Intro to Creative Commons

Get Creative with

Creative Commons

Beth Filar WilliamsLynda M. Kellam

Material adapted from Kleinman, M. (2008, November). The beauty of 'Some Rights Reserved': Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty,

and students." College and Research Libraries News, 69 (10): 594-597.

This is NOT a presentation about …

• Copyright – Legislation– Restrictions

• Fair Use or Library Use

This IS a presentation about…

• Creative Commons– An nonprofit corporation created to assist content

creators in bypassing the restrictions of copyright– A license you can get for your own work to ensure

that it can be shared (or used by) others.

The thing about copyright …

• Copyright is automatic with the creation of work in a fixed format and lasts life of creator +70 years

• Copyright = bundle of rights – copy– create derivative works– distribute copies– perform works publicly– display works publicly

• Almost everything is copyrighted whether the creator intends it to be or not.

Because copyright is all or nothing…

• Creative Commons allows for “some rights reserved”

• The creator gets to decide what those rights are rather than the law

• Why do this? – Because protects free exchange of knowledge and

collaborative work– Gives control back to the creator to say “Yes. Use

my work.”

How Does It Work?

• Creators can create licenses specific to their needs.

• Creators have several conditions to choose from…

First Two License Conditions

• Attribution by– Others may copy, distribute, display, create

derivatives, and perform but only if give credit the way the creator requests.

• Share Alike – Others may distribute derivatives under a license

identical to yours.

Last Two License Conditions

• Non-Commercial – Others may copy, distribute, etc but only for non-

commercial purposes.

• No Derivative Works – Others may copy, distribute, etc only verbatim

copies and not derivatives.

To create your license… • You just need to combine the four conditions in

the ways to suit your needs to create a license.– Attribution– Attribution Share Alike– Attribution No Derivatives– Attribution Non-Commercial– Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike– Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

• These are the main licenses. Others are available.

Where do you license your work?

• Why here: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Questions?

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