intro presentation about Creative Commons licensing given at the Sign Linguistics Corpora Network workshop in London (27 July 2009)

1. A
Paul Keller | 27 july 2009

2. copyright basics
• copyright arises automatically at the moment a work (not an
idea) is created.
• condition: sufficient (>=0) originality
• expires 70 years after the death of first author (or in case of
institutional authors 70 years after
the
publication)
• is an exclusive right to interdict any any uses of the
copyrighted work
• copyright law protects authors. performing artists ar protected
by so-called neighbouring rights.
• technical copyright protection. (DRM) form a protective layer
on top of
protection measures

3. exploitation and moral rights
• copyrights
• temporary and permanent reproductions of the work in any
medium. modification of a work
• broadcasting, publishing, distributing, renting, performing,
showing, making available, ‘on-demand services’
• moral rights
• non transferable rights of the author to protect the integrity
of her personality. (right to first publication, attribution,
protects against unauthorised modifications, destruction of
works.)

4. exceptions and limitations
• there are a(fair use rights in the US). there is no international
protection
number of exceptions and limitations of copyright
standardisation of these rights.
• the right to make quotations
• private copying
• educational exceptions
• reporting about public intrest events
• re use of press material by the press

5. personality/publicity rights
• publicity rights allow used for commercial purposes in public.
image or likeness is
individuals to control how their voice,
• are different form copyrights or any other intellectual property
right.
• are not internationally harmonized to the same extend as
copyright.
• protect the (usually not the person holding copyright).
recordings
persons depicted in photos, videos and audio
• rule of of anyoneaother than thework includes the voicework
image
thumb: If CC-licensed
licensor, a user of the
or
may need to get permission from those individuals before
using the work for commercial purposes.

6. The challenges posed by copyright
• do not sufficiently recognize that there are other motivations
for knowledge production than rent seeking.
• limits authors who want to share information and works
• limits access to information especially for so called orphan
works (that have become accessible via digital networks)
• pursue a one size fits all approach that threats professionals,
non-professionals, government actors, educational users and
large commercial distributers the same.

7. A
about Creative Commons

8. about Creative Commons
• Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization We work to
increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and
scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that
is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use,
repurposing, and remixing.
• CC provides free, easy-to-use legal tools Our tools give
everyone from individual creators to large companies and
institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright
permissions to their creative work. The Creative Commons
licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms
from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights
reserved.”

9. the Creative Commons licenses

10. the Creative Commons licenses (1)
• the Creative Commons licenses are the most widely used
open content licenses:
• more than a 100 million photographs on flickr.com are
available under a creative commons licens
• it is the standard copyright license used by wikipedia.org
• It is quickly becoming the standard licensing scheme for
Open Educational Ressources (OER).
• they are an instrument for creators to exercise their copy
rights: to give away certain rights while reserving others
• Creative Commons offers six different standard licenses that
can be used by anyone free of charge:

11. the six Creative Commons licenses
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDeriveratives
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike
Attribution - NonCommercial
Attribution - NoDeriveratives
Attribution - ShareAlike
Attribution

12. the Creative Commons licenses (2)
• the Creative Commons licenses have been designed for the
internet but they can be used off-line as well.
• the were designed with ordinary creators in mind and have
three different ‘layers’:
• the commons deed (a ‘human readable’ summary of the
main license terms)
• the full license (the ‘lawyer readable’ complete license)
• a machine readable expression using RDFa (using the
Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)

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licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
License</a>.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may
be available at <a xmlns:cc="http://
creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://www.ru.nl/
corpusngt/more" rel="cc:morePermissions">http://
www.ru.nl/corpusngt/more</a>.

16. the Creative Commons Licenses (rights)
• all six Creative Commons licenses allow everyone to:
• to Share - to copy, distribute, display, and perform the
work (for non-commercial purposes)
• to transfer the work into another format
• under the condition that the user gives proper attribution
to the original author and provides a link to the licenses
• the licensor can choose if she wants to limit these rights to
non-commercial uses of the licensed work or allow reuse
and distribution for commercial purposes as well.

17. the Creative Commons licenses (reuse)
• the author can further determine if he wants to allow
distribution or performance of derivative works (remixes) or
not (No Derivative Works)
• it is also possible to make the right to distribute remixes
conditional on the fact that they are also released under a
Creative Commons license that allows remixing
(ShareAlike)

18. Important characteristics
• expressly drafted not to limit 'fair use' rights
• a non-exclusive, irrevocable public license
• CC licensor enters into a separate license agreement with
each user
• no warranties
• license terminates immediately upon breach
• does not cover personality rights

19. choosing a license