What is Creative Commons?

How common is your creativity?
Are you able to share it with the world?

Creative commons is...

• a public domain and a way to share and reuse digital creativity
• a free, easy-to-use copyright license
• an innovative option to enhancing productivity
• a way to eliminate copyright infringment

Creative commons is not...

• an alternative to copyright
• a law firm that gives legal advice about copyright

Let's ask the professionals...

"Creative Commons enables new forms
of creativity and enriches us"

- Mitchell Baker, Chair of Mozilla Foundation

"everything in the library is re-mixable"

- Divya Bhat, Founder of Jamglue

"a champion of a bracing new vision of culture"


- David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral

Traditional copyright laws give the owner of the work the sole responsibility to edit, reproduce, and distribute the material.

Because all works are immediately copyrighted at creation, permission must be granted in order to enhance and publish it.

Fair Use

Fair Use

Copyright Act of 76 set rules for regulation:

• consider the purpose and character of the use (nonprofit or educational?)
• consider then nature of the work (factual is more likely fair use)
• consider the amount and significance of the work
• consider the effect of the use of the work

Creative Commons allows individuals licenses to share their creativity with the world.

You set the terms and permissions. You are in control of your creativity and its influences.

Check out:  http://creativecommons.org/about