Creative Commons provides copyright licenses for creative works in the digital age. It offers 6 main licenses that vary in terms of allowing commercial use, modifications, and sharing. The licenses use human-readable deeds, lawyer-readable legal code, and machine-readable metadata. Most people choose licenses that allow non-commercial use and derivatives. Courts have upheld Creative Commons licenses. The organization works internationally and many countries now offer national versions of Creative Commons licenses.
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1. Creative Commons: Copyright in the digital age For Greater China and Hong Kong creativecommons.org China Mainland: cn.creativecommons.org Taiwan: creativecommons.org.tw Hong Kong (preparatory site): cchk.wetpaint.com
16. People engage in flexible licensing overwhelmingly for reputational reasons Two-thirds choose to limit public use to noncommercial use only Two-thirds permit derivatives Most popular license elements
18. ¡° In principle, Curry owns the copyright in the four photos, and the photos, by their posting on that website, are subject to the [Creative Commons] License. Therefore Audax should observe the conditions that control the use by third parties of the photos as stated in the License¡The claim [...] will therefore be allowed; defendants will be enjoined from publishing all photos that [Curry] has published on www.flickr.com, unless this occurs in accordance with the conditions of the License.¡± Curry v. Audax, District Court of Amsterdam ¨C March 9, 2006 , Interim measure, Case no. 334492 / KG 06-176 SR Amsterdam court ruling
28. This presentation contains elements or contributions from: Ben Cheng Catharina Maracke, Creative Commons International Creative Commons Austria/Public Voice Lab
29. Thanks! Rebecca MacKinnon [email_address] This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/