1 / 2

Creative Commons aka Openverse - What Everything Must Know About : WPWhiteBoard

Openverse has its origin embedded in copyrights, with a long and interesting journey. Before we understand how it will revolutionize WordPress, letu2019s first get to know about Creative Commons (CC). <br><br>Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization, a global network, and a global movement taking its inception from people around the world, who wish to share their knowledge, creativity, ideas, on a flexible term rather than following the default copyright laws. All this sharing is enabled via a set of open copyright licenses.

wpwhiteboard
Download Presentation

Creative Commons aka Openverse - What Everything Must Know About : WPWhiteBoard

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. EverythingYouMustKnowAboutCreativeCommonsakaOpenverse • Openversehasitsoriginembeddedincopyrights,withalongandinterestingjourney.BeforeweunderstandhowitwillrevolutionizeWordPress,let’sfirstgettoknowaboutCreativeCommons(CC). • CreativeCommonsisanonprofitorganization,aglobalnetwork,andaglobalmovementtakingitsinceptionfrompeoplearoundtheworld,whowishtosharetheirknowledge,creativity,ideas,onaflexibletermratherthanfollowingthedefaultcopyrightlaws.Allthissharingisenabledviaasetofopencopyrightlicenses. • AbriefhistoryofCreativeCommons • Creative Commonswasstartedasaretaliationtotheoutdatedcopyrightlegislationlaws.Theclockturnsbackto1998,whentheSonnyBonoCopyrightTermExtensionAct(CTEA)wasenacted,extendingthetermofcopyrightforeveryworktoanadditional20years.Thislawmeantthattheexistingperiod,whichis50yearsplus20years,makesitatotalof70years.So,70yearsafterthecreator’sdemise,theworkwillbemadeavailabletothepublic. • Theendofacopyrighttermisveryimportant,aswhensomethingmovestothepublicdomain,it’ssubjectedtotrials,errors,creativity,innovations,experiments,andmuchmore.Andweallknowthatiswhatleadstoinnovation,andthebirthofuniquepatentsorcopyrights.Butforthisjourneytostart,70yearsisabigtimetowait. • LawrenceLessig,aStanfordlawprofessor,representingEricEldred,awebpublisher,challengedthislaw,whichwentupthewaytotheU.S.SupremeCourt.Intheend,theylostthecase,namedEldred v. Ashcroft. • ThisdidnotgoasalostcauseandmarkedthecreationofCreativeCommonslicensesin2002.Thisdoesnotmeanthatcopyrightisgone,itisstillpresent,and

  2. it’sautomaticwhetheryoulikeitornot.CClicensesallowcreatorstosharetheirwork(iftheywishto!)andstillbeinlinewiththecopyrightlaws.it’sautomaticwhetheryoulikeitornot.CClicensesallowcreatorstosharetheirwork(iftheywishto!)andstillbeinlinewiththecopyrightlaws. Readfullarticle-https://wpwhiteboard.com/creative-commons-aka-openverse/

More Related