Title: Collection and Remix works and their License considerations

Authors: Sushumna Rao (Author)
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Welcome to this small interactive Guide on using CC Licenses and CC-Licensed Works.

We already explored six types of CC Licenses and the permissions they give others to reuse the works with CC licenses.

Now we will explore:-

A description of collections and Licensing considerations for collections

A description of remixes / adapted works / derivative works and Licensing considerations for the same

This work is prepared as part of CC Certificate Program by Mrs. Sushumna Rao and  licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Collection and Remix works CC Licenses

Welcome

A small interactive Guide on using CC Licenses and CC-Licensed Works

In this guide we will explore:-

- A description of collections and Licensing considerations for collections
- A description of remixes / adapted works / derivative works and Licensing considerations for the same

Click on Continue button on top right corner to proceed.

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Anatomy of a CC License

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Here is a small guide on anatomy of Creative Commons License.

Please use the left menu to navigate between the slides.

This is created as part of my assignments in Creative Commons Certificate course.

Six CC Licenses

The Six Creative Commons Licenses

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Attribution

CC BY-NC: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

It includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

CC BY: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

CC BY includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator

Attribution, Non Commercial

CC BY-NC-SA: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
SA  – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

Attribution,NonCommercial,ShareAlike

Attribution, ShareAlike

CC BY-SA: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

CC BY-SA includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
SA  – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

CC BY-NC-ND: This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
ND  – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

CC BY-ND: This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

CC BY-ND includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
ND  – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

Attribution,No Derivatives

Attribution,NonCommercial,No Derivatives

Four License elements

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The Four License Elements

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Attribution Required

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ShareAlike ( Give derivatives with similar license)

Commercial use is not allowed

Use as is, no derivatives allowed

Three Layers of the CC Licenses

The Three Layers of CC Licenses

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This contains the “lawyer-readable” terms and conditions that are legally enforceable in court.

These are the web pages that lay out the key license terms in so-called “human-readable” terms. The deeds are not legally enforceable but instead summarize the legal code.

Metadata - “machine readable” version of the license. When this metadata is attached to CC licensed works, someone searching for a CC licensed work using a search engine (e.g., Google advanced search) can more easily discover CC licensed works.

Two public Domain tools

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The Two Public Domain Tools

Creative Commons public domain tools

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CC0 enables creators to dedicate their works to the worldwide public domain to the greatest extent possible. (CC0 has other legal mechanisms included to help deal with this situation where it applies.  Read FAQ about CC zero

cc zero

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CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and database protection, and the exclusive rights automatically granted to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.

The Public Domain Mark is a label used to mark works known to be free of all copyright restrictions. Unlike CC0, the Public Domain Mark has no legal effect when applied to a work.

Guide to using public domain tools

Exceptions / Limitations

Exceptions

Exceptions

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CC Licenses work within copyright, they do not affect fair use or fair dealing. Also when a work is marked as Public Domain, it's terms end when copyright ends.

Collection and Remix

Collection or Compilation Definition

Collection Definition

Distinguishing Adaptations / Remixes vs. Collections

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As per dictionary Collection or compilation is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired.

A collection compiles different works together while keeping them organized as distinct separate objects. An example of a collection would be a book that compiles openly-licensed essays from different sources. When you create a collection, you must provide attribution and licensing information about the individual works in your collection. This gives the public the information they need to understand who created what and which license terms apply to specific content.

For example:

In the next slide you will see various types of berry pictures as part of "Dialog Cards" - a language learning exercise. Each picture have it's own copyright and they are from different sources. But, the compiler copyright is only to the "Dialog Cards", but it (compiler's copyright) does not extend to the individual images used. All those images are protected by their existing copyrights. Which means, in a collection's license,  he rights and protections expressed in that license only apply to the content that isn't already protected by copyright.

Example of a Collection

License Details

Images used in ths collection are Mango(CC BY 2.0), Banana(CC BY NC SA 2.0), Guava(CC BY 2.0), Orange (CC BY 2.0), and Jamun (CC BY 2.5) are from OpenVerse (formerly known as CC Search)

Telugu fruits names

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Learn Telugu fruits names

Fruits names are presented in Telugu. You can turn the cards to see the correct English translations.

Q: మామిడి పండు
A: Mango fruit

Q: అరటి పండు
A: Banana fruit

Q: జామ పండు
A: Guava fruit

Q: నేరేడు పండు
A: Jamun fruit

Q: కమలా పండు
A: Orange fruit

Credits: Mangoes!; by Joyosity; source https://openverse.org/image/5fb7404c-6bcd-4a09-b2b2-21c7859bdc29?q=Mango; licence CC BY 2.0

Credits: Banans; by Fernando Stankuns; source https://openverse.org/image/e8066c28-97c7-4e91-91ff-1e93d3983db9?q=Banana; licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Credits: India - Koyambedu Market - Guava 01; by Mckaysavage; source https://openverse.org/image/ed4a44bc-b875-4356-bd45-ee914b81ce38?q=Guava; licence CC BY 2.0

Credits: Ripe jamun fruits; by Rajesh dangi at English Wikipedia; source https://openverse.org/image/c5fc4f8f-3091-4953-8ec0-b40afd59b04e?q=Jamun%20Fruit; licence CC BY 2.5

Credits: Oranges are not the only fruit; by psd; source https://openverse.org/image/6000de02-0598-45f9-9fb1-cb5539cf258a?q=Orange%20fruit; licence CC BY 2.0

Licensing considerations for collections

License Considerations-Collection

A collection is not an adaptation- Creative Commons

Distinguishing Adaptations / Remixes vs. Collections

Credits: by Creative Commons (Author); source https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/4-4-remixing-cc-licensed-work/; licence CC BY 4.0; Used the text and presented in a list form.

When you create a collection, with various CC licensed works you must,

- Provide attribution and licensing information about the individual works in your collection
- You may have a separate copyright of your own to the collection work. However, your copyright only extends to the new contributions you made to the work
- You are not required to apply a ShareAlike-license to your overall work if you are using an SA-licensed work within it
- The ND restriction does not prevent you from using an ND-licensed work; and
  - The ND licenses do allow you to reproduce the material in unmodified form together with other material in a collection
- You can combine that CC-licensed material with other work as long as you attribute and comply with the NonCommercial restriction if it applies.

Licensing considerations Table

Licensing considerations for collections

License Considerations-Collection

Frequently Asked Questions - from CC

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Here is a table below indicating what type of CC-licensed works you may incorporate into collections licensed for commercial and noncommercial uses.

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[Image: When you include CC-licensed content in a collection, you still must adhere to the license conditions governing your use of the material incorporated. For example, material under any of the Creative Commons NonCommercial licenses cannot be used commercial]

Practice Exercise-I

Exercise-I

True/False Question

Q: For example, you have to compile photographs from a photo sharing website under a BY-SA 4.0 license and create a database and it is publicly distributed, CC could license the collection as a whole under a CC BY license.
A: true
If right: But the photographs would continue to be licensed under BY-SA 4.0
If wrong: CC licenses do not require the collection or the compilation itself to be made available under an SA license, even though each individual work is still licensed individually under an SA license and if they were modified by the distributor the modified photo would need to be licensed under the same terms.

2 Branching Question

Q: What happens when you create an adaptation of a CC licensed work or works?
- If the underlying work is licensed under a NoDerivatives license, you can make and use changes privately but you cannot share your adaptation with others, as discussed (Well Done, you know the General rules to follow while adapting CC licensed works.)
- You need to consider license compatibility. License compatibility is the term used to address the issue of which types of licensed works can be adapted into a new work. (Well Done, you know the General rules to follow while adapting CC licensed works.)
- You need not have to attribute the original work when you create an adaptation. (Please go through adaptation chart and Remix chart to understand General rules while adapting a work.)

Adaptation / Remix

Remix / Adaptation

Licensing considerations for collections

Adaptations

Remix / Adaptation

An adaptation / remix mixes material from different sources to create a wholly new creation: - Creative Commons

What is an adaptation?

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An adaptation is a work based on one or more pre-existing works. What constitutes an adaptation depends on applicable law, however translating a work from one language to another or creating a film version of a novel are generally considered adaptations.

In order for an adaptation to be protected by copyright, most national laws require the creator of the adaptation to add original expression to the pre-existing work. Consult your jurisdiction’s copyright law for more information.

Remix / Adaptation

Licensing considerations for collections

Adaptations

Remix / Adaptation

Distinguishing Adaptations / Remixes vs. Collections

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The terms remix, derivative work, and adaptation have similar meaning and synonymus in nature. When you want to adapt If you want to translate a book with CC BY license and launch you must attribute all the works used in the book individually and derivated work text book licvense you can specify separately. Remember that your rights in your adaptation only apply to your own contributions.

- If the underlying work is licensed under a NoDerivatives license, you can make and use changes privately but you cannot share your adaptation with others, as discussed above.
- If the underlying work is licensed under a ShareAlike license, then ShareAlike applies to your adaptation and you must license it under the same or a compatible license. More on this below.
- You need to consider license compatibility. License compatibility is the term used to address the issue of which types of licensed works can be adapted into a new work.
- In all cases, you have to attribute the original work when you create an adaptation.

Adapters License Chart

Licensing considerations for collections

Adaptations

Remix / Adaptation   - Licensing considerations

You need to consider what options you have for licensing the copyright you have in your adaptation; this is called the Adapter’s License.

Here is the Adapters License Chart chart.

[Image: The chart below details the CC license(s) you may use as your adapter’s license. When creating an adaptation of material under the license identified in the lefthand column, you may license your contributions to the adaptation under one of the licenses in]

Adapters License explained

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When creating an adaptation of material under the license identified in the lefthand column, you may license your contributions to the adaptation under one of the licenses indicated on the top row if the corresponding box is green.

Adapters License explained

CC does not recommend using a license if the corresponding box is yellow, although doing so is technically permitted by the terms of the license. If you do, you should take additional care to mark the adaptation as involving multiple copyrights under different terms so that downstream users are aware of their obligations to comply with the licenses from all rights holders.

Adapters License explained

Dark gray boxes indicate those licenses that you may not use as your adapter’s license.

Remix Chart

Licensing considerations for collections

Adaptations

Remix  Chart  - Licensing considerations

Here is the remix chart below.

To use the chart, find a license that applies to one of the works on the left column and the license that applies to the other work on the top right row. If there is a check mark in the box where that row and column intersect, then the works under those two licenses can be remixed. If there is an “X” in the box, then the works may not be remixed unless an exception or limitation applies.

[Image: CC License Compatibility Chart]

Practice Exercise-I

Exercise-I

Drop the compatible/non compatible licenses with the given license into the respective box. If you are in doubt refer previous slide.

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Q: 1
Q: 2
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Thank You.

Thank You! Hope you enjoyed reading and got an idea about CC Licensed works collection and Adaptations.

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