overview: creative commons (open kick-off)
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Session description from http://open4us.org/events/kick-off-conference-agenda/: Creative Commons celebrates the 10th anniversary of its license suite later this year. CC’s Education and Technology Coordinator, Greg Grossmeier, and Communications Manager, Jane Park, will give a brief overview of CC license use in education and its integral and infrastructural role in open educational resources (OER). They will also explain the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) and its requirement for TA program grantees.TRANSCRIPT
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open4us.org
Support for open licensing
The CC BY license requirement
“…as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and
Career Training Grant (“Grant”), the Grantee will be required to license to the public (not including
the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (“License”).”
http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/applicantinfo.cfm
http://creativecommons.org
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Here’s why we exist
CC BY-NC “sharing” by ryancr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
CC BY-NC-SA by Judy Baxter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/
CC BY-NC “fuzzy copyright” by PugnoM - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/
Makes sharing easy, legal and scalable
Free legal and technical tools that allow creators to grant copyright
permissions to their creative work
A simple, standardized, copyright license
CC licenses are unique because they are expressed in three ways.
Lawyer Readable
Legal Code
HumanReadable
Deed
MachineReadable Metadata
http://creativecommons.org/choose
http://search.creativecommons.org
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500 million works
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“teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others”
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