This document provides an overview of Creative Commons (CC), including who they are, how they started, and what they do, particularly in education. CC is a non-profit organization that offers free legal tools for creators to publish their works with some rights reserved rather than all rights reserved. They provide licenses that allow sharing, reuse, and remixing, addressing the need for an alternative to the restrictive "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright in the digital age. In education, CC aims to minimize barriers to creating, sharing, and reusing educational materials through legal, technical, and social means by providing pre-cleared permissions and enabling open communities of educators and learners.

1. c
www.slideshare.net/janeatcc
janepark@creativecommons.org

2. Who we are
How we happened
What we do
(particularly in education)

6. c

7. What (and who) is
c?

14. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered
in San Francisco with ~30 employees around
the world.

15. Creative Commons International

16. Creative Commons International
(Weʼre international.)

17. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered
in San Francisco with 30 employees around
the world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.

18. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered
in San Francisco with 30 employees around
the world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
• We do not offer legal services.

19. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered
in San Francisco with 30 employees around
the world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
• We do not offer legal services.
We offer free legal and technology tools that
allow creators to publish their works on more
flexible terms than standard copyright.

20. Weʼre a 501c3 corporation headquartered
in San Francisco with 30 employees around
the world.
• Weʼre a nonprofit.
• We do not offer legal services.
We offer free legal and technology tools that
allow creators to publish their works on more
flexible terms than standard copyright.
Terms that allow public sharing, reuse, and
remix.

22. Who we are

23. How (or why) we happened

24. C

25. C
Before 1976

26. C
Before 1976
• Default was free

27. C
Before 1976
• Default was free
• U.S. Register of Copyrights

28. C
Before 1976
• Default was free
• U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Any work fixed in a tangible
medium

29. C

30. C
Copyright

31. C
Copyright
• Law designed to govern
creative and expressive works

32. C
Copyright
• Law designed to govern
creative and expressive works
• Encourage creation and
promote dissemination

33. C

34. C
Before the Internet

35. C
Before the Internet
• Creation and dissemination
were via the printing press or
film reels

36. C
Before the Internet
• Creation and dissemination
were via the printing press or
film reels
• When it wasnʼt so easy to
make copies

38. C

39. C
1976 Copyright Act

40. C
1976 Copyright Act
• Automatic Copyright

41. C
1976 Copyright Act
• Automatic Copyright
• Life plus 50 years

43. cba by hyku
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyku/2166224145/

44. C

45. C
1998 CTEA Act

46. C
1998 CTEA Act
(“Sonny Bono” or “Mickey Mouse” Act)

47. C
1998 CTEA Act
(“Sonny Bono” or “Mickey Mouse” Act)
• Life plus 70 years

48. C
1998 CTEA Act
(“Sonny Bono” or “Mickey Mouse” Act)
• Life plus 70 years
• 120 years for corporate works

49. cba by ivva
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivva/336209777/

50. cba by ivva
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivva/336209777/

52. It is illegal to
copy, distribute, build upon, or remix
copyrighted works.

53. or

54. Break the law
or
Donʼt use the Internet

55. C

56. C Fair use, or Copyrights Exceptions &
Limitations (CEL)

57. C Fair use, or Copyrights Exceptions &
Limitations (CEL)
• No blanket protection for one kind of
use (ie. educational uses)

58. C Fair use, or Copyrights Exceptions &
Limitations (CEL)
• No blanket protection for one kind of
use (ie. educational uses)
• Rather relies on a host of factors

59. C Fair use, or Copyrights Exceptions &
Limitations (CEL)
• No blanket protection for one kind of
use (ie. educational uses)
• Rather relies on a host of factors
• Can only be determined on a case
by case basis, usually in a court of law

60. C Fair use, or Copyrights Exceptions &
Limitations (CEL)
• No blanket protection for one kind of
use (ie. educational uses)
• Rather relies on a host of factors
• Can only be determined on a case
by case basis, usually in a court of law
• Varies drastically by jurisdiction
(country to country)

61. C
Creative Commons International
U.S.-centric

62. C Fair use in the United States
Creative Commons International
U.S.-centric

63. C Fair use in the United States
1976 Copyright Act gives 6 examples
of types of uses that are likely to be
permissible:
Creative Commons International
U.S.-centric

64. C Fair use in the United States
1976 Copyright Act gives 6 examples
of types of uses that are likely to be
permissible:
Creative Commons International
•
criticism,
• comment,
• news reporting,
• teaching,
• scholarship,
U.S.-centric • research

65. A lot of people want to share,
especially
globally.
=
Instructors ryancr
http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
and students already participate
in a sharing culture.

66. A lot of people want to share,
especially
globally.
=
Instructors ryancr
http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
and students already participate
in a sharing culture.

67. cb by Jon Phillips

68. C
2003 - Eldred v. Ashcroft

69. C
2003 - Eldred v. Ashcroft
• Challenged Constitutionality of
the 1998 Copyright Extension Act

70. C
2003 - Eldred v. Ashcroft
• Challenged Constitutionality of
the 1998 Copyright Extension Act
• constantly expanding the term
undermines the original intent of
copyright

71. “To promote the Progress of Science
and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries.”

72. 7-2

73. cb by Jon Phillips

74. c

75. c
offers an alternative.

76. For the
Global
Networked
Age
http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/
b Woodley Wonderworks e

77. Who we are
How we happened

78. What we do
(particularly in education)

79. CC Licenses Build upon
Traditional Copyright
✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”

80. CC Licenses Build upon
Traditional Copyright
✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”

81. CC Licenses Build upon
Traditional Copyright
✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”
✓ CC improves copyright by giving creators
a choice about which freedoms to grant and
which rights to keep

82. CC Licenses Build upon
Traditional Copyright
✓ CC works within the existing system by
allowing movement from “All Rights
Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved”
✓ CC improves copyright by giving creators
a choice about which freedoms to grant and
which rights to keep
✓ CC minimizes transaction costs by granting
the public certain permissions beforehand

83. Basic License Building Blocks
CC licenses are comprised of combinations of 4
basic conditions:
Attribution
Non-Commercial
No Derivatives
Share Alike

84. Basic License Building Blocks
CC licenses are comprised of combinations of 4
basic conditions:
Attribution
Non-Commercial
No Derivatives
Share Alike

86. CC licenses are expressed in three
different ways:
human-readable lawyer-readable legal machine-readable
commons deed code metadata
<a rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons
License" style="border-width:0"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/
l/by/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a><br /
>This work is licensed under a <a
rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
3.0/us/">Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 United States
License</a>.

89. What CC Licenses Do Not Touch
Fair Use/Fair Dealing
No Warranties
Rights of Publicity
Trademark
Moral Rights
Not recommended for software!

90. What CC Licenses Do Not Touch
Fair Use/Fair Dealing
No Warranties
Rights of Publicity
Trademark
Moral Rights
Not recommended for software!

95. International Jurisdictions

96. International Jurisdictions
(71 Jurisdictions)

97. Licensed Objects via G/Y!

98. Over 100 million photos on
Flickr alone

101. CC provides the legal and technical
infrastructure for open culture. Our tools
and licenses facilitate the culture of sharing
that already exists in the arts, science, and
education.

103. The Sharing Landscape in Culture before CC
Permission Culture
Copyright Exceptions and
Limitations, ie. Fair use
Underground or “Guerrilla”
sharing

104. The Sharing Landscape in Culture after CC
Permission Culture
Pre-cleared permissions via CC
Copyright Exceptions and
Limitations, ie. Fair use
Visible sharing
Remix culture: a community of
creators not only sharing, but
improving, adapting, remixing,
innovating

105. c

106. c
in education.

107. The Sharing Landscape in Education
Permission Culture
Copyright Exceptions and
Limitations, ie. Fair use
Underground or “Guerrilla”
sharing

108. The Sharing Landscape in Education w/ CC
Permission Culture
Pre-cleared permissions via CC
Copyright Exceptions and
Limitations, ie. Fair use
Visible sharing
Remix Culture: a community of
educators/learners not only sharing,
but improving, adapting, remixing,
innovating

109. learn.creativecommons.org

110. Our mission is to minimize barriers to the
creation, sharing, and reuse of
educational materials—legal barriers,
technical barriers, and social barriers.

112. Why?

114. The world of education is the world of culture and creativity.

115. http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/2157716223/
Ribna. Venkatesh Hariharan
Teaching is a living, creative process
Learning is a living, creative process
The two are not exclusive.

116. Digital Media
Most educational
Access for free
resources
Open Educational Access, Copy,
Resources Redistribute, Adapt,
(CC licensed sans Translate, Improve,
the ND term, or in Remix for free
the PD)

117. What CC facilitates is that interaction and exchange
that results in more than “free to take.”
People start sharing differently, purposefully.
They start rethinking old systems, old ways of seeing
education.
They start using CC to help them achieve ends beyond
“free to take”.

118. p2pu.org
P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for
peers, and it is organized learning that is taking
place outside of any institution.

119. CC canʼt take credit for originating
these projects, but it can take credit
for enabling the open processes,
especially at scale.

120. learn.creativecommons.org/productions

121. (opened.creativecommons.org)

122. (opened.creativecommons.org)

124. discovered.creativecommons.org

125. Other projects
CC has enabled

133. Attribute to c with a link to
creativecommons.org
Creative Commons, ccLearn, the double C in a circle and the open Book in a circle are
registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other countries.
Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.