publishing, publishers, and authors: what you need to know about creative commons
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Publishing, Publishers, and Authors: What you need to know about Creative Commons.
Greg [email protected]
<Disclaimers>
What is Creative Commons?
Reduce Transaction Costs
Public Domain
All Rights Reserved
Some rights reserved: a spectrum.
least restrictive most restrictive
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<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
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>
</rdf:RDF>
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 [email protected]
What is your use case?
Greg [email protected]
Attributions “Sunset Agta Beach Resort - Biliran Philippines” - Leodb -
CC BY SA 3.0
“Going Over the Waterfall” - Bo Nielsen - CC BY SA 2.0