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The Creative Commons
Richard McCracken
Head of Rights
The Open University
Open Source Licensing
• Software – such as Linux
• Licences allow free use, distribution and modification of the source code
• Based on industry standards and protocols rather than proprietary systems
• May be available for all operating systems
• Support and troubleshooting via informal, peer web sites and discussion groups
Gperiodic
• Periodic table application using Linux
• Educational content
• Runs via browser
• Not tied to a particular platform
• Multilingual versions
Open Source Licensing Models
• Open Source Initiative
• GNU Free Documentation Licence
• Open Content
• MIT Open Courseware
• Creative Commons
Creative Commons
• Housed at Stanford Law School
• Started by legal, academic and business specialists in cyberlaw/IP, computer science, documentary filmmaking and public domain web-publishing
• Aimed at developing content, web sites and applications rather than programming
Standard Licence Conditions
• Mix and match clauses• Eleven standard licences• Copying, distribution, display and
performance in four categories• Attribution• Non-commercial• Non-derivative• Share-alike
Licences expressed as:
• Plain language text for users
• Fine-print legally expressed draft for courts
• Machine readable for search engines
Other Features
• Use of metadata (RDF Format)
• Irrevocable licences
• Range of standard symbols indicating types of licensed use
Challenges for Creative Commons
• Moral Rights
• Imbedded third-party content
• Free use and commercial exploitation
Publishers and Creative Commons
• Prentice Hall and the Open Source Series (Bruce Perens)
• Thomson (Gale)
• The American Physical Society
Other Open Source Models
• OSI (Open source Initiative)
• GNU Free Documentation Licence
• OpenContent
• MIT OpenCourseWare
References
• Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org• OSI http://www.opensource.org• GNU http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html• OpenContent http://www.opencontent.org• MIT OCW http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html• American Physical Society
http://publish.aps.org/infoauth.html• SURF http://www.surf.nl/copyright
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