Welcome. This module is Intro to Creative Commons for Extension Master Gardeners.
If you find this information useful, you are absolutely welcome to use the information
and the links provided. You don't need to be an extension master gardener.
Hi I'm Inga Haugen, I am your librarian. I am connected with Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension and so when
I refer to master gardeners in this presentation I will mean Virginia Extension Master Gardeners.
but again anybody that finds this information useful is welcome to take it and work with it.
So what are creative commons licenses? These licenses are options that you can put on top
of things that are currently copyrighted and enable use and reuse and sharing. If you are
looking at a creative commons license because somebody else has put that license on there.
It allows you to understand their intent for reuse and sharing capacities. So creative commons is a
way that allows us internationally to find, share, remix and create legally which is pretty nifty.
So at this point in time, Let's look at more specifics
of the creative commons licensing structure. The information that you've just seen on
the previous screen and on this screen is part of a brochure pulled together
by my colleagues within the university libraries and it in and of itself is available through
creative commons so this brochure is available for you to use and share with anyone else.
And these symbols that you see on the left hand side are the building blocks that can be used to
structure these licenses. So let's break it down to be able to see what each one really means.
In the first license, that's structured here which is in the middle panel at the top there's a little
round button uh looking thing a little round circle that says CC. So CC within that circle is
saying that it is a creative commons license and then to the right of that CC is the little person
with a BY underneath and so the words to be able to talk about this license there list this license
is attribution or you can call it CCBY some people say CC BY. The idea is to be able to give credit
to the person who's created it. So you're saying who it is by so when this license is visible on
a piece of work that you'd like to be able to use the person who's created it says, you are welcome
to do so as long as you give credit to me. So if I have created a work and I put a CCBY license
on there I'm saying, Go ahead use it. It's going to be great. Just say that Inga Haugen has created it.
At the bottom of this brochure, there is some information. Excuse me. That gives specific
information around that to be able to remind you of exactly what that means
and so I will read that out loud which says, what does it mean to give appropriate credit
if supplied so if you know it you must provide the name of the creators and a link to the material
and a name and a link to the license. So if I put a CCBY license on there
then it means that you should share that information as well and a link if you can.
If you want more details about any of these things,
the words in red can be copy and pasted and then they will take you to information online.
For additional information, I also welcome you to reach out to me if you have further questions and
I'll do what I can to help you work with this. Now looking at another license to be able to
see what we have available. If we go in the middle column to the second item, down it has CC so
the circle with the CC in it. It has BY but they've added something. Here they have the share alike
So this share alike. This circle arrow says that you are welcome to remix, tweak, build upon, redistribute
as long as you license the new creations with the same license that I have put on the original work.
I think that's kind of fair. Saying the usage that you had available
to you is the usage that you should give for other folk. So that's what the share alike talks about.
to be able to speak to the other two symbols that we work with here that can be mixed and put
together in different ways. The no symbol over the dollar sign means non-commercial that you may not
use that piece of that resource whatever it is in a monetary capacity you can't receive compensation
for it so it has to be a non-commercial way of working with things and for most master gardeners
that's going to be how we are working because it is an aspect where we are teaching educating
and sharing resources and we're not asking for any compensation in that space so if you see
a license that has non-commercial very often most of the time that will work for you.
The equal sign in the little circle says, no derivative works so in that case the
person who has created it says you're welcome to use what I've created but I don't want you
to remix it and I don't want you to change how I've put things together. One more thing to be
able to look at that does not have the cc in a circle is at the bottom of the page in the middle
and it actually has a C with a NO sign over it and that means that it doesn't have a creative commons
license, it doesn't have a copy right on it. It is in the public domain. The other way the public
domain can be shown is within the little circle, there's a zero. So those licenses also let you know
that you are welcome to use that material across the board. So again, the piece the thing that you
see on the screen right now is uh part of a brochure and this is also part of a brochure
and this brochure um is linked in the powerpoint presentation that is connected
with this module and so you will have access to that link to be able to print this, share it,
download it for yourself, use it across the board and it is available to you to use and reference.
Now that we have looked at what a creative commons license might be and some of the ways to be able
to consider working with it. Let's use a real-life example so I'm going out to the browser that I have
And I'm starting at google and I'm going to pretend I'm a master gardener that wants to give
a talk on butterfly gardens and I would like to be able to have a picture of a butterfly
and so I'm searching butterfly and within this search I can then click on images
and wow there's a whole bunch of images of butterflies for us to be able to work
with at that point in time. But how do we know which images we can legally
use one of the ways to be able to work with this if you go into tools
then more things will come forward and then under usage rights how we will use the material what
rights we have to use the material so usage rights we can look for creative commons licenses. One of
the nice things about creative commons licenses is that, we as humans can look at the little pictures
or the words that say the same thing to be able to understand what we are allowed to use. There's
metadata that's associated with those little pictures that allows computers to understand what
creative commons licenses are as well and they can sort them for us so now at this point in time
we should be able to use these pictures because they are under a creative commons license.
So for example, we're going to look at this one in particular and where you can go all the way
to the place where the picture is set and we'll just double check that it indeed
is a ccby license and so we can give attribution by sharing who has created it and the creator here
is Judy Gallagher. See Judy Gallagher. It's pretty cool.
And so then you can use this picture and you're good to go.
It's pretty neat across the board right.
Now it doesn't have to just be images most of the time, I've had folk ask about images when
they're asking about copyright and creative commons licensing when master gardeners have
approached me which is why I went immediately to images but creative commons licensing and
copyright applies to other types of resources as well. So know that it works in different spaces
to be able to show you another place to learn more and have some resources handed to you.
I have brought you to a research guide that has been created by the librarians at Virginia Tech
and this is for everybody these research guides are open to anybody who's able to get online
and we want to make this information available as broadly as possible and I think this can be
useful for you. So this will repeat many of the things that I talked about today. We tried to
have it gathered in one space that so when you're working on things you'll be reminded of what this
module has gone over and at any point in time you are welcome to contact me with questions.
And of course, there's other librarians and other cooperative extension folk
that can help and remind you about how to be able to work with things
so I won't go over this very specifically because I do think that the text is a little bit small
for the way that I need to be recording this and that it's something that works very well
for you to go through yourself but I will say that within this space there are many different
resources and places to go look for images on
this site and this link is included in the links in the power point package as well. I will say that
the one thing I will deliberately bring to your attention is this very
last link right here. Permission is required if you try to use the images in image base
and image base is a collection of images that have been taken at Virginia Tech with
Virginia Tech folk with Virginia Cooperative Extension folk and it's the images that we have
created and curated over the years before there were any creative commons licensing and so we
couldn't ask the people who have donated them and brought them into the library um
what their thoughts were around them so there's a few more steps to be able
to use any of the images in that space but there's some really nifty things in image base.
So now, I will show you one more point of resource so this site is the creative commons site.
Creative commons is a non-profit organization. They're doing real good work. I trust them. They
are very well known to the academic librarian committee to librarians worldwide. The creative
commons licensing is something that builds on copyright whether the copyright is within the
US legal tradition or other legal traditions and it is something that is pretty nifty.
And if you care to be able to put a creative commons license on your own work
because you guys are making awesome things and you're doing great presentations and posters and
helping people out so if you're interested in putting a creative commons license on
your own work there's a way to help walk you through all of the choices that you should make
to be able to get your license. So instead of having to puzzle it out yourself to be able
to know which little image to put where if you walk through this tool it will create for you
the license that will do what you want it to do and it will talk you through in plain English.
And it will also give you the opportunity to create the metadata to allow computers to
be able to read your intent with the license that you choose so this tool is pretty nifty.
So at this point in time I will remind you that we have gone over what creative
commons licensing is that I am your librarian. I'm here to help.
and that I hope if you have any questions you will reach out to me so here are some of those links
that I had promised you and again thanks for your time I appreciate what you're doing.