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An inside look at the detail of the Creative Commons licensing tools.

Anatomy of a CC licence

Published on Aug 17, 2018

Created for Assignment 3 Creative Commons Certification for Educators.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Anatomy of a CC licence

Fit for the modern world
An inside look at the detail of the Creative Commons licensing tools.

3 layers

  • the legal code
  • the human readable summaries
  • machine readable data
Each licence has a legal code to ensure that it is understood and enforceable in law https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

the commons deeds ensure that ordinary folk understand the licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

machine readable code is understood by search engines https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC_REL


Photo by harry harris

CC BY Cathie Le Blanc

The image in this slide is a screenshot of a larger visualisation created by Cathie Le Blanc and available on her blog http://cathieleblanc.com/blog/creative-commons-certification-assignment-3/

See this visualisation curated on my Pinterest board on Open Educational Practice https://pin.it/sltrl2247ukjqn

the 4 licence elements can be combined to form 6 Creative Commons licences which you can see in more detail here https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/3-3-license-type...


Creative Commons
only exists where Copyright exists

Creative Commons licences build on Copyright, increasing the flexibility by expressing the creators wishes in terms of how the work can be re-used.
Photo by ccPixs.com

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  • when copyright doesn't apply (eg. exceptions such as "fair use")
  • When work is in the public domain
  • then CC doesn't apply
Creative Commons licences build on Copyright. When Copyright doesn't apply, CC licences don't either.
See these FAQ:
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#do-creative-commons-licenses-affect-except...
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#may-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-...

@warwicklanguage CC BY 4.0