Transcript The Creative Commons Project

The Creative Commons Project:
Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age
Enrico Bertacchini
[email protected]
Creative Commons History
• Officially launched in 2001
• No-profit corporation
USA (Stanford).
based
in
the
• Founder: Lawrence Lessig
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©
All rights reserved
(and then some more)
Some rights
reserved
No rights
reserved
(copyright
is dead)
Creative Commons Project /1
• Release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use
• Inspiration: GNU General Public License for software
• Objectives:
− Creators retain copyright while licensing works as
free for certain uses, on certain conditions
− Develop web application to help people dedicate
their creative works to the public domain (sharing)
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Creative Commons Project /2
• Fields of application:
− Copyright protected works: websites, scholarship,
music, film, photography, literature, courseware,
etc.
• Database???
• Geographical Data???
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Licensing Possibilities
Attribution (always)
No Commercial Use
No Derivative Works
Share Alike
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Creative Commons Licenses
6 variations:
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
Attribution Non-commercial
Attribution No Derivatives
Attribution Share Alike
Attribution
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Digital Code
• Machine readable code: Metadata
• Bit describing other bits
• Expression, Description, Search
• No Digital Right Management
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Creative Commons International
• Project launched in 2003
• Adapt CC Licenses to national jurisdictions: “License
Porting”
• Create an international networks of copyright experts
• Co-ordinate working groups for legal research
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CC Worldwide
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Science Commons Project
• Project launched by CC in 2006
• Science Commons serves the advancement of
science by removing unnecessary legal and
technical barriers to scientific collaboration and
innovation.
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Science Commons Project
3 main fields of application:
Publications
Licenses
Data
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Science Commons - Publications
Open Access
Using CC Licensing
Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi, and BioMed
Central
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
Helps scholars negotiate the rights to use and distribute
their work via self-archiving (not yet international)
Open Access Law Program
Provides a comprehensive set of resources promoting
open access in legal scholarship
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Science Commons - Licenses
Biological Materials Transfer Agreement Project
Developing and deploying standard, modular contracts to
lower the costs of transferring physical biological materials
Using Creative Commons methodology
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Science Commons – Data
Neurocommons Project
Open Source knowledge management platform for biological
research (applied to neuroscience)
Phase 1:
pilot project to organize and structure knowledge by applying
text mining and natural language processing to open
biomedical abstracts
Phase 2:
development of a data analysis software system, released
under BSD Open Source License
Goal:
viable open source platform based on open content and open
Web standards
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References
www.creativecommons.org
www.creativecommons.it
www.sciencecommons.org
This presentation is released under a Creative Commons
Attribuzione 2.5 Italia License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/it/)
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