Session 6 - Creative Commons

What is Creative Commons?

Watch the video - Creative Commons & Copyright Info. This is a great clip with easy to understand information from CC New Zealand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkbeycRa2A

Creative Commons Australia

http://creativecommons.org.au/

About the Licences http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/licences

Using a licence or licenced material http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/howto

How should I provide attribution?

No matter which of the six licences are applied, you must always attribute the creator of the material.

To provide appropriate credit, you must:

        Provide the author’s name and the title of the work
        If possible, provide a link back to the source of the work
        Provide a link to the CC licence that applies to the original work
        Indicate if you made any changes to the work
        Keep intact any copyright notice the author has provided

This information can be displayed in a variety of ways; there is not one distinct way to attribute.

Attribution fact sheet http://creativecommons.org.au/content/attributingccmaterials.pdf

Providing proper attribution ensures that the original creator is acknowledged for their work and shows subsequent users that they are also free to use the work under the same conditions.

How do I licence my work under Creative Commons?

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/61/Creativecommons-licensing-and-marking-your-content_eng.pdf

Creative Commons and Commercial use:

Watch the Video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Yt_4al-PQ

Information for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/glam

Case Studies

Powerhouse Museum  https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney

Other examples  http://creativecommons.org.au/content/BAAC_government_cluster.pdf

Read some of the recent news and blog posts to see some of the amazing CC stuff available.

Where do I find stuff I can use?

A good place to start is the search available on the CC Australia website:

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Assessment Task 1

1. Explain the 6 licences of Creative Commons.

2. Use the Internet to find CC licenced images. For each of the CC Licences, you are to find and download two images using that licence. Create a document that has a paragraph describing each image, followed by the image correctly attributed.

3. You work for the Mysty River Regional Library Service as their local Historian. You have a large number of images and old video/movies that have been donated over the years for the library to use at its discretion. Would you advise MRRLS to allow these to be licenced under Creative Commons? Why/Why not? Prepare a report to the MRRLS communications manager outlining your recommendations - 800-1000 words. There is no right answer - use what you know about Copyright and the various creative commons licences to justify your response.