publishing, publishers, and authors: what you need to know about creative commons

Publishing, Publishers, and Authors: What you need to know about Creative Commons.

Greg Grossmeiergreg@creativecommons.org

<Disclaimers>

What is Creative Commons?

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Public Domain

All Rights Reserved

Some rights reserved: a spectrum.

least restrictive most restrictive

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xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">

<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/">

<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/>

<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/>

<requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/>

<requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/>

<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#CommercialUse"/>

<permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"/>

<requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#ShareAlike"/>

</License>

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RDFa Primer - Bridging the Human and Data Webshttp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/

What browsers see. What humans see.

Metadata?

The hardest part of promoting any work?

Discoverability

Metadata=

Discoverability.

People search for CC-licensed works.

But...

More Importantly

Reduce your own transaction costs.

flickr: 183,511,277 photos

(51,536,772 not NC)

Wikimedia Commons: 10,132,185

(ALL not NC)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_body_diagrams

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_body_diagrams

Burning Questions

NonCommercial

?“Commercial”

“...in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.”

~2/3 of all CC licensed content

Defining NonCommercial Study

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial

Copyright Education

Only 1 in 5 creators say that any of the works they have created in the last 12 months are copyrighted.

Nearly 8 in 10 content users say that none of the works they have used in the last 12 months are copyrighted, or they are “not sure.”

“CCFF”

CommercialOr

Not Commercial?

Commercial or Not Commercial?

“not-for-profit organization uses work on its site, organization makes enough money from ads to cover hosting costs”

Creators: 59.2Users: 71.7

(1 – 100, 1 = completely NonCommercial, 100 = completely Commerical)

Figure 13: Ratings of Commercial Use by Creators and Users: Scenarios Related to Uses Involving Money

Figure 15: Ratings of Commercial Use by Creators and Users: Scenarios Related to Uses by Organization

Figure 16: Ratings of Commercial Use by Creators and Users: Scenarios Related to Uses with Charitable Purposes

Figure 12: Ratings of Commercial Use by Creators and Users: Scenarios Related to Uses by Individual

Figure 17: Ratings of Commercial Use by Creators and Users (Anchor Point Exercise)

In Sum

It is (unfortunately) lacking clarity.

If you must, be clear.

http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/

Best Practices

Books under a CC license

MIT Press

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Creators

Use of others' images

“Yangtze River” by Greg Grossmeier (http://www.flickr.com/photos/grggrssmr/5218192252/), available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

“Yangtze River” by Greg Grossmeier, available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users

What is your use case?

Greg Grossmeiergreg@creativecommons.org

What is your use case?

Greg Grossmeiergreg@creativecommons.org

Attributions “Sunset Agta Beach Resort - Biliran Philippines” - Leodb -

CC BY SA 3.0

“Going Over the Waterfall” - Bo Nielsen - CC BY SA 2.0