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byVinoth Khanna S R
What Is Creative Commons(CC)?What Is Creative Commons(CC)?
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.
How Does Creative Commons How Does Creative Commons Work?Work?
Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use legal tools that give everyone from individual creators to major companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to pre-clear copyrights to their creative work.
Creative CommonsCreative CommonsYou are free:
◦to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
◦to make derivative works ◦to make commercial use of the work
Limitations◦Attribution. You must give the original author
credit.◦For any reuse or distribution, you must make
clear to others the licence terms of the work. Any of these conditions can be waived by
the copyright owner if asked to do so
Pre and Post PrintsPre and Post Prints
author’s original idea
author’s draft versions
author’s final draft
refereeingprocess
licence terms (express/implied) determine scope of permitted uses, including extent
of self-archiving
author retains copyright publisher acquires copyright
licence to authoror
educational institutionor
third party eg repository
assign
copyright
?
yesno
COPYRIGHT AS A BUNDLE OF COPYRIGHT AS A BUNDLE OF RIGHTSRIGHTS
Rights to:◦Control copying◦Attribution of authorship◦Control modification, adaptation or derivation
◦Compensation for commercial reuse ◦Personal reuse, adaptation◦Post in web repositories and on other web sites
◦Licence others to do the same
Creative Commons LicenceCreative Commons Licence
A licence which allows open access to material but which may impose restrictions on how that material is used:
Non-Commercial No Derivatives Share Alike
Creative Commons Licence
End-User Author /
Copyright Owner
ALL ______ SOME ______ NOALL ______ SOME ______ NO
©Some rights
reservedNo rights reserved
All rights reserved
Creative Commons LicencesCreative Commons Licences
CC licences let people easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
Creative Commons licences are not an alternative to copyright.
CC – Spectrum of PossibilitiesCC – Spectrum of Possibilities
License ElementsLicense Elements
AttributionAttribution
No Commercial useNo Commercial use
No Derivative workNo Derivative work
Share alikeShare alike
Four main protocolsFour main protocols Attribution: Other people may use, modify and distribute
the work, as long as they give the original author credit.
Non-commercial: Other people may use, modify and distribute the work, but for non-commercial purposes only.
No derivatives: Other people may use and distribute the work, but can not modify it to create derivative works.
Share alike: Other people may modify the work and distribute derivatives, but only on the condition that the derivatives are made available to other people on the same licence terms. This term can not be used with the No Derivatives term, because it applies only to derivative works.
Three ExpressionsThree Expressions
Human-Readable: Commons Human-Readable: Commons DeedDeed
Lawyer-Readable: Legal CodeLawyer-Readable: Legal Code
Machine-Readable: Digital Code, Machine-Readable: Digital Code, MetadataMetadata
Creative Commons and Creative Commons and CopyrightCopyright
CCs apply on top of copyright, so one can modify one’s copyright terms to best suit one’s needs. In collaboration with intellectual property experts all around the world, it is ensured that CC licenses work globally.
Relationship to CopyrightRelationship to Copyright
Not anti-copyright
Relies on and is complementary to copyright
Aims to make copyright more alive, active and accessible
Creative Commons – in briefCreative Commons – in brief
Creative Commons – not for profit corp. based in SFO
Provides licences for allowing people to reutilise content on certain conditions
Licence Language - Common, Legal and Code – easy to use and understand
To implement - create a link to the CC licence or insert conditions of reuse in your code or metadata
Thanks for listening!
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