Creative Commons: Background and Future Possibilities

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Greg Grossmeier

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http://grossmeier.net

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Who?

flickr

119,311,244

News

Encyclopedias

Music

Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.

A week after the album's release, the official Nine Inch Nails site reported over 750,000 purchase and download transactions, amassing over US$1.6 million in sales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_I-IV#cite_note-tribune-12

Pre-orders of the $300 'Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition' sold out in less than three days of its release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_I-IV#cite_note-13

Not Just For Artists

Developers Too

But...

Remember:

!4Source

BSD

MIT

etc...

FLOSS?

Some...

Software Projects

> Code

TOOLSie: how this Creative Commons thing works

Machine Readable

Ben Adida, RDFa Tutorial, http://ben.adida.net/presentations/www2008-rdfa/ Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Web Apps

Applications

http://labs.creativecommons.org/2009/01/14/banshee-now-with-creative-commons-support-devel/

liblicense

liblicense architecture

Future Possibilities

Why?

Sharing

CCDevCommunity

Benefits

Discoverability

Education

OER

OER
Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute. - Wikipedia

HOW?

The Michigan Way

dScribe

dScribes are students

Why OERca?

OER
Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute. - Wikipedia

OER
Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute. - Wikipedia

Clear material

Thanks to...

Free/Open Licenses

Questions?

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Attributions

Into The Deep licensed CC:BYJim Unterschultz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/activemetabolite/

CC Cartoons licensed CC:BYCreative Commons

Banshee Logo license CC:BY-SA 3.0 USBanshee Project http://banshee-project.org/

DiscoverEd Screenshot licensed CC:BY-SAMike Linksvayer

RDFa Example licensed CC:BYBen Adida

Slide design/style stolen from rejon (rejon.org)

All logos are trademarked their respective owners.

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