What is Creative Commons?

What is Creative Commons?

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  Tell us... What areyour common connections? #CCOpenRange #ccsummit Photo by Mikael Kristenson on Unsplash Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash What is Creative Commons? This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Kamel Belhamel Faculty of Technology, University of Bejaia – Algeria Kamelbelhamel@gmail.com @kamelbelhamel Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
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  Photo by SandisHelvigs on Unsplash  What is Creative Commons?  The fundamental tension the creators of CC were trying to resolve.  The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.  Eldred vs Ashcroft  The CC organization  What CC tries to accomplish with its licenses  The number of CC-licensed works available today  The CC global network. Presentation plan
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   Digital technologieshave revolutionized how creative works are made, distributed, and used  Digital technologies implicate the right to copy through the sheer nature of how they work  The potential that digital technologies offer also implicates the right to make derivative works What’s the problem? Photo by Austin Poon on Unsplash
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  Sometimes full copyrightdiscourages creation and dissemination, even though the creator may want to encourage these things.  It can prohibit people who might benefit from creative work from being able to legally use it. What’s the problem?
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  History Copyright Term ExtensionAct (CTEA) Sonny Bono : L'encyclopédie du cinéma https://www.notrecinema.com The 1998 Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever end is earlier. Copyright protection for works published before January 1, 1978, was increased by 20 years to a total of 95 years from their publication date. This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act Tom Bell's graph showing extension of U.S. copyright term over time
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  History Eldred v. Ashcroft EricEldred : source Wikipedia Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA). Eric Eldred, is an Internet publisher. Eldred was joined by a group of commercial and non-commercial interests who relied on the public domain for their work. Larry Lessig Lawrence Lessig, believed this new law was unconstitutional. The term of copyright had been continually extended over the years Eric Eldred and Lawrence Lessig : Together, they challenged the constitutionality of the Act. The case, known as Eldred v. Ashcroft Lawrence Lessig : source Wikipedia
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  What if youwant to give up some of your copyright rights and contribute creative work to the commons for sharing and reuse? Creative Commons was created to help address the tension between creator’s ability to share digital works globally and copyright regulation The idea behind CC licensing was to create an easy way for creators who wanted to share their works in ways that were consistent with copyright law. Photo by Kamel Belhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018
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  Creative Commons (CC) isan American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators CC offers an alternative to full copyright; lets you easily change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.” Photo by Kamel Belhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018
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  Photo by KamelBelhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018 What if you want to give up some of your copyright rights and contribute creative work to the commons for sharing and reuse? Creative Commons was created to help address the tension between creator’s ability to share digital works globally and copyright regulation The idea behind CC licensing was to create an easy way for creators who wanted to share their works in ways that were consistent with copyright law.
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  Photo by KamelBelhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018 The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred with the support of Center for the Public Domain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002. The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002. As of May 2018 there were an estimated 1.4 billion works licensed under the various Creative Commons licenses. Wikipedia uses one of these licenses. As of May 2018, Flickr alone hosts over 415 million Creative Commons licensed photos. Creative Commons is governed by a board of directors
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  Photo by KamelBelhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018 CC Licenses All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators - we call them licensors if they use our tools - retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work - at least non-commercially
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  Photo by KamelBelhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018 CC License Conditions Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work. Attribution (BY) All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first. ShareAlike (SA) You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first. NonCommercial (NC) You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen NoDerivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first. NoDerivatives ( ND) You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first.
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  Photo by KamelBelhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018 CC0 License “No Rights Reserved” CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law The copyright licenses incorporate a unique and innovative “three-layer” design. Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, in the kind of language and text formats that most lawyers know and love. We call this the Legal Code layer of each license. Three “Layers” Of Licenses
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  Riding Together toCC Global Network Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash The Creative Commons Global Network includes 289 community members who serve as CC representatives in over 60 countries. The Creative Commons Global Network recently undertook a community led strategic process to revamp, revitalize, and strengthen the network network@creativecommons.org Practice Care, Reciprocity & Collaboration!
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  Photo by KamelBelhamel. CC- Global Summit 2018 I @kamelbelhamel This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License