Creative Commons Licences for School Libraries

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons3. CC in schools policy4. Government policy5. Creative and cultural fields6. Students7. Search

Let's begin with the obvious

Potential of digital technologies and the Internet to:

Potential of digital technologies and the Internet to:

share teaching resources

Potential of digital technologies and the Internet to:

share teaching resourcescollaborate

Potential of digital technologies and the Internet to:

share teaching resourcescollaborate

save time and money

Potential of digital technologies and the Internet to:

share teaching resourcescollaborate

save time and moneystop reinventing various wheels

Potential of digital technologies and the Internet to:

share teaching resourcescollaborate

save time and moneystop reinventing various wheels

disseminate our cultural heritage

However:Two problems

First problem: Copyright

Second problem: Teachers don't hold copyright to

their resources

Two solutions,but first....

1. Copyright

What is copyright?

Bundle of rights: copy, distribute, perform, adapt

Automatic(no © required)

*applies online*

Lasts for 50 years after death

But what is the purpose of copyright?

Statute of Anne, 1710: “For the encouragement of

learning”

USA Constitution:“To promote the progress of

science and useful arts.”

The commons is a public good+

People need an incentive to create

=Limited monopoly, i.e. copyright

=A vibrant culture

However...

Copyright the opportunities and problems of print culture

“Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster,” by Daniel Maclise, 1851.

‘All Rights Reserved’ copyright restricts the potential of digital technologies and the Internet

What to do?

“Grayson, Westley, Stanislaus County, Western San Joaquin Valley, California. Seventh and eighth grade class in Westley school after lesson in Geography” 1940, US National Archives 83-G-41445, via Flickr. No known copyright.

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons

Public DomainFew Restrictions

Public DomainFew Restrictions

All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms

Public DomainFew Restrictions

All Rights ReservedFew Freedoms

Some Rights ReservedRange of Licence Options

Four Licence Elements

Attribution

Non Commercial

No Derivatives

Share Alike

Six Licences

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

More free More restrictive

Retain copyright: Creative

Commons licence

permission in advance

“2500 Creative Commons Licences” by qthomasbower, via Flickr. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 licence.

Go to creativecommons.org/choose

Layers

Licence symbol

Human readable

Lawyer readable

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"<<img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png" /<</a<<br /<This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"<Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a<

However...

You can't apply a CC licence if you don't hold copyright

Teachers don't hold copyright to their teaching resources

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons3. CC in schools policy

All teaching materials:Creative Commons Attribution

1. No need to ask permission

1. No need to ask permission

2. Keep resources when you leave

1. No need to ask permission

2. Keep resources when you leave

3. Teachers receive credit when their work is reused

Case studies at creativecommons.org.nz

“When I look outside at other schools, I think, why aren’t you

doing this?”Nathan Parker, Warrington

School

“Teachers are collaborating more, and they’re also involving

their students in the development of those teaching

and learning resources.”Mark Osborne, ASHS

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons3. CC in schools policy4. Government policy

Beehive, Wellington, NZ. Creative Commons Attribution Non Commerical No Derivatives by stewartbaird by Flickr.

NZGOAL:Government guidance, approved

by Cabinet

NZGOAL:

a)Provides a framework for release using CC BY

a)Advocates release using CC BY

2. “It is widely recognised, in New Zealand and abroad, that significant creative and economic potential may lie dormant in such copyright and non-copyright material when locked up in agencies and not released on terms allowing re-use by others.”...3. “The Government wants to encourage the realisation of this potential.”

BoTs are “invited” to:

1) become familiar with NZGOAL

2) take NZGOAL into account when releasing copyright material

Case Studies: Ministry for the Environment

Wellington City CouncilLINZ

Te Papa

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons3. CC in schools policy4. Government policy5. Creative and cultural fields

“Tosca Olinsky, American painter, 1909-1984,” date unknown, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0115443, via Flickr. No know copyright.

i) New ‘Business Models’

Creative Commons licences allows for changes in:

1) production (new forms)

2) distribution (new channels)

3) consumption (read only → read/write)

Case Studies:

Meena KadriBronwyn Holloway-Smith

DisasteradioOpen Source Cinema

'Uttarayan Sunset' by Meena Kadri/Meanest Indian, via Flickr. This image is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives licence.

ii) Culture and Heritage

Many cultural works are in copyright but not commerical

viable

Where public money is involved, we advocate for open licensing

The infamous 'low hanging fruit.'

1. Public domain works→ use the 'public domain' mark

2. Materials with easy permissions→ CC friendly donors

3. Institution's own copyright→ release according to NZGOAL

iii) Public Funding

The taxpayer—via CreativeNZ, NZ On Air, etc—funds a lot of culture

Many publicly funded cultural works will not enter the public

domain till at least 2100

Creative Commons can give publicly funded work a second life

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons3. CC in schools policy4. Government policy5. Creative and cultural fields6. Students

Banks College students playing leap frog. Wellesley College :Photographs relating to Wellesley College, Banks College and Croydon School. Ref: 1/2-147264-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22901144

Creative Commons is a great way to teach students about

copyright

Creative Commons shifts the conversation from what students

can’t do, to what they can.

Teach students to critically, creatively and legally engage

with their intellectual and cultural heritage

'read only' → 'read/write'

Mix & Mash 2013: The New Storytelling

mixandmash.org.nz

Prizes of $50, $500 and $2000

Screenshot of “Manny’s Story” by Casey Carsel, via Youtube. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence

1. Copyright2. Creative Commons3. CC in schools policy4. Government policy5. Creative and cultural fields6. Students7. Search

Photograph of Card Catalog in Central Search Room, 1942, US National Archives, via Flickr. No

known copyright.

More than 700 million works

General: search.creativecommons.org

New Zealand: digitalnz.org

Media: commons.wikimedia.org

Photos from Flickr: flickr.com/creativecommons or compfight.org

Music: Jamendo.org

Public domain movies and music: archive.org

Video: vimeo.com/creativecommons

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