introducing creative commons licences for researchers
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Introducing Creative Commons Licences for Researchers
John Murtagh - Research Publications Manager, Library & Archives Service
Creative Commons Licences
What is Creative Commons?
• Creative Commons is a non-profit organization
• Free copyright licenses allow sharing & reuse - with conditions
• CC licenses not an alt to copyright – work alongside
What do they do?
Poster by David Ashby http://techtoolsforschools.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/creative-commons-posters-part-i.html (CC-BY-SA)
Published by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation in partnership with Creative Commons Australia (CC-BY)
Which Creative Commons licence is right for me?
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AUSTRALIAPoster v1.0Which Creative Commons Licence is right for me? fact sheet. Permalink and source files at http://creativecommons.org.au/factsheets/licensing-flowchart. Last revised 18 June 2009.
Am I ok with other people copying and distributing my content without asking my
permission everytime?
Do I want to limit how others can release their remixes? ie. If they
remix, their new content must be available to remix on the same terms.
Am I ok with other people making money out of their reuse
of the content?
I should use “All Rights Reserved” copyright to
protect my content.
I should use an Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Works licence.
I should use an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
Alike licence.
I should use an Attribution- No Derivative Works licence.
I should use an Attribution- Share Alike licence.
I should use an Attribution- Noncommercial licence.
I should use anAttribution licence.
Am I ok with them changing and adapting the content? Will I allow
remixing?
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Am I ok with other people making money out of their reuse
of the content?
No
Yes
Am I ok with other people making money out of their reuse
of the content?
No
Yes
Instructions Start here!
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organisation that works to make it easier to share, reuse, repurpose and remix creative material. It does this by providing free licences that let creators give permission in advance for certain uses of their material. CC encourages people to share their work. But we think it is very important that you use the right licence for you, and that you understand what that licence means. This flowchart is intended to help with this—by answering a few simple questions, it lets you choose which CC licence is right for you, or if you want to use a CC licence at all. Start at the green question box and, following the arrows that correspond with your answer, make your way through the pink remixing and blue commercial questions until you reach a purple licence box. That will be the right licence for you. For the full details of each of the licences, see the link under the box. CC has an online tool that will take you through the similar process at http://creativecommons.org/license. For more information about the CC licences, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
http://creativecommons.org/lisences/by/3.0
Published by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation in partnership with Creative Commons Australia (CC-BY)
Do I need a licence?
• Copyright protection is automatic as soon as the work is ‘fixed’ and expressed in written form.
• However, reuse is therefore not allowed without granting permission from copyright holder.
• Currently without CC licences publishers will usually own the copyright – ask their permission
• Remember the license may not be revoked.• Once you apply a CC license to your material,
anyone who receives it may rely on that license for as long as the material is protected by copyright and similar rights, even if you later stop distributing it.
Applying a License
• Once a Creative Commons licence is applied it cannot be altered
• The author can waive the existing conditions or grant additional permissions however
• Breach of a Creative Commons licence can be pursued in a court of law
• If you misusing the licence (by not attributing for instance) – in breach of licence it can be withdrawn
• CC licence cannot make infringing material lawful.
It’s not only about what others can use but also about what you can use too
Search for CC licensed material
http://search.creativecommons.org/
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Licence information
Creative Commons licence
Find CC material
3354 papers
Pub Med Central
Pub Med Central
Funders
Gates Foundation
• All publications shall be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC BY 4.0) or an equivalent license.
• This will permit all users of the publication to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and transform and build upon the material, including for any purpose (including commercial) without further permission or fees being required.
RCUK
• The CC BY licence opens up possibilities for new areas of research by…
• the re use of papers, and the content of ‐papers through text and data mining
• new ways of disseminating research by being able to re present papers in innovative and ‐potentially value adding ways‐ .
• CC BY licence removes any doubt or ambiguity as to what may be done with papers
• Allows re use without having to go back to the ‐publisher to check conditions or ask for specific permissions.
Wellcome Trust
• Since 1st April 2013• Open access: CC-BY licence required for all
articles which incur an open access publication fee
• Original, peer-reviewed research articles for which the WT open access publishing - to be published under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.
Examples of re-use which the CC-BY licence will facilitate
Including figures from a paper in a blog post
• “Unless a paper is licensed under CC-BY, then figures from that paper cannot typically be included in a blog post, as most blog sites carry advertising, and would thus be viewed as commercial. Equally, a figure could not be included in a Wikipedia page because Wikipedia can only make use of images which are free for commercial use.”
Creating a translation (and charging for this)
• “The Trust funds a lot of research into malaria and its management and prevention. It is possible that an organisation may like to take this content and translate it (into, say, Burmese) so the information could be more readily understood by the local population. Creating the translation may incur costs, which the creator may wish to recover by selling this content. As long as the translation attributes the original research (which would remain freely available) this re-use is permissible.”
Who else?
• The CC-BY license is used by most of world’s leading OA publishers
• Public Library of Science and BioMed Central• Hybrid publishers, such as Elsevier, Wiley and
SpringerOpen• World Bank
Vancouver FoundationMay 7,
2015
• “A lot of people would call us and say ‘We really like that report, can we use it?’ Or ‘What did you learn? Can we somehow share that?’” Mr. McCort said in an interview. “And we thought ‘It actually looks like there’s a barrier. We want the stuff to be used but people are afraid to use it or don’t know they can.’”
• From: Vancouver Foundation to make its research available for free - The Globe and Mailhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouver-foundation-to-make-its-research-available-for-free/article24482072/?intcmp=pdxl_s2s
The backtracking
New policy imposes an embargo of at least 12 months before authors can self-archive their final manuscripts in an institutional repository–with the option of these embargoes being as long as 48 months. Beforehand, Elsevier allowed immediate deposit of the articles in repositories.The new policy restricts access once the journal article embargo expires by requiring that articles be shared under the most restrictive Creative Commons license–CC BY-NC-ND–which prohibits commercial use and the creation of derivative works.
Reaction
“This policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders’ open access policies. In addition, the policy has been adopted without any evidence that immediate sharing of articles has a negative impact on publishers subscriptions.”Statement against Elsevier’s sharing policy – https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/
Organisational Signatories• COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories• SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition• ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries• ALA: American Library Association• ARL: Association of Research Libraries• ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries• AOASG: Australian Open Access Support Group• IBICT: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science
and Technology• CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries• CLACSO: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales• COAPI: Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions• Creative Commons• Creative Commons, USA• Creative Commons, Australia• EIFL: Electronic Information for Libraries• EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation• GWLA: Greater Western Library Alliance• LIBER: European Research Library Association• National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences• OpenAIRE• Open Data Hong Kong• RLUK: Research Libraries UK• SANLiC: South African National Licensing Consortium• University of St Andrews Library• DLF: Digital Library Federation, USA• ELibUkr, Ukraine• Open Access Network, USA• AusGOAL: Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing
Programme• Redalyc.org, Mexico• National Research Foundation of South Africa• Open Book Publishers, United Kingdom• Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti, Portugal• Library of the Hospital Prof. Dr. Fernando Fonseca, EPE,
Lisbon, Portugal• SLA: Special Libraries Association• OhioLINK, Columbus, USA• Library of the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon,
Portugal• DOAJ• dbv: German Library Association, Germany• SCONUL: Society of College, National and University Libraries,
UK• bepress, Berkeley, USA• Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia
University, USA• SPARC Europe• Paperity, Warsaw, Poland• University of Technology Sydney Library, Australia• CAUL: Council of Australian University Librarians• European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation
Associations (EBLIDA)• The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, London, UK• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA• Institutional Repositories Promotion Committee, Japan• University of California Libraries, USA
UC Berkeley LibraryUC Davis LibraryUC Irvine LibrariesUCLA LibraryUC Merced LibraryUC Riverside LibraryUC San Diego LibraryUC San Francisco LibraryUC Santa Barbara LibraryUC Santa Cruz LibraryCalifornia Digital Library
• medica spa @ cnr, Bologna, Italy• UNIPA – Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy• Biblioteca scuola politecnica-sede architettura Università di
Genova, Italy• Cadernos Saúde Coletiva, Spain• Sardegna Ricerche, Italy• Biblioteca di Scienze geo-ambientali e planetarie, Italy• SUNYLA: State University of New York Librarians Association,
USA• Canadian Library Association• Carnegie Mellon University, USA• DPLA: Digital Public Library of America• UFRJ: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil• Orbis Cascade Alliance• Open Access India• ICSI: Information and Communication Society of India• SALIS: Society for the Advancement of Library and Information
Science, India• Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva, Brasil• FCT: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal• BAD – Portuguese Association of Librarians Archivists and
Documentalists• USAIN: United States Agricultural Information Network
If you wish to sign
• https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/
• Or Google “COAR Elsevier petition”
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John Murtagh – Manager LSHTM Research Online
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Murtagh, John. 'Creative Commons Licences'. 2015. Presentation (LSHTM) (CC-BY)