A presentation on copyright for digital content and Creative Commons given by Ahrash Bissell formerly of Creative Commons for the 4C Initiative

1. Copyright For Digital Content
What is
Creative
Commons?
Ahrash N Bissell

2. A nonprofit based in San Francisco with close
to 25 employees around the world.
CC does not offer legal advice per se.
CC offers free legal and technical tools that
allow creators to publish and share their works
on more flexible terms than standard copyright.
CC is an important part
of a global sharing
infrastructure.

3. Digital
technologies have
revolutionized how
creative works are
made, distributed,
and used.
Original text by Creative Commons Australia

4. Everyday we use
Movies Pictures
Music Text
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5. C
• It covers everything you want to use –
textbooks, photos, music, videos, articles,
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)
Original text by Creative Commons Australia

6. • Emailing that story to a friend or
posting it to Facebook?
• Posting a picture/video/article
onto your personal blog?
• Using a cartoon or drawing in a
handout or news item?
• Uploading resources you found
to a web-archive?
• Copying (and attributing)
significant portions of an article
to write a follow-up story?
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7. These activities are
usually illegal unless you
get permission*.
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* with some exceptions
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8. But most people who tell you about copyright
focus on restrictions
Original text by Creative Commons Australia

9. Creative Commons
licenses make copyright
about opportunities.

10. Creative
Commons
provides tools for
creators to grant
permission
ahead of time.
Original slide by Creative Commons Australia

11. These permissions include
the right to copy/distribute,
perform, display, build upon, and
remix.

12. These tools are
also for managing
your own
copyright
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So that you can collaborate and
share material with anyone.

14. So how does it work?

15. Four License Conditions
Six Licenses

17. Only CC licenses consist of these
three crucial parts:
human-readable lawyer-readable machine-readable
deed code code
<a rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/
by/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative
Commons License"
style="borderwidth:
0" src="http://
i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/
us/88x31.png" /></a><br />This
work is licensed under a <a
rel="license" href="http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/
by/3.0/us/">Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 United States
License</a>.

20. Mark
http://creativecommons.org
your website

21. Mark
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking
your works

22. Some
rights reserved

24. 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”

25. Getting involved with
Open Educational
Resources
(OER)

26. Open Educational Resources (OER)
are
materials, tools, and media
used for teaching and learning
that are
free from copyright restrictions
or publicly licensed
for anyone
to use, adapt, and redistribute.

28. discovered.creativecommons.org/search

29. opened.creativecommons.org

30. Attribute to Ahrash N Bissell
Send comments to: ahrash.bissell@gmail.com
Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of Creative
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