supports What Is CreatIve Commons? If you’re an artist, student, educator, scientist, or other Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works to creator looking for content that you can freely and legally increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and use, there is a giant pool of CC-licensed creativity available scientific content) available in “the commons”—the body of to you. there are many millions of works—from songs and work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, videos to scientific and academic content—that you can use, repurposing, and remixing. use under the terms of their copyright licenses. hoW Does CreatIve Commons Work? Who Uses CreatIve Commons LICenses? Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use legal tools Major media and technology companies, leading that give everyone from individual “user generated content” universities, top scientists, and world-renowned artists creators to major companies and institutions a simple, all take advantage of the Creative Commons approach standardized way to pre-clear usage rights to creative work to copyright. Most importantly, there are millions of to which they own the copyright. CC licenses let people “regular” people around the world who use CC licenses to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all help increase the depth, breadth, and quality of creativity rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.” that is available to everyone for free and legal use. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copy Why Does merLot sUpport CreatIve Commons? right. they apply on top of copyright, so you can modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. Creative Commons MerLot recognizes the effort and commitment of the many collaborated with copyright experts all around the world to different kinds of MerLot community members who partici ensure that their licenses work globally. pate in building and sustaining the repository and services that comprise MerLot. MerLot has adopted the intellec Getting a Creative Commons license is easy. Visit their Web tual property protection policies of Creative Commons to: site at creativecommons.org and click “License Your Work.” Based on your answers to a few quick questions, they’ll give 1) encourage creators of online materials to share you a license that clearly communicates to people what you their work with others who might wish to reuse will and won’t allow them to do with your creativity. It only the materials in creative ways; and takes a few minutes, and it’s totally free. their Web site also 2) ensure that contributions of online materials by contains an faQ that answers many of the most common MerLot members to the MerLot community are questions about how CC licenses work. protected from misuse and abuse. What Can CreatIve Commons Do for me? MerLot support includes: If you’ve created something and want people to know 1) a detailed description of Creative Commons that you’re happy to have them share, use, and build upon integration into the MerLot acceptable Use Policy your work, you should consider publishing under a Creative (http://taste.merlot.org/acceptableuserpolicy.html); Commons license. CC’s legal infrastructure gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to only pre-clear 2) Incorporation of CC license metadata for all materials noncommercial uses) and protects the people who use submitted to the MerLot repository; and your work (so that they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the terms you 3) Invitations to all authors of materials in the repository have specified). to use CC licenses for all their creative online work. More InforMatIon email: webmaster@merlot.org Visit http://www.merlot.org or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Share, reuse, and remix - legally. except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under www.creativecommons.org http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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