Creative Commons

& Open Licensing

Open Access Week 2015

Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
College of Education / UH Manoa 

CC Licenses

 

Provide a simple, standardized way for creators to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

Copyright

(older than the Web, wasn't designed for it)



Copyright licenses that forge a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting of copyright


The licenses

Creators have a choice
                                 

commercial use | derivative works | downstream copyright


Some rights are reserved, but sharing is made easy.
(and creators always get attribution)

CC Licenses

 
  • CC BY    
  • CC BY-NC
  • CC BY ND
  • CC BY-SA
  • CC BY-NC-ND
  • CC BY-NC-SA

and CC0 (public domain dedication)

Rights Expression



legal code + human readable deed+ metadata

The Remix


Not just access, it's about repurposing too.

gratis ≠ libre

CC in Use


Nearly 1 billion CC-licensed digital artifacts today

Definition of OER

(Open Educational Resources)



"OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others."




Public Domain


For works that are not subject to copyright because:
  • copyright has expired
  • U.S. Federal Government works

 

CC0 Public Domain Dedication
  • Releases all copyrights to work
  • Does not require attribution

OpenStax College

(Rice University)

Free  |  Openly (CC) licensed  |  Peer reviewed

Print on demand at low cost, has saved students $2.3+ million

SBCTC Open Course Library


81 high-enrollment courses, saved students $5.4+ million

TAACCCT

(Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training)


"To ensure that Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials."

U.S. Dept of Labor Grants - $2b investment
Health, Adv Manufacturing, IT , Energy+more
All courseware licensed CC BY

Open Access to Research



Publications + Data + Code*



*Software better licensed under a FOSS license

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Creative Commons and Open Licensing (OA Week 2015)

By Billy Meinke

Creative Commons and Open Licensing (OA Week 2015)

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