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Creative Commons Explained

Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.

About Creative Commons

• What is Creative Commons? flyer (pdf) (scribd.com)
  • InDesign source file
• What is Creative Commons? (pdf) (scribd.com)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• What is Creative Commons? detailed (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
• Benefits of Creative Commons (pdf)
• Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity (pdf) (scribd.com)
  • InDesign/Illustrator source files

Using the Creative Commons Licences

• Creative Commons Licences Explained (pdf)
• Quick Guide to the Creative Commons Licences (pdf) (scribd.com)
• How To License poster (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Creative Commons Licensing Flowchart (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Licensing and Marking Your Content (pdf) (scribd.com)

Using Creative Commons Material

• Finding Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
• Attributing Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)

Multimedia

• Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing (scribd.com)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• CC Videos
  • See the videos on blip.tv, dotsub, revver, or youtube.
  • Video source files
• CC Comics

ccLearn

Organizational Media

• ccLearn Informational Flyer (pdf) (pdf - print w/.125" bleed) (Scribd)

ccLearn Productions
ccLearn Reports

• What status for open? An examination of the licensing policies of open educational organizations and projects (ccLearn site) (Scribd)

ccLearn Explanations

• Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing (pdf - ccLearn site) (Scribd)

ccLearn Step by Step Guides

• Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources (pdf - ccLearn site) (Scribd)

ccLearn Recommendations

• Increase Funding Impact (pdf - ccLearn site) (Scribd)
• Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet (pdf - ccLearn site) (Scribd)

Open Ed Outreach and Awareness Raising

• Working Slides
  • Open Ed Talking Points (SlideShare)
  • ccLearn General Messaging (SlideShare)

Creative Commons fact sheets for Educators

• What is Creative Commons? for educators
• How to Attribute Creative Commons Licensed Material for educators
• How to Find Creative Commons Licensed Material for educators
• A Quick Reference Guide to Finding Creative Commons Material for educators

External links

• Creative Commons Australia Education Infopack - including fact sheets, work sheets, videos and powerpoint slides

Developer

• Developer - Documentation for software developers.

FAQ

• FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.

Integration Best Practices

• Web Integration
  • Creative Commons Integration With Your Website (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Application Integration
• Desktop Integration

Legal

• License Your Work
• Before Licensing
• Legal Concepts
• Podcasting Legal Guide

Mailing list archives

• cc-community
• cc-licenses
• cc-devel

Marking

• Marking - How to properly mark various media with Creative Commons licenses.
  • Licensing and Marking Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Metadata - an overview of Creative Commons metadata
  • ccREL - describing license metadata in a machine readable way and attaching it to digital works
  • Metadata Marking - technical background on machine-readable metadata
• Attributing Creative Commons Material

Metrics

• Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
• License Statistics
• Statistics from the CC Monitor Project (pdf)
• Taking Stock of the CC Experiment (pdf)
• License Use Five Years On (pdf)

Projects

CC+

How do Creative Commons and Commercial entities work together to get artists and companies paid? CC+ is an effort to address that.

• CC+ press release (pdf) (scribd.com)
• CC+ Overview (pdf) | (scribd.com)
• CC+ Technical Implementation (pdf) (scribd.com)
• "How Creative Commons licenses can interact with commerce" video (blip.tv) (script)

CC0

• CC0 press release (pdf) (scribd.com)

Staff Contributions

• Explore CC conference participation.
• Explore CC staff publications.
• Explore staff presentations and slideshows online!
  • Mike Linksvayer, Vice President
  • Eric Steuer, Creative Director
  • Nathan Yergler, CTO
  • Jon Phillips, Community + Business Developer
    • Slideshare Slides
    • Scribd Docs and Slides

Technical Documentation

• Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf) (scribd.com)

White Papers

• Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector (pdf)

Help Translate Documents

Please help CC translate these documents into other languages. For the documents written in English already uploaded to this site, we've included the standardized 3-character language code, ISO 639-2. For example, the Web Integration PDF is labeled "Creativecommons-webintegration_eng.pdf". A Japanese translation of the same document would be labeled "Creativecommons-webintegration_jpn.pdf".

Help Create Documents!

How do you see CC? While these documents can exist on this wiki just fine and is a great way to get started, below is a package consisting of the Scribus document and files necessary to make documentation. Please post up any of your creations on this page!

• Information page framework — Scribus source
• Information page framework — InDesign source

Please help us complete these!

Teaching Creative Commons

How should you go about teaching Creative Commons ideas to a general audience?

Creative Commons in the classroom

Creative Commons Overview for your Company

An overview of Creative Commons for a company.

Creative Commons + Open CourseWare Legal Guide