Copyright in the digital age is very difficult to undertstand. Traditionally, any creative idea or work solely belongs to its creator. However, how do we enable control and attribution to exist in a world of collaborative creation and universal unregulated access. One answer to this has been the development of the Creative Commons. These notes have been assembled and linked for the use of the Canada and World Studies PLC in April 2008.
- Began 2001
- Has connections to Harvard Law and Stanford Law the offices are in San Francisco
- The gist of Creative commons is to provide protection of work used in collaborative environments
- Public Domain...........Creative Commons...................Full Copyright this is the continuum of control.
- Many projects that involve sharing of data such as the Nuerocommons and the Sematic Web are closely aligned with the Creative Commons which provided the context within the sharing takes place.
- Creative Commons is International in scope and involved in many projects
Creative Commons in the academic world is being handled by the project kpwn as ccLearn. At this location you can learn about the steps being taken and see links to many interesting writings that allude to the transformative nature of technology in the lives of today's students.It is very helpful to view these. It is very important that you come to discuss Creatives Commons rights as a way to inform students and entitle them to use many resoures. They would otherwise possibly "lift" resources from the internet and this enables students to understand how to work morally within this context.
Wikepedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons provides considerable insight into the creative commons in its entry including history and rationale along facts about about the size of this movement.
To Use access the following website http://search.creativecommons.org/#
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