Creative Commons 101Sarah Hinchliff PearsonSenior Counsel, Creative CommonsMay 30, 2013

(c) law ≠ reasonable

the bright side!There are built-in safeguards.

Fair use

Enter CC.Born December 16, 2002.

The idea. Give authors options.Voluntary approach.Accessible to non-lawyers.Free.

The elevator pitch.

Alternative approach to “all rights reserved.”Keep copyright but grant some permissions in advance. Not one size fits all.

Four conditions. Six licenses.

The options.

Commercial use? Derivatives? Derivatives under identical terms?

legal code“lawyer-readable”

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commons deed“human-readable”

“machine-readable”metadata

<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#

" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/ele

ments/1.1/"><span rel="dc:type" href="

http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text"

property="dc:title">My Photo

</span> by <a rel="cc:attributi

onURL" property="cc:attributionName"

href="http://joi.ito.com/my_phot

o">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://c

reativecommons.org/licenses

/by/3.0/">Creative Commons

Attribution 3.0 License</a>.

When you use CC material…

Attribute.

[Comply with other restrictions.]

This is a Finnish translation of "My Awesome Report" © 2009 by Greg Grossmeier, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Where do I find it?

Provides a cushion Applicable worldwide

+ fair use

No lawyers necessary Broadens scope of reuse

Thanks!

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