2. Content
1. Introduction
2.Timeline of CC
3.The Sonny Bono CTEA
4.Eldred v. Ashcroft
5.What is CC?
6.The CC licensing
7.The CC organization
8.The CC movement
9.Takeaways
3. Introduction
• Until 2001, and before the Creative Commons, the
relationship between the creators, and the users was regulated
only by the copyright approach since 1790 in the US.
• The technological developments and the spread of the Internet
made this relationship more complicated and provided a lot of
tension about restrictions.
• The only way to get benefits of any creativity was to wait until
it becomes public domain.
• An online publisher was using technology to share those
available works after the expiration of the term of their
copyrights.
• But a new regulation, came to extend this availability by
adding years, which made content on the internet more
difficult to access.
• This is how the Creative Commons came to counter such
restrictions of access, sharing, and collaborating.
• A saga of human endeavor started up from 1998 on.
4. Timeline of Creative commons
Gradual extension of the
Terms of Copyright in
the US (20-40-50 years)
1790–1976
CTEA (extension to 70 Y)
1998
CC Foundation
2001
1st set of licenses by CC
was released
2002
+2 billion works under
CC licenses and public
domain
2021
5. The Sonny Bono CTEA.
• In 1998, Sonny Bono, a US representative, introduced
a new bill to Congress that would be later known as the
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
• It mainly stipulated the extension of copyright for 70
Years instead of 50 since the 1978 act.
• That extension came to be in odd with the potentiality
that new technology allows users to largely benefit of
available works with an easy access around the globe.
• A scholar and a librarian-computer programmer
challenged the new act through two tracks:
• Legally (Courts)
• Practically (legal alternative approach)
6. Eldred v. Ashcroft
• Eric Eldred is a former computer programmer, systems
administrator, and an online publisher of public domain
works.
• In 1999, He leaded a set of plaintiffs to challenge the
CTEA based on the unconstitutionality of the act.
• They lost in the different judiciary levels until the
decisive loss in the Supreme Court, in the case known
as Eldred v. Ashcroft in 2002.
• Meanwhile, he worked with a law scholar to also find a
legal and practical alternative in case of a loss
• This is how Creative Commons started up in 2001.
8. 1. Creative Commons:
The Licenses
• CC legal tools help creators to
share their achievements with
others under less binding terms of
“all rights reserved”
• CC legal tools are
• integrated into user-
generated content platforms
• used by nonprofit open
projects
• used by formal institutions
and individual creators.
, +2 billion works under
CC licenses and public domain.
9. 2. Creative Commons: the Organization
• Nowadays, the CC legal tools are hosted by a small
nonprofit organization located in the US.
• Since 2020, the organization is focusing on
empowering different actors of the movement.
With tree strategic goals:
• 1.“Advocacy: Reshape the open ecosystem to
support equitable and prosocial sharing in the
public interest.
• 2.Innovation: Enhance the open infrastructures to
foster sustainable and ethical sharing in the public
interest.
• 3. Capacity Building: Make knowledge and
cultural heritage assets as openly accessible as
possible.”
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10. 3. Creative Commons:
the Movement
• In 2001, a group of activists, lawyers,
policymakers, creators, people, and institutions
formed a coalition around Creative Commons
and open licensing.
• A new offshoot of the movement known as
CCGN (The Creative Commons Global
Network) has over 600 members, and over
40 chapters around the world.
• To involve, the CC’s Network Platforms are open
to individuals and institutions in connection to
the open movement everywhere around the
globe.
12. References and credits
• Creative Commons For Educators And Librarians, Ala Edition, CHICAGO 2020,
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (the main source of this slides)
• Slide #2 Creative Commons, fixed by Quibik, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Slide #3:
• copyright symbol, at https://copyright.laws.com/copyright-symbol, CC0.
• https://onehack.us/t/what-is-creative-commons-explanation-of-each-license-cc-how-it-works/67448
• Slide # 5 : Sonny Bono Image, Congressional Pictorial Directory, 105th.) https://history.hous
(e.gov/People/Detail/9589?ret=True , CC0
• Slides # 6 & 7 : Eric Eldred & Lawrence Lessig, images : Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons , https://en.wikipedia.org/
• Slide #8:
• The image of Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the Paris Review, https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/30/how-much-
should-the-met-cost-you/
• Open Stax logo: https://twitter.com/OpenStax/photo,
• Youtube logo: https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
• Jamendo Licensing logo http://syncsummit.com/jamendol/
• Copyright logo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020966268/
• wikikbedia icon image islicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
• updated 7/16/2021 hamidalawadhi
13. References and credits
• Slide #9
• Figure (9-1) Education Advocacy Resources at
https://barefootlawyer.com/resources/advocates/
• Figure (9-2) L’innovation technologique favorise-t-elle le bien-être au travail ?
https://www.digitalrecruiters.com/blog/innovation-technologique-favorise-t-bien-etre-
travail
• Figure: (9-3) Capacity bulging at https://www.humanitynhealth.org/project/health/
• figure (9-4): The 2021 CC Global Summit Call for Proposals Is Now Open
https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/02/
• Slide# 10
• Open-glam logo: https://openglam.pubpub.org/
• OER – Open Education Resources:
https://knightsite.smcvt.edu/techlearningcentersmc/2012/02/29/hello-world-2/
• Your Guide to Finding Free Creative Commons Images and Other Media Online :
https://digiwonk.gadgethacks.com/how-to/your-guide-finding-free-creative-commons-
images-and-other-media-online-0138907/
• updated 7/16/2021 hamidalawadhi
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