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Creative Commons
Case Studies
Marieke Guy
Interoperability Focus
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Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den
Vores Øl (Our Beer)
QA Focus
MIT’s Open Courseware
Accelerando
Introduction to CC Course Material
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Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den #1
• Roger McGuinn of the Byrds established the Folk Den
in 1995 as a way to use the Web to carry on the
American folk music tradition
• McGuinn publishes his own performances of traditional
(public domain) songs alongside performances of his
own songs
• He posts the songs, the chords, the lyrics, images and
a little story about each item
http://www.reveries.com/folkden/
http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/
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Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den #2
• McGuinn makes every recording available for
download under a Creative Commons AttributionNoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Licence
• He shares the public domain material, but when he
records a solo CD of new material it is kept in
traditional copyright
• McGuinn feels the key is spreading and preserving
traditional folk songs
http://creativecommons.org/audio/djspooky-mcguinn
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QA Focus #1
• QA Focus was funded by JISC to develop a quality
assurance (QA) framework which would help ensure
that project deliverables funded under JISC’s digital
library programmes were functional, widely accessible
and interoperable
• During the project over 70 briefing papers and over 30
case-studies were released on a variety of subjects
• These resources are available in a number of formats
from the QA Focus Web site
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/
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QA Focus #2
• As part of the the project’s exit strategy it was decided
to release the documents under a licence in order to in
maximise impact across the community
• Three possibilities were considered:
– Develop a bespoke licence
– Modify an existing licence
– Use an existing licence
• After a review of available options the CC AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence was chosen for
the briefing papers
• It was decided *not* to use the CC licence on the case
studies due to IPR issues
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QA Focus #3
• The briefing papers were updated to include the CC
logo and text
• The machine-readable description of the licence was
embedded in RDF format on the HTML pages
• This structured rights metadata allows search engines
to provide much richer searching capabilities
• Briefing papers continue to be added to the QA Focus
Web site and are all available under a CC licence
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/eunis-2005/paper-3/
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QA Focus #4
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Vores Øl (Our Beer) #1
• “Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To
understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in
'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.”
• Open source beer produced by a group of students
from the IT University of Copenhagen, in collaboration
with Superflex, an art organisation
• Version 1.0 is a medium strong beer (6% vol) with a
deep golden red colour and an original but familiar
taste!
• It has added guarana for a natural energy-boost!
http://www.voresoel.dk/
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Vores Øl (Our Beer) #2
• The recipe and brand are licenced under an AttributionShareAlike 2.0 licence
• Anyone can use the recipe to brew the beer or to
create a derivative of the recipe. Brewers can earn
money from Our Beer, but have to publish the recipe
under the same licence and credit the original work.
• People can also use all the design and branding
elements, and are free to change them at will provided
they publish the changes under the same licence
• The Vores Øl Web site also has a a forum for sharing
sounds and music related to Our Beer called Sound
Bazaar
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MIT Open Courseware #1
• In 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
announced that they would be creating Open
Courseware in order to:
– provide free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's
course materials for educators in the non-profit
sector, students, and individual learners around the
world.
– Create an efficient, standards-based model that
other universities may emulate to publish their own
course materials
• The pilot site went live in September 2002
• There are currently over 1,100 courses are available
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MIT Open Courseware #2
• The site is free and open educational resource for
faculty, students, and self-learners around the world
• It does not require any registration, but does not grant
degree certificates or access to MIT faculty
• In January 2003 the OCW initiative adopted a slightly
modified version of the Creative Commons licence
• MIT Open Courseware License Version 1.0
• It is similar to an Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike Licence
• ‘How to’ Web site aims to inspire other institutions to
openly share their course materials
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Accelerando #1
• Charles Stross is a science fiction novelist based in
Edinburgh, Scotland
• He has published a number of novels and numerous
short stories (in various SF magazines)
• In order to put it to good use Stross released Scratch
Monkey, a short novel that he finished in 1993, on his
Web site under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
2.0 licence
• In 2005 Stross released a new Novel, titled
Accelerando, as a free ebook under a AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 licence
http://www.accelerando.org/
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Accelerando #2
• The novel is available in a number of formats – Plain HTML
– Rich Text Format
– PDF
– Plucker e-book
– Palm DOC format
– ASCII
• It is also availble to buy online and from bookstores for
$24.95
• Stross’s story Concrete Jungle (also available under a
CC licence) won the 2005 Hugo Award
for Best Novella of the Year
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