creative commons and the culture of openness
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This is a virtual talk I gave to the University of Wisconsin Engage group on March 29, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
& the culture of OPENNESS
Timothy VollmerOpen Policy FellowCreative Commons
Is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation headquartered in San Francisco with 30 employees around the
world
Makes sharing easy, legal and scalable
Offers free legal and technology tools that allow creators to publish their works on more flexible terms
than standard copyright
The Stack
Ethernet Computers
TCP/IP The Network
HTTP/The Web Documents
Creative Commons Knowledge and Culture
A simple, standardizedway to grant copyright
permissions to your creative work.
Attribution
Non-Commercial No Derivative Works
Share Alike
Step 1: Choose Conditions
Step 2: Receive a License
CC Licenses are built on top of copyright law
Human Readable Deed
Lawyer Readable Legal
Code
<span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/my_photo">Joi Ito</a> is licensed under a
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>.
<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/photo"/>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.</span></span>
Machine Readable Metadata
52 Jurisdictions Ported
Over 350 million items
133+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr
Whoʼs doing OPEN?
Flickr: Francisco Diez
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Coming soon - PLoS Hubs
Image credits:
Gerrell Crichton. PLoS Medicine. 2006. 3(1).
Niclas Fritzén. PLoS Biology. 2006. 4(5).
Owen Booth. PLoS Genetics. 2006. 2(10).
Danelle Eto. PLoS Pathogens. 2007. 3(7).
Wouter Boomsma. PLoS Computational Biology. 2006 2(9).
Frank Poelwijk et al. PLoS Computational Biology. 2006. 2(5).
Everything we publish is freely available online
throughout the world, for anyone to read,
download, copy, distribute, and use (with
attribution). Barrier-free, open-access,
no permissions required.
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Research
Made PublicPLoS is the world’s
leading open-access
publisher of peer-reviewed
medical research.
digital media = online, free, limits
OER = customizable, shareable
Language barriers
Technical barriers
Flickr: sukisuki
Flickr: dr-chuck
Cultural barriers
Flickr: Open.Michigan
Discovery barriers
Media used to be a delivery problem...
...now it's a discovery problem
Changing Teaching and Learning Landscape
Flickr: Howard Gees
Flickr: Darwin Bell
