Creative Commons
and PRODUCING YOUR OWN MEDIA

Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
Project Assistant, Creative Commons

Who am I?

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M.Ed (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
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K-12 and Higher Ed
- Online Course Design & Facilitation
- Open Web, to Open Education
We can provide education to everyone.
For free.
What is CC?

Creative Commons
is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Our Mission

"Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation."
Areas of Work
Worldwide Affiliate Network
education
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government
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science
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culture

icon by jerry wang, from The Noun Project
What Our LIcenses Do

Provide a simple, standardized way for creators to grant copyright permissions to their creative work
icon by Ilsur Aptukov, from The Noun Project
The Commons

copied | redistributed | revised
& built-upon
The CC LIcenses

Copyright licenses that forge a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting of copyright
icon by Ritika khasgiwale, from The Noun Project
"Some Rights Reserved"
Creators have choice
Common rights can be preserved, but sharing is made easy



commercial use | derivative works |+ their copyright
CC Licenses
- CC BY
- CC BY-NC
- CC BY ND
- CC BY-SA
- CC BY-NC-ND
- CC BY-NC-SA
- CC0 (public domain dedication)
Tell Them Their Rights
You keep the rights you wish, linked to the legal code

in a way that people + computers understand
icon by Bart Laugs, from The Noun Project
A License for You

it's your choice
Creating Work

The what and how
Types of Media
CC licenses can be applied to many creative works




websites | text | images | audio | video
icons from The Noun Project/credits @ End
Put a CC License on It

legal code + human readable deed+ metadata
Marking a Website
For websites, HTML generated from the license chooser

Marking Offline Text
Text statement +


Marking Video



Platform Marking


Flickr on-upload
Platform Marking (again)


YouTube
on-upload
Finding CC-Licensed Media

search | platforms / repositories
icon by egor culcea, from The Noun Project
Search

CC-Licensed Work on Platforms
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Wikipedia
(all CC BY-SA)
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Flickr
(250M+ open-licensed media)
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YouTube
(4M+ videos)
- Directory of OA Journals (1M+ articles)
- Khan Academy (3,000+ videos)
- MIT OCW (2,000+ courses)
and lots more each day.
For More Info

billy.meinke@creativecommons.org

Image by DKindler - This presentation licenseD CC BY
+Attributions
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HTML Code icon by Dmitry Baranovskiy, from the
Noun Project
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Paint Palette
ICON BY Diego Baire, FROM THE NOUN PROJECT
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Music
ICON BY Ryan Oksenhorn, FROM THE NOUN PROJECT
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Film Reel ICON BY anna marie Chavarria, FROM THE NOUN PROJECT
CC and Producing your own Media
By Billy Meinke
CC and Producing your own Media
Presentation given during a MEDEAnet webinar June 6th, 2013. Licensed CC BY.
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