Creative Commons

This article is about the organisation. For their published licences, see Creative Commons licenses. For usage of product, see List of works available under a Creative Commons License.

Creative Commons

Founder(s)	Lawrence Lessig
Type	Non-profit organization
Founded	2001
Location	San Francisco, California,  United States
Key people	Joi Ito
Focus	Expansion of "reasonable", flexible copyright
Method	Creative Commons licenses
Website	creativecommons.org

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Main article: Creative Commons licenses

Creative Commons licenses consist of four major condition modules: Attribution (BY), requiring attribution to the original author; Share Alike (SA), allowing derivative works under the same or a similar license (later or jurisdiction version); Non-Commercial (NC), requiring the work is not used for commercial purposes; and No Derivative Works (ND), allowing only the original work, without derivatives.^[16] These modules are combined to currently form six major licenses of the Creative Commons:^[16]

• Attribution (CC BY)
• Attribution Share Alike (CC BY-SA)
• Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY-ND)
• Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
• Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)

As of the current versions, all Creative Commons licenses allow the "core right" to redistribute a work for non-commercial purposes without modification. The NC and ND options will make a work non-free according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works.

An additional special license-like contract is the CC0 option, or "No Rights Reserved."^[17] For software, Creative Commons endorses three free licenses created by other institutions: the BSD License, the CC GNU LGPL license, and the CC GNU GPL.^[18][19]. This licenses dedicates a work to the public domain (or an equivalent status in jurisdictions where a dedication to public domain is not possible). Compared with a "public domain" statement added to the work, a CC0 statement is less ambiguous and achieves the desired effect on a global scale, rather than limited to some jurisdictions.

Usage and list of projects that release contents under Creative Commons licenses

Further information: List of projects using Creative Commons licenses, List of works available under a Creative Commons License, and Category:Creative Commons-licensed works

Creative Commons maintains a content directory wiki of organizations and projects using Creative Commons licenses.^[20] On its website CC also provides case studies of projects using CC licenses across the world.^[21] CC licensed content can also be accessed through a number of content directories and search engines (see CC licensed content directories).

On January 13, 2009, some broadcasting content from Al Jazeera on the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict was released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.^{[22][23][24][25][26][27]}

• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA, since June 2009)
• Wikimedia Commons (CC licenses among other options)
• Wikia (CC BY-SA, since June 2009)
• Citizendium (CC BY-SA)
• knol (mostly CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA)
• Arduino (CC BY-SA)
• NINJAM (CC BY-SA)

Jurisdiction ports

Countries to which Creative Commons licenses have been ported (green) or are being ported (blue)

Main article: Creative Commons jurisdiction ports

The original non-localized Creative Commons licenses were written with the U.S. legal system in mind, so the wording could be incompatible within different local legislations and render the licenses unenforceable in various jurisdictions. To address this issue, Creative Commons has started to port the various licenses to accommodate local copyright and private law. As of May 2010, there are 52 jurisdiction-specific licenses, with 9 other jurisdictions in drafting process, and more countries joining the worldwide project.^[28]

For the upcoming version 4 of the CC licenses a re-integration of the ports into single licenses is being considered.

Criticism

General criticism

CC some rights reserved

Péter Benjamin Tóth asserts that Creative Commons' objectives are already well served by the current copyright regime, and that Creative Commons' "some rights reserved" slogan, as against Copyright's "all rights reserved", creates a false dichotomy. "Copyright provides a list of exclusive rights to the rightholder, from which he decides which ones he wishes to "sell" or grant and which to retain. The "Some rights reserved" concept is therefore not an alternative to, but rather the very nature of classical copyright."^[29] Other critics fear that Creative Commons could erode the copyright system over time.^[30] or allow "some of our most precious resources — the creativity of individuals — to be simply tossed into the commons to be exploited by whomever has spare time and a magic marker."^[31] Some critics question whether Creative Commons licenses are useful for artists, and suggest that Creative Commons primarily serves a "remix culture" and fails to meet the real needs of financial compensation and recognition of artists.^[31] or worry that the lack of rewards for content producers will dissuade artists from publishing their work. ^[32]

Generally, many critics erroneously view Creative Commons as a replacement of Copyright, whereas in reality it is a standardized, copyright based solution for those cases where re-use and re-mixing is desired under specific conditions.^[33]

Some critics contend that the Creative Commons licensing system dissuades content producers from coordinating efforts to revise the Copyright Act.^[30]

Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig counters that copyright laws have not always offered the strong and seemingly indefinite protection that today's law provides.^[34] Rather, the duration of copyright used to be limited to much shorter terms of years, and some works never gained protection because they did not follow the now-abandoned compulsory format.^[34]

Another critic questions whether Creative Commons is the commons that it purports to be, given that at least some restrictions apply to people's ability to use the resources within the common field.^[32] This is restricted entirely within the private rights of others and has nothing to do with rights shared by all.^[35] Creative Commons also does not define "creativity" or what aspects a work requires in order to become part of the commons.^[32]

Critics such as David Berry^{[disambiguation needed ]} and Giles Moss argue that the founding of Creative Commons is not the proper mechanism for creating a commons of original content.^[35] Rather, a commons should be created, and its presence preserved, through the political process and political activism, not through lawyers writing down new rules.^[35]

Many criticize that four out of the six Creative Commons licenses are neither "free" nor truly "open" because of the restrictions they place on reuse. With the definition of open being "A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike."^[36]

License proliferation and incompatibility

Critics have also argued that Creative Commons worsens license proliferation, by providing multiple licenses that are incompatible.^[37] The Creative Commons website states, "Since each of the six CC licenses functions differently, resources placed under different licenses may not necessarily be combined with one another without violating the license terms."^[38] Works licensed under incompatible licenses may not be recombined in a derivative work without obtaining permission from the license-holder.^[39][40][41] Some worry that "without a common legal framework, works which inadvertently mix licenses may become unshareable."^[42]

The compatibility issue is especially relevant because the most frequently used licenses, the non-free "non-commercial" licenses (CC BY-NC-SA or CC BY-NC-ND) and the open attribution-share-alike license (CC BY-SA, used, e. g., by Wikipedia) cannot be combined.

License misuse

Creative Commons is only a service provider for standardized license text, not a party in any agreement. Abusive users could brand the copyrighted works of legitimate copyright holders with Creative Commons licenses and re-upload these works to the internet. No central database of Creative Commons works is controlling all licensed works and the responsibility of the Creative Commons system rests entirely with those using the licences. ^[43]

While Copyright protection is automatic at the time of creation, registration has legal advantages. The United States Copyright Office keeps a data-base of all registered works, which provides ample evidence for proper litigation.

Although Creative Commons offers multiple licenses for different uses, some critics suggest that the licenses still do not address the differences among the media or among the various concerns that different authors have.^[32] For example, one critic points out that documentary filmmakers could have vastly different concerns from those held by a software designer or a law professor.^[32] Additionally, people wishing to use a Creative Commons-licensed work would have to determine if their particular use is allowed under the license or if they need additional permission.^[32]

Lessig wrote that the point of Creative Commons is to provide a middle ground between two extreme views of copyright protection—one demanding that all rights be controlled, and the other arguing that none should be controlled.^[34] Creative Commons provides a third option that allows authors to pick and choose which rights they want to control and which they want to relinquish.^[34] The multitude of licenses reflects the multitude of rights that can be passed on to subsequent creators.^[34]

The Free Software Foundation

Some of Creative Commons licenses have been denounced by FSF founder Richard Stallman because, he says, they "do not give everyone [...] minimum freedom" "to share, noncommercially, any published work".^[44]

Mako Hill asserts that Creative Commons fails to establish a "base level of freedom" that all Creative Commons licenses must meet, and with which all licensors and users must comply. "By failing to take any firm ethical position and draw any line in the sand, CC is a missed opportunity.... CC has replaced what could have been a call for a world where 'essential rights are unreservable' with the relatively hollow call for 'some rights reserved.'" Some critics fear that Creative Commons' popularity may detract from the more stringent goals of other free content organizations.^[37]

Other criticism of the non-commercial license

Other critics, such as Erik Möller, raise concerns about the use of Creative Commons' non-commercial license. Works distributed under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial license are not compatible with many open-content sites, including Wikipedia, which explicitly allow and encourage some commercial uses. Möller explains that "the people who are likely to be hurt by an -NC license are not large corporations, but small publications like weblogs, advertising-funded radio stations, or local newspapers."^[45]

Lessig responds that the current copyright regime also harms compatibility and that authors can lessen this incompatibility by choosing the least restrictive license.^[46] Additionally, the non-commercial license is useful for preventing someone else from capitalizing on an author's work when the author still plans to do so in the future.^[46]

Debian

The maintainers of Debian, a GNU and Linux distribution known for its rigid adherence to a particular definition of software freedom, rejected even the Creative Commons Attribution License prior to version 3 as incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) due to the license's anti-DRM provisions and its requirement that downstream users remove an author's credit upon request from the author.^[47] However, version 3.0 of the Creative Commons licenses addressed these concerns^[48] and is considered to be compatible with the DFSG.^[49]

Legal cases

Creative Commons have been defended in several jurisdictions.^[50] Some notable cases are:

Dutch tabloid

A Creative Commons license was first tested in court in early 2006, when podcaster Adam Curry sued a Dutch tabloid who published photos without permission from his Flickr page. The photos were licensed under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial license. While the verdict was in favor of Curry, the tabloid avoided having to pay restitution to him as long as they did not repeat the offense. An analysis by Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, director of the Institute for Information Science of the University of Amsterdam and main creator of the Dutch CC license of the decision states, "The Dutch Court's decision is especially noteworthy because it confirms that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it, and bind users of such content even without expressly agreeing to, or having knowledge of, the conditions of the license."^[51][52]

Virgin Mobile

In 2007, Virgin Mobile launched an Australian bus stop ad campaign promoting their cellphone text messaging service using the work of amateur photographers who uploaded their work to Flickr using a Creative Commons-BY (Attribution) license. Users licensing their images this way freed their work for use by any other entity, as long as the original creator was attributed credit, without any other compensation required. Virgin upheld this single restriction by printing a URL leading to the photographer's Flickr page on each of their ads. However, one picture, depicting 15 year-old Alison Chang at a fund-raising carwash for her church,^[53] caused some controversy when she sued Virgin Mobile. The photo was taken by Alison's church youth counselor, Justin Ho-Wee Wong, who uploaded the image to Flickr under the Creative Commons license.^[53] In 2008, the case (concerning personality rights rather than copyright as such) was thrown out of a Texas court for lack of jurisdiction.^[54][55]

CC-Music – Spanish Court (2006)

The issue in this case was not whether the CC license was enforceable, but instead whether the major collecting society in Spain could collect royalties from a bar that played CC-licensed music. In this case, the main Spanish collecting society—Sociedad General de Autores y Editores ("SGAE") sued a disco owner for the public performance of music supposedly managed by the collecting society. However, the Lower Court rejected the collecting society's claims because the owner of the bar proved that the music he was using was not managed by the society, since it was under CC licence.^[56]

See also

• CC PDF Converter
• Comparison of wiki farms
• Copyleft
• Copyright
• Creative Commons licenses
• Free content
• Free Culture movement
• List of works available under a Creative Commons License
• Open content
• Open source
• Public domain
• Share-alike

Notes

1. ^ Creative Commons FAQ
2. ^ "Creative Commons: History". http://creativecommons.org/about/history. Retrieved 2011-10-09. 
3. ^ Plotkin, Hal (2002-2-11). "All Hail Creative Commons Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection". SFGate.com. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL. Retrieved 2011-03-08. 
4. ^ "History of Creative Commons". http://creativecommons.org/about/history/. Retrieved 2009-11-08. 
5. ^ "History of Creative Commons". http://creativecommons.org/about/history/. Retrieved 2010-02-05. 
6. ^ http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/10/05/200-million-creative-commons-photos-and-counting/
7. ^ Broussard, Sharee L. (September 2007). "The copyleft movement: creative commons licensing". Communication Research Trends. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7081/is_3_26/ai_n28457434?tag=content;col1. 
8. ^ Berry & Moss 2005
9. ^ Lessig, Lawrence (2004) (PDF). Free Culture. New York: Penguin Press. p. 8. ISBN 1594200068. http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf. 
10. ^ Ermert, Monika (2004-06-15). "Germany debuts Creative Commons". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/german_creative_commons/. 
11. ^ Lessig, Lawrence (2006). "Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons and the Remix Culture" (mp3). Talking with Talis. http://talk.talis.com/archives/2006/01/lawrence_lessig.html. Retrieved 2006-04-07. 
12. ^ ^{a b c d} "Board of Directors - Creative Commons". http://creativecommons.org/about/people/board. Retrieved 2010-09-26. 
13. ^ Creativecommons.org
14. ^ CCkorea.org
15. ^ Wiki.creativecommons.org
16. ^ ^{a b} "Licenses - Creative Commons". http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
17. ^ "About CC0 — "No Rights Reserved"". http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
18. ^ "Creative Commons GNU LGPL". http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-lgpl. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
19. ^ "Creative Commons GNU GPL". http://creativecommons.org/license/cc-gpl. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
20. ^ "Content Directories". creativecommons.org. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories. Retrieved 2009-04-24. 
21. ^ Creative Commons Case Studies
22. ^ Benenson, Fred (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". creativecommons.org. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12049. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
23. ^ Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License". creativecommons.org. http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/12166. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
24. ^ Cohen, Noam (2009-01-11). "Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/11/technology/jazeera.php. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
25. ^ "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License". Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. http://cc.aljazeera.net/content/launch-press-release. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
26. ^ Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing". paidcontent.co.uk. http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-al-jazeera-offers-creative-commons-video-lessig-lends-backing/. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
27. ^ Ito, Joi (2009-01-14). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". joi.ito.com. http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2009/01/14/al-jazeera-laun.html. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
28. ^ Project
29. ^ Tóth, Péter Benjamin (2009), Creative Humbug, Indicare Project, http://www.indicare.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=118 
30. ^ ^{a b} John Dvorak (July 2005), Creative Commons Humbug, PC Magazine, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1838244,00.asp 
31. ^ ^{a b} Schaeffer, Maritza (2009). "Note and Comment: Contemporary Issues in the Visual Art World: How Useful are Creative Commons Licenses?". Journal of Law and Policy. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7081/is_3_26/ai_n28457434?tag=content;col1. 
32. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Elkin-Koren, Niva (2006). "Exploring Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit". The Future of the Public Domain (P. Bernt Hugenholtz and Lucie Guibault, eds.). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885466. 
33. ^ http://creativecommons.org/about
34. ^ ^{a b c d e} Lessig, Lawrence (2004). "The Creative Commons". 65 Mont. L. Rev. 1. 
35. ^ ^{a b c} Moss, Giles (2005). "On the Creative Commons: A Critique of the Commons Without Commonality". Free Software Magazine. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/commons_without_commonality. 
36. ^ {{cite web |title= Open Definition| url= http://www.opendefinition.org }
37. ^ ^{a b} Benjamin Mako Hill (29 July 2005). "Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement". http://mako.cc/writing/toward_a_standard_of_freedom.html. 
38. ^ CC Learn Explanations: Remixing OER: A guide to License Compatibility, Creative Commons CC Learn, http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cclearn-explanations-cc-license-compatability.pdf, retrieved 29 November 2010 
39. ^ "Can I combine two different Creative Commons licensed works? Can I combine a Creative Commons licensed work with another non-CC licensed work?". FAQ. Creative Commons. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_combine_two_different_Creative_Commons_licensed_works.3F_Can_I_combine_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work_with_another_non-CC_licensed_work.3F. Retrieved 16 September 2009. 
40. ^ "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Retrieved 18 November 2009. 
41. ^ "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Retrieved 18 November 2009. 
42. ^ Michael Fitzgerald (December 2005). "Copyleft Hits a Snag". http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software/wtr_16073,300,p1.html. 
43. ^ Orlowski, Andrew (July 2009). "The Tragedy of the Creative Commons". http://andreworlowski.com/tag/creative-commons/. 
44. ^ Stallman, Richard M.. "Fireworks in Montreal". FSF Blogs. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html. Retrieved 18 November 2009. 
45. ^ Erik Moeller (2006). "The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License". Open Source Jahrbuch. http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software/wtr_16073,300,p1.html. 
46. ^ ^{a b} Lessig, Lawrence (2005). "CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Important Freedoms". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5719. 
47. ^ Evan Prodromou (3 April 2005). "Summary of Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses". debian-legal (mailing list). http://evan.prodromou.name/ccsummary/ccsummary.html. 
48. ^ Garlick, Mia (2007-02-23). "Version 3.0 Launched". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7249. Retrieved 2007-07-05. 
49. ^ "The DFSG and Software Licenses - Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-SA) v3.0". Debian Wiki. https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#CreativeCommonsShare-Alike.28CC-SA.29v3.0. Retrieved 2009-03-16. 
50. ^ ""Creative Commons Case Law"". http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Law. Retrieved 31 Aug 2011. 
51. ^ "Creative Commons License Upheld by Dutch Court". Groklaw. 2006-03-16. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060316052623594. Retrieved 2006-09-02. 
52. ^ ""Creative Commons Licenses Enforced in Dutch Court"". https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5823. Retrieved 31 Aug 2011. 
53. ^ ^{a b} Cohen, Noam. "Use My Photo? Not Without Permission.". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/technology/01link.html. Retrieved 2007-09-25. "One moment, Alison Chang, a 15-year-old student from Dallas, is cheerfully goofing around at a local church-sponsored car wash, posing with a friend for a photo. Weeks later, that photo is posted online and catches the eye of an ad agency in Australia, and the altered image of Alison appears on a billboard in Adelaide as part of a Virgin Mobile advertising campaign." 
54. ^ Evan Brown (January 22, 2009). "No personal jurisdiction over Australian defendant in Flickr right of publicity case". Internet Cases, a blog about law and technology. http://blog.internetcases.com/2009/01/22/no-personal-jurisdiction-over-australian-defendant-in-flickr-right-of-publicity-case/. Retrieved 25 September 2010. 
55. ^ ""Lawsuit Against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons – FAQ"". https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7680. Retrieved 31 Aug 2011. 
56. ^ Mia Garlick (March 23, 2006). "Spanish Court Recognizes CC-Music". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5830. Retrieved 25 September 2010. 

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External links

• Creative Commons home page (English)
• Creative Commons wiki (English) (German) (Spanish) (Catalan) (French) (Hebrew) (Italian) (Portuguese) (Russian)
• Creative Commons Videos with subtitles
• Short Flash animation describing Creative Commons
• Creative Commons Explained: Lawrence Lessig on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos