Creative Commons Case Studies Marieke Guy Interoperability Focus

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CC Case Studies • • Roger Mc. Guinn’s Folk Den Vores Øl (Our Beer) QA Focus MIT’s Open Courseware Accelerando Elephants Dream Introduction to CC Course Material www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 2

Roger Mc. Guinn’s Folk Den #1 • Roger Mc. Guinn of the Byrds established the Folk Den in 1995 as a way to use the Web to carry on the American folk music tradition • Mc. Guinn 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/ www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 3

Roger Mc. Guinn’s Folk Den #2 • Mc. Guinn makes every recording available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-No. Derivs. Non. Commercial 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 • Mc. Guinn feels the key is spreading and preserving traditional folk songs http: //creativecommons. org/audio/djspooky-mcguinn www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 4

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/ www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 5

QA Focus #2 • As part of 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 Attribution. Non. Commercial-Share. Alike 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 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 6

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/ www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 7

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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/ www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 9

Vores Øl (Our Beer) #2 • The recipe and brand are licenced under an Attribution. Share. Alike 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 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 10

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 www. ukoln. ac. uk http: //ocw. mit. edu/Ocw. Web/ A centre of expertise in digital information management 11

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-Non. Commercial. Share. Alike Licence • ‘How to’ Web site aims to inspire other institutions to openly share their course materials www. ukoln. ac. uk http: //ocw. mit. edu/Ocw. Web/How. To/ A centre of expertise in digital information management 12

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-Non. Commercial-No. Derivs 2. 0 licence • In 2005 Stross released a new Novel, titled Accelerando, as a free ebook under a Attribution. Non. Commercial-No. Derivs 2. 0 licence http: //www. accelerando. org/ www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 13

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 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 14

Elephants Dream #1 • 3 D animated short created using only Open Source tools by the Orange Open Movie Project • Supported by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts • Project was community-financed • Released on 18 May as a free and public download, by the end of May half a million downloads • The Open Movie project involved opening up the entire studio database for everyone to re-use and learn from www. ukoln. ac. uk http: //www. elephantsdream. org/ A centre of expertise in digital information management 15

Elephants Dream #2 • The film and production files are licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 Licence • Use requires a proper crediting for public screening, reusing and distribution only • Large collection of files so information explaining what/how to credit • Logos and DVD cover excluded from CC • By June some edited versions of the film have started to appear, new soundtrack, edited images etc. www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management 16

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