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What is the Creative Commons?
The Creative Commons is an organization that develops copyright licenses to resolve tensions between copyright and sharing online. It was founded by Lawrence Lessig to allow creators to choose how their works can be shared and used. The Creative Commons provides public licenses for creators to retain copyright while allowing some uses of their works. There are now over 1.4 billion works shared using Creative Commons licenses worldwide. The organization supports the licenses and open movement globally.
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- 1. What is Creative Commons? Mandi Goodsett Summer2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- 2. You may haveheard of the Creative Commons before, but what is it?
- 3. Is it anorganization?
- 4. A set oflicenses?
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- 6. Why does itexist, and what does the Creative Commons do today?
- 7. To understand where CreativeCommons comes from, we have to go back to the beginning of the Internet, and how it interacts with copyright.
- 8. Copyright is veryimportant for protecting intellectual property.
- 9. But the Internetallows and encourages sharing (legal or otherwise), rather than controlling creative works.
- 10. What the Internetallows, copyright inhibits.
- 11. Copyright is a limitedmonopoly.
- 12. It’s a balancebetween protection of creative works so that artists find it worthwhile to create, and the sharing of those creative works for the benefit of everyone. Copyright is a limited monopoly.
- 13. Unfortunately, the “limited” natureof copyright has become increasingly reduced as the length of the copyright term is extended. Copyright is a limited monopoly.
- 14. In 1998, Congresspassed the Copyright Term Extension Act, often called the Sonny Bono Act, which lengthened the copyright term to life of the author plus 70 years (from life of the author plus 50 years).
- 15. A man namedEric Eldred, who had been sharing works that had fallen into the public domain due to their copyright term ending, paired up with Lawrence Lessig and others to argue that this law was unconstitutional.
- 16. In the caseof Eldred v. Ashcroft
- 17. In the caseof Eldred v. Ashcroft Lessig argued that extending the copyright term for works that had already been created could not be encouraging creative making ...
- 18. In the caseof Eldred v. Ashcroft … and that the extension of copyright without good cause by Congress was a breach of freedom of speech.
- 19. In the caseof Eldred v. Ashcroft They lost the case.
- 20. The tension between copyright andthe freedom of the Internet has been problematic in many realms.
- 21. While trying toimpede the continual extension of copyright terms had not succeeded, there was another way forward.
- 22. Lawrence Lessig andothers developed the Creative Commons to resolve some of the tension and allow for the shared creativity of the online commons to flourish.
- 23. What is theCreative Commons today?
- 24. The Creative Commons is... an organization
- 25. The Creative Commons is... a set of licenses
- 26. The Creative Commons is... a global network of people who value openness
- 27. The Creative Commons Organization is anon-profit with employees stationed around the world. The organization is a steward of the Creative Commons licenses and supporter of the open movement.
- 28. The Creative Commons Licenses are aset of public licenses that allow creators to retain their copyright while releasing some of those rights to everyone.
- 29. The Creative Commons Licenses There arenow 1.4 billion Creative Commons-licensed works in existence worldwide.
- 30. The Creative Commons Licenses The CreativeCommons is interested in both encouraging many creators to add their work to the Commons, and in developing a culture of sharing and connecting that improves overall creative output.
- 31. The Creative Commons Global Network providessupport for the licenses, which are important for educators and institutions around the world, and which signal a set of values in addition to providing access.
- 32. The Creative Commons Global Network reinforcesthe Open Movement, composed of activists, policy makers, and creators worldwide.
- 33. The Creative Commons Global Network looksto the future for the licenses in the context of new technology and innovations.
- 34. To learn moreabout Creative Commons and to join the movement, visit their website: https://creativecommons.org/
- 35. References (in orderof appearance) ● “Creative Commons Certificate Course content” by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license. ● “Globe” by The Tango Desktop Project is licensed under a CC-0 license. ● “U.S. Copyright Office Seal” of the United States Copyright Office is in the Public Domain. ● “Eric Eldred” by Joi Ito and Padraic is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Creative Commons” by Hamedm is in the Public Domain. ● “Creative Commons Staff” by David Kindler is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Open Content A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences” by Markus Büsges is licensed under a CC-BY SA 4.0 license.
- 36. References ● “Mosaic -my Flickr photostream” by Tatters is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Brigham Young University faculty survey …” by opensource.com is licensed under a CC-BY SA 2.0 license. ● “Share” by Mike Cohen is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar present ImpactStory to Open Access advocate Mike Rossner” by Open Science Federation is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Keyboard” by Jeroen Bennink is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license.