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This staff development workshop was taught at the University of Michigan Library in January 2008. It provides an introduction to Creative Commons, including links to websites where users can find Creative Commons-licensed works.
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Some Rights Reserved: An Introduction to Creative
Commons
Staff DevelopmentJanuary 29th and 30th, 2008
Molly Kleinman
Outline
• Introduction to Creative Commons
• Overview of the licenses
• How to use CC-licensed materials
• How and why to CC license your own work
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons provides free legal tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
In their own words
A short video from Creative Commons
Get Creative
Copyright Basics: A bundle of rights
• The right to publish the work• The right to copy the work• The right to prepare derivative works• The right to display or perform the work• The right to license any of the above to
third parties
Copyright exists from the moment of creation, and lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years.
From
“Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain”
by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins
Why Creative Commons?
• Copyright happens automatically
• Copyright lasts from the moment a work is created until 70 years after the death of the creator.
• Copyright comes with several rights, and creators may not want or need all of them.
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The Creative Commons Licenses
A spectrum of rights
Mix and Match Licenses
AttributionNon-CommercialShare AlikeNo Derivative Works
Creators combine the different elements to create a license that suits their needs, and tells you what you can and can’t do with their work.
The six license combinations
AttributionAttribution Share AlikeAttribution No DerivativesAttribution NoncommercialAttribution Noncommercial Share Alike Attribution Noncommercial No
Derivatives
Three kinds of code
1) Human Readable
2) Lawyer Readable
3) Machine Readable
Human Readable Code
Lawyer Readable Code
Machine Readable Code<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License</a>.
Using Creative Commons licensed works
This is the fun part
Where to find CC-licensed stuff
• Flickr• MIT OpenCourseWare • ccMixter• Creative Commons Search Portal
Licensing your work with Creative Commons
All the cool kids are doing it
What would you license?
• Photographs• Slides• Articles• Illustrations• Websites• Blogs• Anything you create and want to
share!
Choosing a license
• Do you hold the copyright?• Are you comfortable with people
profiting from your work?• Are you comfortable with people
changing your work?• Do you want derivatives of your
work to carry Creative Commons licenses?
How to apply a license
• Visit Creative Commons to get code for your website
• Upload a picture to Flickr
In closing…
• Creative Commons works in combination with copyright to help creators specify permitted uses
• There is a wealth of CC-licensed material available online for you to use
• You can join the fun by sharing your own work with Creative Commons licenses
Credits
“CC on Orange,” “CC on DISK” by Yamashita Yohei, http://www.flickr.com/photos/monana7 “Creative Commons Moon” by Jeffrey Beall, http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey “Warhol Creative Commons” by Barbara Galbraith,http://www.flickr.com/photos/bargal“Cameraman” by Felipe Pimentelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/tripulante “Creative Commons” (on denim) by Tim Fritz,http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritztr
Credits, continued
“A Spectrum of Rights” panel by Ryan Junell, http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1Santa with CC logo by Lai Hiu-yeung Ryanne,http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu xkcd comic strip by Randall Munroe, http://xkcd.com “Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain” by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkinshttp://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
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