya: “Music/Copyrights/Derivative
Work”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jsTQuO1n_0&list=PLlycJPUEWY7FN7PXdxceA
GJGX2xxDNSNk&index=28
1:21-1:50
2:10
4:03
Mechanical vs Performance rights

8. HW Reading: Lawrence Lessig, “Free Culture”
“Creative work has value; whenever I use, or take, or
build upon the creative work of others,I am taking
from them something of value. Whenever I take
something of value from someone else,I should
have their permission.The taking of something of
value from someone else without permission is
wrong. It is a form of Piracy.”
Intellectual Property vs Creativity
Publishing vs Transformation
Steamboat Willie vs Steamboat Willie Jr. (Rip,mix,and
burn)
Doujinshi (copycat comics). A doujinshi comic can thus take a
mainstream comic and develop it differently—with a different
story line. Is it legal?
“Free cultures are cultures that leave a great deal open for others
to build upon;unfree,or permission,cultures leave much
less.Ours was a free culture.It is becoming much less so.”

9. HW Reading: Lawrence Lessig, “Free Culture”
No discrimination between the sharing of copyrighted/uncopyrighted content
Internet sharing allows for heightened democracy and more efficient spread of content (reach more
people faster)
Avoid piracy: using the creative property of others without their permission
“If piracy means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator -
- as it is increasingly described today -- then every industry affected by copyright today is the product
and beneficiary of a certain kind of piracy”
Film, recorded music, radio, cable TV

10. HW Reading: John Perry Barlow
(1996) Wrote one very controversial email, now known as the “Declaration of
Independence of Cyberspace”
Message that governments do not and cannot govern the Internet
“I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of
the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor
do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.”
“No one can arrest our thoughts”
But there are potential dangers on the internet that could benefit governmental
intervention… do the benefits outweigh the costs?

11. Questions to consider…
1. How much power does Creative Commons really have?
How often is licensing ignored?
2. Should the government have more or less power over
the internet? Is governmental influence really possible?

12. Works Cited
Lawrence Lessig, “Free Culture” (p. 17-61)
John Perry Barlow, “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace”
Creative Commons website