This document discusses Creative Commons licenses and how they enable sharing of content legally and at scale. Creative Commons provides free copyright licenses that allow creators to retain copyright while expressing permissions for others to use their work. There are several types of Creative Commons licenses that differ in the levels of sharing they allow, from most free to least free. The licenses provide human and machine readable options to clearly communicate allowed uses of content. Best practices for attributing content when using Creative Commons licenses are also outlined.
1. Creative Commons Licenses
21-January-2015
with
Paul Stacey
Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)
22. 5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER
• Make, own, and control your own copy of
the contentRetain
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the
contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content with
other OER to create something newRemix
• Share your copies of the original content,
revisions, or remixes with othersRedistribute
29. Difference between “free” and “open”.
Deciding how open to be.
Public funding scenario – “Public should
have access to what the public pays for.”
education, museums, research, government
data, …
Private sector funding scenario – “How does
money work when using Creative Commons
licenses?” Business models for open –
musicians, authors, platforms, …
The Commons
30. Paul Stacey
Creative Commons
web site: http://creativecommons.org
e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org
blog: http://edtechfrontier.com
presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey
News: http://creativecommons.org/weblog
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons
CC Thing of the Day: http://creativecommons.org/weblog