Fred Benenson2009 West Virginia Statewide Technology Conference, August 6th 2009fred@creativecommons.orgProduct Manager, Creative Commons

C& OER

What is C?We’re a 501c3 corporation headquartered in

San Francisco with 30 employees around the world.We’re a non-profit.We do not offer legal services per se.

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

Terms that allow public sharing, reuse, and remix.

Why do we do what we do?

Two Reasons

#1

Analog Media

AllPossible

Uses of a Work

Uses Implicating

© Law

Fair Uses

Digital Media

*Where every use is a copy.

Uses Implicating

© Law

AllPossible

Uses of a Work*

Fair Uses

#2

The State of theCommons Prior to 2002

Pre-1923 works, Federal Government Works, etc.

Orphan Works

Everything from Disney filmsto your notes, to most of theweb.

Default Automatic © All Rights ReservedPublic Domain

No Rights Reserved

Introducing:

Pre-1923 works, Federal Government Works, etc. Everything from Disney films

to your notes, to most of theweb.

Orphan Works

c

CNo Rights Reserved All Rights ReservedSome Rights Reserved

What does C actually do?

Attribution

ShareAlike

NoDerivatives

NonCommercial

Three Different Formats

International Jurisdictions

Licensed Objects via G/Y!

Jacobsen v. Katzer

"... Open source licensing has become a widely used method of creative collaboration that serves to advance the arts and sciences in a manner and at a pace that few could have imagined just a few decades ago. For example, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses a Creative Commons public license for an OpenCourseWare project that licenses all 1800 MIT courses. ... There are substantial benefits, including economic benefits, to the creation and distribution of copyrighted works under public licenses that range far beyond traditional license royalties.”

Jacobsen v. Katzer, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit – August 18th, 2008,

Case no. 2008-1001

Projects

searchlicensing

ccInternational

science commons ccLearn

http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ccLearn_primer-Why_CC_BY.pdf

Why ?

Why ?

The CC BY license is the easiest way to ensure that your OER will have the maximum impact possible.

Works can be translated, localized, incorporated into commercial products, and combined with other educational resources.

Commercial efforts will broaden the access to and impact of any OER Examples:

For-profit publishers may be the only organizations able to only disseminate the OER into regions that lack network connectivity.

Similarly, mobile phone companies may bundle the OER in communications packages that help them to sell phones.

ccLearn recommends imposing restrictions beyond attribution only when necessary and only when the cost of doing so can be fairly justified.