The Creative Commons Richard McCracken Head of Rights The Open University

Open Source Licensing Software – such as Linux Licences allow free use, distribution and modification of the source code Based on industry standards and protocols rather than proprietary systems May be available for all operating systems Support and troubleshooting via informal, peer web sites and discussion groups

Gperiodic Periodic table application using Linux Educational content Runs via browser Not tied to a particular platform Multilingual versions

Open Source Licensing Models Open Source Initiative GNU Free Documentation Licence Open Content MIT Open Courseware Creative Commons

Housed at Stanford Law School Started by legal, academic and business specialists in cyberlaw/IP, computer science, documentary filmmaking and public domain web-publishing Aimed at developing content, web sites and applications rather than programming

Standard Licence Conditions Mix and match clauses Eleven standard licences Copying, distribution, display and performance in four categories Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative Share-alike

Licences expressed as: Plain language text for users Fine-print legally expressed draft for courts Machine readable for search engines

Other Features Use of metadata (RDF Format) Irrevocable licences Range of standard symbols indicating types of licensed use

Challenges for Creative Commons Moral Rights Imbedded third-party content Free use and commercial exploitation

Publishers and Creative Commons Prentice Hall and the Open Source Series (Bruce Perens) Thomson (Gale) The American Physical Society

Other Open Source Models OSI (Open source Initiative) GNU Free Documentation Licence OpenContent MIT OpenCourseWare

References Creative Commons OSIhttp:// GNU OpenContent MIT OCWhttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.htmlhttp://ocw.mit.edu/index.html American Physical Society SURF