CREATIVE COMMONS

CREATIVE COMMONSDEFINITIONCreative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world.Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technicalinfrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, andinnovation.LICENSING There is no registration to use the Creative Commons licenses. Licensing a work is as simple as selecting which of the six licenses best meets your goals, and then marking your work in some way so that others know that you have chosen to release the work under the terms of that license.CASE STUDY 1The United States of Americas President Barack Obama was sworn in on the 20th of January 2009.During the period between election and inauguration, the President elects transitional website (www.change.gov) was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence.[1]This meant that all content posted by the President elect, his team and any contributors was subject to this licence.CASE STUDY 2Pratham Booksis a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specificallyCC AttributionandCC Attribution-ShareAlike, to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at theirScribd channel. Pratham Books also has aFlickraccount where they publish pictures of their community underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike.PLAGIARISMDEFINITIONPlagiarismis the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of anotherauthor's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's ownoriginal work.KNOW HOWORIGINALITY CHECK:Student writers:WriteCheckResearchers, academics, professional writers:iThenticateSchools and Institutions:Turnitin

CASE STUDY 1The Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics surveyed 43,000 high school students in public and private schools and found that: 59% of high school students admitted cheating on a test during the last year. 34% self-reported doing it more than two times.One out of three high school students admitted that they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment

CASE STUDY 2Damien Hirst has been accused of plagiarism yet again. His new photoshoot for the cover of GQ depicts pop star Rihanna as Medusa with a crown of snakes, a python wrapped around her neck and snake-like contact lenses.