Institutional Web Management Workshops
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) licences are part of the movement started by US lawyer Lawrence Lessig that aims to expand the collection of creative work available for others to build upon and share. There are a series of eleven Creative Commons licences available to download from the Web site. They enable copyright holders to allow display, public performance, reproduction and distribution of their work while assigning specific restrictions.
Use of Creative Commons Licences at IWMW
Speakers, workshop facilitators and BarCamp facilitators at the Institutional Web Management Workshop may wish to consider making their presentations and handouts available under a Creative Commons licence.
One licence you might like to consider is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Creative Commons License
One licence you might like to consider is the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
This means that you are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works
Under the following conditions:
- by Attribution
- You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
- Noncommercial
- You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- Share Alike
- If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
The formal legal conditions are described on the Creative Common Web site.
You might also like to have the Digital Code added to your IWMW page.
Caveat
It should be noted that presentations may contain screen images owned by others. Where possible citatations for these images will be provided (in the form of hypertext links to the source Web site).
Further Information
For further information see the Introduction To Creative Commons briefing document published by UKOLN.