Workshop Barcelona: Introduction to Creative Commons

A simple, standardizedway to grant copyright

permissions to your creative work.

Easy-to-use, standardized licenses and public

domain tools that allow creators to publish their works on more flexible terms than standard

copyright

“Some rights reserved”

Step 1: Choose Conditions

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Step 2: Receive a License

CC0 public domain dedication

Public Domain Mark

most free

least free

3 layers

“human readable” deed

“lawyer readable” license

“machine readable” metadata

<span xmlns:cc=“http://creativecommons.org/ns#” xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”>

<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/photo/”>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.

</span></span>

<span xmlns:cc=“http://creativecommons.org/ns#” xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”>

<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.

<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/photo/”>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.

</span></span>

Updated #s (and growing fast)

Over 550 million items

http://creativecommons.org/choose

<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>.v

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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CultureScience

GovernmentEducation

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72 Creative Commons “Affiliate” Teams

175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr

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Higher Ed

Education grant making

Translations & Accessibility

Customization & Affordability

Search & Discovery

http://search.creativecommons.org

• PhET Interactive Simulations• Connexions• OpenStax College• Curriki• Open Course Library• Saylor.org• OER Africa

CC BY licensed OER sites

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies/United_States

Saylor.org Reuses Open Course Library Materials

• Khan Academy• MIT Open Courseware• Open Courseware Consortium• Flat World Knowledge• Peer 2 Peer University• MERLOT• OER Commons (referatory service)

Popular OER under other CC licenses

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies/United_States

• Images• Audio• Video• Text

Major communities by media type

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish

• Vimeo• YouTube• Internet Archive• Wikimedia Commons

Video platforms

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish/Video

OER-specific platform

http://cnx.org

• Creator of CC-licensed content• User of CC-licensed content

Best practices for marking content with CC licensing

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

• Marking on your site• Marking specific media• Marking specific formats• Marking third-party content• More…

Marking Best Practices: Creators

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators

Example of poor Marking

o Which license?o Link to license?o License icon?o Not machine-readable

Example of better Marking

Full URL (link) to CC BY license Visible notation of ‘CC BY’ CC BY license icon Machine-readable

Example of better Marking

Incorporating OER into your course collections

• Creator of CC-licensed content• User of CC-licensed content

Best practices for marking content with CC licensing

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

• Marking on your site• Marking works offered under other CC licenses• Is your attribution good enough?• Marking specific media• More…

Marking Best Practices: Users

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users

Example of poor Marking

o Confusing creator with license granting organization

o Which license?o Link to license?o License icon?o Not machine-readable

Example of better Marking

Title of work Title linked to original web

page Creator noted Specific license noted and

linked (CC BY) Machine-readable

Remix Licenses

Thank you!

“Thank You – Danke” by Alice Popkorn / CC BY

Dr. Cable GreenDirector of Global Learning

cable@creativecommons.orgtwitter: cgreen