Creative Commons - An Alternative to Traditional Copyright
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In this session, participants will learn about the Creative Commons licensing option, which is an alternative to traditional copyright that encourages openness and sharing of intellectual property.
The session will be structured as follows:
1) History of Creative Commons development 2) Overview of Creative Commons licenses and why we need them 3) Potential downside of CC licensing 4) Who is doing it? 5) How to find content you can use 6) Implications for teaching and learning
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the generous support of the Center for the Public Domain. Creative Commons’ first project, in December 2002, was the release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use. Taking inspiration in part from the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), Creative Commons has developed a Web application that helps people dedicate their creative works to the public domain — or retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions. Unlike the GNU GPL, Creative Commons licenses are not designed for software, but rather for other kinds of creative works: websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc.
