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Creative Commons

A flexible, voluntary, not-for-profit licensing system which allows content creators to decide their own level of copyright protection

Samples

Wanna Work Together?

Brief trainers on the use of Creative Commons.

Source YouTube
URL http://youtube.com/watch?v=P4qOL28KVVE
Use To brief trainers on the use of Creative Commons.
Delivery Videos from YouTube can be embedded into webpages, wikis and blogs.
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Building On The Past

Humorous look at the use of Creative Commons

Source YouTube
URL http://youtube.com/watch?v=CFB9NQXLrHg
Use Humorous look at the use of Creative Commons.
Delivery Videos from YouTube can be embedded into webpages, wikis and blogs.
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Creative Commons Mayer and Bettle Animation

5 minute Australian animation explaining Creative Commons

Source YouTube http://creativecommons.org.au/animation_train
URL http://youtube.com/watch?v=S3aZoe5VK-c
Use 5 minute Australian animation explaining Creative Commons
Delivery Videos from YouTube can be embedded into webpages, wikis and blogs.
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Why use Creative Commons materials?

Creative Commons licensed resources enable you to acquire, develop or customise components of existing materials with the confidence that you are respecting the owner's copyright. This means you can integrate videos, text, audio, images, graphics, Flash movies and other multimedia into your learning materials without lengthy and costly processes of seeking permissions..

Creative Commons can also be used to publish materials, such as sharing the results of class research or project-based learning, particularly where published online using a blog, wiki, podcast, vidcast or other collaborative web publishing tool.

Features

Creative Commons licences are based on copyright, so they apply to all works which are protected by copyright law, including books, websites, blogs, photographs, films, videos, songs and other audio and visual recordings.
Creative Commons licensed material can be identified by the symbol found beside each license type here.) They provide a guide on how to both:

  • Decide which material you can legitimately incorporate into your training resources that you acquire from owners who have used Creative Commons licenses to distribute their work
  • Share text and multimedia you have developed and wish to share with others

The licenses are:


Attribution (by)
by

Copy and enhance (adapt or modify), redistribute (publish, display, exhibit, publicly perform or communicate eg by email or by placing on a website) and license to others on any terms. These licences allow you to copy and enhance (adapt or modify) the source material and make your version available to others (redistribute) as long as you attribute the creator of the original material.

Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)
bynd

Copy, enhance and redistribute but you must make the new work available on same licence terms as original

Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
bync

Copy but not enhance. Redistribute only in original form.

Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

bync

Copy, enhance and redistribute. License to others on any terms.

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)

byncnd

Copy, enhance and redistribute but you must make the new work available on same licence terms as original

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

byncnd

Copy but not enhance. Redistribute only in original form.

  • Other licenses

Creative Commons also offer a set of other licenses for more specialized applications for example, GNU GPL and GNU LGPL licenses are for those licensing software. Many of these applications are known as open source software.

More information about these license types:

Popular sites with 3rd party resources that trainers can use legitimately in learning resource design and delivery include:

Images and Graphics

Sound Effects

Music

  • Jamendo
    Jamendo offers free access and free download of music tracks, published with Creative Commons licences. On Jamendo, the Artists choose to give access to their music for free to the users.
    http://www.jamendo.com/en/
  • Ccmixter
    This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
    http://www.ccmixter.org/
  • Open Source Audio
    http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
  • Opsound
    Opsound is an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share and remix.
    http://opsound.org/

Video

Course Content

You can also try search.creativecommons.org/ from where you can Find Creative Commons-licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free.

Software developed and registered under Creative Commons is licensed under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License. Open Source Software means that the original programming code is freely available to anyone - so many people can participate in developing the software. There are a wide variety of software applications available to Trainers and Learners for administration, course delivery and multimedia applications. http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/it/opens.htm has a good list outlining some useful software.

Teaching and learning opportunities

When developing learning resources Trainers often seek out for text and multimedia resources that can be incorporated into the material. Through using materials sourced from developers, designers and artists who license their works through Creative Commons, considerable effort spent examining copyrights and pursuing permissions can be redirected toward teaching.

In addition, eliminating restrictions on use of intellectual property encourages new thinking among trainers about how to incorporate a wide range of resources in their teaching.

Allowing broad non-commercial use of otherwise protected material significantly expands the pool of resources trainers and students can use in teaching and learning.

Knowing quickly and easily whether a piece of content can be distributed, modified, or remixed and included in training sessions and learning materials, without having to worrying about obtaining permission.

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Integrating Creative commons

Creative Commons is not a training strategy. Rather, it enables Trainers to select and use materials from 3rd parties with the knowledge that they have respected the copyright wishes of the original developer.

Design steps

Copyright applies to many resources available on the internet. Take time to familiarise yourself with copyright statements found on most websites to clarify your legal responsibilities to the material on that site.

  • Check the copyright notice of the website from where you acquire resources to see if it enables as it copying under a limited licence like ‘Creative Commons’ or ‘Free for Education’
  • When developing online learning resources if the copyright situation is unclear for a particular 3ed party resource online, consider providing a direct link for the learner.
If developing text from information you have acquired from the internet, check to see how copyright protects the expression of ideas you have found.

Technical notes

No specific skills are required to use or develop Creative Commons resources, but users should be familiar with the various types of licenses to protect themselves and their organisation where using 3rd party materials.

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From the Framework

More resources from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework

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Tools and Resources

Australian Copyright Council - Creative Commons licences
http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/g094.pdf/download

Netlabels
This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'. Search the open source audio for a range of music for use in training resources.
http://www.archive.org/details/netlabels

EngageMedia
EngageMedia is a video-sharing site distributing works about social justice and environmental issues in South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the dominance of the mainstream media.
http://www.engagemedia.org/

Creative Copyright Resources for Schools
Useful guide for Australian schools
http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/docs/creative-commons-resources.pdf

AEShareNet licensing system
The AEShareNet Licensing System connects people who are looking for learning materials with those who own them. Some of these materials are licensed under Creative Commons.
http://www.aesharenet.com.au/

Social bookmark for this strategy

http://del.icio.us/designelearn/creative_commons

Last modified: 11/6/08