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• Baking the Creative Commons Cake - Understanding Creative Commons
Open Licenses [Video] http://tinyurl.com/CreativeCommonsCake
• Connexions. http://cnx.org/
• Creative Commons. About the Licenses.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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• IntraText Digital Library. http://www.intratext.com/
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• MIT Open Courseware. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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• Smarthistory. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/
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Getting unCommonly Creative: Reusing and creating open materials
This document discusses Creative Commons (CC) as an alternative to traditional copyright, explaining its benefits, drawbacks, and the process of creating CC licenses. It highlights how CC licenses facilitate the reuse of creative works while providing varying levels of restrictions, thus encouraging collaboration and sharing within educational and research contexts. Additionally, it addresses the challenges and complexities associated with copyright law and CC licenses.
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- 1. Getting unCommonly Creative: Reusing and creating open materials Gaz J Johnson Document Supply and Repository Manager University Library University of Leicester 13th December 2012 www.le.ac.uk/library www.le.ac.uk/copyright
- 2. Overview • What isCreative Commons and how it differs from Copyright • Creating a CC license and the constituent elements • Benefits and the drawbacks • Finding CC licensed materials
- 3. What is Copyright? •Copyright – “The exclusive right to reproduce in any form those works defined in s.1 (1) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act (1988). These include original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, sound recordings, films, broadcasts.” • (Mick Woodley (ed.) Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary (2005) 10th ed. Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell). • Under UK law (CDPA 1988) Copyright is automatic – Lengthy period (Life+ 70) makes reuse tricky – Reuse only permitted under licence or permission – Fair dealing, criticism and review may also apply
- 4. Creative Commons &Open Licences • An alternative to traditional copyright – Copyright is all or nothing – Historically short periods in © but increasing today • Creative Commons licenses* – Propagates reuse of intellectual endeavour outputs – Encourages others to share their work • Permits reuse without permission request – Predefined limitations & restrictions can be applied – Internationally recognised & under UK law *US concept, hence US spelling
- 5. Why does itMatter? • Many feel traditional © is obsolete – Legislation lags while technology bounds forward – Web 2.0 sharing inhibited by absolute © – Alternative is to waive rights • CC Gives greater control to content creators – Restrictions take a back seat to permission – Licenses follow content – Avoids some issues over Orphan Works and permissions
- 6. How does itBenefit HE? • More understanding means more material shared under CC – Expands readily available pool of teaching, learning and research materials – Helps eliminate time and effort seeking permission or under stricter licenses (e.g. CLA) • Openness and sharing basis – Even fair dealing usage of © can be unclear for some – Allows legal inclusion of material to lectures, publications etc at last minute – Encourages new kinds of scholarship through remixing
- 7. License Layers Images reused and adapted under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution licence from Creative Commons.org
- 9. Baking the CreativeCommons Cake Attribution Share Alike Non-Commercial No Derivative (by) (sa) (nc) Works (nd) You let others copy, You allow others to You let others copy, You let others copy, distribute, display, and distribute derivative distribute, display, and distribute, display, and perform your works only under a perform your work — perform only verbatim copyrighted work — license identical to the and derivative works copies of your work, and derivative works license that governs based upon it — but not derivative works based upon it — but your work. for non-commercial based upon it. only if they give credit purposes only. the way you request. Images reused and adapted under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution licence from Creative Commons.org
- 10. Mixing your Ingredients •CC BY is lowest level of protection – Enforcing moral rights recognition through attribution – Open to all kinds of reuse in part or in full – Even commerical reuse permitted – Some recommend only reusing objects shared with this license • CC BY-SA encourages building on your work – Even for commercial reuse – License used by Wikipedia – Enforces new objects are shared in the same way Images reused and adapted under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution licence from Creative Commons.org
- 11. Mixing your Ingredients •CC BY-ND is about whole reuse – E.g. the performance of a whole play – No reuse of parts of a work allowed • CC BY-NC-SA is a personal favourite – Allows for non-commercial reuse of work – Enforces sharing of outputs under the same license – But is education non-commercial (e.g. journals/books?) Images reused and adapted under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution licence from Creative Commons.org
- 12. Mixing your Ingredients •CC BY-NC is another fairly open license – Reuse with appropriate credit – Limited only by lack of commercial exploitation • CC BY-NC-ND is the most restrictive – Material can only be used in its entirety – No commercial usage either – Items shared under this can be tricky to reuse
- 13. Creating a CCLicense
- 15. Who Is UsingCC? • At Leicester – Open Educational Resources (OERs) (BDRA) • The TIGER/OTTER/OSTRICH Projects – Manufacturing Pasts project (Library/BDRA) – Library training materials for copyright • Externally – MIT Open Courseware – Connexions from Rice University – iTunesU at Oxford University – Smarthistory (art history textbook) – Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV (BY-NC-SA)
- 16. Regionality • Can createCC licenses attached to a country – CC themselves recommend 3.0 Unported – “Use the option "International" if you desire a license using language and terminology from international treaties.” • Library recommends UK – As CC licenses are recognised under UK law – Additional legal protections of UK legislation
- 17. Finding Creative CommonsObjects • Search engines advanced options – Can search for work tagged for reuse – E.g. Google Advanced Search, Creative Commons Search, Wikimedia Commons • Sites for searching particular object types – Freebase.com, IntraText, Freesound etc • Media sharing sites have licences embedded – YouTube, Flickr, Internet Archive etc – Concerns over listed sharing and reuse permissions
- 18. Downsides • Copyright lawis already complex – Regionality, type of works and fair dealing – CC licenses are designed to be easy to use but do add another layer • Grey areas over definitions – Does a whole presentation reusing a CC-BY-SA image need to be shared? – What exactly is commercial use? – How much attribution is needed? Name, site, link back etc, in references or onscreen?? – How will disputed cases be handled in court?
- 19. Summary • CC isan alternative to more restrictive total copyright • CC licenses help unlock easier access and reuse to created works • CC license elements can be mixed to create your perfect blend (or cake) • CC licenses have some issues but are on the whole relatively easy to understand
- 20. Questions & Contact •Gareth J Johnson – Ext 2039, gjj6@le.ac.uk – @llordllama on twitter • For more on Copyright and CC – See the training materials – Or contact the Copyright Team www.le.ac.uk/copyright
- 21. References • Baking theCreative Commons Cake - Understanding Creative Commons Open Licenses [Video] http://tinyurl.com/CreativeCommonsCake • Connexions. http://cnx.org/ • Creative Commons. About the Licenses. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ • EduCause. 7 things you should know about Creative Commons. [PDF] http://tinyurl.com/bshd7fl • IntraText Digital Library. http://www.intratext.com/ • Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/ • MIT Open Courseware. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm • Sitepoint. 30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media. http://www.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/ • Smarthistory. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ • Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page