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The Creative Commons Project: The Creative Commons Project:
Sharing Knowledge in the Digital AgeSharing Knowledge in the Digital Age
Enrico BertacchiniEnrico Bertacchini
• Officially launched in 2001
• No-profit corporation based in the
USA (Stanford).
• Founder: Lawrence Lessig
Creative Commons HistoryCreative Commons History
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©All rights reserved
(and then some more)
No rights
reserved
(copyright is dead)
Some rights
reserved
• Release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use
• Inspiration: GNU General Public License for software
• Objectives:
− Creators retain copyright while licensing works as
free for certain uses, on certain conditions − Develop web application to help people dedicate their
creative works to the public domain (sharing)
Creative Commons Project /1Creative Commons Project /1
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Creative Commons Project /2Creative Commons Project /2
• Fields of application:
− Copyright protected works: websites, scholarship,
music, film, photography, literature, courseware,
etc.
• Database???
• Geographical Data???
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Licensing PossibilitiesLicensing Possibilities
AttributionAttribution ( (always)always)
No Commercial UseNo Commercial Use
No Derivative WorksNo Derivative Works
Share AlikeShare Alike
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Creative Commons LicensesCreative Commons Licenses
6 variations:6 variations:
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
Attribution Non-commercial
Attribution No Derivatives
Attribution Share Alike
Attribution
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Digital CodeDigital Code
• Machine readable code: Metadata
• Bit describing other bits
• Expression, Description, Search
• No Digital Right Management
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Creative Commons InternationalCreative Commons International
• Project launched in 2003
• Adapt CC Licenses to national jurisdictions: “License Porting”
• Create an international networks of copyright experts
• Co-ordinate working groups for legal research
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CC WorldwideCC Worldwide
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Science Commons ProjectScience Commons Project
• Project launched by CC in 2006
• Science Commons serves the advancement of science by removing unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation.
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Science Commons ProjectScience Commons Project
3 main fields of application:
PublicationsPublications
LicensesLicenses
DataData
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Science Commons - PublicationsScience Commons - Publications
Open AccessUsing CC Licensing
Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi, and BioMed Central
Scholar's Copyright Addendum EngineHelps scholars negotiate the rights to use and distribute
their work via self-archiving (not yet international)
Open Access Law ProgramProvides a comprehensive set of resources promoting
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Science Commons - LicensesScience Commons - Licenses
Biological Materials Transfer Agreement Project
Developing and deploying standard, modular contracts to lower the costs of transferring physical biological materials
Using Creative Commons methodology
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Science Commons – DataScience Commons – Data
Neurocommons ProjectOpen Source knowledge management platform for biological
research (applied to neuroscience)Phase 1:
pilot project to organize and structure knowledge by applying text mining and natural language processing to open
biomedical abstractsPhase 2:
development of a data analysis software system, released under BSD Open Source License
Goal:viable open source platform based on open content and open
Web standards16
ReferencesReferences
www.creativecommons.orgwww.creativecommons.it
www.sciencecommons.org
This presentation is released under a Creative Commons
Attribuzione 2.5 Italia License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/it/)
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