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Creative Commons

CREATIVE COMMONS DESCRIBED

Creative Commons which frees materials from automatically applied copyright restrictions by providing free, easy-to-use, flexible licenses for creators to place on their digital materials that permit the originator to grant rights as they see fit http://creativecommons.org
ccLearn focuses specifically on open learning and open educational resources http://learn.creativecommons.org

Larry Lessig of Stanford is pursuing something called the Creative Commons which frees materials from automatically applied copyright restrictions by providing free, easy-to-use, flexible licenses for creators to place on their digital materials that permit the originator to grant rights as they see fit (Fitzergerald, 2007; Smith & Casserly, 2006)

A summary video can be found at http://creativecommons.org/about/ that explains CC well.
Other videos, equally good in explain CC, can be found at http://creativecommons.org/videos/

Six major licenses of the Creative Commons:

1. Attribution (CC-BY)
2. Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)
3. Attribution No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND)
4. Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
5. Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
6. Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)
   See http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

No rights reserved

In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and the exclusive rights it automatically grants to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses. Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0

FINDING STUFF THAT WAS RELEASED WITH CREATIVE COMMONS

Individuals place Creative Commons licenses on individual items. Thus, there is no fool-proof way to search all items with some type of CC release on them.

Resources to gets you started:

• http://search.creativecommons.org/
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators

Equally, there are a number of area-specific methods of searching for creative commons released items.

Images

• http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en (usage rights section)
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pictures_and_images
• http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Video

• http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies

Music & Audio

• http://www.freesound.org/
• http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

Other

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_using_Creative_Commons_licenses