safe collaborative effortsthe creative commons effect

@ Tech4Africa, Lagos

Kayode Yussuf | Technical Lead | Creative Commons Nigeria

So what do the movies ‘The Avengers’, ‘The A Team’, ‘The Expendables’ and ’X-Men’ have in

common?

They are all stories of individuals combining their talents to achieve a common goal.

four different images, one final image

courtesy: www.artquest.co.uk

• Teamwork• Effectiveness• Members

How Creative Commons Makes Collaboration Easy

Creative Common LicensesLicense Icon Can someone use it

commercially?Can someone create new versions of it?

CC-BY Yes Yes

CC-BY-SA Yes Yes, but the new work must licensed as Share-Alike

CC-ND Yes NO

CC-NC No Yes, the new work must be Non-Commercial. However, it can be under any Non-Commercial License

CC-NC-SA No YES, and they must license the new work under a Non-Commercial Share-Alike License

CC-NC-ND No No

Before Licensing

• Make sure your work is copyrightable

• Make sure you have the rights

• Make sure you understand how CC licenses operate

How to License Using CC

• Go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/

International Academic Institutions using CC OER licenses

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Case_Studies

Athabasca University, Canada

Cybertesis at the Universidad de Chile

Kenyan School of Open

Local usage of CC

Young Africans Research Arena (www.yaearena.org)

Our next project?

http://creativecommons.org/tag/school-of-open

Date: September, 2014Venue: University of Lagos

Other CC Communities Globally

“Alone you can do so little; together we can do so much”

― Helen Keller

Thank you for listening, we hope you join us

Kayode YussufTechnical Lead,

Creative Commons, Nigeria Affiliate Chapter,

+234-8029730059kayode@creativecommonsng.org

@creativecommonsng@k_whybaba