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
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
/fin
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