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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)
• Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity (pdf) (scribd.com)
  • InDesign/Illustrator source files
• CC info sheet for WIPO (pdf)
• Creative Commons Kiwi (video)
• Meet Creative Commons (video)

Using the Creative Commons Licences

• How To License poster (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Quick Guide to the Creative Commons Licences (pdf) (scribd.com)
  • Indesign files
• Creative Commons Licensing Flowchart (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Licensing and Marking Your Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
• CC For Citizen Journalism in Lebanon. 10 Legal Rules on social activism and copyright by Martin Wählisch:
  • English
  • Arabic.

Using Creative Commons Content

• Finding Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
• Attributing Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
• Quick guide to Creative Commons resources (pdf)

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, youtube dotsub, revver, or youtube free article directory.
  • Video source files
• CC Comics

For Teachers

• A collection of resources on finding and using Creative Commons specifically designed for teachers, including fact sheets, slideshows, videos and worksheets

CC Learn Productions

Organizational Media

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

CC Learn Reports

• What status for “open”? An examination of the licensing policies of open educational organizations and projects (pdf) (odt)
• Data Supplement to “What status for ‘open’?” A graphical view of the licensing policies of open educational organizations and projects (pdf) (odt)
• Enhanced Search for Educational Resources— A Perspective and a Prototype from CC Learn (pdf) (odt)
• Otherwise Open Managing Incompatible Content within Open Educational Resources (pdf) (odt)

CC Learn Explanations

• CC Learn Explanations: Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing (pdf) (odt)
• Remixing OER: A Guide to License Compatibility (pdf) (odt)

CC Learn Step by Step Guides

• Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources (pdf) (odt)
• Preparing Your Educational Resources for DiscoverEd (pdf) (odt)

CC Learn Recommendations

• Increase Funding Impact (pdf) (odt)
• Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet (pdf) (odt)
• CC Learn Recommendations: Why CC BY? (pdf) (odt iphone parts wholesale)
• Dealing with Legally Incompatible Content in OER (pdf) (odt)

Developer

• Developers - 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
• Funny sayings
• 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 - opening documentation
  • 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)

Staff Contributions

• Explore CC conference participation.
• 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)
• File:BusinessModelsforCreativeWorks.pdf (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".

Available translations can be found at Translate/Documentation.

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?

CC Denmark has made a section "CC i undervisningen" (CC in education) containing video tutorials, pdf guides and other ressources for teachers. [1](In Danish)

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