Creative commons licences

Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Creative Commons Licences
Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Programme officer, CEMCA, New Delhi

The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
describe OER as “teaching, learning, and
research resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license which permits
their use and/or re-purposing freely by
others”.

Copyright
The exclusive legal
rights to reproduce,
publish, sell, or
distribute the matter
and form of something
such as a piece of
literary, musical, or
artistic work
Merriam-Webster online
dictionary

Creative Commons
 Creative Commons is an organisation set up to
“enable the sharing and use of creativity and
knowledge through free legal tools”.
 This comprises a set of copyright licenses that
facilitate creators of pieces of intellectual
property to classify the level of access they will
allow others to their material.
 Creative Commons has designed a collection of
licences to ensure that there is a suitable licence
for every purpose.

 There is almost certainly a ready-made licence that
will suit the publisher’s requirements, saving time
and effort in drawing up a custom licence.
 Creative Commons licences are easily understood and
commonly used, so that a potential reader or re-user
of a work will immediately understand the conditions
of the licence.
 The licences have machine-readable metadata,
simplifying processes where applications such as
harvesters and text-mining tools carry out automated
tasks: these tools can recognise, by the machine-
readable licence, which content they are permitted
to gather and work upon.
Creative Commons License

Creative Commons licenses are easy to use
 Legal Code: expansive
legal languages tested in
several cases.
 Commons Code: Simple
icon-based approach to
explain what you can do
and what you can’t.
 Digital Code: Enables
search engines to search
and locate through CC
Rights Expression
Language.

Components of Creative Commons
licenses
 Attribution: the original creator/author to be
attributed.
 Share Alike: when a derivative is created out of
another work, it has to be shared with the
identical conditions/license of the original.
 Non-Commercial: Use of the work for
commercial purpose is prohibited.
 Non-Derivative: While access is free, no
derivative can be produced out of the original.

Types Creative Commons licenses
 Attribution-CC BY
 Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
 Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
 Attribution-Non Commercial-
ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

Types Creative Commons licenses
 Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
 Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
Now See this Video: Creative Commons for OER
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlNM1Ak95oU&spfreload=10
(8 Minuit)

License conditions
 Ensure that the work produced is
copyrightable.
 Confirm that the author has the legal rights
to claim authority over the work.
 Be certain that they are aware of the full
workings, terms and aptitude of a CC
license.
 Know for sure what the author is licensing.
 Verify that any affiliation the author has
with any other party that may be related to
the classification of CC license has no other
issue with the chosen license.

Licensing policies
 National level policy is naturally preferable as this
gives a wider benchmark and uniform approach to all
parties involved in sharing resources. The
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO have
been advocating for national OER policies.
 The Creative Commons has a policy tracker registry:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry
 The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
(CEMCA) has developed an institutional OER policy
template
http://www.cemca.org.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/DRAFT%20OER%20PO
LICY%20template_revised.odt to be adopted by academic
institutions and universities.

Resources:
Literatures related to Creative Commons licenses:
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtEOplA
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-cCuBZofxA
 http://creativecommons.org/choose/
 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing
 http://creativecommons.org/choose/
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-
sa/4.0/legalcode
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-
nd/4.0/legalcode

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