Share your creativity - enable people anywhere to re-use from your work, learn and recreate...or find licensed work to enrich your creations
In a recent post I discussed the licensing of the Outcomes star under creative commons. In this article I examine the more creative areas for your projects.
All of us in the non-profit/charity sector are looking to spread our message in as economic a manner with a greater impact. If you have to do the marketing and need to look for content for your next campaign, why not give and take?
Share your creative wealth and Set your work free to grow some legs & let it travel new routes with creative commons refined copyright license approach, or even find licensed work that you can integrate into your project to really make it fly!!!
It's free and you won't need to hire expensive lawyers, hurrah!
You select the flavour of the license via a click through process and voila, you get a link to the page with the corresponding icon, like the one I recently acquired at the top right hand corner of this page. If you are farming creative snippets go straight to the search section to find the type of media or content that is available. But before you do that find out more by watching the video and checking out the licenses below .
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uTjpghGjjfo
Six types of Creative Commons licenses:
(read below or go straight to the summary page -
http://creativecommons.org/license/)
1.Attribution
(Gents toilet like icon):
All creative commons licences require attribution, this means that others may share your work as long as the credit you.
2. Attribution ShareAlike
(Gents toilet like icon & circular arrow to left):
Adds to attribution the condition that any derivative works fall under the same license conditions as the original.
3. Attribution no Derivatives
(Gents toilet like icon & an equals sign):
Adds to attribution the condition that no derivative works can be made from the work. In other words, you could include and build upon the work without altering the original. Say you can a 'diagram' or 'chart' within a report as long as you attributed the work.
4. Attribution Noncommercial
(Gents toilet like icon & $ with a stripe):
Adds to attribution the condition that those reusing the work cannot do so in terms of profiting commercially from the work. The interested parties may have to contact the license holder to re-negotiate the license and work something out.
5. Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike
(Gents toilet like icon, $ with a stripe & circular arrow to left ):
Adds to attribution the condition that those reusing the work cannot do so in terms of profiting commercially from the work and that the new work that has built upon has to be released under the same licensing conditions if the party interested in the work is to use it.
6. Attribution Noncommercial No derivatives
(Gents toilet like icon, $ with a stripe & an equals sign)
Adds to attribution the conditions that those reusing the work cannot do so in terms of profiting commercially from the work and that no derivative works can be made from the work. In other words, you could include and build upon the work without altering the original. Say you can a 'diagram' or 'chart' within a report as long as you attributed the work. And on top of that those reusing the work cannot do so in terms of profiting commercially from the work.
You can see as you go down the licenses the levels of restriction that you can
apply.
There are literally millions of people already sharing their work to be remixed.Check out the video about the general creative commons licenses.
Farming for content to use in a project?...well -you can search for it
If you are farming for content and looking to remix or be rmixed, then search the creative commons website. The CC search engine searches various platforms that have integrated CC licensing for their contributors to release works under the CC license.
If music is your thing (hey you fantastic guitarist from Rod/zio) go to ccmixter.
If it can be made to work for the music industry, as some artists are embracing,imagine what it could do for you? Check out the video, it even includes shorts snippets to video licensing.
http://www.youtube.com/v/1e2WMlL6jlI&hl=en&fs=1
http://www.youtube.com/v/tBnJBKnibyc&hl=en&fs=1
You can also see a videos about creative commons in the following languages:
Spanish
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo3KMkOETY
[for my friend Carlos Lopez G & his victory over HIV]
Portuguese (brasilian)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w9xPRFCk63Y
[for the talented brasilian guitarist from Rodzio - Northampton]
Apologies for the bias but these additional languages are for my native fellow south & Central Americans.
Reference(s) Resource(s)
Creative Commons website
http://creativecommons.org/
