Creative Commons licenses provide a way for creators to retain copyright while allowing others to share, reuse, and remix their work. The document introduces Creative Commons and explains the problems with strict copyright and how Creative Commons licenses address them. Specifically, it notes that teachers do not hold copyright to their teaching resources but a Creative Commons policy allows applying an Attribution license to address this and realize the potential of openly sharing and collaborating with educational resources online.

1. Introduction to Creative
Commons

2. Let's begin with the obvious

3. Potential of digital technologies
and the Internet

4. Potential to:
share teaching resources

5. Potential to:
collaborate

6. Potential to:
save time

7. Potential to:
save money

8. Potential to:
make better resources

9. Potential to:
stop reinventing various wheels

10. Potential to:
share, remix and reuse

11. Potential to:
learn

12. However:
Two problems

13. 1. Copyright

14. 2. Teachers don't hold copyright
to their resources

15. Two solutions,
but first....

16. What is copyright?

18. Bundle of rights

19. Automatic
(no © required)

20. Limits users ability to
copy, distribute, perform, adapt

22. What Is the Purpose of Copyright?

23. To Expand the Commons

24. Statute of Anne, 1710:
“For the encouragement of
learning”

25. USA Constitution:
“To promote the progress
of science and useful arts.”

26. Copyright was a pragmatic
solution

27. Copyright was a balance between

28. Printers

29. Printers
Authors

30. Printers
Public
Authors

32. The commons is a public good

33. The commons is a public good
+
People need an incentive to create

34. The commons is a public good
+
People need an incentive to create
=
Limited monopoly, i.e. copyright

35. The commons is a public good
+
People need an incentive to create
=
Limited monopoly, i.e. copyright
=
A more vibrant culture

36. So what?

37. Much of our cultural heritage
cannot be legally reused, which
means that...

38. Many online practices infringe
copyright

39. Many online practices infringe
copyright
Online copyright infringement is
easier to find

40. Many online practices infringe
copyright
Online copyright infringement is
easier to find
Copyright restricts the enormous
potential of digital technologies

41. What if you want to allow sharing,
remix and reuse?

42. What if you want to allow sharing,
remix and reuse?
What if you want to grow the
commons?

43. Solution #1

45. “Realizing the full potential of
the Internet”

47. Pragmatic solution

48. Pragmatic solution
Creators retain copyright

49. Pragmatic solution
Creators retain copyright
Give permission in advance

50. Public Domain
Few Restrictions

51. All Rights Reserved
Few Freedoms

52. Some Rights Reserved
Range of Licence Options

54. Four Licence Elements

55. Attribution

56. Non Commercial

57. No Derivatives

58. Share Alike

59. Six Licences

60. More free
More restrictive

61. More free
More restrictive

62. More free
More restrictive

63. More free
More restrictive

64. More free
More restrictive

65. More free
More restrictive

66. More free
More restrictive

67. More free
More restrictive

68. Go to
creativecommons.org/choose

70. Layers

71. Layers
Lawyer readable
Human readable
Licence symbol

72. Machine Readable
Behind the
licence button sits
html code which
makes it
searchable online
Public Domain Image
<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/3.0/"<<img
alt="Creative Commons License"
style="borderwidth:0”src="http://i.creativecomm
ons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png"
/<</a<<br /<This work is licensed
under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/3.0/"<Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
License</a<

76. However,
problem #2

77. You can't apply a CC licence if
you don't hold copyright

78. Teachers don't hold copyright to
their teaching resources

79. Solution #2
Creative Commons policy

80. All teaching materials are
licensed
Creative Commons Attribution

81. 1. No need to ask permission

82. 1. No need to ask permission
2. Keep resources when you
leave

83. 1. No need to ask permission
2. Keep resources when you
leave
3. Teachers receive credit when
their work is reused

84. 4. "Realizing the full potential of
the Internet”

85. What if you want to find
Creative Commons material?

86. search.creativecommons.org
digitalnz.org
commons.wikimedia.org
photopin.org

90. Creative Commons is a great
way to teach students about
copyright

91. It's an integral part of good
digital citizenship

93. Thank you very much