What is Creative Commons?

Ahrash N Bissell

We’re a nonprofit based in San Francisco with around 30 employees around the world.

We do not offer legal advice per se.

We offer free legal and technical tools that allow creators to publish and share their works on more flexible terms than standard copyright.

Digitaltechnologies have

revolutionized howcreative works aremade, distributed,

and used.

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•It covers everything you want to use – textbooks, photos, music, videos, lesson plans.

•It covers everything you want to do – copying, emailing, modifying, sharing with colleagues.

•Even if it’s on the internet (or TV or radio)

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• Emailing that book chapter to a friend or colleague?• Posting a

picture/video/article onto your learning space?• Using a cartoon or drawing

in a handout?• Uploading resources you

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Creative Commons licenses make

copyright about opportunities.

Creative Commons provides tools for creators to grant permission ahead of time

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These permissions include

the right to copy/distribute, perform, display, build upon, and remix.

These tools are also for managing your own copyright

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So that you can collaborate and share material with anyone.

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So how does it work?

Four License Conditions

Six Licenses

Mark

your website

http://creativecommons.org

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking

Mark

your works

Some

rights reserved

Other Legal/Technical/Social Challenges

• “Quality control”• Student privacy and sharing evaluative data

• Professionalizing localization and improvement of resources

• Professional development and training• Building community• “Authentic assessment”

Getting involved withOpen Educational

Resources(OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER)are

materials, tools, and mediaused for teaching and learning

that arefree from copyright restrictions

or publicly licensedfor anyone

to use, adapt, and redistribute.

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Ahrash Bissell

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