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Grantors

2013-10-21T21:32:15Z

Iris Brest: /* Governments */

=Existing Funder Policies=
==Governments==
Many governments have implemented CC licenses and tools, such as the CC0 public domain dedication, in their policies for the release of public sector information, educational materials, scientific articles and geographic data, and other culturally relevant content. See the current scratchpad for known [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Government_use_of_Creative_Commons government uses of CC on our wiki], in addition to a government landing page at http://creativecommons.org/government.

==Foundations==
Some foundations have developed extensive open licensing policies for grant recipients, while others encourage the use of open licenses. Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society completed an [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2009/Open_Content_Licensing_for_Foundations An Evaluation of Private Foundation Copyright Licensing Policies, Practices and Opportunities] that examine the open licensing policies of the foundations below. This [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2011/foundation_funding report was updated] in February, 2011.

===The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation===
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's [http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources Open Educational Resources Program] requires the use of Creative Commons licensing.

:"In every grant where Foundation resources are used to create products, agreement about the licensing of these products must be made explicit in the grant application. Products include but are not limited to reports, papers, publications, content, and software. If you are developing content or producing articles, reports, white papers, or other written materials, please identify which of the Creative Commons licenses you will use to license the content. We strongly prefer Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for more information."

===The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation===
The [http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4804425/ MacArthur Foundation’s Intellectual Property Policy] encourages openness generally via Creative Commons licensing.

:"The Foundation encourages openness in research and freedom of access to underlying data by persons with a serious interest in the research. Grantees are also encouraged to explore opportunities to use existing and emerging internet distribution models and, when appropriate, open access journals, Creative Commons license or similar mechanisms that result in broad access for the interested field and public."

For some programs, open licensing is [http://www.dmlcompetition.net/terms_and_conditions.php required], such as for grant output of MacArthur’s Digital
Media and Learning competition.

:"Copyright in the products produced as a result of the award shall remain with the successful Applicant subject to the terms of the Competition. Each Applicant must agree, however, that if it receives an award it will license the use of the product in accordance with a Creative Commons License (Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike) or be Open Source."

===The Shuttleworth Foundation===
The [http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/our-philosophy/open-resources-policy Shuttleworth Foundation's policy] is the most aggressive in its requirement for open licensing. The Foundation maintains a specific page on their website that describes their Open Resources Policy.

:"The Foundation is committed to opening intellectual resources created or co-created by the Foundation, in Foundation projects or with Foundation funds (Foundation resources). Intellectual resources include software, project reports, manuals, research results and the like which are ready to be communicated to the public. Foundation resources shall be open resources as far as reasonably possible. Resources are open resources when they are available for revision, translation, improvement and sharing under open licenses, open standards and in open formats, free of technical protection measures. All Agreements entered into by the Foundation which include the creation of resources shall ensure that the resources are open resources, and shall record how the Intellectual Property in the resources is owned and licensed. The Foundation recognizes that there are a number of legitimate reasons when resources may not be made open. When documents are not made open then they may, when suitable, be made available on an open access basis, which permits copying but does not allow any changes. Considerations of privacy, confidentiality, security and utility may preclude making certain documents or information available outside the Foundation."

:"Software created by the Foundation, in Foundation projects or with Foundation funds is released under the GNU General Public License, or other suitable Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) license. Copyright works, other than software, are released under appropriate open licenses; Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC BY SA) or the GNU Free Documentation license (GNU FDL), or into the Public Domain...If there is sufficient justification an 'alternative license' other than Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike or the GNU FDL may be used, for example to allow the better integration of a resource into a larger resource pool."

Creative Commons provides legal and technical tools that can help foundations increase the impact and scale of the work they fund. CC licenses lower the transaction cost normally associated with having to ask for permission to use resources by granting some rights in advance. CC licenses are easy to apply and use, and flexible enough to reflect a range of project considerations. CC licensing is already in use by some foundations, and other funding organizations should strongly consider requiring Creative Commons licensing for the public output of their grantees.

Grantees

2013-10-21T19:05:59Z

Iris Brest: /* Some Copyright Basics */

'''The following information is intended to help grantees understand and implement CC licenses correctly.'''

<div style="border: 1px dashed #06f; margin: 0.5em auto 1em; padding:1em; margin-left:2em">For more information on Creative Commons and the U.S. TAACCCT Federal grant program, see http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program.</div>

=Copyright Facts for Grant Recipients=

All funding organizations and entities, whether foundations, governments or others, want their grantees to achieve the maximum possible impact and scale of their projects, and all grantees want to produce the most successful, impactful projects possible using those grant funds. Creative Commons public licenses are the global standard for accomplishing these shared objectives, by establishing the legal terms of reuse and sharing up front in an easy to understand, standardized way.

Grantees committing or required to the use of Creative Commons licenses and legal tools for content generated with grant funds should be aware of some copyright basics in order to ensure they have the rights they need to license the content generated using grant funds using CC. This is a summary of some of those basic considerations as well as general information designed to help grantees understand how to secure the rights they need to license their work under a CC license.

==Some Copyright Basics==

'''What is copyright?''' While different countries define the exclusive rights associated with copyright protection differently, at its most basic, copyright is a bundle of rights associated with creative works that can be used to stop others from copying, performing, selling, displaying, distributing, or otherwise communicating the work without permission.

'''What does copyright protect?''' Copyright protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, for example, novels, movies, poetry, songs, choreography, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way in which these things are expressed. In nearly every country, copyright protection is automatic – it arises at the time a work is created and reduced to a tangible medium, and exists in nearly all versions of the work.

'''Who holds copyright?''' As a general matter, copyright is owned by the author or creator of the work. Only the copyright owner can license or sell the exclusive rights to someone else.

Please note that while these copyright principles are generally applicable around the world, differences in copyright laws exist between countries. You should understand how copyright works and what it protects within your own jurisdiction.

Visit our [[FAQ]] for more general information about copyright.

==Securing All the Rights Necessary==

Once you have agreed or been required to release outputs generated using grant funds under a Creative Commons license or other legal tool, you need to be sure you have all of the rights you need to do so legally.

'''Copyright: works created by others.''' If you are not the original creator of all content included in the work, then you should ensure that you own the copyright in any commissioned work (through an express assignment), that the work is already licensed in a way that allows you to use it and license it as you propose, or that you have an agreement with the author stating that the work may be released under the same license you will use (or a compatible license).

*''New works or contributions you commission'': If you pay someone to create content or produce a work that you plan to use as part of your grant output (such as a photograph, video, or research) and that person is not your employee, then in most jurisdictions you will need to either assume ownership of the work through a written assignment from the creator to you, or you should obtain written permission from the creator to use and release the work under the license you will appy to the final product (or a compatible license). Because laws different country to country, even if the person is your employee you may wish to have a written agreement in place that clearly assigns ownership of the work to you to avoid any doubt.

*''Existing works'': Using content that someone else has already created is also possible, as long as you have permission to do so. For example, if you wish to use an image you find on Flickr it needs to be licensed under a CC license that allows you to use it in the way you intent. If it is not already licensed that way, you need to ask permission from the creator to use the work first.

'''Other rights''': Beyond copyright, others may have rights that you will need to clear in order to use a work, whether you or someone else is the copyright holder. These are known as third party rights, and may include confidential information, trademarks, and rights of publicity/privacy. If you have obtained material that is confidential in nature from a third party, you should not include it in your grant output without written permission to do so. If you use a third party's trademarks, be sure your use is consistent with any trademark policies the company or person may have established, and ask permission if you are uncertain. For photographs, videos, voice recordings or other media, if a person or a person's likeness is identifiable (including voice), then whether you are the copyright owner or not you should make sure that person has signed a release form that allows you to use the photograph, video or voice recording in your CC-licensed work.

==Additional Resources==
*More information about what you should know [[Before Licensing]]
*[[FAQ#Can_I_combine_two_different_Creative_Commons_licensed_works.3F_Can_I_combine_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work_with_another_non-CC_licensed_work.3F|License compatibility]]
*Third party rights (U.S. law only): [[Podcasting Legal Guide]]

==Sample Forms==

Creative Commons does not provide universal copyright assignment forms, work for hire agreements, or model release forms. However, a few sample agreements and other resources exist that may help you to better understands the sorts of agreements you may need to use to fulfill the terms of your commitment to licensing your grant work using CC. Creative Commons does not endorse any of these forms, nor may they be appropriate for your particular situation. Please consult your own lawyer if you have any questions or concerns.

*Model Release Forms:
**http://freesouls.cc/modelrelease/ [form]
**http://www.danheller.com/model-release-primer [primer]
**http://www.idrelease.com/ [iPhone App]
*Copyright Assignment Forms:
**http://www.legalzoom.com/legalforms/LegalZoom%20Copyright%20Assignment.pdf [primer]
**http://www.copylaw.com/forms/copyassn.html [form]
*Work for Hire Agreement Forms:
**http://www.copylaw.com/forms/Workhire.html [form]
**http://www.aw-wrdsmth.com/FAQ/work_for_hire.html [form]
**http://www.creativebusiness.com/pdf_free/CBworkforhire.pdf [form]

==Disclaimer==

Please note that Creative Commons does not provide legal advice, and nothing hereshould be construed as giving legal advice, or creating an attorney-client relationship. The information and forms provided are for informational purposes only, and may not be appropriate for your circumstances or jurisdiction. If you have any questions about your rights and obligations, consult an attorney.

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=About Creative Commons and Choosing a Creative Commons License: Information for Grantees=

==About Creative Commons==

Creative Commons (“CC”) is a nonprofit organization that produces public licenses for legally expressing a “'''some rights reserved'''” alternative to the “all rights reserved” approach of traditional copyright. CC also stewards tools that allow users to commit their works to the public domain. CC’s licenses and tools are free and easy-to-use, giving individuals as well as companies and institutions a standardized way to express the copyright terms that apply to their creative works.

Creative Commons licenses and tools allow authors, scientists, and all creators of content and data to increase the exposure and impact of their works by altering the default terms of copyright. If you apply a CC license to your work, users will be able to easily find, reuse and build upon your work, thus magnifying its effects and impact in culture or science without fear of legal recourse or the need for an attorney, as long as users of the work abide by the license conditions you have chosen (NonCommercial, NoDerivatives, and/or ShareAlike). By using a Creative Commons license or tool, you can ensure that the grant monies you receive that facilitated the production of your work achieves its full potential.

Creative Commons leads the space in public copyright licensing of non-software content, and our licenses and public domain tools are the industry standard. Groups like Wikipedia, Nine Inch Nails, MIT Open Course Ware and the White House agree that by offering works under Creative Commons licenses they can greatly increase the audience for and potential impact of their efforts. CC’s licenses and tools can help leverage the impact of your work.

Visit our [[Case Studies]] database to locate projects that use Creative Commons licenses that are similar to yours or in the same industry segment.

What follows is information about CC’s suite of licenses and public domain tools, and is intended to assist you with your decision about using a CC license or other tool for your funded project. We also describe a series of simple steps you may follow to choose a license or tool appropriate for your work.

==Choosing and Applying a Creative Commons License==

Creative Commons offers six different licenses that enable you to make available your copyrightable works on your terms. CC also offers CC0, a public domain dedication tool for surrendering all copyright associated with your work, and the Public Domain Mark (PDM), to label a work that is already in the public domain (such as pure factual information). Follow the four steps below to select the license or tool that best fits your needs and objectives.

'''Note''': Some funding organizations may require a certain license as a condition of receiving the grant. Even where that is the case, you are encouraged to understand how the particular license works ([[#Step_2:_Understand_the_License_Components_and_Licenses|Step 2, below]]) before applying your license ([[#Step_4:_Apply_the_CC_License_to_your_Work|Step 4, below]]).

===Step 1: Initial Considerations===

If you have a choice of which CC license to apply, you should first familiarize yourself with Creative Commons. There is a list of general resources at the end of this document, including CC’s FAQs. If you haven’t used a Creative Commons license before, CC has compiled a list of considerations you may find helpful: [[Before Licensing]]. CC has also compiled [[#Copyright_Facts_for_Grant_Recipients|Copyright Facts for Grant Recipients]] that you may also find useful to review. As with any intellectual property agreement, you should make certain that you have the rights necessary to license the work or commit it to the public domain, which may require obtaining permissions from third parties. These rights may be copyrights, but could also be trademark rights or rights of publicity or privacy.

In determining whether to use a Creative Commons license or tool, and if so which one, you should consider the nature of your work. CC’s copyright licenses are ideally suited to license media and other creative content. With a CC license, you may offer these works to the public for limited uses within the constraints you choose and discussed below. Creative Commons copyright licensing will likely be the best method for Media projects. For scientific data or an informational database, CC recommends utilizing CC0 and committing the data to the public domain so that it may be shared freely consistent with norms in the scientific arena. Creative Commons public domain tools may be the best method for data-heavy Information and Public Health projects.

However, you need not make a uniform choice for your content. For projects that consist of both creative content like text as well as data, you may license the text portions of your project with CC licenses and dedicate data sets to the public domain with CC0. CC licenses may be used with data, but the license conditions will only apply to those elements of the data that are protected by copyright (which, depending on national law, may only attach to original, creative selection and arrangement of data).

===Step 2: Understand the License Components and Licenses===

CC copyright licenses differ depending on whether you choose to limit use of your work to non commercial uses, whether others can make derivative works based on your work, and, if derivative works are permitted, whether those derivative works must be licensed on the same terms as the original work. All of the licenses require that users of works offered under CC licenses attribute the work in a method prescribed by the licensor, and you may want to credit the funder of your work.

For more information about choosing a license and for a fuller description of the rights and the permissions that accompany each license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, or for more information about CC’s licenses and tools, reference the [[FAQ]]'s.

===Step 3: Select Your License===

Creative Commons license chooser assists in selecting the license that is right for you by walking you through a simple selection process. You can find that here: http://creativecommons.org/chose/. The CC Australia website has a [http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/fact-sheets/which-creative-commons-licence-is-right-for-me-poster flow chart] that may find of further assistance in determining the most appropriate license for your work.

If you are still unsure of which license best suits your needs, Creative Commons offers several other tools that may help. The [[Case Studies]] database offers great examples of how CC licenses have been applied to text, audio, images, video and educational works.

===Step 4: Apply the CC License to your Work===

If your work is published on the web, answer the prompts in [http://creativecommons.org/choose/ CC’s license chooser] and the chooser will guide you through the process of embedding html code in your webpage and applying the license to your work. The code generates a license button and a statement that your work is licensed under a Creative Commons license, or a corresponding CC0 or public domain button if you choose to use CC’s public domain tools. These buttons are designed to act as a notice to people who come in contact with your work that your work is licensed under the applicable Creative Commons license or is in the public domain.

For analog works, identify the license or tool you wish to apply to your work and either (a) mark your work with a statement such as “This work is licensed under the Creative Commons [insert description, e.g. Attribution 3.0] License. To view a copy of this license, visit [insert url, e.g. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/]; or contact Creative Commons at info@creativecommons.org” or (b) insert the applicable license buttons with the same statement and URL link.

CC offers resources on the [[Marking/Creators|best practices for marking works]] and on [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/61/Creativecommons-licensing-and-marking-your-content_eng.pdf how to mark works on different media] (pdf).

==Additional Resources==
*[[FFAQ]] and [[FAQ]]
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*Explanatory [http://support.creativecommons.org/videos/ Videos] and [[Comics]]
*[[Case Studies]]

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Case Studies/Procedure Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus

2012-12-03T21:51:47Z

Iris Brest: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the license Creative Commons attribuition share alike as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=association, cultural institution, procedure, policy, contracts
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2008
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource, Other, Data
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Associazione Amici del Museo dell Grigne Onlus is a non-profit organization based in Esino Lario, province of Lecco, Italy and founded in 1989. Esino Lario is a small mountain village of 780 inhabitants. The association supports the local museum Museo dell Grigne, it manages the Ecomuseo delle Grigne and the [[Case_Studies/Pietro_Pensa_Archive|Pietro Pensa Archive]]; it produced publications, conferences, itineraries and workshops for adults and children, and it commissions art works, design projects and research.

== License Usage ==
The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the Creative Commons attribution share alike license as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
Collaborators are informed that the association has decided to adopt the license Creative Commons attribution share alike on all its documentation, projects and publications and they are asked to accept that the texts and images they produce also have the same license. Artists are asked to provide their biography and a presentation of the art work in CC BY-SA and to provide 3 images of their work 800px large in CC BY-SA.

== Motivations ==
# Makes sense. The association's core business is to promote local history and culture. The CC BY-SA strengthens the circulation of information and content on local history and culture and it invites people and institutions to do the same (SA).
# Light management. The association is too small to manage royalties, authorizations and "distribution". The cost of managing royalties overcomes the benefit (our archive and documentation is not sufficiently wide). The work of managing authorizations would involve volunteers in boring work (which is not the core business of the association); there would probably be delays in responding to requests if we would receive any. The association can produce publications but it would have difficulties in assuring their distribution; the editions are printed in limited copies and they are not available for a long time. Providing the contents in CC BY-SA and in digital copies assures that they will reach people and it guarantees a distribution which goes beyond the publications and the association managing capacity.
# Visibility. A better circulation of contents and an easy means of attribution allows the association to be credited for its work (BY).
# Money/Transparent. The association is a non profit social benefit organization (Onlus: Organizzazione Non Lucrativa di Utilita' Sociale), based on volunteers and it supports its initiatives through donations and grants provided by Italian public administrations and grant-makers; some activities are conducted by volunteers. Strengthening the circulation of the projects results is a very positive approach and it makes the association more efficient (in particular for passing on duties) and transparent. It is also important to consider that the texts we commission and that we publish under CC BY-SA are focussed on local history or are specialized texts; those texts normally are unpaid in the academic world and, furthermore, they are extremely difficult to sell twice.
# Wikipedia. The documentation provided in CC BY-SA can be used to enrich Wikipedia. It is in the interest of the association to make contents available on Wikipedia since it's the largest source of information on the internet. The license also allows its volunteers and its public/users to use the documentation to contribute to Wikipedia or for other purposes.

The motivations are also described in Italian here http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere

== Impact ==
The CC BY-SA license required to create contracts and agreements with all collaborators and partners. To produce the contracts and agreements the organization was also able to regulate policies and to make its evaluation process more transparent.
The procedures are now adopted for all the current projects. This approach is implemented by other organizations through the project [[Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation and the contracts created by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus are copied and used by other organizations.

== Technical Details ==
To inform the collaborators and to create a transparent procedure, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/lettera di incarico]]". This document includes
# objective and expected results (to be able to monitor the results)
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy
The document

To inform the artists and to create a transparent agreement, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/autentica]]" (authentic). This document includes
# number of copies of the artwork. The standard are 3 copies plus a "copia d'artista"
# propriety.
# procedure to install the art work. The artworks produce come in two versions: a light version which the association can exhibit without any specific requirement and it can borrow and circulate; a full installation which requires the artists to be informed when the art work is exhibited.
# selling procedure
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy

To adopt the CC BY-SA on the publications, the association included in its publication the CC BY-SA logo and the sentence "The texts of this publication are under Creative Commons attribution share-alike.

== Media ==
* The policy of Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus in online on its website http://pietro.pensa.it/Copyright

Case Studies/Procedure Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus

2012-12-03T21:46:51Z

Iris Brest: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the license Creative Commons attribuition share alike as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=association, cultural institution, procedure, policy, contracts
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2008
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource, Other, Data
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Associazione Amici del Museo dell Grigne Onlus is a non-profit organization based in Esino Lario, province of Lecco, Italy and founded in 1989. Esino Lario is a small mountain village of 780 inhabitants. The association supports the local museum Museo dell Grigne, it manages the Ecomuseo delle Grigne and the [[Case_Studies/Pietro_Pensa_Archive|Pietro Pensa Archive]]; it produced publications, conferences, itineraries and workshops for adults and children, and it commissions art works, design projects and research.

== License Usage ==
The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the Creative Commons attribution share alike license as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
Collaborators are informed that the association has decided to adopt the license Creative Commons attribution share alike on all its documentation, projects and publications and they are asked to accept that the texts and images they produce also have the same license. Artists are asked to provide their biography and a presentation of the art work in CC BY-SA and to provide 3 images of their work 800px large in CC BY-SA.

== Motivations ==
# Makes sense. The association's core business is to promote local history and culture. The CC BY-SA strengthens the circulation of information and content on local history and culture and it invites people and institutions to do the same (SA).
# Light management. The association is too small to manage royalties, authorizations and "distribution". The cost of managing royalties overcomes the benefit (our archive and documentation is not sufficiently wide). The work of managing authorizations would involve volunteers in boring work (which is not the core business of the association); there would probably be delays in responding to requests if we would receive any. The association can produce publications but it would have difficulties in assuring their distribution; the editions are printed in limited copies and they are not available for a long time. Providing the contents in CC BY-SA and in digital copies assures that they will reach people and it guarantees a distribution which goes beyond the publications and the association managing capacity.
# Visibility. A better circulation of contents and an easy means of attribution allows the association to be credited for its work (BY).
# Money/Transparent. The association is a non profit organization, it is onlus, based on volunteers and it supports its initiatives through donations and grants provided by Italian public administrations and grant-makers; some activities are conducted by volunteers. Strengthening the circulation of the projects results is a very positive approach and it makes the association more efficient (in particular for passing on duties) and transparent. It is also important to consider that the texts we commission and that we publish under CC BY-SA are focussed on local history or are specialized texts; those texts normally are unpaid in the academic world and, furthermore, they are extremely difficult to sell twice.
# Wikipedia. The documentation provided in CC BY-SA can be used to enrich Wikipedia. It is in the interest of the association to make contents available on Wikipedia since it's the largest source of information on the internet. The license also allows its volunteers and its public/users to use the documentation to contribute to Wikipedia or for other purposes.

The motivations are also described in Italian here http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere

== Impact ==
The CC BY-SA license required to create contracts and agreements with all collaborators and partners. To produce the contracts and agreements the organization was also able to regulate policies and to make its evaluation process more transparent.
The procedures are now adopted for all the current projects. This approach is implemented by other organizations through the project [[Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation and the contracts created by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus are copied and used by other organizations.

== Technical Details ==
To inform the collaborators and to create a transparent procedure, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/lettera di incarico]]". This document includes
# objective and expected results (to be able to monitor the results)
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy
The document

To inform the artists and to create a transparent agreement, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/autentica]]" (authentic). This document includes
# number of copies of the artwork. The standard are 3 copies plus a "copia d'artista"
# propriety.
# procedure to install the art work. The artworks produce come in two versions: a light version which the association can exhibit without any specific requirement and it can borrow and circulate; a full installation which requires the artists to be informed when the art work is exhibited.
# selling procedure
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy

To adopt the CC BY-SA on the publications, the association included in its publication the CC BY-SA logo and the sentence "The texts of this publication are under Creative Commons attribution share-alike.

== Media ==
* The policy of Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus in online on its website http://pietro.pensa.it/Copyright

Case Studies/Procedure Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus

2012-12-03T21:42:27Z

Iris Brest: /* License Usage */

{{Case Study
|Description=The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the license Creative Commons attribuition share alike as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=association, cultural institution, procedure, policy, contracts
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2008
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource, Other, Data
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Associazione Amici del Museo dell Grigne Onlus is a non-profit organization based in Esino Lario, province of Lecco, Italy and founded in 1989. Esino Lario is a small mountain village of 780 inhabitants. The association supports the local museum Museo dell Grigne, it manages the Ecomuseo delle Grigne and the [[Case_Studies/Pietro_Pensa_Archive|Pietro Pensa Archive]]; it produced publications, conferences, itineraries and workshops for adults and children, and it commissions art works, design projects and research.

== License Usage ==
The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the Creative Commons attribution share alike license as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
Collaborators are informed that the association has decided to adopt the license Creative Commons attribution share alike on all its documentation, projects and publications and they are asked to accept that the texts and images they produce also have the same license. Artists are asked to provide their biography and a presentation of the art work in CC BY-SA and to provide 3 images of their work 800px large in CC BY-SA.

== Motivations ==
# Makes sense. The association core business is to promote local history and culture. The CC BY-SA strengthen the circulation of information and content on local history and culture and it invites people and institutions to do the same (SA).
# Light management. The association is too small to manage royalties, authorizations and "distribution". The cost of managing royalties overcomes the benefit (our archive and documentation is not sufficiently wide). The work of managing authorizations would involve volunteers in boring work (which is not the core business of the association); there would probably be delays in responding to requests if we would receive any. The association can produce publications but it have difficulties in assuring the distribution of them; the edition are printed in limited copies and they are not available for a long time. Providing the contents in CC BY-SA and in digital copies assures to reach people and it guarantees a distribution which goes beyond the publications and the association managing capacity.
# Visibility. A better circulation of contents and an easy attribution allows the association to be credited for its work (BY).
# Money/Transparent. The association is a non profit organization, it is onlus, based on volunteers and it supports its initiatives through donations and grants provided by Italian public administrations and grant-makers; some activities are produced by volunteers. Strengthen the circulation of the projects results is a very positive approach and it makes the association more efficient (in particular for passing on duties) and transparent. It is also important to consider that the texts we commission and that we asked in CC BY-SA are focussed on local history or are specialized texts; those texts normally are unpaid in the academic world and, furthermore, they are extremely difficult to sell twice.
# Wikipedia. The documentation provided in CC BY-SA can be used to enrich Wikipedia. It is in the interest of the association to make contents available on Wikipedia since it's the largest source of information on the internet. The license also allows its volunteers and its public/users to use the documentation to contribute to Wikipedia or for other purposes.

The motivations are also described in Italian here http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere

== Impact ==
The CC BY-SA license required to create contracts and agreements with all collaborators and partners. To produce the contracts and agreements the organization was also able to regulate policies and to make its evaluation process more transparent.
The procedures are now adopted for all the current projects. This approach is implemented by other organizations through the project [[Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation and the contracts created by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus are copied and used by other organizations.

== Technical Details ==
To inform the collaborators and to create a transparent procedure, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/lettera di incarico]]". This document includes
# objective and expected results (to be able to monitor the results)
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy
The document

To inform the artists and to create a transparent agreement, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/autentica]]" (authentic). This document includes
# number of copies of the artwork. The standard are 3 copies plus a "copia d'artista"
# propriety.
# procedure to install the art work. The artworks produce come in two versions: a light version which the association can exhibit without any specific requirement and it can borrow and circulate; a full installation which requires the artists to be informed when the art work is exhibited.
# selling procedure
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy

To adopt the CC BY-SA on the publications, the association included in its publication the CC BY-SA logo and the sentence "The texts of this publication are under Creative Commons attribution share-alike.

== Media ==
* The policy of Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus in online on its website http://pietro.pensa.it/Copyright

Case Studies/Procedure Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus

2012-12-03T21:38:53Z

Iris Brest: /* Overview */

{{Case Study
|Description=The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the license Creative Commons attribuition share alike as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=association, cultural institution, procedure, policy, contracts
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2008
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource, Other, Data
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Associazione Amici del Museo dell Grigne Onlus is a non-profit organization based in Esino Lario, province of Lecco, Italy and founded in 1989. Esino Lario is a small mountain village of 780 inhabitants. The association supports the local museum Museo dell Grigne, it manages the Ecomuseo delle Grigne and the [[Case_Studies/Pietro_Pensa_Archive|Pietro Pensa Archive]]; it produced publications, conferences, itineraries and workshops for adults and children, and it commissions art works, design projects and research.

== License Usage ==
The association [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] uses the license Creative Commons attribuition share alike as part of its policy and in all its procedures.
Collaborators are informed that the association has decided to adopt the license Creative Commons attribution share alike on all its documentation, projects and publications and they are asked to accept that also the texts and images they produce have the same license. Artists are asked to provide their biography and a presentation of the art work in CC BY-SA and to provide 3 images of their work 800px large in CC BY-SA.

== Motivations ==
# Makes sense. The association core business is to promote local history and culture. The CC BY-SA strengthen the circulation of information and content on local history and culture and it invites people and institutions to do the same (SA).
# Light management. The association is too small to manage royalties, authorizations and "distribution". The cost of managing royalties overcomes the benefit (our archive and documentation is not sufficiently wide). The work of managing authorizations would involve volunteers in boring work (which is not the core business of the association); there would probably be delays in responding to requests if we would receive any. The association can produce publications but it have difficulties in assuring the distribution of them; the edition are printed in limited copies and they are not available for a long time. Providing the contents in CC BY-SA and in digital copies assures to reach people and it guarantees a distribution which goes beyond the publications and the association managing capacity.
# Visibility. A better circulation of contents and an easy attribution allows the association to be credited for its work (BY).
# Money/Transparent. The association is a non profit organization, it is onlus, based on volunteers and it supports its initiatives through donations and grants provided by Italian public administrations and grant-makers; some activities are produced by volunteers. Strengthen the circulation of the projects results is a very positive approach and it makes the association more efficient (in particular for passing on duties) and transparent. It is also important to consider that the texts we commission and that we asked in CC BY-SA are focussed on local history or are specialized texts; those texts normally are unpaid in the academic world and, furthermore, they are extremely difficult to sell twice.
# Wikipedia. The documentation provided in CC BY-SA can be used to enrich Wikipedia. It is in the interest of the association to make contents available on Wikipedia since it's the largest source of information on the internet. The license also allows its volunteers and its public/users to use the documentation to contribute to Wikipedia or for other purposes.

The motivations are also described in Italian here http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere

== Impact ==
The CC BY-SA license required to create contracts and agreements with all collaborators and partners. To produce the contracts and agreements the organization was also able to regulate policies and to make its evaluation process more transparent.
The procedures are now adopted for all the current projects. This approach is implemented by other organizations through the project [[Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation and the contracts created by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus are copied and used by other organizations.

== Technical Details ==
To inform the collaborators and to create a transparent procedure, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/lettera di incarico]]". This document includes
# objective and expected results (to be able to monitor the results)
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy
The document

To inform the artists and to create a transparent agreement, the association produced a standard "[[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus/autentica]]" (authentic). This document includes
# number of copies of the artwork. The standard are 3 copies plus a "copia d'artista"
# propriety.
# procedure to install the art work. The artworks produce come in two versions: a light version which the association can exhibit without any specific requirement and it can borrow and circulate; a full installation which requires the artists to be informed when the art work is exhibited.
# selling procedure
# copyright agreement
# information on the privacy (as requested by the Italian law)
# information about the association policy

To adopt the CC BY-SA on the publications, the association included in its publication the CC BY-SA logo and the sentence "The texts of this publication are under Creative Commons attribution share-alike.

== Media ==
* The policy of Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus in online on its website http://pietro.pensa.it/Copyright

Case Studies/Pietro Pensa Archive

2012-12-03T21:24:35Z

Iris Brest: /* Technical Details */

{{Case Study
|Description=The Pietro Pensa Archive, Archivio Pietro Pensa, is an historical and current archive of local history and located in Esino Lario managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] with a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The archive preserves and promotes the history of the Lake Como, Adda river and Valsassina area and it includes documents collected and produced by Pietro Pensa (historical documents, parchments, images, photos, drawings, maps, books, gray literature).
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator
|Tag=Archive, local history, Italy, library, Lake Como
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2006
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, Other
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Pietro Pensa Archive is a collection of historical documents, parchments, images, photos, drawings, maps, books and gray literature created by Pietro Pensa and the Pensa family. The archive is focused on the areas of Lake Como, Adda river, the Alps, Valsassina and Esino Lario and on the provinces of Lecco, Como, Sondrio, Milano, Bergamo.

The documentation goes from from XV century until today. The archives also includes a wide collection of over 170 parchments, photos and part of the Serbelloni Sfondrati Archive (the archive of the villa where there Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center is located). All inventory of the archive are availably online with reports, essays and thematic selections.

The archive also includes the new documentation produced from its related initiatives: researches, essays, publications, recordings, audio, art works.

The Pietro Pensa Archive is managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] and it is directed by Alex Valota (nominated in 2011).

== License Usage ==
The Pietro Pensa Archive adopted in 2006 a Creative Commons attribution-share alike license on all its documentation, at first on [http://pietro.pensa.it its website], and little by little on all the projects, publications and documents.

The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive was applied by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus to all its policies (contracts and partnerships) and on Ecomuseo delle Grigne and Centro di documentazione e informazione dell'Ecomuseo delle Grigne (an institution managed by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus, based in Esino Lario and created with Esino Lario city council in 2008).

== Motivations ==
The license Creative Commons attributions share-alike was adopted on the Pietro Pensa Archive for several reasons
# It is compatible with [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. Images, and after 2009 also texts, could be uploaded or copied on Wikipedia.
# It requires the attribution which gives visibility and credit
# The archive is managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] which doesn't have the structure, the management capacity or the vocation to gain commercially from its rights.
# It facilitates distribution (and it doesn't require the institution to directly promote it or monitor it).
# The catalogue of the Pietro Pensa Archive photos was developed partially on Wikimedia Commons in the frame of the project [http://pietro.pensa.it/Valorizzazione_del_fondo_fotografico_dell%27Archivio_Pietro_Pensa Valorizzazione del fondo fotografico dell'Archivio Pietro Pensa].

== Impact ==
The license Creative Commons attribution share-alike is simple tool to allow a better circulation of information and documents produced or preserved by small institutions. Small institutions don't have the managing capacity nor, often, the vocation, to gain commercially from rights; they can only guarantee a certain amount of initiatives (researches, conferences, publications, etc). The use of an open license allows the documentation to circulate more easily and it allows others to organise initiatives related to it. The license benefits the users and potential users of the documentation (who can use it) and the documentation itself (which is promoted, studies, distributed). This impact reinforces the very mission of the institution which adopt the cc-by-sa license.

[http://pietro.pensa.it/Archivio_vince_il_premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2009 The Pietro Pensa Archive receives the Wikimedia Italy award in 2009]. The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive allowed the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus to produce new and transparent policies, contracts and partnerships. The policies were adopted in 2008 also to all the documentation of Ecomuseo delle Grigne and Centro di documentazione e informazione dell'Ecomuseo delle Grigne (an institution managed by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus, based in Esino Lario and created with Esino Lario city council).
The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive origined the project [[Case Study/Share Your Knowledge|Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation.

== Technical Details ==
To be able to adopt the license also on current documentation the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus created contracts and partnerships which specify the license and it published books with the printed license. The text specifitied in the publication was reviewed by [http://selili.polito.it/ SeLiLi Servizio Licenze Libere], an Italian office which provides legal and technical advice on open and free licenses.
* [http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere Policy of Archivio Pietro Pensa, Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus and Ecomuseo delle Grigne on Creative Commons]

== Media ==
* [http://www.creativecommons.it/bellano A news on Creative Commons Italy website on the publication ''Gli Statuti di Bellano. Le norme del comune del 1370'' curated by Archivio Pietro Pensa].
* [http://pietro.pensa.it/Archivio_vince_il_premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2009 The Pietro Pensa Archive receive the Wikimedia Italy award in 2009].

[[Category:GLAM]]

Case Studies/Pietro Pensa Archive

2012-12-03T21:21:54Z

Iris Brest: /* Impact */

{{Case Study
|Description=The Pietro Pensa Archive, Archivio Pietro Pensa, is an historical and current archive of local history and located in Esino Lario managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] with a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The archive preserves and promotes the history of the Lake Como, Adda river and Valsassina area and it includes documents collected and produced by Pietro Pensa (historical documents, parchments, images, photos, drawings, maps, books, gray literature).
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator
|Tag=Archive, local history, Italy, library, Lake Como
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2006
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, Other
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Pietro Pensa Archive is a collection of historical documents, parchments, images, photos, drawings, maps, books and gray literature created by Pietro Pensa and the Pensa family. The archive is focused on the areas of Lake Como, Adda river, the Alps, Valsassina and Esino Lario and on the provinces of Lecco, Como, Sondrio, Milano, Bergamo.

The documentation goes from from XV century until today. The archives also includes a wide collection of over 170 parchments, photos and part of the Serbelloni Sfondrati Archive (the archive of the villa where there Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center is located). All inventory of the archive are availably online with reports, essays and thematic selections.

The archive also includes the new documentation produced from its related initiatives: researches, essays, publications, recordings, audio, art works.

The Pietro Pensa Archive is managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] and it is directed by Alex Valota (nominated in 2011).

== License Usage ==
The Pietro Pensa Archive adopted in 2006 a Creative Commons attribution-share alike license on all its documentation, at first on [http://pietro.pensa.it its website], and little by little on all the projects, publications and documents.

The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive was applied by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus to all its policies (contracts and partnerships) and on Ecomuseo delle Grigne and Centro di documentazione e informazione dell'Ecomuseo delle Grigne (an institution managed by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus, based in Esino Lario and created with Esino Lario city council in 2008).

== Motivations ==
The license Creative Commons attributions share-alike was adopted on the Pietro Pensa Archive for several reasons
# It is compatible with [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. Images, and after 2009 also texts, could be uploaded or copied on Wikipedia.
# It requires the attribution which gives visibility and credit
# The archive is managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] which doesn't have the structure, the management capacity or the vocation to gain commercially from its rights.
# It facilitates distribution (and it doesn't require the institution to directly promote it or monitor it).
# The catalogue of the Pietro Pensa Archive photos was developed partially on Wikimedia Commons in the frame of the project [http://pietro.pensa.it/Valorizzazione_del_fondo_fotografico_dell%27Archivio_Pietro_Pensa Valorizzazione del fondo fotografico dell'Archivio Pietro Pensa].

== Impact ==
The license Creative Commons attribution share-alike is simple tool to allow a better circulation of information and documents produced or preserved by small institutions. Small institutions don't have the managing capacity nor, often, the vocation, to gain commercially from rights; they can only guarantee a certain amount of initiatives (researches, conferences, publications, etc). The use of an open license allows the documentation to circulate more easily and it allows others to organise initiatives related to it. The license benefits the users and potential users of the documentation (who can use it) and the documentation itself (which is promoted, studies, distributed). This impact reinforces the very mission of the institution which adopt the cc-by-sa license.

[http://pietro.pensa.it/Archivio_vince_il_premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2009 The Pietro Pensa Archive receives the Wikimedia Italy award in 2009]. The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive allowed the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus to produce new and transparent policies, contracts and partnerships. The policies were adopted in 2008 also to all the documentation of Ecomuseo delle Grigne and Centro di documentazione e informazione dell'Ecomuseo delle Grigne (an institution managed by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus, based in Esino Lario and created with Esino Lario city council).
The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive origined the project [[Case Study/Share Your Knowledge|Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation.

== Technical Details ==
To be able to adopt the license also on current documentation the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus created contracts and partnerships which specify the license and it published books with the printed license. The text specifitied in the publication was revied by [http://selili.polito.it/ SeLiLi Servizio Licenze Libere], an Italian office which provides legal and technical on open and free licenses.
* [http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere Policy of Archivio Pietro Pensa, Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus and Ecomuseo delle Grigne on Creative Commons]

== Media ==
* [http://www.creativecommons.it/bellano A news on Creative Commons Italy website on the publication ''Gli Statuti di Bellano. Le norme del comune del 1370'' curated by Archivio Pietro Pensa].
* [http://pietro.pensa.it/Archivio_vince_il_premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2009 The Pietro Pensa Archive receive the Wikimedia Italy award in 2009].

[[Category:GLAM]]

Case Studies/Pietro Pensa Archive

2012-12-03T21:20:11Z

Iris Brest: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=The Pietro Pensa Archive, Archivio Pietro Pensa, is an historical and current archive of local history and located in Esino Lario managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] with a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The archive preserves and promotes the history of the Lake Como, Adda river and Valsassina area and it includes documents collected and produced by Pietro Pensa (historical documents, parchments, images, photos, drawings, maps, books, gray literature).
|Mainurl=http://pietro.pensa.it
|Author=Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus
|User_Status=Curator
|Tag=Archive, local history, Italy, library, Lake Como
|License short name=CC BY-SA
|CC adoption date=2006
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, Other
|Country=Italy
}}
== Overview ==
The Pietro Pensa Archive is a collection of historical documents, parchments, images, photos, drawings, maps, books and gray literature created by Pietro Pensa and the Pensa family. The archive is focused on the areas of Lake Como, Adda river, the Alps, Valsassina and Esino Lario and on the provinces of Lecco, Como, Sondrio, Milano, Bergamo.

The documentation goes from from XV century until today. The archives also includes a wide collection of over 170 parchments, photos and part of the Serbelloni Sfondrati Archive (the archive of the villa where there Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center is located). All inventory of the archive are availably online with reports, essays and thematic selections.

The archive also includes the new documentation produced from its related initiatives: researches, essays, publications, recordings, audio, art works.

The Pietro Pensa Archive is managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] and it is directed by Alex Valota (nominated in 2011).

== License Usage ==
The Pietro Pensa Archive adopted in 2006 a Creative Commons attribution-share alike license on all its documentation, at first on [http://pietro.pensa.it its website], and little by little on all the projects, publications and documents.

The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive was applied by the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus to all its policies (contracts and partnerships) and on Ecomuseo delle Grigne and Centro di documentazione e informazione dell'Ecomuseo delle Grigne (an institution managed by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus, based in Esino Lario and created with Esino Lario city council in 2008).

== Motivations ==
The license Creative Commons attributions share-alike was adopted on the Pietro Pensa Archive for several reasons
# It is compatible with [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. Images, and after 2009 also texts, could be uploaded or copied on Wikipedia.
# It requires the attribution which gives visibility and credit
# The archive is managed by the [[Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus]] which doesn't have the structure, the management capacity or the vocation to gain commercially from its rights.
# It facilitates distribution (and it doesn't require the institution to directly promote it or monitor it).
# The catalogue of the Pietro Pensa Archive photos was developed partially on Wikimedia Commons in the frame of the project [http://pietro.pensa.it/Valorizzazione_del_fondo_fotografico_dell%27Archivio_Pietro_Pensa Valorizzazione del fondo fotografico dell'Archivio Pietro Pensa].

== Impact ==
The license Creative Commons attribution share-alike is simple tool to allow a better circulation of information and documents produced or preserved by small institutions. Small institutions don't have the managing capacity and ofter neither the vocation to gain commercially from rights; they can only guarantee a certain amount of initiatives (researches, conferences, publications, etc). The use of an open license allows the documentation to circulate more easily and it allows others to organise initiatives related to it. The license benefits the users and potential users of the documentation (who can use it) and the documentation itself (which is promoted, studies, distributed). This impact reinforces the very mission of the institution which adopt the cc-by-sa license.

[http://pietro.pensa.it/Archivio_vince_il_premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2009 The Pietro Pensa Archive receives the Wikimedia Italy award in 2009]. The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive allowed the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus to produce new and transparent policies, contracts and partnerships. The policies were adopted in 2008 also to all the documentation of Ecomuseo delle Grigne and Centro di documentazione e informazione dell'Ecomuseo delle Grigne (an institution managed by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus, based in Esino Lario and created with Esino Lario city council).
The experience of the Pietro Pensa Archive origined the project [[Case Study/Share Your Knowledge|Share Your Knowledge]] promoted by lettera27 Foundation.

== Technical Details ==
To be able to adopt the license also on current documentation the Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus created contracts and partnerships which specify the license and it published books with the printed license. The text specifitied in the publication was revied by [http://selili.polito.it/ SeLiLi Servizio Licenze Libere], an Italian office which provides legal and technical on open and free licenses.
* [http://pietro.pensa.it/Ecomuseo_delle_Grigne_sostiene_le_licenze_libere Policy of Archivio Pietro Pensa, Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne onlus and Ecomuseo delle Grigne on Creative Commons]

== Media ==
* [http://www.creativecommons.it/bellano A news on Creative Commons Italy website on the publication ''Gli Statuti di Bellano. Le norme del comune del 1370'' curated by Archivio Pietro Pensa].
* [http://pietro.pensa.it/Archivio_vince_il_premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2009 The Pietro Pensa Archive receive the Wikimedia Italy award in 2009].

[[Category:GLAM]]

Open Policy Institute

2012-10-16T00:06:13Z

Iris Brest: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

In 2011, CC was contacted by multiple institutions and governments seeking assistance to develop materials and strategies for open policies. The need for open policy support was amplified at the CC 2011 Global Summit in Warsaw, Poland. CC Affiliates from 35 countries called for a central hub where open policies could be shared and discussed. Without clearly defined support, open policies are significantly less likely to be introduced and adopted.

As open advocates recognize the potential for open policies to significantly increase the amount and quality of education, research and scientific resources and data, there is a pressing need to provide them support so they can successfully craft and implement open policies. A new Open Policy Institute could provide support to open advocates and governments exploring open policies.

'''Open policy requires unrestricted access and open licensing of resources financed through public and philanthropic funding in order to maximize the impact of the investment.'''

Open Policy (for governments) = publicly funded resources are openly licensed resources.

If we are going to unleash the power of hundreds of billions of dollars of publicly funded education, research and scientific resources, we need broad adoption of open policies. For the purposes of open policies that contribute to the public good, we define policy broadly as legislation, institutional policies, and/or funder mandates.

We have observed that current open policy efforts are decentralized, uncoordinated and insular; there is poor and/or sporadic information sharing. There are at least two major barriers that have prevented broad open policy adoption. (1) There is no organized support for open policy advocates and governments who want to learn about, craft, and implement open policies. (2) Existing policy makers typically don’t understand how open policies can increase the impact of public investments. The open community needs access to existing open policies, legislation, and action plans for how open policies were created, discussed and passed. Advocates need to know what barriers were encountered and how they were overcome, and because politics and opportunities are local, open advocates need support customizing an open policy solution and strategy.

If we get this simple idea right, open sustainability could cease to be an issue because: (a) there will be plenty of public funding to build and maintain all of the education, science, data, and other resources the world needs, and, (b) “open” becomes the default and “closed” becomes the exception for publicly funded resources.

== Potential activities/outputs ==

=== Open Policy Institute Website ===
The OPI site will house and/or link to the world’s open policies and best practices for securing the adoption of new open policies. The site will also list contact information of those involved in developing and promoting open policy, so that open policy advocates can connect with those who have already passed an open policy.

=== Webinars and Conference Presentations ===
OPI will run webinars and present at conferences to raise awareness of the importance of open policies, advertise the website, research, collect and curate open policy submissions, and connect open policy advocates to one another.

=== Annual Meeting ===
OPI will run an annual meeting to connect open policy advocates to one another. The one-day event could be co-located (and rotated) with existing open conferences (Open Ed, OCWC, CC Summit, etc.).

=== Consulting ===
OPI will provide direct (phone/Skype) consulting to anyone wanting to implement an open policy.

=== OPI Fellow ===
OPI might engage a fellows program to help lead work in specific open policy areas.

=== Support ===
CC is engaged in a subcontract agreement with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to support, plan, and host convenings to build the field of digital media and learning (DML) through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Our MacArthur Foundation program officer supports the allocation of grant funds to be used for a [[/2012_Convening|kick-off meeting of the Open Policy Institute]] in Fall 2012.

== Roadmap ==
* [[/2012_Convening|Brainstorming meeting in California, October 2012]]

Reuse tracking

2012-09-04T23:58:28Z

Iris Brest: /* Proposal 3: Hosted Scraped Data API */

RDF metadata presents information about a work's ancestry in a machine readable way. The websites of users who properly used our license chooser tool already have this setup. While it is possible to trace backwards to find a derived work's source, it is impossible to trace forwards to find all of a source work's derivatives without the aid of extra infrastructure.

In this page, you will find proposals for several ethical (respects user's privacy, does not involve radio-tagging people with malware or drm) solutions to this problem. These may either be systems that Creative Commons would prototype with the intention of being a reference for other organizations to build their own infrastructure; or systems that we would build and maintain our self, and provide an api to interested parties (either free in the spirit of open, or for a small fee to help offset hosting costs). All of the proposed systems below have their own advantages and disadvantages; none of them the silver bullet.

= Proposal 1: Independent Refback Tracking =

When a user opens a webpage, the browser sends some information to the
server. Of particular interest is the /referrer string/. To put it
simply, the referrer string contains the URL of the webpage that
linked the user to the page they are currently viewing.

The Refback Tracking framework would be hosted by respective content
providers, and served independently from CC. This advantage means
that once a working system is prototyped, it would have no hosting
(potentially none). cost for us, and therefor require the minimal
amount of maintenance.

The disadvantage to this approach is it is only able to trace direct
remixes of a work, but not remixes of remixes.

Here is how it works:

[[File:Proposal_1a.png]]

The above picture describes the sequence of events that triggers the
tracking mechanism, shown from the user's perspective. The steps are
like so:

'''1.''' The user opens Website A. Website A contains a remixed work.
The work provides proper attribution to the work which it is derived
from, both visually for the user and invisibly with metadata.

'''2.''' The curious user clicks on the link to the original work, and
is taken to Website B as expected.

Here is what happens behind the scenes:

[[File:Proposal_1b.png]]

'''1.''' The user opens a website. The user's browser requests a page
from a server. The website has a remixed work on it, and is
attributed with metadata. The server replies to the user's request
with the website.

'''2.''' The curious user clicks on the link to the original work.
The user's browser sends a request to the server hosting the page of
the original work. This request's referrer string contains the url of
the webpage with the remixed work on it. The server replies to the
user's request as expected, and takes note of the url in the referrer
string (this can happen either using javascript embedded in the page,
or with special code running on the webserver itself).

'''3.''' The server hosting the original work downloads the page of
the remixed work (as noted from the referrer string). The server of
the remixed work replies as expected. The server hosting the original
work reads the metadata on the download page to verify that it indeed
contains a remixed of the original work. The server notes the url in
a database, to be used for generating reuse statistics.

= Proposal 2: Hosted Refback Tracking =
Hosted Refback Tracking is a variation of the system described in the
first proposal. In this version, Creative Commons hosts the database
server. The page which contains the work that is the target of re-use
tracking will include a small bit of JavaScript, which CC would
provide. This approach requires no changes to the 3rd party servers.
Our license chooser could include an opt-in option, which would
automatically add the JavaScript to the HTML+rdfa license mark.

This approach requires that CC host a service, thus losing the main
advantage of the first proposal. However, this version is easier for
content creators to opt-in, as it requires no modifications to 3rd
party web servers. If this service sees widespread use, the aggregate
data could potential construct a more robust graph than that described
in the first proposal. However, the opt-in nature of this service
makes this unlikely.

Here is how it works:

[[File:Proposal_2.png]]

'''1.''' The user opens a website. The website contains a remixed
work, which is attributed properly and contains the relevant metadata.

'''2.''' The user clicks on the link to the original work; the
corresponding web page opens in the user's browser.

'''3.''' When the page loads, a script on the page sends the referrer
information to the database server run by CC.

(''4.'') The database server reads the metadata from both websites,
and if one is indeed a remix of the other, then this information about
both sites is recorded in our database.

= Proposal 3: Hosted Scraped Data API =

Creative Commons already has two pieces of infrastructure set up that
could be adapted to collect reuse tracking information. These
components are the license badges (when the HTML provided by the
license chooser is used), and the deed scraper (a tool that is used to
show attribution information on the deed page when the user is linked
there from another site). We currently use the license badges to
estimate the usage statistics for our license. Both the license
badges and deed scraper use referrer information to their work.

In this proposal, when a license badge is downloaded, the referrer URL
is stored in a queue. While the queue is not empty, a service
periodically selects a URL from the queue, downloads the page,
and reads the metadata on the page. If the metadata indicates a
source work URL, that page would be downloaded and read as well.

This information would allow us to build a bi-directional graph of
usage data, which could be made accessible to 3rd parties via an API
or a dashboard application.

Of the three proposals on this page, this one features the most
aggressive data collection scheme (and therefor by far the most
complete view of usage information). This scheme would also have the
most demanding server load, and like the Hosted Refback Tracking
proposal, would require ongoing maintenance from the tech team.

This scheme requires no modification to 3rd party websites to work, is
completely invisible to the end user, and can be built by extending
our existing infrastructure.

Here is how it works:

[[File:Proposal_3.png]]

'''1.''' User requests a webpage (either one)

'''2.''' The respective server responds to the user's request with the expected files, except for...

'''3.''' The license badge is (usually) served directly by CC. This allows us to build estimated adoption of the different licenses (and of which versions)

'''4.''' On request of a license badge, a CC server could then read the metadata from the corresponding webpage, and use that to maintain a robust graph of re-use information, using metadata.

Note that steps one through three are how things already are. Some of
our existing infrastructure could be adapted to provide step four,
making this proposal fairly easy to implement

Reuse tracking

2012-09-04T23:03:13Z

Iris Brest:

RDF metadata presents information about a work's ancestry in a machine readable way. The websites of users who properly used our license chooser tool already have this setup. While it is possible to trace backwards to find a derived work's source, it is impossible to trace forwards to find all of a source work's derivatives without the aid of extra infrastructure.

In this page, you will find proposals for several ethical (respects user's privacy, does not involve radio-tagging people with malware or drm) solutions to this problem. These may either be systems that Creative Commons would prototype with the intention of being a reference for other organizations to build their own infrastructure; or systems that we would build and maintain our self, and provide an api to interested parties (either free in the spirit of open, or for a small fee to help offset hosting costs). All of the proposed systems below have their own advantages and disadvantages; none of them the silver bullet.

= Proposal 1: Independent Refback Tracking =

When a user opens a webpage, the browser sends some information to the
server. Of particular interest is the /referrer string/. To put it
simply, the referrer string contains the URL of the webpage that
linked the user to the page they are currently viewing.

The Refback Tracking framework would be hosted by respective content
providers, and served independently from CC. This advantage means
that once a working system is prototyped, it would have no hosting
(potentially none). cost for us, and therefor require the minimal
amount of maintenance.

The disadvantage to this approach is it is only able to trace direct
remixes of a work, but not remixes of remixes.

Here is how it works:

[[File:Proposal_1a.png]]

The above picture describes the sequence of events that triggers the
tracking mechanism, shown from the user's perspective. The steps are
like so:

'''1.''' The user opens Website A. Website A contains a remixed work.
The work provides proper attribution to the work which it is derived
from, both visually for the user and invisibly with metadata.

'''2.''' The curious user clicks on the link to the original work, and
is taken to Website B as expected.

Here is what happens behind the scenes:

[[File:Proposal_1b.png]]

'''1.''' The user opens a website. The user's browser requests a page
from a server. The website has a remixed work on it, and is
attributed with metadata. The server replies to the user's request
with the website.

'''2.''' The curious user clicks on the link to the original work.
The user's browser sends a request to the server hosting the page of
the original work. This request's referrer string contains the url of
the webpage with the remixed work on it. The server replies to the
user's request as expected, and takes note of the url in the referrer
string (this can happen either using javascript embedded in the page,
or with special code running on the webserver itself).

'''3.''' The server hosting the original work downloads the page of
the remixed work (as noted from the referrer string). The server of
the remixed work replies as expected. The server hosting the original
work reads the metadata on the download page to verify that it indeed
contains a remixed of the original work. The server notes the url in
a database, to be used for generating reuse statistics.

= Proposal 2: Hosted Refback Tracking =
Hosted Refback Tracking is a variation of the system described in the
first proposal. In this version, Creative Commons hosts the database
server. The page which contains the work that is the target of re-use
tracking will include a small bit of JavaScript, which CC would
provide. This approach requires no changes to the 3rd party servers.
Our license chooser could include an opt-in option, which would
automatically add the JavaScript to the HTML+rdfa license mark.

This approach requires that CC host a service, thus losing the main
advantage of the first proposal. However, this version is easier for
content creators to opt-in, as it requires no modifications to 3rd
party web servers. If this service sees widespread use, the aggregate
data could potential construct a more robust graph than that described
in the first proposal. However, the opt-in nature of this service
makes this unlikely.

Here is how it works:

[[File:Proposal_2.png]]

'''1.''' The user opens a website. The website contains a remixed
work, which is attributed properly and contains the relevant metadata.

'''2.''' The user clicks on the link to the original work; the
corresponding web page opens in the user's browser.

'''3.''' When the page loads, a script on the page sends the referrer
information to the database server run by CC.

(''4.'') The database server reads the metadata from both websites,
and if one is indeed a remix of the other, then this information about
both sites is recorded in our database.

= Proposal 3: Hosted Scraped Data API =

Creative Commons already has two pieces of infrastructure set up that
could be adapted to collect reuse tracking information. These
components are the license badges (when the HTML provided by the
license chooser is used), and the deed scraper (a tool that is used to
show attribution information on the deed page when the user is linked
there from another site). We currently use the license badges to
estimate the usage statistics for our license. Both the license
badges and deed scraper use referrer information to their work.

In this proposal, when a license badge is downloaded, the referrer URL
is stored in a queue. While the queue is not empty, a service
periodically selects a URL from the queue, downloads the page, reads
and reads the metadata on the page. If the metadata indicates a
source work URL, that page would be downloaded and read as well.

This information would allow us to build a bi-directional graph of
usage data, which could be made accessible to 3rd parties via an API
or a dashboard application.

Of the three proposals on this page, this one features the most
aggressive data collection scheme (and therefor the by far most
complete view of usage information). This scheme would also have the
most demanding server load, and like the Hosted Refback Tracking
proposal, would require ongoing maintenance from the tech team.

This scheme requires no modification to 3rd party websites to work, is
completely invisible to the end user, and can be built by extending
our existing infrastructure.

Here is how it works:

[[File:Proposal_3.png]]

'''1.''' User requests a webpage (either one)

'''2.''' The respective server responds to the user's request with the expected files, except for...

'''3.''' The license badge is (usually) served directly by CC. This allows us to build estimated adoption of the different licenses (and of which versions)

'''4.''' On request of a license badge, a CC server could then read the metadata from the corresponding webpage, and use that to maintain a robust graph of re-use information, using metadata.

Note that steps one through three are how things already are. Some of
our existing infrastructure could be adapted to provide step four,
making this proposal fairly easy to implement

Research

2012-08-30T18:47:26Z

Iris Brest: /* 2. The CC Ecosystem */

__NOTOC__
== The 2012-13 Creative Commons Research agenda ==

=== Purpose ===
* Successful organizations collect data on activities and use it to iteratively improve performance.
* Facts are needed to properly reflect the impact of Creative Commons (CC) and inform our direction.
* We are excited by new tools that enable CC to measure and highlight impact.
* Questions arising from data analysis will drive the future research agenda.

The research agenda initially responds to two factors - minimal data exists on the impact of CC, and the launch of version 4.0 of the suite of CC licenses represents a significant intervention by CC in the open community. The 4.0 launch is also a unique opportunity to capture CC’s impact because it resonates across all CC activities.

=== We intend to measure our impact ===
CC intends to initiate an ongoing process for analysis/reportage of metrics to gauge impact. Measuring impact is a challenging research goal and we aim to put in place an ongoing analytical framework before 4.0 is launched (estimate launch date is December 2012). This first six-month phase will set a baseline and foundation for data driven analysis. Qualitative analysis may commence in January 2013 and will be directed by questions arising from data results. Initially data will be captured to answer the following questions that reflect CC impact (via the 4.0 intervention):

1. What is the number and growth rate of CC licensed materials worldwide? 
2. What is the use of CC licensed materials worldwide? 
3. We aspire to answer: what is the reuse of CC licensed materials worldwide? 
4. We aspire to identify best practices in attribution of CC licensed materials; 
5. Map the ecosystem in which CC operates; 
6. We aspire to answer: in the absence of CC what would the open ecosystem look like? 
7. What is the broader public perception of CC? and 
8. What is the impact of CC activities? 

To achieve this before December 2012 is an aggressive but vital ambition, and is a rare opportunity to show how the work of CC (4.0 is core to all CC operations) affects the commons.

Other important performance metrics to be captured within the CC organization include: 
9. Large scale/high profile adopters of CC licenses; 
10. Translations of CC license deeds; 
11. Indications of a strengthening CC Affiliate network; and 
12. Diversification in the funding base of CC. 
 
Concurrent with the above metrics is an ongoing case study of CC impact. It seeks to highlight the performance of CC intervention in the open education field, specifically by answering: 
13. How does the active CC-led intervention for U.S. Dept. of Labor (US DOL) Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training ([http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/ TAACCCT]) grantees achieve the goals of the US DOL TAACCCT program?

Data derived from these thirteen focal points will be made publicly available. CC metrics may ultimately be publicly available online (CC BY licensed) and updating in real time. This is a first step towards that goal.

=== Five projects address the thirteen research questions ===
# CC Licensed material metrics
# CC Ecosystem
# Public perception of CC
# Impact of CC activities
# Open Educational Resources (OER) case study

Details of each project are below. If you have any feedback, can help and/or contribute please contact Anna at creativecommons dot org . 

== 1. CC Licensed material metrics ==
The objectives for the version 4.0 suite of CC licences include:
* Support existing adoption models and frameworks;
* Interoperability;
* Internationalization;
* Recognize and address impediments to adoption amongst key communities (data, public sector information, education, science, GLAM etc.);
* Long lasting. 

The Research questions we seek to answer that will measure the impact of CC licenses are:
# What’s the number and growth rate of CC licensed materials worldwide?
# What’s the use of CC licensed materials worldwide?
# We aspire to answer: What’s the volume of re-use/remixing of CC licensed materials worldwide?
# We aspire to identify how well the terms of CC-licenses are complied with. Of all of the re-use/remixing we identify, how much comes with proper attribution, for example?

These questions are asked by our friends in the open community, funders, and CC needs greater visibility to where, how and which CC licenses are being used. Reuse is critical to measure as an indicator of quality and collaboration. Because licenses are central to CC and the open community, this data may reflect the value of investment in CC and guide future CC initiatives. Ultimately we may show how CC licenses and activities have facilitated growth in the value of the global commons.

We intend to initiate a systematic process of gathering and analyzing data, with the aim of capturing metrics before, during, and after the 4.0 launch. We will target emerging areas of public sector information, data and education, and will highlight large and/or significant adopters of CC licenses. This preliminary phase is dependent upon data availability.

The data described below is needed to answer the research questions. It is segmented into 2 data collections: world (total overall) and specific sites (as case studies with more detailed data).

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a7/Screen_Shot_2012-08-15_at_12.12.06_PM.png

=== World data ===
The ‘world’ data represents a top level number that best represents the total number of CC licensed materials worldwide and their use. Previously we obtained this data via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics/License_statistics search engines] and we aim to use an improved approach, as outlined below:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! We seek to answer !! by indicating: !! using data:
|-
| What’s the number and growth rate of CC licensed materials worldwide? || Marking - applying a CC license to content|| Daily time series of total CC marked works by Jurisdiction, License type, License version, Domain (Site)
|-
| What’s the use of CC licensed materials worldwide? || Use || Daily time series of total use of CC marked works by Jurisdiction, License type, License version, Domain (Site)
|-
| We aspire to answer: What’s the re-use of CC licensed materials worldwide? || Re-use, Remix || Daily time series of total remix of CC marked works by Jurisdiction, License type, License version, Domain (Site)
|-
| We aspire to explore how well the terms of CC-licenses are complied with. Of reuse we identify, how much comes with proper attribution? || Best practice attribution || To be explored
|-
|}

A possible source for this data may be the CC server/s, and CC may develop a [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Reuse_tracking tool] by which users of CC licenses may track use and reuse of materials to which they have applied CC licenses. The tool may indicate use and attribution practices.

=== Key Sites ===

We have nominated sites that contain CC licensed materials for deeper analysis.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! We seek to answer !! by indicating: !! using data:
|-
| What’s the number and growth rate of CC licensed materials on the site?|| Marking - applying a CC license to content || Time series of CC marked works by Jurisdiction, License type, License version, Domain (site)
|-
| What’s the use of CC licensed materials on the site? ||Use || Time series of use of CC marked works by Jurisdiction, License type, License version, Domain (site)
|-
| We aspire to answer: What’s the re-use of CC licensed materials on the site? || Re-use, Remix || Time series of remix of CC marked works by Jurisdiction, License type, License version, Domain (site)
|-
| We aspire to explore how well the terms of CC licenses are complied with. Of re-use we identify, how much comes with proper attribution?|| Best practice attribution || To be explored
|-
| How many people are impacted by CC licenses? ||Number of users of CC licensed content || Number of users of largest sites holding CC content - as an indicator
|-
|}

Data is being obtained via specific sites and personal contacts at those sites (where it is not publicly available). CC staff have enthusiastically nominated over fifty large repositories with CC content but due to limited resources we will refine it to a maximum of twenty. As an indication they currently include:

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! Nominated Sites
|-
| [http://www.bandcamp.com Bandcamp ]
| [http://www.blip.tv Blip.Tv]
| [http://www.ccmixter.org CCMixter]
|-
| [http://www.ck12.org CK12 Open Textbooks]
| [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org College Open Textbooks]
| [http://www.cnx.org Connexions]
|-
| [http://www.curriki.org Curriki ]
| [http://www.thedatahub.org Datahub]
| [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com Flat World Knowledge]
|-
| [http://www.flickr.com Flickr]
| [http://www.hindawi.com Hindawi Publishing ]
| [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive ]
|-
| [http://www.jamendo.com Jamendo]
| [http://www.khanacademy.org Khan Academy]
| [http://data.govt.nz/ Data.govt.nz ]
|-
| [https://p2pu.org/en/ P2PU]
| [http://phet.colorado.edu/ Phet Interactive Simulations]
| [http://picasa.google.com/ Picasa ]
|-
| [http://www.plos.org/publications/ Public Library of Science (PLOS) ]
| [http://soundcloud.com/ Soundcloud ]
| [http://www.springeropen.com/ Springer Open ]
|-
| [http://www.vimeo.com/ Vimeo ]
| [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons ]
| [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia ]
|-
| [http://www.worldbank.org/reference/ World Bank ]
| [http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube ]
|}

If you would like to suggest another major site or source of CC licensed materials please contact Anna at creativecommons dot org directly. Key sites for deeper analysis will be selected on the basis that they contain predominantly CC licensed materials, are large, obtaining license data is relatively straightforward and new/ anticipated fast growth sites. Where data is available it will be obtained to the highest granularity (article, page, blogpost, image, video, song) possible. We are able to provide a deeper level of data from key sites, for example, CCMixter data clearly indicates remixing, PLOS articles are all CC BY and their site provides rich data on article use, and from MOOCs (Massive Online Open Course) we can show trends in the number of people using CC licensed content. In the future we hope to work closely with key sites to analyze their data. Data may be aggregated by medium (e.g. total number of CC licensed photos across Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive etc.). Ultimately we aspire to establish a real time data feed but during this first phase we are collecting data in a variety of ways.

A site-by-site approach creates several data issues: different items of measurement; different data collation methods (personal contacts, websites, scripts etc); poor visibility to metrics methods of many sites etc. This is discussed in more detail in notes below. There will be data gaps in this data collection as the data availability is dependent upon each site. It is expected that the ‘world’ data will include site specific data - it can be used as a cross check at this stage.

== 2. The CC Ecosystem ==

Potential funders often ask questions similar to “how would the Open ecosystem look if CC didn’t exist? How would the ecosystem be affected without CC?” Secondly explicitness about the CC network may assist decisions and policy making by changing the framing of how people think about CC, indicating the intangible value of CC by pinpointing our visibility worldwide, and as a demonstration of our openness and transparency. Ultimately we may show how CC licenses and activities have facilitated growth in the value of the global commons.

=== What is the CC ecosystem? ===
Initially we define the ecosystem as the network in which CC operates. Creative Commons often must respond to events over which we have little control or influence. These events arise from the fields of technology, society and non-users of CC licenses, and economic, regulatory and environmental influences. CC exerts some control and influence over licensing of digital content; users of CC licenses, our Affiliates and the digital commons, and the technical infrastructure we use. CC has a high degree of control over our internal processes, how we communicate and promote our work and our suppliers.

=== Phase 1 ===
Understanding the current state of our ecosystem. We firstly need to identify the CC ecosystem and create a base for conversations about CC. This will provide a tool for answering key questions about intangible value.

To do this CC staff brainstormed a list of entities they are proud to name as contacts and informally allocated them to groups. We nominated the groups as: Legal, Education, GLAM, Technology, Science, Policy, Business, Funders, and International. From this we will create a publicly available, mapped dynamic network that reflects the global spread and depth of CC networks. Specifically, we will map key entities that CC works with regularly and/or considers an important friend. A first draft shall be completed for internal feedback in September 2012.

=== Phase 2 ===
A public draft for comment is aimed for release in December 2012. It may be initially used to create ongoing conversations aimed at answering:
# Who is affected by CC interventions?
# What is the place and importance of CC within the ecosystem?
# In the absence of CC in the ecosystem, what would the ecosystem look like?
# How do we work with other entities in the space to achieve mutual goals?
# Is this space growing?
# Where are the gaps and weaknesses in the CC ecosystem?
# Is there a role for CC to address any gaps and weaknesses?

The map will develop iteratively, for instance more detailed public information may be added to our contacts, indicators of network depth, and more! 

Dovetailing the two major projects described above are two smaller important projects and a large ongoing case study of CC impact.

== 3. What is the public perception of CC? ==
Phase 1: We intend to create a system for ongoing monitoring public perception of CC, as indicated by mentions in Twitter, Blogger and Wordpress.
Phase 2: Longitudinal analysis of trends in public perception may reflect development of Creative Commons and its role within the global commons. Significant findings may lead to deeper qualitative analysis. Ultimately public perception influences the intangible value of the CC brand.

== 4. What is the impact of CC activities? ==
Phase 1: A frequent outcome of CC activities is that interest is generated and that drives people to look at the CC website. We intend to initiate a systematic process of regular analysis of website metrics (initially via Google Analytics) - to highlight indications of increased awareness of CC, outcomes from campaigns, and long term growth in the CC profile. This may ultimately merge with the license metrics project. Initially we can show hits to license deeds for [https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=GVIZ&t=MAP&gco_region=world&gco_dataMode=regions&containerId=gviz_canvas&q=select+gvizcountry%28col1%29,+col2,+col1+from+1mzuUaOUSfTqzSEIXsxIhRzZbT5kDW1JSX_vwT98&qrs=+where+gvizcountry%28col1%29+%3E%3D+&qre=+and+gvizcountry%28col1%29+%3C%3D+&qe=+limit+223&width=500&height=300 H1+2 of 2012] (Source: Google Analytics and Fusion Tables). We will also note major milestones such as: major adopters; translations of CC license deeds; the strength of our affiliate network and others.

Phase 2: Significant findings may lead to deeper qualitative analysis. Ultimately we may show how growth in the value of the global commons has been enabled by our activities.

== 5. OER Case study ==
We intend to describe the performance of CC intervention in the open education field (a sector of high opportunity), specifically by answering: How does the active CC-led intervention for DOL TAACCCT grantees achieve the goals of the US DOL TAACCCT program?
The DOL TAACCCT program is a high profile, large scale project reflecting use of CC licenses by U.S. TAACCCT Community College Grantees. Materials created via TAACCCT funding must be CC BY licensed. Potential impact indicators we are watching for include: increased access to education worldwide; cost savings; reduced teacher/faculty preparation time; enhanced quality; accelerated learning; innovations through collaboration. Research relating to this project is available at [http://open4us.org/resources/#Research http://open4us.org/resources/#Research] . Ultimately this OER case study may show how CC licenses and activities have facilitated growth in the value of the global open education movement.

== Notes, disclaimers and caveats==
Definitions of non-technically correct terms used:
*''Marking'' - applying a CC license (or CC0 public domain mark) to content. This is a once off event that occurs usually when the item is made available.
*''Use'' - the viewing/reading/listening/linking to a CC licensed item.
*''Re-use/Remix'' - actively taking parts of the CC licensed item/s and merging (mixing) them into other items to create a new item (e.g. video and music remixes, remixed open textbooks or mixed open courseware).
*''Site'' - domain/platform e.g. Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, CC Mixter, Vimeo, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Wordpress, Blogger, Public Library of Science, Directory of Open Journals, Khan Academy, Science Commons, Government sites.
*''Type'' - CC BY; CC BY-SA; CC BY-ND; CC BY-NC; CC BY-NC-SA; CC BY-NC-ND. Also includes CC0.
*''Version'' - version 1.0 (Dec 2002), version 2.0 (May 2004), version 2.5 (June 2005), version 3.0 (Feb 2007).
Consistency is a major challenge with this data. This work uses materials from a wide variety of sources that use different collation techniques and so may not be consistent. This includes data across different time periods - where data is unavailable estimates have been made. A decision was made to obtain the highest possible granularity in each item of measurement, but each item differs, for example one photo does not equal one educational course or one journal article as an item of measurement. Every effort has been made to standardize the data for consistency, however inaccuracies may result, especially in this early draft phase. To address this sources have been made available wherever practical for the reader to investigate calculation methods within each source. Data used may also have been cleaned.

Data will been obtained ethically from publicly available sources (websites) or inhouse (Google Analytics), however some data has been supplied using personal contacts within key sites - we have little influence in how it is calculated by others and are very grateful to these sources for going beyond their remit to supply us with any data. In many instances we have no visibility to detailed breakdowns of the data (by license type, jurisdiction) but data is made available by us to the fullest extent of availability. This is why details of license type/jurisdiction is available for some sites but not all - it is dependent upon data availability and reliability.

Time series data is essential to highlight patterns of use, and the data to be used is specific enough to be measured over the long term. Any time series data is influenced by the different dates of introduction of Creative Commons licenses into jurisdictions, and versions (4.0 anticipated Dec 12). An intention was to build upon prior work undertaken by Creative Commons concerning license statistics, however that work was heavily caveated with reliability concerns (e.g. volatility in the estimation algorithm, differences between Google and Yahoo results relating to license types, although positively correlated by jurisdiction and volume) and the method used can no longer be replicated, so we advise that the two time series be kept separate, although both are estimates only. We believe using CC servers will result in more accurate statistics. Secondly, we advise that the ‘global’ data and site data be kept separately and not summed. This is because there may be double counting between the two sources.

This study is not exhaustive nor does it reflect the totality of Creative Commons licensed materials and where estimations have been required they have been conservative. As such these representations may be considered conservative, low baselines.

All care has been taken to compile this data but Creative Commons accepts no responsibility for the ways in which it may be used by others. This is a first draft and we are still in the initial phase of this project so inaccuracies and corrections are expected.

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== Open Research ==
CC and related tools and movements for open research:
* http://sciencecommons.org
* http://learn.creativecommons.org
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Access

== Research about CC and the commons generally ==

=== Resources ===

* [http://pml.wikidot.com Participatory Media Lab] at Singapore Management University run by Giorgos Cheliotis
* [[Debate]] page listing articles and critiques concerning CC.
* [[Metrics]] - Creative Commons metrics portal for getting data about CC, processing it and viewing it
* [[ODEPO]] - A SMW-based database of online educational projects.
* [[OER Resources]] - A SMW-based database of resources about OER.
* http://theinfo.org/ - Studying large datasets, with a particular emphasis on access to these datasets
* Add more!