Creative Commons: Enabling Access to Knowledge

( )Enabling access to knowledge

Andrés Guadamuz

( )ApologiesLöki http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyltu/4041895378/

)( CC in brief

( )Spectrum of rights

( )Core elements

Attribution: Every CC licences allows the world to copy and distribute a work provided that the licensee credits the creator/licensor.

The author may include these other elements:

NonCommercial: licensees can use the work for non-commercial purposes.

No Derivatives: the work cannot be modified.

ShareAlike: the work can be copied, modified and distributed if the author releases the derivative under the same licence.

( )LicencesBY Attribution

BY-NC Attribution - Non Commercial

BY-SA Attribution - Share Alike

BY-ND Attribution - No Derivatives

BY-NC-SA Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike

BY-NC-ND Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives

( )Human-ReadableCommons Deed

Lawyer-ReadableLegal Code

Machine-ReadableDigital Code

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.

)( Barriers to access in GLAM and

education

( )Copyright as barrier?

Opensourceway: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371001458/

( )Barriers to access

⊛ TPMs

⊛ Lack of clarity with exceptions and limitations

⊛ Institutional fear (often justified)

⊛ Lack of data / metadata

⊛ Standard issues

⊛ Orphan works

( )Orphan workscuriousart http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousart/2815049829/

( )Trouble with orphan works

⊛ Google Books Settlement brought issue to the forefront.

⊛ Legislating on the topic has been difficult.

⊛ Canadian approach seems to be the best legislative solution so far.

⊛ U.S. proposals have met political opposition, orphan work provisions removed from UK’s Digital Economy Act.

⊛ Technological solutions?

)( CC solutions

( )Empowering authors through licensing

Nina Pailey http://www.sitasingstheblues.com

( )Licensing standard for open content

( )Adoption growth 2003 - 2010

( )Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

⊛ LRMI is a project co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources.

⊛ The learning resources framework will be designed to work with schema.org

⊛ Interoperability with other metadata technologies is a priority.

( )Some examples of metadata⊛ intendedEndUserRole

⊛ teachesCompetencies

⊛ conformsTo

⊛ requiresCompetencies

⊛ assessCompetencies

⊛ educationalUse

⊛ instructionalMethod

⊛ timeRequired

⊛ typicalAgeRange

⊛ educationLevel

⊛ interactivityLevel

⊛ learningResourceType

⊛ topic

⊛ subject

⊛ license

⊛ created

( )Public domain mark

( )CC0

⊛ “2. Waiver. To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in contravention of, applicable law, Affirmer hereby overtly, fully, permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and surrenders all of Affirmer's Copyright and Related Rights and associated claims and causes of action, whether now known or unknown (including existing as well as future claims and causes of action), in the Work [...]”

)( Challenges

( )Institutional adoption

PLoS http://www.plos.org

( )Complexity

( )IncompatibilityAlexandre Dulaunoy http://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/3011878917/

( )Too many standards?

( )Concluding...

( )Thank you

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