What is Creative Commons?

Ahrash N Bissell

Copyright For Digital Content

A nonprofit based in San Francisco with close

to 25 employees around the world.

CC does not offer legal advice per se.

CC offers free legal and technical tools that

allow creators to publish and share their works

on more flexible terms than standard copyright.

CC is an important part

of a global sharing

infrastructure.

Digital

technologies have

revolutionized how

creative works are

made, distributed,

and used.

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Everyday we use

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• It covers everything you want to use –textbooks, photos, music, videos, articles, lesson plans….

• It covers everything you want to do – copying, emailing, modifying, sharing with colleagues.

• Even if it’s on the internet (or TV or radio)

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• Emailing that story to a friend or

posting it to Facebook?

• Posting a picture/video/article

onto your personal blog?

• Using a cartoon or drawing in a

handout or news item?

• Uploading resources you found

to a web-archive?

• Copying (and attributing)

significant portions of an article

to write a follow-up story?

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These activities are

usually illegal unless you

get permission*.

* with some exceptions

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But most people who tell you about copyright

focus on restrictions

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Creative Commons

licenses make copyright

about opportunities.

Creative

Commons

provides tools for

creators to grant

permission

ahead of time.

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These permissions include

the right to copy/distribute,

perform, display, build upon, and

remix.

These tools are

also for managing

your own

copyright

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So that you can collaborate and

share material with anyone.

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So how does it work?

Four License Conditions

Six Licenses

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Only CC licenses consist of thesethree crucial parts:

Mark

your website

http://creativecommons.org

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

Mark

your works

Some

rights reserved

Other Legal/Technical/Social

Challenges

• “Quality control”

• Student privacy and sharing evaluative data

• Professionalizing localization and improvement

of resources

• Professional development and training

• Building community

• “Authentic assessment”

Getting involved with

Open Educational

Resources

(OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

are

materials, tools, and media

used for teaching and learning

that are

free from copyright restrictions

or publicly licensed

for anyone

to use, adapt, and redistribute.

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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.

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