Timothy Vollmer is an Open Policy Fellow at Creative Commons, a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco with 30 employees worldwide. Creative Commons provides free legal and technical tools that allow creators to publish their works with more flexible copyright terms than standard copyright. These tools include human-readable deeds and lawyer-readable legal codes that accompany works with a Creative Commons license, granting specific permissions for how others can use and share the works. Over 350 million items have been licensed under Creative Commons licenses in 52 jurisdictions worldwide.

1. & the culture of
OPENNESS
Timothy Vollmer
Open Policy Fellow
Creative Commons

2. Is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation
headquartered in San Francisco
with 30 employees around the
world

3. Makes sharing easy,
legal and scalable

4. Offers free legal and technology
tools that allow creators to publish
their works on more flexible terms
than standard copyright

5. The Stack

6. Creative Commons Knowledge and Culture
HTTP/The Web Documents
TCP/IP The Network
Ethernet Computers

7. A simple, standardized
way to grant copyright
permissions to your
creative work.

8. Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution Share Alike
Non-Commercial No Derivative Works

9. Step 2: Receive a License

10. CC Licenses are built on
top of copyright law

11. Human
Readable Deed

12. Lawyer
Readable Legal
Code

13. <span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<span rel="dc:type" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/
Text" property="dc:title">My Photo</span> by
<a rel="cc:attributionURL"
property="cc:attributionName" href="http://joi.ito.com/
my_photo">Joi Ito</a>
Machine is licensed under a
Readable <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
License</a>.
Metadata
<span rel="dc:source" href="http://fredbenenson.com/
photo"/>
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be
available at <a rel="cc:morePermissions" href="http://
ozmo.com/revenue_sharing_agreement">OZMO</a>.</
span>
</span>

14. 52 Jurisdictions Ported

15. Over 350 million items

16. 133+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr

17. Whoʼs doing OPEN?

25. Flickr: Francisco Diez

28. www.plos.org
Research
Made Public
PLoS is the world’s
leading open-access
publisher of peer-reviewed
medical research.
www.plosmedicine.org www.plosbiology.org

31. digital media =
online, free, limits

32. OER =
customizable, shareable

33. Language barriers

38. Technical barriers

39. Flickr: sukisuki

40. Flickr: dr-chuck

41. Cultural barriers

42. Flickr: Open.Michigan

43. Discovery barriers

44. Media used to be a
delivery problem...

45. ...now it's a
discovery problem

47. Changing Teaching and
Learning Landscape

54. Flickr: Howard Gees

55. Flickr: Darwin Bell