This document summarizes a presentation about Creative Commons and free culture. It discusses how Creative Commons licenses allow works to be shared openly while still giving credit to creators. It notes the potential $4.5 billion in damages from copyright infringement each year and how Creative Commons is an alternative. It also discusses the concept of free culture and open access to research, course materials, software and data from universities.

1. Creative Commons
& Free Culture
Brian Rowe
Seattle University Law / UW iSchool
September 29th 2011

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3. Background - disclaimer

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9. infringement nation
John Tehranian
$4.544 billion in potential damages
each year

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15. Jump off a cliff

16. Human Readable
Deeds

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Readable Code
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.
org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative
Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/us/88x31.
png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dc="http://purl.
org/dc/elements/1.1/" property="dc:title">FFIP @
LoC</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http:
//creativecommons.org/ns#" href="www.
BrianRowe.org" property="cc:attributionName"
rel="cc:attributionURL">Brian Rowe</a> is
licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http:
//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/"
>Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
United States License</a>.

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26. creativecommons.org/choose/

28. Jacobsen v. Katzer

31. over $1.6 million in sales in
the first week
&
#1 Selling on Amazon

32. Part II Free Culture

34. Carl Malamud from
Public.Resources.org

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40. Wheeler Declaration - 2008
An open university is one in which
1. The research the university produces is open access.
2. The course materials are open educational
resources.
3. The university embraces free software and open
standards.
4. If the university holds patents, it readily licenses them
for free software, essential medicines, and the public
good.
5. The university network reflects the open nature of the
internet.

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42. Credits
CC Slides 21 - 25 From: Sharing Creative Works An
Illustrated Primer
by Alex Roberts, Rebecca Rojer, & Jon Phillip
all other images are public domain or used under fair
uses
All
Several images were used through my 1st Amendment
fair use rights