& the culture of
                 OPENNESS
Timothy Vollmer
Open Policy Fellow
Creative Commons
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  with 30 employees around the
              world
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 legal and scalable
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      than standard copyright
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     TCP/IP        The Network


    Ethernet       Computers
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 permissions to your
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Human
Readable Deed
Lawyer
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    Code
<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
           xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

           <span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/
           Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by
           <a rel="cc:attributionURL"
           property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/
           my_photo">Joi Ito</a>
Machine    is licensed under a


Readable   <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/
           licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
           License</a>.
Metadata
           <span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/
           photo"/>
           Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be
           available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://
           ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.</
           span>
           </span>
52 Jurisdictions Ported
Over 350 million items
133+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr
Whoʼs doing OPEN?
Flickr: Francisco Diez
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                         Research
                        Made Public
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                         leading open-access
                       publisher of peer-reviewed

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digital media =
online, free, limits
OER =
customizable, shareable
Language barriers
Technical barriers
Flickr: sukisuki
Flickr: dr-chuck
Cultural barriers
Flickr: Open.Michigan
Discovery barriers
Media used to be a
delivery problem...
...now it's a
discovery problem
Changing Teaching and
 Learning Landscape
Flickr: Howard Gees
Flickr: Darwin Bell
Creative Commons and the Culture of Openness

Creative Commons and the Culture of Openness