1. Creative Commons Canada
Professor Marcus Bornfreund
Manager: Law & Technology Program, Faculty of Law

2. Can you search for what's not lost?
You will search, babe
At any cost.
But how long, babe,
Can you search for what's not lost?
- Bob Dylan, I’ll Keep It with Mine

3. Intellectual property law
a set of rules that aims to balance the rights of a creator against the public interest

4. protects the manner in which an idea is expressed
Copyright
protects the manner in which an idea is expressed

5. Some Rights Reserved

6. Free/Libre Open Source Software

7. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Sir Isaac Newton ( )

8. The Open Source Definition
1. Royalty-free redistribution (including source code); and
2. Modification and derivative works allowed

9. GNU General Public License (GPL)

13. Kirtas APT12000

15. Choosing Your Licence
1. Do you want to restrict commercial uses of your work, ie. Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for non-commercial purposes?
2. Do you want to allow modifications of your work?
a. Yes, ie. Permit others to create derivate works.
b. Yes, as long as others share alike, ie. Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a licence identical to the licence that governs your work.
c. No, ie. Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.

17. Free your code, the rest will follow.

18. Marcus Bornfreund marcus@uottawa.ca http://creativecommons.ca
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