Creative Commons

Berenice Scott,Copyright Officer

University of New England

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December 2011

Copyright

• Automatic• Lasts a long time• Is yours even when you don’t want it• It belongs to the creator even if they don’t

know they have it• It can get lost – through contract or death• It carries lots of rights

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A copyright owner can do the following with their work

– Reproduce it– Publish it– Perform it– Adapt, translate or modify it– Communicate or broadcast it

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So if you want to use someone else’s

• Literary Works: books, poems, articles, research papers, short stories, games’ rules, letters, email, instruction manuals, computer programs, song lyrics, catalogues, compilations, tables, questionnaires, dictionaries and other forms of writing

• Dramatic Works: plays, film scripts, scenarios, librettos, mimes, other scenic or dramatic compositions intended to be performed, such as choreographic works

• Musical Works: popular and classical scores and other combinations of melody and/or harmony in print or other form (but not sound recordings)

• Artistic Works: paintings, engravings, photos, sculptures, maps, sketches, plans, drawings, technical and architectural drawings, prints, jewellery, dress patterns, computer graphics, buildings and models of buildings, craftworks such as ceramics, carvings and installations

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• Ask permission• Check if it’s out of copyright• Check if an exception applies, such as:

– fair dealing for study – educational licence – library provisions – Commonwealth licence

• Or just hope no one finds out……5

Automatic Protection• Literary Works: books, poems, articles, research papers, short stories,

games’ rules, letters, email, instruction manuals, computer programs, song lyrics, catalogues, compilations, tables, questionnaires, dictionaries and other forms of writing

• Dramatic Works: plays, film scripts, scenarios, librettos, mimes, other scenic or dramatic compositions intended to be performed, such as choreographic works

• Musical Works: popular and classical scores and other combinations of melody and/or harmony in print or other form (but not sound recordings)

• Artistic Works: paintings, engravings, photos, sculptures, maps, sketches, plans, drawings, technical and architectural drawings, prints, jewellery, dress patterns, computer graphics, buildings and models of buildings, craftworks such as ceramics, carvings and installations

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Creative Commons

• Allows you to decide how you want your own copyright used

• Allows you to use others’ copyright on their terms without needing to seek their permission

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Everyday we (and our students)

UseMoviesPicturesMusicText

Are you ready??? by ssh available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssh/12638218/ under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence CRICOS No. 00213J

Creative Commons provides a tool for managing your own copyright

Tooled Flatty by flattop341 available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/flattop341/1085739925/ under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 licence CRICOS No. 00213J

CC Primary Licence Elements

There are 4 primary licence elements:

Attribution – attribute the author

Non-commercial – no commercial use

No Derivative Works – no remixing

ShareAlike – remix only if you let others remix

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Six Standard CC Licences

Attribution

Attribution-Noncommercial

Attribution-NoDerivatives

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Attribution-ShareAlike

Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike

Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives

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Creative Commons material can be used without worrying about local copyright laws or exceptions – which usually don’t work for multimedia

Lock by AMagill available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/235453953/ under a Creative Commons Attribution LicenceCRICOS No. 00213J

Searching CC Resources

• Creative Commons Searchhttp://search.creativecommons.org/

• Directly in a CC site using their search options For example: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ for images from Flickr

• Google SearchFilter by licence in the advanced features

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This slide show is a good example.

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This slide show is a good example.

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I found this slide show . . .

Creative Commons in Our Schools by markwooley available at http://www.slideshare.net/markwoolley/creative-commons-in-our-schools/ under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.5 licence

This slide show is a good example.

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I found this slide show . . .

Used some slides as they were . . .

Creative Commons in Our Schools by markwooley available at http://www.slideshare.net/markwoolley/creative-commons-in-our-schools/ under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.5 licence

This slide show is a good example.

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I found this slide show . . .

Used some slides as they were . . .

Modified others . . .

Creative Commons in Our Schools by markwooley available at http://www.slideshare.net/markwoolley/creative-commons-in-our-schools/ under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.5 licence

This slide show is a good example.

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I found this slide show . . .

Used some slides as they were . . .

Modified others . . .

And added some of my own.

Creative Commons in Our Schools by markwooley available at http://www.slideshare.net/markwoolley/creative-commons-in-our-schools/ under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.5 licence

Ask permissionCheck if it’s out of copyrightCheck if there’s an exception such as: – fair dealing for study – educational licence – library provisions

– Commonwealth licence

Using and Referencing CC in Education

• The Smartcopying website has a suite of resources to help

• http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956

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A Koran, originally part of the library of Abdϋlhamid II, last Ottoman Sultan, 1842-1918. Believed to be copied around 1814 or 1815. Acquired by the Library in Cairo in 1924.

Original image: sukisuki (Flickr) Feb 19, 2009Made available under Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/Available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sukisuki/3293816340/

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Image by sukisuki (Flickr)http://www.flickr.com/photos/sukisuki/3293816340/

Students will ignore lessons that just tell them what they can’t do

CC teaches them what they can do

Day 121 - Punk Rock Princess by gotplaid? available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/59953599@N00/2368931334/ under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence

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For More Information

http://creativecommons.org.au/http://creativecommons.org/videos/

University of New EnglandCopyright Office

www.une.edu.au/copyright

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This presentation is licenced under Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

The interesting slides from this presentation have been used with thanks to: http://www.slideshare.net/Jessicacoates/creative-commons-in-the-classroom-

presentation

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License Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Some rights reserved by qthomasbower

http://www.flickr.com/photos/qthomasbower/3640360845/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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