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
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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
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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
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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
