Easy (to Find) 'n Safe (to Use)
A Workshop on Finding and Using
Licensed
Materials
Barbara DeFelice
Director, Digital Resources Program
Amanda Albright
Instructional Technologist
March 21st, 2011
Creative Commons Workshop
1. The Copyright Setting
2. Why Creative Commons
3. Creative Commons Licenses
4. Finding Materials with CC Licenses
5. Create Your Project with CC Materials
6. License It!
The Copyright Setting
Copyright
• happens automatically when a work is created in a
tangible form
• does not require registration or notice
• lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years at least,
and more in some cases
Copyright is a bundle of rights:
• you can sign them away exclusively
• you can grant non-exclusive licenses that give multiple
people permission to use a work for different purposes
What is a Creative Common License?
Creative Commons Licenses:
• apply to works that are subject to copyright (NOT to
works already in the public domain)
• offer an option for the creator to define permitted uses
explicitly
• do NOT affect Fair Use
• are NOT exclusive
• allow copying, distribution, display, public performance,
& reformatting
• do NOT contradict copyright
Why use Creative Commons Licenses?
• Although everything is copyrighted automatically,
creators may not want or need to hold all those rights
exclusively
• Perfectly acceptable uses are often restricted due to
the automatic assignment of copyrights
• Permissions handling is often unnecessary but costly
in time, money and effort
http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture
The Core Creative Commons License Attributes
by
Attribution: You let others copy, distribute, display, and
perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based
upon it - but only if they give you credit the way you request
nc
Non-Commercial: You let others copy, distribute, display,
and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it but for noncommercial purposes only.
nd
No Derivative Works: You let others copy, distribute, display,
and perform only exact copies of your work, not derivative
works based upon it.
sa
Share Alike: You allow others to distribute derivative works
only under a license identical to the license that governs your
work.
Creative Commons License Attributes
6 Creative Commons License Combinations
Attribution is always present
Attribution (by) only provides for all kinds of uses,
including derivative works.
Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) provides
for building upon and remixing but NOT for
commercial purposes
Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) allows building upon and
remixing the work, even for commercial purposes. The users
must license their work as Share Alike also.
Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
(by-nc-nd) is most restrictive
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
(by-nc-sa) provides for building upon and
remixing but NOT for commercial purposes
Can't I just Google the images I need
and use them if they are online?
What about videos on YouTube?
?
Freely available ≠ Free-to-Use
Finding and Identifying CC Licensed Materials
http://search.creativecommons.org
But look at the license for each object before you decide to use it!
At your (virtual) fingertips...with Firefox Add-in
Identifying Copyright Status of Images
http://flickr.com/creativecommons
vs.
http://lunacommons.org
What about Public Domain content?
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Found what you need?
How do you “cite” it?
Guidelines for Attribution
New add-on for Firefox will format an
attribution for a Creative Commons
licensed site for you:
Open Attribute
Your Turn!
Use Creative Commons Licensed Materials
Create a Project You Can Share
License It
Search---Find---Interpret---Create---License
Use Powerpoint or WORD to create something
new, such as a presentation, a greeting card, a
business card, or as a place to collect items to
use in a video or a display.
My Sample Project: The Violin
covent garden - some dude playing the violin
Uploaded on January 15, 2007
by protographer23
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.e
n
Some Rights Reserved Attribution 2.0 Generic
Samples of new violin music
"kowi strings”
by Speck
2010 - Licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)
Samples of classical violin music
Now you want to learn to play violin!
Video lessons from a pro!
Note no CC license, this is an ad but
is automatically copyrighted!
impro au violin
by Ptitemesange
Acknowledgements
Anthony Helm, for co-creating the presentation and
workshop
Molly Kleinman at Univ. Michigan
Work found at
http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/15/cc-howto1-how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-licensedwork/ / Molly Kleinman / CC BY 3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/)
Quiz
What is it? When would you use it?
What can you do with material licensed with these
combinations?
Quiz Time!
What is it? When would you use it?
What can you do with material licensed with these
combinations?
Quiz Time!
What is it? When would you use it?
What can you do with material licensed with these
combinations?