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What is the Creative Commons?

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Mandi Goodsett
Mandi Goodsett

The Creative Commons is an organization that develops copyright licenses to resolve tensions between copyright and sharing online. It was founded by Lawrence Lessig to allow creators to choose how their works can be shared and used. The Creative Commons provides public licenses for creators to retain copyright while allowing some uses of their works. There are now over 1.4 billion works shared using Creative Commons licenses worldwide. The organization supports the licenses and open movement globally.

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What is Creative Commons? Mandi Goodsett Summer 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
You may have heard of the Creative Commons before, but what is it?
Is it an organization?
A set of licenses?
A movement?
Why does it exist, and what does the Creative Commons do today?
To understand where Creative Commons comes from, we have to go back to the beginning of the Internet, and how it interacts with copyright.
Copyright is very important for protecting intellectual property.
But the Internet allows and encourages sharing (legal or otherwise), rather than controlling creative works.
What the Internet allows, copyright inhibits.
Copyright is a limited monopoly.
It’s a balance between protection of creative works so that artists find it worthwhile to create, and the sharing of those creative works for the benefit of everyone. Copyright is a limited monopoly.
Unfortunately, the “limited” nature of copyright has become increasingly reduced as the length of the copyright term is extended. Copyright is a limited monopoly.
In 1998, Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act, often called the Sonny Bono Act, which lengthened the copyright term to life of the author plus 70 years (from life of the author plus 50 years).
A man named Eric Eldred, who had been sharing works that had fallen into the public domain due to their copyright term ending, paired up with Lawrence Lessig and others to argue that this law was unconstitutional.
In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft
In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft Lessig argued that extending the copyright term for works that had already been created could not be encouraging creative making ...
In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft … and that the extension of copyright without good cause by Congress was a breach of freedom of speech.
In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft They lost the case.
The tension between copyright and the freedom of the Internet has been problematic in many realms.
While trying to impede the continual extension of copyright terms had not succeeded, there was another way forward.
Lawrence Lessig and others developed the Creative Commons to resolve some of the tension and allow for the shared creativity of the online commons to flourish.
What is the Creative Commons today?
The Creative Commons is ... an organization
The Creative Commons is ... a set of licenses
The Creative Commons is ... a global network of people who value openness
The Creative Commons Organization is a non-profit with employees stationed around the world. The organization is a steward of the Creative Commons licenses and supporter of the open movement.
The Creative Commons Licenses are a set of public licenses that allow creators to retain their copyright while releasing some of those rights to everyone.
The Creative Commons Licenses There are now 1.4 billion Creative Commons-licensed works in existence worldwide.
The Creative Commons Licenses The Creative Commons is interested in both encouraging many creators to add their work to the Commons, and in developing a culture of sharing and connecting that improves overall creative output.
The Creative Commons Global Network provides support for the licenses, which are important for educators and institutions around the world, and which signal a set of values in addition to providing access.
The Creative Commons Global Network reinforces the Open Movement, composed of activists, policy makers, and creators worldwide.
The Creative Commons Global Network looks to the future for the licenses in the context of new technology and innovations.
To learn more about Creative Commons and to join the movement, visit their website: https://creativecommons.org/
References (in order of appearance) ● “Creative Commons Certificate Course content” by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license. ● “Globe” by The Tango Desktop Project is licensed under a CC-0 license. ● “U.S. Copyright Office Seal” of the United States Copyright Office is in the Public Domain. ● “Eric Eldred” by Joi Ito and Padraic is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Creative Commons” by Hamedm is in the Public Domain. ● “Creative Commons Staff” by David Kindler is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Open Content A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences” by Markus Büsges is licensed under a CC-BY SA 4.0 license.
References ● “Mosaic - my Flickr photostream” by Tatters is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Brigham Young University faculty survey …” by opensource.com is licensed under a CC-BY SA 2.0 license. ● “Share” by Mike Cohen is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar present ImpactStory to Open Access advocate Mike Rossner” by Open Science Federation is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Keyboard” by Jeroen Bennink is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license.

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What is the Creative Commons?

  • 1. What is Creative Commons? Mandi Goodsett Summer 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
  • 2. You may have heard of the Creative Commons before, but what is it?
  • 3. Is it an organization?
  • 4. A set of licenses?
  • 6. Why does it exist, and what does the Creative Commons do today?
  • 7. To understand where Creative Commons comes from, we have to go back to the beginning of the Internet, and how it interacts with copyright.
  • 8. Copyright is very important for protecting intellectual property.
  • 9. But the Internet allows and encourages sharing (legal or otherwise), rather than controlling creative works.
  • 10. What the Internet allows, copyright inhibits.
  • 12. It’s a balance between protection of creative works so that artists find it worthwhile to create, and the sharing of those creative works for the benefit of everyone. Copyright is a limited monopoly.
  • 13. Unfortunately, the “limited” nature of copyright has become increasingly reduced as the length of the copyright term is extended. Copyright is a limited monopoly.
  • 14. In 1998, Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act, often called the Sonny Bono Act, which lengthened the copyright term to life of the author plus 70 years (from life of the author plus 50 years).
  • 15. A man named Eric Eldred, who had been sharing works that had fallen into the public domain due to their copyright term ending, paired up with Lawrence Lessig and others to argue that this law was unconstitutional.
  • 16. In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft
  • 17. In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft Lessig argued that extending the copyright term for works that had already been created could not be encouraging creative making ...
  • 18. In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft … and that the extension of copyright without good cause by Congress was a breach of freedom of speech.
  • 19. In the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft They lost the case.
  • 20. The tension between copyright and the freedom of the Internet has been problematic in many realms.
  • 21. While trying to impede the continual extension of copyright terms had not succeeded, there was another way forward.
  • 22. Lawrence Lessig and others developed the Creative Commons to resolve some of the tension and allow for the shared creativity of the online commons to flourish.
  • 23. What is the Creative Commons today?
  • 24. The Creative Commons is ... an organization
  • 25. The Creative Commons is ... a set of licenses
  • 26. The Creative Commons is ... a global network of people who value openness
  • 27. The Creative Commons Organization is a non-profit with employees stationed around the world. The organization is a steward of the Creative Commons licenses and supporter of the open movement.
  • 28. The Creative Commons Licenses are a set of public licenses that allow creators to retain their copyright while releasing some of those rights to everyone.
  • 29. The Creative Commons Licenses There are now 1.4 billion Creative Commons-licensed works in existence worldwide.
  • 30. The Creative Commons Licenses The Creative Commons is interested in both encouraging many creators to add their work to the Commons, and in developing a culture of sharing and connecting that improves overall creative output.
  • 31. The Creative Commons Global Network provides support for the licenses, which are important for educators and institutions around the world, and which signal a set of values in addition to providing access.
  • 32. The Creative Commons Global Network reinforces the Open Movement, composed of activists, policy makers, and creators worldwide.
  • 33. The Creative Commons Global Network looks to the future for the licenses in the context of new technology and innovations.
  • 34. To learn more about Creative Commons and to join the movement, visit their website: https://creativecommons.org/
  • 35. References (in order of appearance) ● “Creative Commons Certificate Course content” by Creative Commons is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license. ● “Globe” by The Tango Desktop Project is licensed under a CC-0 license. ● “U.S. Copyright Office Seal” of the United States Copyright Office is in the Public Domain. ● “Eric Eldred” by Joi Ito and Padraic is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Creative Commons” by Hamedm is in the Public Domain. ● “Creative Commons Staff” by David Kindler is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Open Content A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences” by Markus Büsges is licensed under a CC-BY SA 4.0 license.
  • 36. References ● “Mosaic - my Flickr photostream” by Tatters is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Brigham Young University faculty survey …” by opensource.com is licensed under a CC-BY SA 2.0 license. ● “Share” by Mike Cohen is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar present ImpactStory to Open Access advocate Mike Rossner” by Open Science Federation is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. ● “Keyboard” by Jeroen Bennink is licensed under a CC-BY 2.0 license.