Building free culture, knowledge and science

Alek TarkowskiCreative Commons Poland

Creative Commons – an overview

Creative Commons – an overview

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Creative Commons – an overview

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Creative Commons – an overview

CC licenses CC tools Science Commons

Creative Commons – an overview

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Origins / reasons Growth of “control culture”

expansion of copyright in length of time, reach and strength of enforcement

An attempt to regain a lost balance

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act / failure of the Eldred case

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

commons + public domain + open access + free software + middle ground / “third way”

in face of enclosure, cultural commons needs digital environmentalism:

Standard legal toolsAvailable for freeBased upon copyright lawNo individual support given

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AttributionNoncommercialShare-AlikeNo Derivatives

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Legal code+ Human readable+ Metadata (machine-readable RDF / XML)

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Versioningcurrently: 3.0 draft

InternationalizationCreative Commons International

licenses ported into 33 jurisdictions

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the free culture movement:Access to Knowledge (A2K)Open AccessWikipediaOpen Business....

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license uptakeNovember 2004: est. 5mMay 2005: 16mDecember 2005: 50mJune 2006: 140m

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29% NonComm-ShareALike

17% NonComm-NoDerivs

17% NonComm

15% ShareAlike

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68%Noncommercial

45%Share-ALike

24%No Derivatives

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license uptakeMITnetlabels: Magnatune, Jamendo...PloSAgencia Brasilauthors: Lessig, Benkler, von Hippel...

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licensing issuesinteroperability (with GPL)core freedoms definition?relation to DRM

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mozCC: Firefox CC metadata pluginccPublisher + archive.orgCC search

embedded CC search: Google, Yahoo

embedded licensing: FlickrccHost

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Science Commons

launched in 2005, located at MIT“The sciences depend on access to and use of factual data”an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science.

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Traditiondata is not copyrightedcopyrighted scientific content becomes public domain if gov't fundedMertonian tradition of open science

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Today, on top of general copyright problems

patenting of researchsui generis database protectioncommercialization of research

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Three project areasPublishingLicensingData

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PublishingScholars Copyright Project

“Author agenda” - amendments to rights transfer agreements with publishersensure the freedom to use scholarly articles in teaching, conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works, and professional activities

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PublishingScholars Copyright Project

OpenAccess-CreativeCommons 1.0

immediate publishing, CC BY-NC licensing

OpenAccess-Publish 1.0 immediate publishing

OpenAccess-Delay 1.0 final manuscript immediately / publication after 6 months

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LicensingBiological Materials Transfer Project

transfer of genes, proteins, chemicals, tissues, model animals, software, databases, "know-how", reagents.licensing still an issue

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LicensingBiological Materials Transfer Project

standard legal termseducational materials and curriculaorganizational designs (technology trusts, patent pools).

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Datadata is today becoming locked up and thus wasted as knowledge rapidly changesCC principles applied to data sharing

The Neurocommons projectOpen Access Semantic Web for neurological research

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CC model and know-how applied to sciencelowered transaction costs

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Rio Framework for Open Science

August 2006drawing on experience of OA, FS, FC projectsparallel focus on law – technology – policystandard contracts and tech + information reuse + utilization of resources + re-contribution

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CC Poland

Potential uses / opportunitiesPolish Internet Library (PBI)academic / scientific journalsacademic booksbooks, music – small market situation

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Problems / challengeslack of legal educationweak commons proprietary mentality“piracy”

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