5. Copyleft Protection of the (open access to the) work replaces the protection of the distributors’ profits Image source: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide
19. The Prelinger Archives Caption: Dog eagerly awaits being fed. He sits up and begs Clip #: 83547542 Licence type: Rights-ready Filmmaker: Prelinger Collection: Archive Films Clip length: 00:00:08:11 Originally shot on: 35mm 486 29.97i More information Final delivery options: SD digital download NTSCSD digital download PALOther digital and analogue formats available. Please contact us for assistance. Release information: Not released. More information
Is Creative Commons an alternative to copyright?Image source:Creative Commons Swag Contest 2007_2 by TillarX (Tyler Stefanich), CC-BY 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tylerstefanich/2117607887/
No, it is not. Creative Commons is *based* on copyright legislation. That means, Creative Commons licenses are only good to use for works that fall under copyright protection, typically “works of art”, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Copyright legislation is national legislation. There are certain international conventions (such as the Berne convention, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works) that stipulate common principles.However, national legislation differs in details:what can be protectedterms of protectionand various other issues. For details see e.g. the public domain calculators page here http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators
Creative Commons stands in the tradition of copyleft – i.e. not primarily protecting the monopoly of the rights owner, but primarily protecting (cultural) works
Creative Commons are part of the copyleft universe.Image source:Cover of “A Guide To Open Content Licences”, http://www.pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide, by Femke Snelting, CC-BY-NC-SA
Creative Commons provide licenses that allow people to use otherwise copyrighted works under certain conditions.For a history of Creative Commons, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commonsImage Source:dsc05797.jpg by Michael Linksvayer (mlinksva), CC-BY 2.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlinksva/3105627476/
Creative Commons is an international endeavour, see here for where it has been ported to: http://creativecommons.org/international/image source:Airborne by Berne Guerrero, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/
Porting means translating the licensesin terms of languagein terms of legal systemimage source:CC Hong Kong Launch by Ryanne Lai, Hong Kong (flickr.com/photos/laihiu/2972008480)
Creative Commons licenses consist of three partsthe Commons Deed, a description in laymen terms (called “user readabla”)the Legal Code, the legally binding text of the license (called “lawyer readable”)the Digital Code, a semantic web system that allows for adding meta-data and RDFa identifiers to works so the license terms are “machine readable”source:http://creativecommons.org/international/
This is an example of a Commons Deed in Dutch, conforming to the Dutch copyright legislation
The same in English (still conforming to the Dutch copyright legislation)
This is the legal code … in Dutch
Examples of the digital code
For the definition of the symbols, check this page: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/Additionally, combined “commercial” and CC licensing is possible with CC (see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Ccplus)And there is a “Public Domain Dedication” tool (see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0)
Use of CC licenses – excerpt from this movie: Media That Matter, Commonscreative-MediaThatMattersACCCaseStudy347.m4v,CC-BY, from http://creativecommons.org/videos/media-that-matters, licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
This is an example, how open content (public domain or CC licensed) can be sold profitably. The story is here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597357 (download the paper and go to page 10 to read it).source:Excerpt from Handy, Jam (Producer) (1937). Chevrolet Leader News, Vol. 3, No. 1. Available online at http://archive.org/details/Chevrole1937
see slide 17source:Excerpt from Handy, Jam (Producer) (1937). Chevrolet Leader News, Vol. 3, No. 1. Available online at http://archive.org/details/Chevrole1937
see slide 17source:Dog eagerly awaits being fed. He sits up and begs, Clip #: 83547542, http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/83547542/Archive-Films