3. Copyright law grants to the author or
copyright owner the exclusive right to:
• reproduce, make derivatives of, sell,
distribute to the public, perform or display
publicly, the copyrighted work,
• subject to fair use and other limitations
and exceptions to copyright law.
WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?
4. Copyright law applies to intellectual property
that are “original works of authorship.”
• Common types of works protected by
copyright include literary, artistic, and
musical works.
• Copyright is automatic, so it applies as
soon as the work has been created.
WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT
PROTECT?
8. Attribution. You require that anyone who uses your work attribute it’s original form to
you. All licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you
credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their
use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement
purposes, they must get your permission first.
Non-Commercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you
have chosen No Derivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than
commercially unless they get your permission first.
Share Alike. You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work,
as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to
distribute modified works under other terms, they must get permission.
No Derivatives. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only original
copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get permission first.
CONSIDERATIONS
17. Open Educational Resources and Creative
Commons Licenses by Meredith Jacob,
slideshare.net/Meredith Jacob under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
(CC-BY)
ATTRIBUTION EXAMPLE
19. Fair use allows the use of a copyrighted work
without permission from the copyright holder
under specific circumstances.
News reporting, teaching, and parody are all
examples of uses that could qualify as fair use.
Fair use is evaluated on a case-by-case basis,
and considers the purpose of the use, how
much of the original work is used, and how it
impacts the market for the original work.
WHAT ABOUT FAIR USE?
Whether you put a license on it or not, it is All Rights automatically, lasts for Life + 75, or 100 years from creation. You have to put it out under an open license if you want people to reuse it.
Written in the same legally enforceable terms as the iTunes license
This is the first thing it sends to – the human readable license.
International – means the same in any jurisdiction
Terms
If someone makes edits, you need to mention what and how you changed in the work if you remixed
Important – you have to be clear – this is X persons core work, and you can’t imply that CCSSO endorsed the changes and you can’t put it out under CCSSO brand
Everyone can keep a copy. Technically, you need a license to download and email.
People in states can print as many copies as they want.
Revise
Combine - take two parts and make a new things
People can repost on the open internet and not worry about it
CC license should be linked – even better to write out the full text
CC license should be linked – even better to write out the full text
CC license should be linked – even better to write out the full text