This document introduces Creative Commons licenses as an alternative to traditional copyright. Creative Commons licenses allow creators to choose some rights to reserve for their work rather than reserving all rights automatically like copyright. There are several Creative Commons license options that allow creators to select which rights they want to reserve, such as attribution, share-alike, non-commercial, and no derivatives. Creators can combine these conditions in different ways to create a customized license for their work on the Creative Commons website. The licenses are designed to facilitate the free exchange of knowledge while still giving creators control over how their works can be used.

1. Get Creative
with
Creative Commons
Beth Filar Williams
Lynda M. Kellam
Material adapted from Kleinman, M. (2008, November). The beauty of 'Some
Rights Reserved': Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and
students." College and Research Libraries News, 69 (10): 594-597.

2. This is NOT a presentation about …
• Copyright
– Legislation
– Restrictions
• Fair Use or Library Use

3. This IS a presentation about…
• Creative Commons
– An nonprofit corporation created to assist content
creators in bypassing the restrictions of copyright
– A license you can get for your own work to ensure
that it can be shared (or used by) others.

4. The thing about copyright …
• Copyright is automatic with the creation of work
in a fixed format and lasts life of creator +70 years
• Copyright = bundle of rights
– copy
– create derivative works
– distribute copies
– perform works publicly
– display works publicly
• Almost everything is copyrighted whether the
creator intends it to be or not.

5. Because copyright is all or nothing…
• Creative Commons allows for “some rights
reserved”
• The creator gets to decide what those rights
are rather than the law
• Why do this?
– Because protects free exchange of knowledge and
collaborative work
– Gives control back to the creator to say “Yes. Use
my work.”

6. How Does It Work?
• Creators can create licenses specific to their
needs.
• Creators have several conditions to choose
from…

7. First Two License Conditions
• Attribution by
– Others may copy, distribute, display, create
derivatives, and perform but only if give credit the
way the creator requests.
• Share Alike
– Others may distribute derivatives under a license
identical to yours.

8. Last Two License Conditions
• Non-Commercial
– Others may copy, distribute, etc but only for non-
commercial purposes.
• No Derivative Works
– Others may copy, distribute, etc only verbatim
copies and not derivatives.

9. To create your license…
• You just need to combine the four conditions in
the ways to suit your needs to create a license.
– Attribution
– Attribution Share Alike
– Attribution No Derivatives
– Attribution Non-Commercial
– Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
– Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
• These are the main licenses. Others are available.

10. Where do you license your work?
• Why here:
http://creativecommons.org/choose/

11. Questions?

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