1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,490 [male speaker] You've probably seen symbols like these 2 00:00:02,690 --> 00:00:05,480 at some point during your adventures on the Internet 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,300 or perhaps you've already heard of Creative Commons. 4 00:00:09,390 --> 00:00:13,520 Creative Commons is a bit like Open Source for stuff that isn't software. 5 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:20,620 It's a way to license a website, a blog, a book, a video, a movie, a song, a photograph—even a text book— 6 00:00:20,790 --> 00:00:24,730 with that same spirit of openness and freedom that Open Source provides, 7 00:00:25,660 --> 00:00:30,360 but unlike Open Source, there are only a few types of Creative Commons licenses. 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,240 They're very easy to understand when you encounter them 9 00:00:33,350 --> 00:00:38,870 and it's easy to pick out a license for your own work should Creative Commons be the way you decide to go. 10 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:45,800 Each Creative Commons license is a combination in one way or another of four key ideas. 11 00:00:46,910 --> 00:00:49,050 The first is attribution. 12 00:00:49,670 --> 00:00:56,160 Attribution just means that you give the creator of the work that you're using credit in whatever you make with it. 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,160 So if you use a Creative Commons licensed photograph on your website 14 00:01:00,650 --> 00:01:04,750 you have to make sure you're giving the original photographer credit on that page. 15 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:11,210 You'll often see people giving credit to the authors of Creative Commons music in YouTube videos. That's attribution. 16 00:01:12,330 --> 00:01:14,740 Next is non-commercial. 17 00:01:15,170 --> 00:01:21,880 Anything licensed with a non-commercial stipulation just means that you can't use that work in for-profit projects. 18 00:01:22,650 --> 00:01:28,070 If you run a non-profit, or your app is free, or you're making a video that you're not charging anything for 19 00:01:28,570 --> 00:01:33,220 you'll probably be fine using non-commercial licensed works in your own project. 20 00:01:34,150 --> 00:01:37,980 Most Creative Commons licensed stuff—photos, books, videos, whatever— 21 00:01:38,450 --> 00:01:40,790 carries this non-commercial stipulation. 22 00:01:41,390 --> 00:01:43,690 Then we have no derivatives. 23 00:01:44,220 --> 00:01:47,850 We mentioned derivative works when we were talking about Open Source and WordPress. 24 00:01:48,420 --> 00:01:54,350 This just means that if you're going to use, again, a photograph carrying that no derivatives requirement 25 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,030 you can't alter the photograph at all. 26 00:01:57,220 --> 00:02:01,370 You can use it, just don't crop it, retouch it, turn it upside down—any of that. 27 00:02:02,010 --> 00:02:04,570 Use of the photo as it is or not at all. 28 00:02:05,530 --> 00:02:07,980 And finally, there's ShareAlike. 29 00:02:08,630 --> 00:02:12,570 This should also remind you of that GPL Open Source software license. 30 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:15,960 If you're going to make use of a ShareAlike work in your project 31 00:02:16,310 --> 00:02:19,800 your project has to be shared with a similar Creative Commons license. 32 00:02:20,790 --> 00:02:24,130 So those are the four parts of Creative Commons licenses. 33 00:02:24,550 --> 00:02:31,430 Not every license includes all four, but now that we've learned each part the names of them should be pretty self-explanatory. 34 00:02:31,890 --> 00:02:40,430 Attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives requires credit, not-for-profit use, and no alterations to the work you're using. That's it. 35 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:46,090 As long as you can abide by those terms of the license you're welcome to use the photo, the song, the text— 36 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,770 whatever it might be free of charge in your own project. 37 00:02:50,930 --> 00:02:55,210 Attribution, non-commercial, ShareAlike drops the no derivatives requirement 38 00:02:55,470 --> 00:02:59,170 and asks you to share your project via Creative Commons as well. 39 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:05,420 Attribution, non-commercial has only those two stipulations; credit and not-for-profit use. 40 00:03:05,970 --> 00:03:12,700 Attribution, no derivatives drops that non-commercial requirement, but doesn't allow for altering of the work. 41 00:03:13,050 --> 00:03:19,250 Attribution, ShareAlike also allows for commercial usage but requires the sharing via a similar license. 42 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,380 And finally, there's just plain attribution. 43 00:03:23,190 --> 00:03:28,710 Credit is the only requirement for an attribution license, otherwise you can use that work however you like. 44 00:03:29,310 --> 00:03:32,360 In just a little over a decade since Creative Commons was founded 45 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,390 there has been an explosion of CC-licensed content around the world. 46 00:03:36,830 --> 00:03:41,410 Flickr, for example, host millions of Creative Commons-licensed photographs. 47 00:03:42,030 --> 00:03:45,610 YouTube has an option to add Creative Commons licenses to videos. 48 00:03:46,330 --> 00:03:52,480 News Network AlJazeera licenses a lot of their footage and photographs via a simple attribution only license. 49 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:56,150 Tons of great stuff on the web utilizes Creative Commons. 50 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:04,800 Popular web comic XKCD, the Free Music Archive, Boing-Boing, many of the albums on SoundCloud and Bandcamp, 51 00:04:05,730 --> 00:04:12,070 the OpenStreetMap project—even Nine Inch Nails—have released music and artwork under Creative Commons licenses. 52 00:04:12,620 --> 00:04:16,510 There's just a ton of places to find great stuff for your projects, 53 00:04:16,510 --> 00:04:19,130 and I've included some great links in the teacher's notes below. 54 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:25,880 There is actually one more Creative Commons license, and it's the elusive CC zero. 55 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,730 It's just what it sounds like—no rights reserved. 56 00:04:30,030 --> 00:04:33,460 If you want to release something directly into the public domain 57 00:04:33,810 --> 00:04:36,980 no permission or credit required to do anything with your work, 58 00:04:37,450 --> 00:04:41,830 relinquish all copyright, a CC zero license is a good way to do it. 59 00:04:42,470 --> 00:04:47,280 It's not very common, but there are some artists who use it, so you might actually run into it someday. 60 00:04:48,770 --> 00:04:54,380 Creative Commons is a great way not only to find photos for your site, music or sound effects for you app, or more, 61 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:58,520 it's also a great way to share the work that you create as well. 62 00:04:59,020 --> 00:05:04,710 Whether you're making an app, a website, a blog, or even just taking photos or recordings songs of your own 63 00:05:05,310 --> 00:05:09,520 you might be interested in releasing what you make under a Creative Commons license 64 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,300 with whatever requirements you're comfortable with. 65 00:05:12,670 --> 00:05:18,200 We'll talk more in the next stage about how to both protect and share what you create.