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Creative Commons Zero
Creative Commons is about to formally release a new licensing option. The CC0 waiver option is by far its most liberal licensing choice.
The misperception I try to correct nearly everyday with my students, is that Creative Commons choices do not require documentation. That, of course, is NOT true. All the previous CC licenses require the user of the creative work to attribute credit to its creater.
With the zero option, the creater of a work dedicates his or her work to the Commons and waive all rights to the work under copyright law.
According to the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) FAQ:
Copyright and other laws throughout the world automatically extend copyright protection to works of authorship and databases, whether the author or creator wants those rights or not. CC0 gives people who want to give up those rights a way to do so, to the fullest extent allowed by law. Once the creator or a subsequent owner of a work applies CC0 to a work, the work is no longer his or hers in any meaningful legal sense. Anyone can then use the work in any way and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, subject to rights others may have in the work or how the work is used. Think of CC0 as the "no rights reserved" option.
I struggle with whether to share this new CC twist or not.
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Artists, writers, musicians—content creators of all kinds now have the option of posting and sharing their work in a copyleft manner, an approach far more liberal that traditional copyright licensing.
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Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) licenses allow creators to change copyright terms for their work from the default assumption of all rights reserved to a variety of some rights reserved options.
Creative Commons demonstrates respect for intellectual property while recognizing a more open information landscape, the desire of content creators to share, and the need of content users to build on prior knowledge.
The Creative Commons license page explains:
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Creative Commons, a nonprofit corporation founded in 2001, is dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.
Content creators may choose to attach any of the following Creative Commons (CC) rights to their work so that others might share, remix, and reuse their works, consistent with the rules of copyright and the creator’s intended conditions. They are listed in order from least to most restrictive.
Creative Commons License Conditions:
Creators choose from among a set of four conditions they wish to apply to their work:
Attribution
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.
Share Alike
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
Noncommercial
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works No Derivative Works
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
The above four conditions combine to form six possible licenses, listed in order from least to most restrictive:
Attribution
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
Attribution Share Alike
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
Attribution No Derivatives
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution Non-Commercial
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This license lets 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 Non-Commercial Share Alike
This license lets 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. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
License descriptions from http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses
Where to find Creative Commons content:
A growing number of materials are now being assigned these licenses and are being collected in such portals:
Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
There are 4 major permissions that are contained in Creative Commons licenses:
* Attribution (by) requires users to attribute a work’s original author. All Creative Commons licenses contain this option, but some now-deprecated licenses did not contain this component.
* Authors can either not restrict modification, or use Share-alike (sa), which is a copyleft requirement that requires that any derived works be licensed under the same license, or No derivatives (nd), which requires that the work not be modified..
* Non-commercial (nc) requires that the work not be used for commercial purposes.
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About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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