Creative Commons Licenses in Detail
Are you seeking immediately available, freely accessible, high quality, professional resources for library services? Discover not only where to find troves of open licensed resources, but also learn about how to create and share your own work online for other libraries to use and reuse.
The course starts with a brief introduction to Creative Commons (CC) – the organization, the movement, and the suite of licenses and legal tools. (For a more thorough introduction to Creative Commons and copyright, please see our first course: The Basics of Copyright, Creative Commons, and Open Licensing.) Next, we explore each of the six Creative Commons licenses, and two public domain legal tools, in detail, explaining what they are and how they function. In Part 3, we dive even deeper, giving real-world examples and talking through scenarios to help you learn how to apply CC licenses to your own work, how to find and use the CC-licensed works of others, and how to reuse CC-license works in both adapted and unadapted forms. The course ends with reflections on the open movement as we approach CC’s 25th anniversary and takes a brief look into the work we hope to accomplish in the future.
Whether you are brand new to Creative Commons, have heard of it and are looking for deeper understanding, or just want to understand how to find and use more high quality resources for your library and its community, this course will provide clarity, context, and inspiration to get involved.
Course Outline Overview:
- What Is Creative Commons?
- A brief history
- CC today
- Creative Commons Licenses in Detail
- What rights are covered by CC licenses and legal tools?
- The three-layer design of the licenses
- The four license elements
- The six CC licenses
- The two public domain tools
- How to Work with CC Licenses
- How to choose a CC license
- How to apply a CC license
- Frequently asked questions and additional considerations
- Where to find CC-licensed content
- Reusing CC licenses in unadapted form (collections) and adapted form (adaptations/remixes/derivative works)
- Creative Commons: Looking Forward
- Reflections at 25 years
- The next frontier: sustaining a thriving commons in the age of AI
Shanna Hollich
As Learning and Training Manager at Creative Commons, Shanna Hollich supports all of CC’s programs and projects by identifying and developing professional development and learning opportunities that are relevant to CC’s mission, including (but not limited to) the CC Certificates. Prior to joining CC, Shanna worked for 15 years as a librarian across multiple institutions – K-12 school, public, government, and academic. They have worked in public/access services, technical services and cataloging/metadata, and administration, ultimately serving as director for the John Stewart Memorial Library at Wilson College and the Guthrie Memorial Library in Hanover, PA. Their research during this time primarily involved copyright reform, cultural heritage, open access, open education, and social justice.
Shanna remains an active member of the American Library Association and several local community service organizations. They currently hold a master’s degree in Data Analytics from Penn State University, a master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from Rutgers University, a graduate certificate in Educational Technology Integration from Boise State University, and bachelor’s degrees in both Philosophy and Linguistics from Brandeis University. When not working, you can usually find them reading, making music, or knitting.
Pricing is based on the number of staff accessing the tutorial.
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