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Origins in Copyright CC Licenses & Tools CC + Libraries School of Open

We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable.

What do we do?

All Rights Reserved

A set of exclusive rights granted to creators of

‘original works of authorship’

Automatic✓ All Rights Reserved✓ Lasts a very long time✓ Keeps getting extended

The problem:

Traditional © designed for old distribution models now

governs the Internet

In a digital world, most everyone is a creator of copyrighted content.

Technically, it’s so easy to share!

Legally? Not so easy.

$750-$150,000 per copyright infringement

With Creative Commons, creators can grant copy and

reuse permissions in advance.

Free legal tools that express these permissions for you.

How do we do it?

Origins in Copyright CC Licenses & Tools CC + Libraries School of Open

(1) Copyright licenses

(2) Public domain tools

Free legal tools

(1) Copyright licenses

Public Domain Dedication

Licenses

All CC licenses are combinations of 4 elements:

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

CC licenses are unique because they are expressed in three ways.

Lawyer Readable

Legal Code

HumanReadable

Deed

MachineReadable Metadata

(2) Public domain tools

CC0 (read ‘CC Zero’)

Public Domain Mark

What’s the difference?

CC Zero = I want to waive all ofMY rights to a work.

PD Mark = For works already in the

public domain.

creativecommons.org/publicdomain

74 jurisdictions

500 million works

CC is built on © law CC gives creators more

options CC minimizes transaction

costs

Some things to remember

Who uses Creative Commons?

Wikipedia: Over 76,000 contributors working on over 31 million articles in 285 languages

How do I find and use these works?

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Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)

Title Author Source – Link to work License – Name + Link

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution

Best Practice Example:

You have assembled a textbook consisting of OER from various sources. Here’s what a credits page at the end of that textbook might look like.

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1) CC0 for library metadata2) Tag resources with rights info3) Open license for library owned content4) Open policy for university research

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1) CC0 for library metadata2) Tag resources with rights info3) Open license for library owned content4) Open policy for university research

Europeana: 30M metadata items under CC0, 5 million digital object with PDM and 2.8 million digital objects under one of the CC licenses

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1) CC0 for library metadata2) Tag resources with rights info3) Open license for library owned content 4) Open policy for university research

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1) CC0 for library metadata2) Tag resources with rights info3) Open license for library owned content4) Open policy for university research

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Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other countries. Third party

marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.

Please attribute Creative Commons with a link to creativecommons.org

Photo: “fuzzy copyright”Author: Nancy SimsSource: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/ License: CC BY-NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0

Photo: “Students in Jail”Author: Judy BaxterSource: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/in/photostream/License: CC BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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