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Creative Commons - Overview
Terms of use
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Terms of use
These contents have been obtained from the Creative Commons site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the Creative Commons site for additional information on terms of use.
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Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.
They provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. |
History
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the support of the Center for the Public Domain. CC is led by a Board of Directors that includes cyberlaw and intellectual property experts Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, and Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, lawyer-turned-documentary filmmaker-turned-cyberlaw expert Eric Saltzman, renowned documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, noted Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito, and educator and journalist Esther Wojcicki.
In December 2002, Creative Commons released its first set of copyright licenses for free to the public. Creative Commons developed its licenses — inspired in part by the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) — alongside a Web application platform to help you license your works freely for certain uses, on certain conditions; or dedicate your works to the public domain.
In the years following the initial release, Creative Commons and its licenses have grown at an exponential rate around the world. The licenses have been further improved, and ported to over 50 international jurisdictions. |
ccLearn
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons, launched in 2007 and led by Ahrash Bissell, dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources. With a mission to minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials, ccLearn is developing brand new tools to integrate Creative Commons into open education.
The goals of ccLearn are the following ones:- Minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to the creation and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER).
- Bring new communities and groups into the world of open learning.
- Change the culture of education so that teachers have greater control over their pedagogy, greater freedom to experiment, and a larger community for support.
- Empower participation and expertise in education from around the world.
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Terms of use
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These contents have been obtained from the Creative Commons site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the Creative Commons site for additional information on terms of use.
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Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright and the public domain. From all rights reserved to no rights reserved. Their licenses help users keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.
The following describes each of the six main licenses offered when someone choose to publish some work with a Creative Commons license. We have listed them starting with the most accommodating license type and ending with the most restrictive license type:- Attribution. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
- Attribution Share Alike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
- Attribution No Derivatives. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
- Attribution Non-Commercial. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
- Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
- Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives. This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
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CC License Conditions. Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work
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CC Licenses work alongside copyright
Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright, so you can modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. CC developers have collaborated with intellectual property experts all around the world to ensure that their licenses work globally.
Creative Commons works to "port" the core Creative Commons Licenses to different copyright legislations around the world. The porting process involves both linguistically translating the licenses and legally adapting them to particular jurisdictions.
For those creators wishing to opt out of the copyright altogether, Creative Commons helps them do so by providing tools that allow you to place your work as squarely as possible within the public domain — a “no rights reserved” alternative to copyright. |
ccLearn Summary
Creative Commons has worked on promoting open and interoperable educational resources, and the organization has consulted meaningfully with many different OER projects, including MIT's Open Courseware, Rice University's Connexions site, the Public Library of Science, the Brazilian government's publicdomain.gov educational portal, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and many others.
The basic rationale for ccLearn is to simple: "To solidify and build on the success of all OER initiatives, the OER community needs greater coordination to harmonize legal and technical protocols to ensure that, from the user's perspective, open content is actually open". In essence, ccLearn is working to ensure the whole of the OER initiative is greater than the sum of its parts by coordinating with resource providers and by advocating for policies and practices that enable an accessible, interoperable, global educational commons.More information here |
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