CC for the Association of Women in Communications, Santa Barbara Chapter
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Slides from the web presentation I gave to the Association of Women in Communications on October 7, 2013. Recording available here: Recording available at https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/nativeplayback.jnlp?sid=2008170&psid=2013-10-07.1733.M.5E7B928FC11E94D844B1405E5A750C.vcr
Transcript of CC for the Association of Women in Communications, Santa Barbara Chapter
• Origins in Copyright • CC Licenses & Tools • Examples in Culture &
Publishing
We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable.
What do we do?
All Rights Reserved
A set of exclusive rights granted to creators of
‘original works of authorship’
ü Automatic ✓ All Rights Reserved ✓ Lasts a very long time ✓ Keeps getting extended
The problem:
Traditional © designed for old distribution models now
governs the Internet
In a digital world, most everyone is a creator of
copyrighted content.
Technically, it’s so easy to share!
Legally? Not so easy.
$750-$150,000 per copyright infringement
CC BY-NC “fuzzy copyright” by PugnoM - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/
“Students in Jail” by Judy Baxter / License: CC BY-NC-SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/
With Creative Commons, creators can grant copy and
reuse permissions in advance.
Free copyright licenses that creators can attach to their
works.
How do we do it?
http://creativecommons.org/choose
CC licenses are unique because they are expressed in three ways.
Lawyer Readable
Legal Code
Human Readable
Deed
Machine Readable Metadata
25
26
74 jurisdictions
500 million works
ü CC is built on © law ü CC gives creators more
options ü CC minimizes transaction
costs
Some things to remember
http://creativecommons.org/FAQ
Who uses Creative Commons?
Wikipedia: Over 77,000 contributors working on over 22 million articles in 285 languages
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Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of
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Photo: “fuzzy copyright” Author: Nancy Sims Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/1384247192/ License: CC BY-NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0 Photo: “Students in Jail” Author: Judy Baxter Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/in/photostream/ License: CC BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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