Patrick Fulton & Sara Nodine Warren D. Allen Music Library
Do you… Want to let people share and use your photographs, but not allow companies to sell them? Want to find access to course materials from the world’s top universities? Want to encourage readers to re-publish your blog posts, as long as they give you credit? Want to find songs that you can use and remix, royalty-free? Source: creativecommons.orgcreativecommons.org
Use the Creative Commons! “A nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.” Mission: “Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.” Vision: “Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research and education, full participation in culture – to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.” Source: creativecommons.orgcreativecommons.org
History of CC Founded in 2001 Supported by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain (Duke University) First licenses released in 2002 free to the public Dedicated projects in education launched in : the new Nine Inch Nails album was released under CC In its first 7 years – estimated 350 million CC licensed works October 2013 – CC Workshop with musicians in Melanesia
Who is using CC?
Before licensing… Irrevocability Appropriateness of the material Nature and adequacy of rights Type of license Additional provisions
Considerations for licensees Understand the license Legal code – not just human-readable deed Permission granted for what you want to do Version of the license Scope of the license What exactly is being licensed Clear rights with any third parties Know your obligations Provide attribution Do not restrict others from exercising rights Determine what you can do with adaptations Termination is automatic when you fail to comply
The Licenses Three “layers” Legal Code Human-Readable – “The Common Deed” Machine-Readable Six different licenses Attribution Attribution-NoDerivs Attribution-ShareAlike Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike Attribution-NonCommercial Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Attribution (CC BY) Allows others to: Distribute Remix Tweak Build upon Benefit commercially even As long as… Credit the creator
Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND) Allows others to: Commercial redistribute Non-commercial redistribute As long as… Unchanged Complete Credits the creator
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) Allows others to non-commercially: Remix Tweak Build upon As long as… Credit the creator License the new creation under identical terms
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) Allows others to: Remix Tweak Build upon Benefit commercially even As long as… Credit the creator License the new creation under identical terms
Attribution-NonCommerical (CC BY-NC) Allows others to non-commercially: Remix Tweak Build upon As long as… Credit the creator
Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) Allows others to: Download Share As long as… Credit the creator
Some rights reserved CC for Flickr Images
Marking a Presentation
CC on IMSLP
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