This week in "CC license your X"... Preview: I'm looking for stock waivers to give to groups at Dartmouth that they can have lecturers to sign, giving the group permission to release a video of the lecture under a Creative Commons license. Help!
At Dartmouth, several departments, centers, institutes, orgs, etc host guest lectures or public faculty lectures. Many of them record the lectures and put them up on youtube. This rocks! I want to make it super incredibly easy for these guys to attach a Creative Commons license to their lecture videos (CC-BY would be great, but I'm willing to compromise). I've already talked to a couple of these groups and they're totally on board--they just need help with the execution. I want to be able to follow this recipe: * Sit down with a rep from the center/forum/whatever and make the case for using a creative commons license ** I already feel well-equipped to do that. I'll talk about the types of uses which the center probably wants to allow but which are by default prohibited by copyright law in the US. I can get tips from this: http://learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cclearn-explanations-oer-and-cc-licenses-05-apr-09.pdf, and I can even leave a copy of it with them. * Propose that they use CC-By, but if they say no, offer to help them choose a different CC license (hopefully with as few restrictions as possible) ** I feel pretty well-equipped to do this too. I'll look at http://creativecommons.org/choose/ with them and help them decide which permissions they're willing to grant. I'll even point them to http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FFAQ#Is_use_X_a_violation_of_the_Noncommercial_clause_of_the_licenses.3F if they're confused about the reach of "noncommercial." I can leave them a copy of http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a4/Creativecommons-how-to-license-poster_eng.pdf if they want to mull it over or consult someone else. * This part is key: hand them any waivers that they'll need as well as instructions for how to use them (do both speakers and videographers have to sign it, for example?) ** I need help with this! * Finally, hand them a chunk of html that they can put on their website to articulate the license right next to where they embed the video. It's probably also a good idea to give them some plaintext that they can throw in the description field on their youtube page. ** This is easy--http://creativecommons.org/choose/ gives it right to you! I found a lot of awesome material on the CC site, especially at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Documentation. But I wasn't able to find the stock waivers that I'm looking for. Help! -- http://www.madebyparker.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
