This is a comic that will explain alot!
The creator makes the terms and conditions a they wish them to be under the CC License. There are many to choose from and everyone can find one that works for them. Six license conditions described in the Creative Commons website http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses are: 1) Attribution - the license that” lets other copy, distribute, display and perform your copyrighted work and derivative works. The one thing that has to be remembered is that you give credit for the work they way it is requested; 2) Share Alike – “you allow others to distribute derivative works only under an identical license to the license you have for the work; 3) Non-Commercial – is the same as Attribution but ONLY for non-commercial purposes; 4) No Derivative Works – The work that others are allowed to use must be “verbatim copies of your work”. 5) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike – “This license lets others remix, and use your work non-commercially to create other works, as long as you credit the creator and license the new work under “the identical terms.” The final license is the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives” license. This one is the most restrictive- but it allows others to download your work and share it but they can’t change it and they MUST give the creator the credit and link back to the creator.
As Thomas Jefferson said “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Ideas are built upon ideas. Creative Commons is the place to go when one wishes to create something new and share it and also to reuse other ideas as one wishes – all under the Creative Commons license – “because permission has already been granted everyone.” Open Content is free software and software communities where copyright holders have made their “creative works available under licenses that give anyone permission to copy and make other uses of the works without specific permission or a royalty payment.” http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Legal_Concepts
For some additional interesting information about Creative Commons Legal Code please go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodewhich is where this piece was retrieved from.
At this website you will find definitions as they are intended in a CC license. Fair Dealing Rights, License Grant, Non-waivable Compulsory License Schemes, Waivable Compulsory License Schemes, Voluntary License Schemes, Restrictions, Representations, Warranties and Disclaimer, Limitation Liability, Termination, and Miscellaneous other issues of Creative Commons that one may be interested in learning about.
Josh Woodward is an artist who plays acoustic rock music and has worked under the Share Alike license but has recently (October 12, 2009) changed the license to a Creative Commons Attribution license and that means that as long as Josh is given the credit for it anyone can use it. Josh’s videos are available for you to see on you tube and specifically to see “Overthrown” go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhREWcy8ZSs
Josh Woodward will be in Findlay, OH on Feb. 27th at Coffee Amici. The concert is for the PBS community television station WBGU
Retrieved from http://www.joshwoodward.com/
I went to Jamendo.com and actually purchased a license for use on my website. Unfortunately I am not technologically saavy and I haven’t yet learned how to embed the music I purchased without a code. I have sent to emails to Jamendo for help but I haven’t heard anything back from them yet. Anyway the scope of the license is: “JAMENDO grants the User (me) to use all or part of the Work as a music illustration of the Web Site.” I used the Blogger Help function to find out how to use the music on my web site and that’s where I learned that I need a code from the third-party music service. When I find out more perhaps I will have music playing whenever you come to my web site. That is my goal.
Back to Creative Commons . . .
Who uses it? Al Jazeera. At Al Jazeera Blogs, a website where journalists blog and people correspond with others, the Al Jazeera television network is working under a CC license. flickr© is a useful resource for finding photos that are free and legal to use, share and remix. Google has used CC licenses in a number of their services in the digital world. They allow users to CC License their own content in Picasa which is one place I have found pictures to use on my website. Google owns YouTube which also used CC licenses that allows “users to swap “All Rights Reserved” music for similar sounding CC licensed tracks”. The industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails used a” CC Atrtribution Non-Commerical Share Alike license when “Trent Reznor” released the Grammy nominated GhostsI-IV.” Other best known users include OpenCourseWare, Public Library of Science, Wikipedia and Whitehouse.gov.
Retrieved from http://creativecommons.org/about/who-uses-cc
Retrieved from: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Holistic
Image: federico stevanin / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=149
Under the FFAQ “Frequently Frequently Asked Questions) section of http://wiki/creativecommons.org/FFAQwe find how to properly attribute a CC licensed work. You’ve seen pictures with the logo of the copyright holder embedded the pictures. This is something you must leave in the picture if you use the picture.
We need to cite the author’s name and identity and if publishing on the web link the name to the profile of that person, if available. Cite the title of the work and link it to the original work if possible. “Cite the specific CC license the work is under. Link it to the license on the CC website.”If you are changing a work identify the work as a “derivative work i.e.,” “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author].” “ For more information about “legal code” and what the license says about attribution go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
Additionally there is a list of “25+ Sources for Creative Commons Content at http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/creative-commons
Very thorough, and well done. I like how you opened with a general discussion of Creative Commons, then went on to describe it through an individual's perspective. Also, you used images from the CC website, which are all under the CC license. I hope to mirror my blog after yours. I've started writing the introduction, similar to yours. I hope to find an interesting article to include in my blog about CC. Good job.
ReplyDeleteKathi good job on your blog. My husband goes to that open content and takes advantage of the FREE software. It is amazing what people can think of and change the way other people obtain stuff. Users do need to pay attention to the licenses though to see exactly what is included in them.
ReplyDeleteReally impressive blog, Kathie. I think your explanations helped me to understand the in's and out's of the licenses better than I was able to get in my own perusing.
ReplyDeleteI loved the specific examples of work from CC. Josh's video, of course, and the Holistic Care. I think I'll skip over there and try to get some hints for treating my seasonal affective disorder :)
Do you, personally, see any downsides to this form of distribution? Maybe lost revenue, i.e. a possible "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free" scenerio?