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WIPO Information Meeting on Educational Content & Copyright in the Digital Age November 21, 2005

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WIPO Information Meeting on EducationalContent & Copyright in the Digital Age

November 21, 2005

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What is the problem CreativeCommons is trying to solve?

• Copyright automatically applies to creative,expressive works upon fixation– Some people don’t know this = unwitting infringer– Some people do = too scared to use a work interpretatively– Some people have no other option = infringer by necessity

• Digital technologies revolutionized how creativeworks are made, made available and used– Democratizing force– The very essence of copyright is implicated by the

functioning of digital technologies– The possibilities digital technologies offer implicates the

derivatives works right

• Polarized reaction to these conflicting trends

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©Absolute Control v. Anarchy

All rights reserved No rights reserved

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©Absolute Control v. Anarchy

No All rights reserved No rights reservedSomerights

reserved

ReasonableCopyright

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How?

• Nonprofit organization– Based in San Francisco, offices in Berlin & London– International network of volunteers in over 50

countries• Offering legal and technical toolkits

– CC Licenses: staple or customized licenses– Publish: tools for creators and their licensors to

publish content under CC licenses & others toreuse it

– Find: partner with tech companies to developtools for the general public to easily search forCC licensed content

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explode licensedcontent

Creative Commons mission:to promote collaboration across space and time

improvesearchability

promote re-use

permissions culture participatoryculture

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http://creativecommons.org/license/

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Core Licensing Suite:Creator/Licensor chooses license options

• Every Creative Commons licenses allows the worldto copy and distribute a work provided that thelicensee credits the author/licensor

• In addition creator/licensor may apply thefollowing conditions:

NonCommercial

No Derivatives

ShareAlike

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Answer five simple questions to choose a license.

Simple License Generator

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License is produced in threedifferent formats

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Logo is Placed on the Content

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Logo Links to the Commons Deed

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Commons Deed Links to the Legal Code

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Current State of CC international license porting…

…in talks with volunteers in 70 countries

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Striatic, BY-SA

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Open Access Law Program

• Open Access Law Program:– Journal Principles– Author’s Pledge– Model Publishing Agreement

• Adopted by 29 journals in the UK, Canada,the US and the Philippines and twointernational journals

• Program to be expanded to other disciplinesincluding agriculture, entomology, biology,anthropology

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http://creativecommons.org/find/

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Searchability Relies on Metadata

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Torres del Paine, Bitxi, BY-NC-SA

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CC experience to date

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ENabLING OPENEDUCaTIONaL RESOURCESS

& SCHOLaRLY RESEaRCH

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MIT OpenCourseWare Program Evaluation Findings Report, March 2004, p13.

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MIT OpenCourseWare Program Evaluation Findings Report, March 2004, p14.

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MIT OpenCourseWare Program Evaluation Findings Report, March 2004, p14.

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MIT OpenCourseWare Program Evaluation Findings Report, March 2004, p16.

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Emerging OCWs

Spain•U. Politécnica de Madrid•U. Santiago de Compostela•U. Barcelona•U. Islas Baleares•U. Rovira i Virgili•U. Jaume I•U. Murcia•U. Alicante•U. Politécnica de Valencia•U. Autónoma de Madrid•U. Complutense de Madrid•U. Sevilla

Portugal•U. Aveiro

Vietnam•FETP OpenCourseWare

India•Rai University•Somaiya Vidyavihar

France•Telecom Paris•Ecole Polytechnique•Techniques Avancees•Ponts et Chausse es•Ecole des Mines de Paris•Chimie Paris•Physique-Chimie•Agronomie•Statistiques et Economie•Eaux et Forets•Arts et Metiers

Japan•Keio University•Kyoto University•Osaka University•Tokyo Institute ofTechnology

•University of Tokyo•Waseda University

United States•Harvard Law SchoolBerkman Center

• Johns HopkinsSchool of Public Health

•Tufts University•University of Michigan Schoolof Information

•University of Notre Dame•Utah State University

China (CORE)•Peking University•Tsinghua University•Beijing Jiaotong University•Dalian Univ. of Technology•Central South University•Xi'an Jiaotong University•Central Radio & TV Univ.•Sichuan University•Zhejiang University•Beijing Normal University•Plus 146 more

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benefits CC Can Offer

• Clear signaling of copyright terms & ease of accessto flexibly licensed content

• Voluntary, private ordering tool that gives creatorsmore options to signal “fair use/fair dealing” plus

• Can assist with closing the “content gap”– Allow translation and localization of content– Ready tools to reduce barriers to experiencing

the democraticizing potential of digitaltechnologies

• Evidence to date suggests open content promotesgreater access without impairing existing businessmodels—can even benefit

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Public Policy Lessons from CC?

• In some respect, the CC lesson is limited:– Voluntary, private ordering tool– “Fair use/fair dealing plus”– Copyright is but one issue

• In some respects, the CC lesson may beuseful:– International network that benefits from

harmonized laws– Illustrates what is possible if copyright frictions

are reduced– Demonstrates and enables a diversity of interest

of copyright owners

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A…changing culture one copyright license at a time…