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Learn about Creative Commons licenses and how they work

You: Are an awesome citizen of the web. Want to share your work with others. Want to use stuff that people have shared with you.

This challenge: Will familiarize you with the range of Creative Commons licenses, which grant permission to the world to use creative work in specific ways. Will get you started on the road to CC savvy with a few short videos and activities.

Image: CC on Orange by Yamashita Yohei, CC BY license.

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Vivian at Get CC Savvy

posted message: This is a good overview video on the reason for the introduction of CC when C became automatic in the 1980s. I like the emphasis on the complementary relationship with Copyright law. However I agree with one of the commentators on the video site, there needs to be a critical mass of CC items for people to find it easy to use ( rather than give up and just do their normal copy and unattributed paste). For instance there is a lot of CC images of the capital city in which I now live but very little on the non touristy small town I used to live in. I have started uploading my photos of the area to Flickr with a CC license to do my bit to fix this. As I see it was have an obligation to create CC items as well as use them.

11 Apr 2014 via courses.p2pu.org

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Jane Park said:

Thanks Vivian! You're right; even though we may have over half a billion CC-licensed works on the web, that is really just a small percentage of the total amount of information on the web out there... but that is the nature of the growing universe of things.. :)

Great that you have published pictures of your hometown under CC! I think you may be interested in the Wikimedia/Wikipedia outreach activities which include events like Wiki Loves Monuments (and for other topics) to encourage people to take photos of things and upload them to Wikipedia under one of the open licenses or in the public domain: http://wikilovesmonuments.us/

on April 14, 2014, 5:15 p.m.

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