What is Creative Commons?

http://creativecommons.org

We’re a nonprofit based in San Francisco with around 30 employees around the world.

First things first

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We offer free legal and technical tools that allow creators to easily share their work.

What we’re all about

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Digitaltechnologies have

revolutionized howcreative works aremade, distributed,

and used.

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Everyday we use

Movies PicturesMusic Text

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•It covers everything you want to use – blogs, photos, music, videos, computer games

•It covers everything you want to do – copying, emailing, posting it to a blog

•Even if it’s on the internet (or TV or radio)

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• Emailing that news story to a friend?• Posting a picture/song/film

onto your blog?• Using a song in a podcast

or film?• Uploading your favorite

scenes of a TV show on YouTube?• Copying a song from a

friend’s iPod?

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These activities are usually illegal unless you get permission.

Most people who tell you about copyright focus on restrictions

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Of course, there are exceptions.

Fair use

Creative Commons licenses make

copyright about freedom.

Creative Commons provides tools for creators to grant permission ahead of time

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These permissions include

the right to copy/distribute, perform, display, build upon, and remix.

These tools are also for managing your own copyright

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So that you can collaborate and share material with anyone.

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So how does it work?

Four License Conditions

Six Licenses

What does journalism have to

do with it?

www.newspaperdeathwatch.com

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Engaging journalism students in the evolving technical, legal, and social landscape of online journalism.

How does engaging with these ideas

change what you do?

We want to hear from you.

Goals

1. To engage you with copyright, CC, online publishing, and how all that relates to journalism.2. To better understand what you think about these topics.3. To develop materials and strategies for a national project.

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