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Summary of Creative Commons Licences

Creative Commons or CC defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright (all rights reserved) to public domain (no rights reserved), i.e. some rights reserved. There is a set of baseline rights and then three licence elements (Attribution, non-commercial, share alike, non-derivative).
• BY: Attribution: basically allows unrestricted use provided credit is given
• NC: Non-commercial Use not for profit, but commercial use is OK if permission given
• ND: No derivative works – works may not be created using the original
• SA: Share-alike. Derivative works (i.e. adapted, modified, re-used) may be produced only if the same type of licence is used.

This produces six types of licence:
• BY – all rights allowed including amending and selling by others
• BY-NC
• BY-SA
• BY-ND
• BY-NC-SA
• BY-NC-ND
You can obtain a cc licence from the cc web site; cc web site and choose territory – UK/union flag. CC provides a human readable commons deed, lawyer-readable legal code and machine-readable digital code (for use in metadata, page templates, etc.).

The generic licence has US law in mind but other country versions are available including for England and Wales; Scotland under development. You cannot restrict the BY licence, e.g. to UK only (cc is worldwide) or for a set time (CC licence is in perpetuity).

CC can be linked to GPL licences for software GNU

More info? Use the Creative Commons FAQ and their website

Examples of using and choosing Creative Commons licences

Examples of Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig



Lawrence Lessig speaking at the South by South West Conference/Festival in 2003.

This image was placed in the public domain with a Creative Commons dedication thanks to Lisa Rein's "fair and balanced mind." and her blog 'on lisa rein's radar'. View the original posting in Lisa's archive.

Free the Mouse?
Mickey Mouse that is, who is a captive to copyright; first for 50 years; now for seventy, perhaps for ever. The original idea of copyright was to allow the originator reasonable commerce from their work...but now copyright is being extended in duration so that work never comes into the public domain...and after all 99% of things/works are well done with after a few years (think of all those National Curriculum-based resources). There is also a trend to take over work that is in the public domain - e.g. archives of old newspapers, digitise them and then sell them - So free the mouse from his copyright chains!

Video clip of Lawrence Lessig

The clip will play in a Quick Time player.
First published on the web by Lisa Rein.
To hear some more from Lessig's presentation and the Q&A session, more Lessig clips

lessig-sxsw2003-intarchive-sm.mov - 4.8MB

Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

Download the book, Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig for free. It has a Creative Commons Licence.
...or buy the book

freeculture.pdf - 2.5MB

About Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig, who founded Creative Commons in 2001, describes it thus:

"...Creative Commons sets out to ...make it easier for artists and authors to mark their content with the permission they intend it to carry and to invite people to use that work consistent with the freedoms given and the rights reserved.

"...if an author decides that he's happy to have his book distributed freely on the net he puts his book up there resting on his existing copyright and licenses certain uses of it for free. If somebody violates that licence, then that person is a copyright infringer and the same remedies apply that protect, for instance, Microsoft when people pirate their products.

"...the thing that I am most worried about is that the internet will continue responding to piracy in the same way as has happened with movies and music - by developing sophisticated technologies that can lock content down so that people can't copy or distribute it without the permission of the copyright owner. That would essentially destroy the creative potential of the internet to be a source of cultural remixing, mash-ups and re-creativity."

For full story see Guardian Unlimited 16.01.06
...and more at Lawrence Lessig's blog.

The Lessig/Mouse mash.



Free the Mouse - Lawrence Lessig

This image of Lawerence Lessig was put into the public domain by Lisa Rein with an offer to "cut and run" - so we added the ears to fit the audio mash.... and returned the image to the [PD].

(Un)fortunately

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License.

Listen to the Lessig/Mouse mash.

MP3 audio clip; public domain; Lisa Rein.

More 'mouse' copyright stuff?



The Grey Album cover

Danger Mouse - no not the animated mouse hereo…the DJ and producer in the furry mouse suit - remixed the vocals from Jay-Z's 'The Black Album' and the Beatles' White Album' and called his creation The Grey Album. 1,000,000 downloads in first week.
The case became a focal point about creative rights with all and sundry getting their word in until we got to Grey Tuesday.
Read the story
More...
the RIAA speaks on "piracy".
:: BTW: Danger Mouse was a guest producer on the Gorillaz cd. and now for Black Keys' 'Attack and Release'
:: DM and Banksy stuff! Danger Mouse - aka Brian Burton - has mashed up some of Paris Hilton's debut CD tracks and with Bansky - anonymous graffitti artist of reknown - has sneaked copies of them into some UK record shops. Copyright theft or artistic heft?
:: See Banksy's website for more copyright fun and games....no mice; some rats.

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