{"id":69,"date":"2014-12-04T23:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/openedreader\/chapter\/open-content-licenses-creative-commons\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:33:21","slug":"open-content-licenses-creative-commons","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/openedreader\/chapter\/open-content-licenses-creative-commons\/","title":{"raw":"Creative Commons Licenses","rendered":"Creative Commons Licenses"},"content":{"raw":"Read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/<\/a>\n\n<strong>Background<\/strong>\n\nCreative Commons provides the open licenses used by the vast majority of open content, including over 880M items according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/stateof.creativecommons.org\/\">recent report<\/a>.\n\nThe breadth and depth of license options available through Creative Commons licenses provides any creator with a wide range of opportunities to license any type of work with a human readable license, a \"legalese\" version of the same license, as well as a machine readable version of the license. \u00a0While fixing overaggressive\u00a0copyright is the best solution, Creative Commons provides authors and creators with a relatively simple way to share their work in the current legal context.\n\nAll CC licenses carry the attribution\u00a0term\u00a0\u201cBY.\u201d From there the creator can select from an\u00a0array of other options\u00a0which include the following:\n<ul>\n\t<li>Share Alike (SA) -\u00a0if you make\u00a0changes to the material and distribute that changed version, you\u00a0must license your new version using the same CC license<\/li>\n\t<li>NonCommercial (NC) -\u00a0you cannot use the material in way\u00a0primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation<\/li>\n\t<li>No Derivatives (ND) - no changes\u00a0can be made\u00a0to the material<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong>Key Points<\/strong>\n<ul>\n\t<li>Licensors can retain copyright while sharing their work.\n<ul>\n\t<li>Allows them to get credit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li>License Selection Wizard asks two questions:\n<ul>\n\t<li>Does the licensor want to allow commercial use?<\/li>\n\t<li>Does the licensor want derivatives to be shared alike?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li>Layers of License\n<ul>\n\t<li>Legal code \u2013 traditional<\/li>\n\t<li>Human readable \u2013 Summarizes and expresses the most important information in language a normal human being can understand.<\/li>\n\t<li>Machine readable \u2013 allows search engines to index content based on the license.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li>Licenses\n<ul>\n\t<li>CC BY = Attribution<\/li>\n\t<li>CC BY-SA = Attribution-ShareAlike<\/li>\n\t<li>CC BY-ND = Attribution -NoDerivs<\/li>\n\t<li>CC BY-NC = NonComercial<\/li>\n\t<li>CC BY-NC-SA = NonCommerical-ShareAlike<\/li>\n\t<li>CC BY-NC-ND = NonCommercial-NoDerivs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<li>One of the purposes is the reduce friction\n<ul>\n\t<li>It can be difficult to track down copyright holders to get permission even if they want to give it<\/li>\n\t<li>There is just the one, the historical licenses (e.g. open content), encourage you not to use them anymore.<\/li>\n\t<li>There will never be another license to avoid license proliferation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong>\n<ol>\n\t<li>Which is the best license?<\/li>\n\t<li>Under what circumstances would you choose to use which licenses?<\/li>\n\t<li>Discuss the pros and cons of not using the NC license, thereby allowing commercial use of openly licensed materials for gain.<\/li>\n\t<li>Under which circumstances would it be best to use a ND license?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Additional\u00a0Resources<\/strong>\n\nGNU Free Documentation License (2014)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html<\/a>","rendered":"<p>Read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creative Commons provides the open licenses used by the vast majority of open content, including over 880M items according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/stateof.creativecommons.org\/\">recent report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The breadth and depth of license options available through Creative Commons licenses provides any creator with a wide range of opportunities to license any type of work with a human readable license, a &#8220;legalese&#8221; 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