CiL session: Creative Commons

Speaker: Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
(came in late)

CC licenses probably built into things you are using (flickr, slide share, webjunction), if not can go to cc website, fill out form and get code for the logo on your site.
Firefox plug in for CC.

cc add in for Microsoft Office--places logo in your doc for you.

Check out Corey Doctorow's stuff (writes scifi novels and can download them for free from his website. Piracy is not my problem, Obscurity is my problem.)

Look up "The Flickr Song" on YouTube (used cc liscense for material)

Find article: "Why photographers hate creative commons"

Problems with cc:
irrevocable (just like traditional copyright)--have to be sure at the front end
negative market effect--cc doesn't expire (traditional is essentially perpetual anyway)
What is non-commercial? What if someone uses your image on an ad to make them money?
Unintended use-- What if your photo ends up on a giant billboard for a herpes commercial?
Right of publicity--subject's right to privacy (photo of you, owner places under cc, and then it's used somewhere where subject doesn't want it to be)

What you can do:
1. License your work, share you content, make it official up front
2. build cc into your library catalog (e.g. pdfs of derivatives in catalog for cc licensed content)
find: "Tips for conference bloggers" free pdf
3: collection development policy?
4. cataloging-who is the publisher when the author puts on own website? what's the location of publication?

Nine inch nails just released several cds of some of which is available free with a cc liscense. Can someone download it, catalog it, and make available?

Session slides from Michael's talk.

How do you get people over the perception that free = not as good? Show them good free stuff, images, music...prove them wrong!

Great session! Glad I switched from a boring one.