Community Meeting Notes (Nov 29, 2017) - Creative Commons Canada

Description

Presenters:  Kelsey Merkley

Come join us for a community meeting to discuss the new Creative Commons Global Community, how to join CC Canada and a licence refresh. An opportunity to hear case studies from IDRC and challenges and opportunities faced using CC Licences and your projects. Finally a discussion on reframing OER as an opportunity to support student mental health in Ontario.

Notes

• Who is a copyright holder? 
  • Copyright is automatic, everyone is a copyright holder.

• Creative Commons && CC Licenses
  • US Based non-profit
  • been around for 16 years
  • 1.2 billions works in the commons
  • Global movement
  • Global network
  • CC Search
    • new tool in beta
    • currently 12 million works
• CC 4.0 
  • you can ask to have your attribution removed if the work isn't be used in a way you like.
  • It's a global license
  • 3 layers to the license
    • legal
    • human readable
    • machine readable
  • CC-0 
    • similar to public domain
• Made with Creative Commons
  • first book