Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, HOWTO on Aug 29th, 2008
Creative Commons offers two licenses with the Share Alike requirement: Attribution-Share Alike (BY-SA), and Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike (BY-NC-SA).
The purpose of a Share Alike license is to ensure that all future adaptations and derivatives of a work carry the same permissions as the original. This way, no matter what new forms the work takes on, it will [...]
OCLC has launched the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.
From the press release:
The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry is a community working together to build a union catalog of copyright evidence based on WorldCat, which contains more than 100 million bibliographic records describing items held in thousands of libraries worldwide. In addition to the WorldCat metadata, the [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, HOWTO on Aug 21st, 2008
In addition to Attribution, some Creative Commons licenses limit the permissions they grant to non-commercial uses only.
The Human Readable summary of the NC license says,
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
The relevant language in the Legal Deed says,
You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, HOWTO on Aug 15th, 2008
All Creative Commons licenses require future users to attribute the works they use:
You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)
The Creative Commons FAQ has this to say about attributing CC-licensed works:
If [...]
Posted in Open Access on Aug 11th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago Peter Suber pointed to some new “teaser cards” released by the Scholarly Communication & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) intended to promote Open Access among college students. The brightly colored cards are meant to be distributed wherever students hang out, “in library carrels, around the coffee shop, or around the department,” [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism on Aug 10th, 2008
It was only a matter of time before I switched the Creative Commons license on this blog from Attribution-Noncommercial to simple Attribution. And now that time has come.
I mulled over most of the reasons for doing so several months ago, but the final push came when my colleague Ivan Chew changed the license on [...]
Posted in Copyright, Creative Commons Evangelism on Aug 8th, 2008
Part two of my amazing trip to Malaysia and Singapore culminated in a visit to the Singapore National Library, where I gave a presentation to librarians from the National Library Board and the Singapore Library Association.
It was yet another version of my “Introducing Creative Commons: Why you should love it as much as I [...]
