Creative Commons 4 Educators

D'oh! Gemma stole my idea!

If you'll excuse the redundancy, I want to post another album from Jamendo, because I LOVE this service and think it's doing great things for the artists that are a part of it. I'll use a different license, though.

I really enjoy the album '8-bit lagerfeuer' from pornophonique. It has a German Creative Commons Attribution Non-Derivative Non-Commercial 2.0 license, which means that a person can share the work as long as they attribute the work to pornophonique, do not remix the work, and use it only for non-commercial purposes.

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/7505

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/de/

The album also has a SafeCreative tag that acts like a birth certificate for the album, proving that it was released on 2007-09-01.

http://www.safecreative.org/work/1001185339090

Taking the challenge to keep offering something new, I offer a technical manual at how to hack a PlayStation Eye for use in concert with open source software as an eye-tracking device:

http://fffff.at/eyewriter/The-EyeWriter.pdf

Licensed as: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

This license allows anyone to change and distribute the work, as long as it is attributed to the original author, Q-Branch@Instructables, and for a non-commercial purpose.

There are already a lot of great examples. I would like to being original so I would post an example of a Basque music band named Kerobia. They have published an entire trilogy (3 albums) under a CC-by-nc-sa license. Even more, they have released also, under the same licence, all the albums' art (CD covers, pictures, lyrics, etc.)

In this case a CC-by-nc-sa license allows us to use and reuse the material as long as we give credit to the author (Kerobia), don't use the work for commercial purposes. In case of derivative work we also should redistribute that under the same license.

You cand download all the aforementioned material here:
http://materia.kerobia.com/en/deskargak2

The exact license is quite hidden because you have to download the album and search for the CC logo a little bit in the CD cover (They use a somewhat customized CC logo as you can see here: http://cort.as/0X3w)

Everyone's come up with so many interesting things! This one isn't a new format, but it's a novel:

Cory Doctorow's novel For the win was released last year under the Creative Commons licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). The licence applies only to the text and not the cover image of the book.

The licence means that you can: share (copy, distribute and transmit) the work and remix (adapt) it. The conditions of the licence are that you must acknowledge the author in the way they wish to be acknowledged (but not in a way that suggests they endorse you or your use of the work); you must use it in a noncommercial context; and if you alter the work, you can only distribute the transformed work under the same or similar licence.

There are services on the web to locate IP adresses goegraphically. One is at http://www.wipmania.com and you can go there and see where it thinks you are.

It describes itself this way:
“WorldIP Geolocation Service, Database and Tools Identify exactly where in the world an IP address is located. WorldIP returns precise geographic location of any computer or appliance connected to the Internet based on its IP address alone. No matter where in the world the computer is, and no matter what type of a device the IP address belongs to! WorldIP locates exact geographic location of any Internet-connected PC, laptop, mobile device or appliance with an IP address.”

When we click on “Terms and Conditions” at the bottom of that page, we get a “Terms of Use” doc.
It's at http://www.wipmania.com/terms/
There it says a bunch of things and references some CC licenses.

“1. Content
Content on WIPmania.com is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 3.0 License (CC-BY-NC, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).”
So the content of the Wipmania.com site is licensed for use if credit is given, but not for commercial (whatever that might mean :-)) use. The link takes us to the CC BY-NC 3.0 unported (generally speaking, the international) license. Pretty straightforward CC license.

This service has a database. It is licensed slightly differently. And the site references the CC+ arrangement mechanism.

“2. WorldIP Database
WorldIP Database (country) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License (CC-BY-NC-ND, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)”

So the WorldIP database from WIPmania can be used with attribution, though not for commercial purposes, and no derivative products, products that alter, transform, or build upon the database, can be built. Another common CC license.

Then the doc continues:
“Permissions beyond the scope of this license see below. (Creative Common Plus, http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Ccplus)”

So, the authors/owners of WIPmedia are interested in uses beyond those stated in the above licenses. That's the 'plus' part of the CC Plus arrangement.
The doc goes on to say:
“The Database can be also used for any business purposes for free and without limitation. Restrictions of the Usage of the Database (completely or in parts) are:
- may not be used for creating services and products with remote access to this Database (API),
- may not be also used to develop derivative products for sale.”

There is a bunch more licensing stuff further down that talks about licenses, mostly software licenses, other than CC licenses. But what I found interesting here was the recognition that the CC licenses, while giving some rights to users, do not constrain the authors/copyright owners from adding on other licensing options, or making other licensing arrangements available. That opens up 'dual licensing' arrangement possibilities, say for commercial derivative products, that go beyond the CC licensed uses made available for free.

More at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Ccplus
I tried to find a simple example, like a song author using a BY-NC license and then adding the description of arrangements that could be entered into to allow more permissions. That seems to me to be a simple use case.