This document summarizes an international non-profit organization that: - Enables sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. - Develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. - Was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in the Bay Area.

1. An international non-profit that enables
sharing and use of creativity and
knowledge through free legal tools.
Develops, supports, and stewards legal
and technical infrastructure that
maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and
innovation.
Founded in 2001.
Headquartered in the Bay Area.
Creative Commons

2. Helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the
world.
Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of
the Internet — universal access to research and
education, full participation in culture — to drive a new
era of development, growth, and productivity.
Vision

3. International Affiliates

4. Copyright vs. CC vs. PD
C CC
Have to
choose
“Some rights
reserved”
Lasts a really
long time
Assigned
automatically
“All rights
reserved”
Lasts a really
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5. A Spectrum of Freedom
closed open
©all rights reserved public domainno derivatives non-commercial share alike give attribution

6. Building Blocks of Licenses
BY – attribution required
SA – share alike
NC – non-commercial
ND – no derivatives

7. Standard permissions
Make copies
Distribute, display, perform
Change format
Incorporate in collection
Permissions and Conditions
Permissions
Make copies
Distribute, display, perform
Change format
Incorporate in collection
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Conditions
Give credit
No implied endorsement
Retain copyright notice
Provide link to license
Identify if changes made
Don’t add DRM

8. CC Licenses
Attribution
Let others distribute, remix, tweak,
and build upon your work, even
commercially, as long as they credit
you for the original creation.
Attribution-ShareAlike
Let others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work even for commercial
purposes, as long as they credit you
and license their new creations under
the identical terms. This license is
often compared to “copyleft” free and
open source software licenses. All
new works based on yours will carry
the same license, so any derivatives
will also allow commercial use.
Attribution-NoDerivs
Allow for redistribution, commercial
and non-commercial, as long as the
work is passed along unchanged and
in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution-NonCommercial
Let others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-commercially,
and although their new works must
also acknowledge you and be non-
commercial, they don’t have to
license their derivative works on the
same terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike
Let others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-commercially, as
long as they credit you and license
their new creations under the
identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-
NoDerivs
Only allow others to download your
work and share it with others as long
as they credit you, but they can’t
change it in any way or use it
commercially.

9. CC Public Domain Tools
CC0
CC0 (CC Zero) enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and
owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in
their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public
domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any
purposes without restriction under copyright or database law. CC0 empowers yet
another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and database
protection, and the exclusive rights automatically granted to creators – the “no
rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.
Public Domain Mark
Our Public Domain Mark enables works that are no longer restricted by
copyright to be marked as such in a standard and simple way, making them
easily discoverable and available to others. Many cultural heritage institutions
including museums, libraries and other curators are knowledgeable about the
copyright status of paintings, books and manuscripts, photographs and other
works in their collections, many of which are old and no longer under
copyright. The Public Domain Mark operates as a tag or a label, allowing
institutions like those as well as others with such knowledge to communicate
that a work is no longer restricted by copyright and can be freely used by
others.

10. Three Layers of Licenses
A “machine readable” version of the license in
CC Rights Expression Language (CC REL) is
embedded in the web page.
Each license is a traditional legal tool, in the
language that lawyers understand. This is the
Legal Code layer of each license.
The Commons Deed is a “human readable”
version of the license, summarizing the most
important terms and conditions.
Text
Text

11. version 1.0 in 2002
version 2.0 in 2004
version 2.5 in 2005
version 3.0 in 2007
version 4.0 released in 2013
4.0
Versions

12. Growth in CC Licensing
500 Million
400 Million
300 Million
200 Million
100 Million
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2003 – 2010
20% first year, nearly 40% by 2010
CC BY, BY-SA, Public Domain
Total CC Licensed Works
TOTAL CC LICENSED WORKS
AS OF 2010
400MM+USING A FULLY OPEN
CC LICENSE
AS OF 2010
40%

13. Choose
Individuals Platforms
see http://creativecommons.org/choose/ see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Publish/

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

15. Music

16. Journalism/Broadcast

17. Publishing
Publishing
Unglue.it raises author-set fee through crowdfunding. When
campaigns succeed, authors and publishers get paid, and they issue
a free electronic edition under a Creative Commons license.
Pratham Books believes that every child has the right to enjoy good
books. They publish all their books under CC BY or CC BY-SA
licenses.
The CK-12 Foundation is striving to reduce the cost of, and increase
access to, K-12 education in the United States and worldwide. All
books are published under CC licenses.
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles published
under the CC BY license.
Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” publishes its
entire content under a CC BY-SA license.
BMC is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles utilizing CC BY
license for all its articles.
PLOS is an Open Access publisher of scholarly articles utilizing CC BY
license for all its articles.

18. Museums and Archives
Europeana, the digital library of Europe, publishes more than 20
million records of its metadata under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication
Harvard Libraries publish all their metadata under a CC0 Public
Domain Dedication
figshare, a data archive supported by Digital Science accepts data
under CC0 Public Domain Dedication, and articles under CC BY
license, and provides various value added services in return
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, released its
book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain
dedication.
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, publishes its “Photo of the
Day” under a CC BY-NC license
Dryad provides data archival services for research data released under
a CC0 Public Domain Dedication
Using CC0, WisconsinView, a consortium that makes aerial
photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the public
has surrendered all copyrights in its 6+ Terabytes of imagery data.

19. CC 4.0 Goals
International
Interoperable
Long-lived
Appropriate for data, PSI, science, education and related
communities
Meeting the needs of important adopters, including IGOs
and governments
See http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29639
4.0 Goals

20. No Endorsement
No endorsement is provided or implied.
This means you as a user of CC-licensed works cannot
suggest or assert that the licensor is endorsing your use
or your work

21. Attribution flexibility is increased.
This means you must accurately attribute all licensors,
but you may do this via a credits page and with
hyperlinks.
Easy Attribution

22. “Makers” of databases can use CC licenses to license sui
generis database rights (SGDR).
This means that if you see a CC license on a database,
you know how you may use the database without
worrying about what jurisdiction you are using the
database in or where the database was created.
caution: copyright may still apply to creative databases
and works they include, but be wary of over-complying
where SGDRs do not apply to your use.
Database Rights

23. “You are responsible for complying with other laws, if any,
that may apply to Your use of the Licensed Material. If a
law or other condition prevents You from complying with
this Public License when You use the Licensed Material,
You are not excused from compliance. This may mean
that You cannot use the Licensed Material under this
Public License as You intend.”
Clarity Around 3rd Party Rights

24. Some violations unintentional
In GPL, if you violate the license but later fix it, you get
your rights back under the license
Past CC license versions don't allow for this
4.0 working language:
“Licensor notifies You through reasonable means of the
violation, it is the first time You have received a notice
from Licensor, and You thereafter cure the violation within
30 days of the notice…”
Cure Breach Reinstatement

25. Licensors can now add warranties to their licensed
works.
This allows you to increase the value of your database by
guaranteeing your processes, sources or work in
compiling the database.
Add Value

26. Just like with warranties, licensors can now add other
disclaimers to their licensed works.
The disclaimers must be retained with the work.
Customizable Disclaimers

27. You can only license the rights you have
Your Rights Your License

28. If you don't apply a license, you license
nothing
No License No Rights

29. A license is not a contract

30. A license is not a magic shield

31. A license is a signal to the good folks, a guide
to the unsure, and meaningless to the
baddies

32. An open license probably does what you
want
A less open license probably does not do
what you think
Lean Toward Open

33. If you use several differently licensed works in
your own work, mark them all clearly
Marking

34. Marking
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CC0
CC BY-SA
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CC BY-ND
Great Galactic Singularity by Buckingham Q. Badger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://punkish.org.

35. Combining Licenses

36. Licenses for adaptations
Compatibility chart
Terms that may be used for a derivative work or adaptation
BY BY-NC BY-NC-ND BY-NC-SA BY-ND BY-SA PD
Status of
original
work
PD
BY
BY-NC
BY-NC-ND
BY-NC-SA
BY-ND
BY-SA

37. Share
This presentation is dedicated to the public domain under a CC0
public domain dedication.
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Puneet Kishor
Manager, Science and Data Policy
punkish@creativecommons.org