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Creative Commons licensing for game content

creators

Jessica CoatesProject Manager

Creative Commons Clinic

AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative

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AUSTRALIA

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AUSTRALIA

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Code v content

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Open Art Museum by el_aguacil under CC Attribution v2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/12388825@N06/1444349332/

…music, script, lyrics, art, sound recording, film…

Why license content?

• Practical – need to be able to distribute etc whole product, not just code

• Collaboration and innovation – user generated content, machinima etc.

• Clarity – remove any uncertainty as to rights

• Principle – sharing is good (for your players and your pocket)

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Enter Creative Commons

Aims to make content more freely available by providing free licences that creators can use to give permission in advance

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Licences

4 licence elements:

Attribution – attribute the author

Noncommercial – no commercial use

No Derivative Works – no remixing

ShareAlike – remix only if you let others remix

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Attribution-ShareAlike

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

Licences

Attribution

Attribution-NonCommercial

Attribution-NoDerivatives

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creators mix and match these elements to make a licence:

Licences

Finding CC material

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Before using CC material

• Check that you’re following the licence (ask for extra permission if needed)

• Do you need any extra rights?

• DRM?

• Make sure your use isn’t ‘derogatory’

• Use common sense

• Don’t forget to attribute

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Why open license?

• Increases reach and reputation

• Facilitates collaboration

• Gives new value to stagnant material

• Community engagement

• Reduced admin

• Legal clarity

• Increases sum of human knowledge, encourages innovation

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Licences

Using CC licences

• As well as licence generator – also ccPublisher, plug-ins, individual, site generators

• Place button/text in credits, on individual works, websites

• Don’t forget to say what you’re licensing

• Don’t forget metadata

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Before using CC licences

• Do you have the rights to license the material?

• Do you need extra rights yourself?

• Non-revocable, worldwide?

• Are you choosing the right licence?

• Don’t use CC for code – GPL

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CC and open source?

• Some grey area – but code licences generally don’t work for content

• Ease of compliance?

• CC licences endorsed by FSF and Debian (some)

• Compatible with GFDL?

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GFDL BY-SA

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Case studies

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Thanks

http://www.creativecommons.org

http://www.creativecommons.org.au

info@creativecommons.org.au

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