Case Studies/University of Michigan Library - Revision history

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CCID-jane at 16:44, 17 November 2010

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 ''From a [http://creativecommons.org/commoners/ Featured Commoner] interview with [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12859 Molly Kleinman]:''
-There were few motivating factors behind the decision to use Creative Commons licenses for Library-created content. The biggest was that it aligned well with our overall commitment to openness and access. Part of the Library’s mission is “to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.” We promote open access publishing models, we have a strong history of digitizing public domain works and making them available online, and we partnered with Google to scan all of the books in our collection, even the works under copyright. Adopting a Creative Commons license for our own content - things like study guides, bibliographies, and technology tutorials - seemed like a logical next step. In part we were inspired by the story of Otago Polytechnic University, which was a Featured Commoner a while ago for making all of its open educational resources available under the CC-BY license. We don’t produce as much content, but what we do produce we wanted to make freely available for reuse.
+:There were few motivating factors behind the decision to use Creative Commons licenses for Library-created content. The biggest was that it aligned well with our overall commitment to openness and access. Part of the Library’s mission is “to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.” We promote open access publishing models, we have a strong history of digitizing public domain works and making them available online, and we partnered with Google to scan all of the books in our collection, even the works under copyright. Adopting a Creative Commons license for our own content - things like study guides, bibliographies, and technology tutorials - seemed like a logical next step. In part we were inspired by the story of Otago Polytechnic University, which was a Featured Commoner a while ago for making all of its open educational resources available under the CC-BY license. We don’t produce as much content, but what we do produce we wanted to make freely available for reuse.
-There was also a more practical consideration: we receive permission requests to use Library-produced content with some regularity, and those requests often go to people who have no idea what to do with them. They get bounced around until someone finally just says yes, and these requests can take a lot of time to handle. Creative Commons licenses were made to help reduce transaction costs, and we saw that as a potential benefit for the Library. It turns out that we still sometimes receive permission requests, but now it’s very easy to point the requester to the CC license. It can even be a teaching moment, a chance to introduce a person to Creative Commons for the first time.
+:There was also a more practical consideration: we receive permission requests to use Library-produced content with some regularity, and those requests often go to people who have no idea what to do with them. They get bounced around until someone finally just says yes, and these requests can take a lot of time to handle. Creative Commons licenses were made to help reduce transaction costs, and we saw that as a potential benefit for the Library. It turns out that we still sometimes receive permission requests, but now it’s very easy to point the requester to the CC license. It can even be a teaching moment, a chance to introduce a person to Creative Commons for the first time.
-We have only had the licenses up for a few months, but I am aware of a couple of instances of reuse so far. There is a liberal arts college that is building a website of copyright and publishing resources based on the U-M Library’s copyright website. I also heard recently about a scholar who is publishing a paper on digital libraries and plans to use screenshots of our digital collections. That’s the kind of use that would probably be considered fair, but publishers sometimes ask authors to clear the permissions anyway. Now she can just point to the CC license instead.
+:We have only had the licenses up for a few months, but I am aware of a couple of instances of reuse so far. There is a liberal arts college that is building a website of copyright and publishing resources based on the U-M Library’s copyright website. I also heard recently about a scholar who is publishing a paper on digital libraries and plans to use screenshots of our digital collections. That’s the kind of use that would probably be considered fair, but publishers sometimes ask authors to clear the permissions anyway. Now she can just point to the CC license instead.
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 <blockquote>“After some careful consideration, and in consultation with all library personnel, we concluded that dropping the commercial restriction would encourage broader use of our educational resources, which was really our intent when we switched to the Creative Commons license in the first place.”</blockquote>
-The Library also employs the CC0 public domain waiver to waive all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records]. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records.
+The Library also employs the CC0 public domain dedication to waive all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records]. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records.
 ''From a [http://creativecommons.org/commoners/ Featured Commoner] interview with [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12859 Molly Kleinman]:''

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 == Media ==
-'''Please include any screenshots, logos, links to videos, audio files, press hits, etc. To upload a file, open a separate window and click through [[Special:Upload]].'''
+*CKAN download: http://ckan.net/package/umich-marc-records-cc0
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	We have only had the licenses up for a few months, but I am aware of a couple of instances of reuse so far. There is a liberal arts college that is building a website of copyright and publishing resources based on the U-M Library’s copyright website. I also heard recently about a scholar who is publishing a paper on digital libraries and plans to use screenshots of our digital collections. That’s the kind of use that would probably be considered fair, but publishers sometimes ask authors to clear the permissions anyway. Now she can just point to the CC license instead.		We have only had the licenses up for a few months, but I am aware of a couple of instances of reuse so far. There is a liberal arts college that is building a website of copyright and publishing resources based on the U-M Library’s copyright website. I also heard recently about a scholar who is publishing a paper on digital libraries and plans to use screenshots of our digital collections. That’s the kind of use that would probably be considered fair, but publishers sometimes ask authors to clear the permissions anyway. Now she can just point to the CC license instead.
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		+	==Impact==
		+	'''What is the impact of this CC-enabled project or resource? Specifically, what has the license enabled that otherwise would not exist? Provide statistics or other data if possible.'''
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		+	== Media ==
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 == License Usage ==
-The default for all site content is CC BY. The Library also employs the CC0 public domain waiver to waive all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records].
+The default for all site content is CC BY. Two years after adopting the CC BY-NC license in 2008, the library [http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/101117/mlibrary changed] their licensing policy in 2010 to the more open CC BY license:
 ''From a [http://creativecommons.org/commoners/ Featured Commoner] interview with [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12859 Molly Kleinman]:''
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 Attribution is also important from the perspective of scholars who are trying to build their careers. Young scholars want credit for their work so they can get tenure-track jobs and eventually tenure. Tenured faculty want credit so they can get more research funding. I see this as one of the selling points for Creative Commons in academic settings. U.S. law doesn’t have the framework of moral rights that exist in the U.K. and elsewhere requiring that an author always be given proper credit for a work even if she has signed away all the other rights. The attribution requirement that is the baseline in all CC licenses provides some reassurance to academic authors who may not expect to profit financially from their work but for whom credit is very important.
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	== License Usage ==		== License Usage ==
		+	The default for all site content is CC BY. The Library also employs the CC0 public domain waiver to waive all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records].
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	''From a [http://creativecommons.org/commoners/ Featured Commoner] interview with [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12859 Molly Kleinman]:''		''From a [http://creativecommons.org/commoners/ Featured Commoner] interview with [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12859 Molly Kleinman]:''

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 Two years after adopting the CC BY-NC license in 2008, the library [http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/101117/mlibrary changed] their licensing policy to the more open CC BY license:
-<blockquote>"“After some careful consideration, and in consultation with all library personnel, we concluded that dropping the commercial restriction would encourage broader use of our educational resources, which was really our intent when we switched to the Creative Commons license in the first place.”</blockquote>
+<blockquote>“After some careful consideration, and in consultation with all library personnel, we concluded that dropping the commercial restriction would encourage broader use of our educational resources, which was really our intent when we switched to the Creative Commons license in the first place.”</blockquote>
 == Motivations ==