Building free culture, knowledge and science Alek Tarkowski Creative Commons Poland

Creative Commons – an overview

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Creative Commons – an overview CC licenses CC tools

Creative Commons – an overview CC licenses CC tools Science Commons

Creative Commons – an overview CC licenses CC tools Science Commons Creative Commons Poland

Origins / reasons  Growth of “control culture” expansion of copyright in length of time, reach and strength of enforcement  An attempt to regain a lost balance  Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act / failure of the Eldred case Creative Commons

commons + public domain + open access + free software + middle ground / “third way” in face of enclosure, cultural commons needs digital environmentalism:

Standard legal tools Available for free Based upon copyright law No individual support given CC licenses

Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike No Derivatives

CC licenses Legal code + Human readable + Metadata (machine-readable RDF / XML)

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CC licenses Versioning currently: 3.0 draft Internationalization Creative Commons International licenses ported into 33 jurisdictions

CC licenses the free culture movement: Access to Knowledge (A2K) Open Access Wikipedia Open Business....

CC licenses license uptake November 2004: est. 5m May 2005: 16m December 2005: 50m June 2006: 140m

CC licenses 29% NonComm- ShareALike 17% NonComm- NoDerivs 17% NonComm 15% ShareAlike

CC licenses 68% Noncommercial 45% Share-ALike 24% No Derivatives

CC licenses license uptake MIT netlabels: Magnatune, Jamendo... PloS Agencia Brasil authors: Lessig, Benkler, von Hippel...

CC licenses licensing issues interoperability (with GPL) core freedoms definition? relation to DRM

CC tools mozCC: Firefox CC metadata plugin ccPublisher + archive.org CC search embedded CC search: Google, Yahoo embedded licensing: Flickr ccHost

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Science Commons launched in 2005, located at MIT “The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data” an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science.

Science Commons Tradition data is not copyrighted copyrighted scientific content becomes public domain if gov't funded Mertonian tradition of open science

Science Commons Today, on top of general copyright problems patenting of research sui generis database protection commercialization of research

Science Commons Three project areas Publishing Licensing Data

Science Commons Publishing Scholars Copyright Project “Author agenda” - amendments to rights transfer agreements with publishers ensure the freedom to use scholarly articles in teaching, conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works, and professional activities

Science Commons Publishing Scholars Copyright Project OpenAccess-CreativeCommons 1.0 immediate publishing, CC BY-NC licensing OpenAccess-Publish 1.0 immediate publishing OpenAccess-Delay 1.0 final manuscript immediately / publication after 6 months

Science Commons Licensing Biological Materials Transfer Project transfer of genes, proteins, chemicals, tissues, model animals, software, databases, "know-how", reagents. licensing still an issue

Science Commons Licensing Biological Materials Transfer Project standard legal terms educational materials and curricula organizational designs (technology trusts, patent pools).

Science Commons Data data is today becoming locked up and thus wasted as knowledge rapidly changes CC principles applied to data sharing The Neurocommons project Open Access Semantic Web for neurological research

Science Commons CC model and know-how applied to science lowered transaction costs

Science Commons Rio Framework for Open Science August 2006 drawing on experience of OA, FS, FC projects parallel focus on law – technology – policy standard contracts and tech + information reuse + utilization of resources + re-contribution

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Potential uses / opportunities Polish Internet Library (PBI) academic / scientific journals academic books books, music – small market situation

CC Poland Problems / challenges lack of legal education weak commons proprietary mentality “piracy”

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