Assessment project as part of the Creative Commons Beta Certificate for Librarians course.

1. What is Creative Commons?
Regina Gong
Librarian and OER Project Manager
Lansing Community College
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2. Also known as the Sonny
Bono Copyright Term
Extension Act extended the
term of copyright from life of
author plus 50 years
(Copyright Act of 1976) to
life of author plus 70 years.
This act also had an effect in
shrinking the works that
would have been included in
the public domain.

3. The CTEA was commonly referred to as the Mickey Mouse Copyright Law because of
Disney’s strong advocacy for copyright extension. The chart on the right illustrates how
Disney aggressively lobbied Congress every time Mickey’s copyright is about to expire.

4. The constitutionality of the CTEA was challenged by an Internet publisher named Eric
Elred, who was represented by Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig as the case
went all the way to the Supreme Court. The CTEA was upheld with a 7-2 vote.

5. All rights reserve
Limits and regulates sharing
Internet enables access, sharing, collaboration in
unprecedented scale, something that copyright
cannot do
Because of the underlying tension between these two opposing forces, and the desire
to legally enable sharing of works, the idea of Creative Commons
came about.

6. Non-profit organization founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig. The next
year, the Creative Commons licenses were released to enable
everyone to legally share works without circumventing copyright.

7. Creative Commons licenses allow “some rights reserved” as opposed to copyright’s “all
rights reserve.” Creators retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and
make some uses of their work. Every CC license also ensures all creators get credit for
their work through the practice of attribution.

9. https://stateof.creativecommons.org/

10. https://stateof.creativecommons.org/

11. Includes over 500 volunteers and
community members who serve
as CC representatives in over 85
countries.
To coordinate the work of the
global affiliate networks, four
platforms were created:
• Open Education
• Copyright Reform
• Community Development
• GLAM (Galleries, Libraries,
and Museums)

12. Be part of this global community of creators who love to share and
powered by gratitude.

13. Image Credits
• Copyright symbol: https://pixabay.com/en/copyright-symbol-intellectual-30343/
• Internet: https://pixabay.com/en/social-media-icon-human-personal-2537391/
• Mickey Mouse image and copyright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Disney-infinite-
copyright.svg
• Mickey Mouse effect on copyright law: https://pix-media.priceonomics-
media.com/blog/1105/mickeymouseFINAL.jpg
• Creative Commons Licenses: https://pixabay.com/en/creative-commons-licenses-icons-
by-783531/
• Creative Commons Visual Thinkery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/9102402492