Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, HOWTO on Mar 18th, 2010
In general, I treat this blog as a professional outlet and try to keep my personal life out of it, but I had little online colliding of worlds recently and I decided it’s worth sharing here as well, with apologies for the blurring lines. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Creative Commons licenses [...]
Posted in Conferences, HOWTO, Libraries, Musings on Nov 13th, 2008
Phil Michel and Michelle Springer from the Library of Congress presented on the LOC’s Flickr Pilot Project. The Library of Congress was the first cultural heritage institution to partner with Flickr to share photographic content and invite user participation and comments. With 15 institutions participating in what is now the Flickr Commons, it is an [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, HOWTO on Oct 20th, 2008
Creative Commons offers two licenses with the No Derivatives requirement: Attribution-No Derivatives (BY-ND), and Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND).
No Derivatives licenses permit people to copy and distribute a work as long as they do not change it or create derivative works. These licenses ensure that no matter how many times a work is copied and shared, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
