byVinoth Khanna S R

What Is Creative Commons(CC)?What Is Creative Commons(CC)?

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.

How Does Creative Commons How Does Creative Commons Work?Work?

Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use legal tools that give everyone from individual creators to major companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to pre-clear copyrights to their creative work.

Creative CommonsCreative CommonsYou are free:

◦to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work

◦to make derivative works ◦to make commercial use of the work

Limitations◦Attribution. You must give the original author

credit.◦For any reuse or distribution, you must make

clear to others the licence terms of the work. Any of these conditions can be waived by

the copyright owner if asked to do so

Pre and Post PrintsPre and Post Prints

author’s original idea

author’s draft versions

author’s final draft

refereeingprocess

licence terms (express/implied) determine scope of permitted uses, including extent

of self-archiving

author retains copyright publisher acquires copyright

licence to authoror

educational institutionor

third party eg repository

assign

copyright

?

yesno

COPYRIGHT AS A BUNDLE OF COPYRIGHT AS A BUNDLE OF RIGHTSRIGHTS

Rights to:◦Control copying◦Attribution of authorship◦Control modification, adaptation or derivation

◦Compensation for commercial reuse ◦Personal reuse, adaptation◦Post in web repositories and on other web sites

◦Licence others to do the same

Creative Commons LicenceCreative Commons Licence

A licence which allows open access to material but which may impose restrictions on how that material is used:

Non-Commercial No Derivatives Share Alike

Creative Commons Licence

End-User Author /

Copyright Owner

ALL ______ SOME ______ NOALL ______ SOME ______ NO

©Some rights

reservedNo rights reserved

All rights reserved

Creative Commons LicencesCreative Commons Licences

CC licences let people easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Creative Commons licences are not an alternative to copyright.

CC – Spectrum of PossibilitiesCC – Spectrum of Possibilities

License ElementsLicense Elements

AttributionAttribution

No Commercial useNo Commercial use

No Derivative workNo Derivative work

Share alikeShare alike

Four main protocolsFour main protocols Attribution: Other people may use, modify and distribute

the work, as long as they give the original author credit.

Non-commercial: Other people may use, modify and distribute the work, but for non-commercial purposes only.

No derivatives: Other people may use and distribute the work, but can not modify it to create derivative works.

Share alike: Other people may modify the work and distribute derivatives, but only on the condition that the derivatives are made available to other people on the same licence terms. This term can not be used with the No Derivatives term, because it applies only to derivative works.

Three ExpressionsThree Expressions

Human-Readable: Commons Human-Readable: Commons DeedDeed

Lawyer-Readable: Legal CodeLawyer-Readable: Legal Code

Machine-Readable: Digital Code, Machine-Readable: Digital Code, MetadataMetadata

Creative Commons and Creative Commons and CopyrightCopyright

CCs apply on top of copyright, so one can modify one’s copyright terms to best suit one’s needs. In collaboration with intellectual property experts all around the world, it is ensured that CC licenses work globally.

Relationship to CopyrightRelationship to Copyright

Not anti-copyright

Relies on and is complementary to copyright

Aims to make copyright more alive, active and accessible

Creative Commons – in briefCreative Commons – in brief

Creative Commons – not for profit corp. based in SFO

Provides licences for allowing people to reutilise content on certain conditions

Licence Language - Common, Legal and Code – easy to use and understand

To implement - create a link to the CC licence or insert conditions of reuse in your code or metadata

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