This document discusses the journey and future plans of Creative Commons Nigeria. Creative Commons provides free copyright licenses that allow for sharing and reuse of creative works. The Creative Commons Nigeria team aims to build a knowledge sharing community, educate on intellectual property licensing, and promote open content in Nigeria. The team is organized into legal, public, and technical leads. Going forward, they plan to grow the Creative Commons community in Nigeria through meetings, conferences, and legal/technical support to encourage licensing and sharing of intellectual property.

1. Creative Commons Nigeria
the journey so far and the journey ahead
Kayode Yussuf
Technical Lead,
Creative Commons Nigeria

2. What is Creative Commons?
• Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the
sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal
tools.
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Creative Commons are free, easy-to-use copyright licenses which
provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to
share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice.
CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the
default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
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Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright.
They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your
copyright terms to best suit your needs.

3. What can Creative Commons do for me?
•
If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a
work you’ve created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative
Commons license.
•
CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only noncommercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t
have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the
conditions you have specified.
•
If you’re looking for content that you can freely and legally use, there is a
giant pool of CC-licensed creativity available to you.
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There are hundreds of millions of works — from songs and videos to
scientific and academic material — available to the public for free and legal
use under the terms of our copyright licenses, with more being contributed
every day.

4. Misson and Vision
• CC mission
Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal
and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital
creativity, sharing, and innovation.
• CC vision
The vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of
the Internet — universal access to research and education,
full participation in culture — to drive a new era of
development, growth, and productivity.

5. cc Philosophies
• Knowledge sharing
• Improving local content
• Public enlightenment and advocacy

6. cc Licensing Schemes
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Attribution CC BY
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND
Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC
BY-NC-SA
6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC
BY-NC-ND

7. cc Licensing Schemes
1. Attribution
CC BY
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. Recommended for maximum dissemination and
use of licensed materials.
2. Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial
purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the
identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source
software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any
derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is
recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from
Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

8. cc Licensing Schemes
3. Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and noncommercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in
whole, with credit to you.
4. Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
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.

9. cc Licensing Schemes
5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your
work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license
their new creations under the identical terms.
6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses,
only allowing others to download your works and share them
with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change
them in any way or use them commercially.

10. Who Uses CC

11. Who Uses CC in Naija?

12. Volunteering with cc
• Working alongside CC staff are a worldwide
group of volunteers which consists of 100+
affiliates working in over 70 jurisdictions to
support and promote CC activities around the
world.
• A list of CC’s current affiliates can be found on
the Affiliate Network page.
• If no affiliate exists in your jurisdiction, then
perhaps you could help start one.

13. The Nigerian Team
The Nigerian team is organized into three
sections of volunteers;
1.Legal Lead,
2.Public Lead,
3.Technical Lead

14. The Nigerian Team
• The legal lead is a team of legal experts who
understands licensing issues.
• The legal lead is to give legal advice to the
community.
• The legal lead in Nigeria is a law firm called
Kusamotu and Kusamotu
• The firm is headed by Ayo Kusamotu

15. The Nigerian Team
• The Public lead is meant to be a public
institution that has influence in government’s
legal policy making
• cc Nigeria is in talks with a reputable
institution and as such, we cannot make
public the name of the institution at this
point.
• Alternately, the public lead is Ms. Edefe
Ojomo, a law lecturer in University of Lagos

16. The Nigerian Team
• The technical team is to handle technical
issues
• The team is expected to bridge the
technological divide to the legal practitioners
• The team is led by Kayode Yussuf
• Other team members are Richard Essien and
Olushola Olaniyan

17. Way forward
• cc mailing list for Africa, we can also have a
Nigerian mailing list,
• Skype meetings,
• Meetups such as this,
• Invitations to discuss creative commons at
conferences, seminars and meetups,
• Legal and technical advice on trivia issues
• Link to cc Global HQ

18. What we want to do?
• We want to build a Creative Commons
Community here in Nigeria
• We want to encourage creative minds to license
their intellectual property using CC licensing
• We want to encourage a knowledge sharing
community
• We want to educate intellectual property owners
• We want to write the name of Nigeria in the
global internet stats

19. Please join us…….
Thank you
Kayode Yussuf