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Introduction to Creative Commons Prepared by : Suheil Hassab Elrasoul Tel:0912885661 Email:suheil2004@hotmail.com Job: The National Council for Press&Publication

Out line What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons Movement Why CC? Who Uses CC? Culture CC Licences CC Baseline Rights #1& #2 CC Licence Elements International CC Other CC Work The CC Web site CC Mailing Lists Accrediting Use

What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright (all rights reserved) and the public domain (no rights reserved) CC licences allow creators to retain copyright, while inviting certain uses of the work, a "some rights reserved" copyright

Creative Commons Movement As mentioned previously the CC movement evolved from open source software ideas and licences US lawyer Lawrence Lessig established the public domain Web site site after participating in an unsuccessful lawsuit Lessig decided he wanted to “ attempt to redesign copyright from within” CC was officially founded in 2001 after Lessig received a grant from the Centre for Public Domain (CPD) Lessig was assisted by IPR and IT experts (including James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Eric Saltzman, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred) and fellows and students from Harvard Law School Many respected experts now sit on the board of directors

Why CC? The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.

Who Uses CC? Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. The best known users of Creative Commons licenses. You can also search hundreds of millions of CC licensed works and choose a license for your own. Wikipedia Google Flickr

Culture The goal at Creative Commons is to increase cultural creativity in “the commons” — the body of work freely available to the public for legal use, We realize there’s an inherent conflict between innovative digital culture and archaic copyright laws. Our licenses help bridge that conflict so that the Internet can reach its full potential.

CC Licences The idea of the movement was to create licences that were: easy-to-use Used current copyright law to achieve their effect Would allow creators to share their work with the public whilst maintaining certain control over it There are now 16 million works using CC licences (wikipedia)

CC Baseline Rights #1 Every licence will help you retain your copyright announce that other people's fair use, first sale, and free expression rights are not affected by the licence Every licence requires licencees to get your permission to do any of the things you choose to restrict e.g., make a commercial use, create a derivative work to keep any copyright notice intact on all copies to link to your licence from copies of the work not to alter the terms of the licence not to use technology to restrict other licencees' lawful uses of the work (note this includes technical protection measures)

CC Baseline Rights #2 Every licence allows licencees, provided they live up to your conditions to copy the work to distribute it to display or perform it publicly to make digital public performances of it (e.g., webcasting) to shift the work into another format as a verbatim copy Every licence applies worldwide lasts for the duration of the work's copyright is not revocable

CC Licence Elements Attribution: The work is made available to the public with the baseline rights, but only if the author receives proper credit Non-commercial: The work can be copied, displayed and distributed by the public, but only if these actions are for non-commercial purposes No derivative works: This licence grants baseline rights, but it does not allow derivative works to be created from the original Share-Alike: Derivative works can be created and distributed based on the original, but only if the same type of licence is used, which generates a “viral” licence

The 6 main CC Licences by Attribution by-nc Attribution-NonCommercial by-sa Attribution-ShareAlike by-nd Attribution-NoDerivs by-nc-sa Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike by-nc-nd Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Licence Formats Commons deed (human readable) Legal licence (lawyer readable) RDF/XML Machine readable

International CC CC licences originally written using an American legal model The licences were popular and adopted by users all around the world However, there was a possibility that there might be validity problems in some jurisdictions iCommons - offshoot of the licensing project dedicated to the drafting and eventual adoption of jurisdiction-specific licences 24 jurisdictions have completed licences (17/11/05) 13 jurisdictions licences are being developed at least 70 local jurisdiction licenses expected

CC United Kingdom Complexities of UK law have meant the creation of two different set of licences CC United Kingdom: England and Wales Completed April 2005 Licence ported by Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University CC United Kingdom: Scotland Still being developed – working draft Licence being ported by the AHRB Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at Edinburgh University Also CC Ireland

Other CC Work Science Commons Searching Tools - CC Publisher, CC lookup, browser plugins Fundraising Web log and mailing lists

CC Mailing Lists Various discussion lists including: Community New licences Developing nations Education Business ideas Metadata Software development Accessible from CC Web site

Accrediting Use The proper way to accredit use of CC-licensed work is to: to keep intact any copyright notices for the Work credit the author, licensor and/or other parties (such as a wiki or journal) in the manner they specify the title of the Work the Uniform Resource Identifier for the work if specified by the author and/or licensor

Refrences www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/events/cc/cc-intro. ppt Guadamuz and Jordan Hatcher This ppt is available at: http://www.intrallect.com/cie-study/index.htm

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