1. The Creative Commons Project: Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age Enrico Bertacchini enrico.bertacchini@unito.it

2. Officially launched in 2001 No-profit corporation based in the USA (Stanford). Founder: Lawrence Lessig Creative Commons History 2

3. © All rights reserved (and then some more) No rights reserved (copyright is dead) Some rights reserved

4. Release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use Inspiration: GNU General Public License for software Objectives: −Creators retain copyright while licensing works as free for certain uses, on certain conditions −Develop web application to help people dedicate their creative works to the public domain (sharing) Creative Commons Project /1 4

5. Creative Commons Project /2 Fields of application: −Copyright protected works: websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc. Database??? Geographical Data??? 5

6. Licensing Possibilities Attribution (always) No Commercial Use No Derivative Works Share Alike 6

7. 7 Creative Commons Licenses 6 variations: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike Attribution Non-commercial Attribution No Derivatives Attribution Share Alike Attribution

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9. Digital Code Machine readable code: Metadata Bit describing other bits Expression, Description, Search No Digital Right Management 9

10. Creative Commons International Project launched in 2003 Adapt CC Licenses to national jurisdictions: “License Porting” Create an international networks of copyright experts Co-ordinate working groups for legal research 10

11. CC Worldwide 11

12. Science Commons Project Project launched by CC in 2006 Science Commons serves the advancement of science by removing unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation. 12

13. Science Commons Project 3 main fields of application:PublicationsLicensesData 13

14. Science Commons - Publications Open Access Using CC Licensing Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi, and BioMed Central Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine Helps scholars negotiate the rights to use and distribute their work via self-archiving (not yet international) Open Access Law Program Provides a comprehensive set of resources promoting open access in legal scholarship 14

15. Science Commons - Licenses Biological Materials Transfer Agreement Project Developing and deploying standard, modular contracts to lower the costs of transferring physical biological materials Using Creative Commons methodology 15

16. Science Commons – Data Neurocommons Project Open Source knowledge management platform for biological research (applied to neuroscience) Phase 1: pilot project to organize and structure knowledge by applying text mining and natural language processing to open biomedical abstracts Phase 2: development of a data analysis software system, released under BSD Open Source License Goal: viable open source platform based on open content and open Web standards 16

17. References www.creativecommons.org www.creativecommons.it www.sciencecommons.org This presentation is released under a Creative Commons Attribuzione 2.5 Italia License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/it/) 17