Open Licence Literacy: Given to Know, Give to Grow

This is a version of a presentation I gave about the need for training researchers in open licensing as a form of information literacy. I presented this at...

Creative Commons Certificate Program

If you have an interest in learning more about the Creative Commons and open access licensing issues. This year, the Creative Commons began offering an...

Using CC Licences for Collections & Remixes

This short presentation helps distinguish the idea of a collection of work versus "remixing" and adapting work. This presentation is available as a...

What Makes a Creative Commons Licence and How is it Useful?

If we open a Creative Commons licence up, what do we find? Here's a brief Prezi presentation that gets into the guts of CC licences or a PDF download .

Briefly, about Copyright Law & CC Licences

Copyright gives the people that create various works, certain legal controls over those works. As the name suggests, it limits copying (thus various forms...

Timeline Leading to the Formation of the Creative Commons

First Take on the Public Domain Manifesto

Communia published its Public Domain Manifesto . The manifesto identifies the public domain concept with respect to historical development and more...