a 14-slide presentation about what creative commons is, its founders, timeline, organization, movement,

1. Unit 1: What is Creative Commons?
Hamid Alawadhi

2. Content
1. Introduction
2.Timeline of CC
3.The Sonny Bono CTEA
4.Eldred v. Ashcroft
5.What is CC?
6.The CC licensing
7.The CC organization
8.The CC movement
9.Takeaways

3. Introduction
• Until 2001, and before the Creative Commons, the
relationship between the creators, and the users was regulated
only by the copyright approach since 1790 in the US.
• The technological developments and the spread of the Internet
made this relationship more complicated and provided a lot of
tension about restrictions.
• The only way to get benefits of any creativity was to wait until
it becomes public domain.
• An online publisher was using technology to share those
available works after the expiration of the term of their
copyrights.
• But a new regulation, came to extend this availability by
adding years, which made content on the internet more
difficult to access.
• This is how the Creative Commons came to counter such
restrictions of access, sharing, and collaborating.
• A saga of human endeavor started up from 1998 on.

4. Timeline of Creative commons
Gradual extension of the
Terms of Copyright in
the US (20-40-50 years)
1790–1976
CTEA (extension to 70 Y)
1998
CC Foundation
2001
1st set of licenses by CC
was released
2002
+2 billion works under
CC licenses and public
domain
2021

5. The Sonny Bono CTEA.
• In 1998, Sonny Bono, a US representative, introduced
a new bill to Congress that would be later known as the
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
• It mainly stipulated the extension of copyright for 70
Years instead of 50 since the 1978 act.
• That extension came to be in odd with the potentiality
that new technology allows users to largely benefit of
available works with an easy access around the globe.
• A scholar and a librarian-computer programmer
challenged the new act through two tracks:
• Legally (Courts)
• Practically (legal alternative approach)

6. Eldred v. Ashcroft
• Eric Eldred is a former computer programmer, systems
administrator, and an online publisher of public domain
works.
• In 1999, He leaded a set of plaintiffs to challenge the
CTEA based on the unconstitutionality of the act.
• They lost in the different judiciary levels until the
decisive loss in the Supreme Court, in the case known
as Eldred v. Ashcroft in 2002.
• Meanwhile, he worked with a law scholar to also find a
legal and practical alternative in case of a loss
• This is how Creative Commons started up in 2001.

7. What is Creative Commons?

8. 1. Creative Commons:
The Licenses
• CC legal tools help creators to
share their achievements with
others under less binding terms of
“all rights reserved”
• CC legal tools are
• integrated into user-
generated content platforms
• used by nonprofit open
projects
• used by formal institutions
and individual creators.
, +2 billion works under
CC licenses and public domain.

9. 2. Creative Commons: the Organization
• Nowadays, the CC legal tools are hosted by a small
nonprofit organization located in the US.
• Since 2020, the organization is focusing on
empowering different actors of the movement.
With tree strategic goals:
• 1.“Advocacy: Reshape the open ecosystem to
support equitable and prosocial sharing in the
public interest.
• 2.Innovation: Enhance the open infrastructures to
foster sustainable and ethical sharing in the public
interest.
• 3. Capacity Building: Make knowledge and
cultural heritage assets as openly accessible as
possible.”
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9-1
9-2
9-3

10. 3. Creative Commons:
the Movement
• In 2001, a group of activists, lawyers,
policymakers, creators, people, and institutions
formed a coalition around Creative Commons
and open licensing.
• A new offshoot of the movement known as
CCGN (The Creative Commons Global
Network) has over 600 members, and over
40 chapters around the world.
• To involve, the CC’s Network Platforms are open
to individuals and institutions in connection to
the open movement everywhere around the
globe.

11. Takeaways

12. References and credits
• Creative Commons For Educators And Librarians, Ala Edition, CHICAGO 2020,
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (the main source of this slides)
• Slide #2 Creative Commons, fixed by Quibik, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Slide #3:
• copyright symbol, at https://copyright.laws.com/copyright-symbol, CC0.
• https://onehack.us/t/what-is-creative-commons-explanation-of-each-license-cc-how-it-works/67448
• Slide # 5 : Sonny Bono Image, Congressional Pictorial Directory, 105th.) https://history.hous
(e.gov/People/Detail/9589?ret=True , CC0
• Slides # 6 & 7 : Eric Eldred & Lawrence Lessig, images : Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons , https://en.wikipedia.org/
• Slide #8:
• The image of Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the Paris Review, https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/30/how-much-
should-the-met-cost-you/
• Open Stax logo: https://twitter.com/OpenStax/photo,
• Youtube logo: https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
• Jamendo Licensing logo http://syncsummit.com/jamendol/
• Copyright logo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020966268/
• wikikbedia icon image islicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
• updated 7/16/2021 hamidalawadhi

13. References and credits
• Slide #9
• Figure (9-1) Education Advocacy Resources at
https://barefootlawyer.com/resources/advocates/
• Figure (9-2) L’innovation technologique favorise-t-elle le bien-être au travail ?
https://www.digitalrecruiters.com/blog/innovation-technologique-favorise-t-bien-etre-
travail
• Figure: (9-3) Capacity bulging at https://www.humanitynhealth.org/project/health/
• figure (9-4): The 2021 CC Global Summit Call for Proposals Is Now Open
https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/02/
• Slide# 10
• Open-glam logo: https://openglam.pubpub.org/
• OER – Open Education Resources:
https://knightsite.smcvt.edu/techlearningcentersmc/2012/02/29/hello-world-2/
• Your Guide to Finding Free Creative Commons Images and Other Media Online :
https://digiwonk.gadgethacks.com/how-to/your-guide-finding-free-creative-commons-
images-and-other-media-online-0138907/
• updated 7/16/2021 hamidalawadhi

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