Defending Noncommercial Uses: Great Minds v Fedex Office
[Diane Peters and Michael Carroll] Creative Commons has requested permission to file an amicus brief in litigation between Great Minds and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc. At the center of the litigation is the proper interpretation of the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, known as BY-NC-SA… While we rarely file amicus briefs, we feel strongly that the correct interpretation of the legal code here is essential to the utility of the NC licenses for both licensors and licensees.
Court Correctly Interprets Creative Commons Licenses
[Cross posted from Carrollogos] Are Creative Commons licenses enforceable in court? Yes. In an important decision titled Drauglis v. Kappa Map Group, LLC, 128 F. Supp.3d 46 (D.D.C. 2015), Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has issued a decision that: confirms the enforceability of Creative Commons licenses under U.S. copyright law; interprets the attribution requirement in the licenses to have the flexibility that is consistent with the licenses’ language and intent; holds that incorporating a photo READ MORE
CC-USA Participates in Hill Briefing “Understanding Open Educational Resources”
Creative Commons United States’ Professor Michael Carroll participated today in a briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building on “Understanding Open Educational Resources and Student Learning” (agenda here). The briefing covered the legal background of what open educational resources are and how they work; how OER can save money for college students; and pathways for states and districts to implement OER in the K12-setting.
Creative Commons USA has submitted a comment to the White House Office of Management and Budget for its review of rules on the management of the government’s information resources. The comment centers around two principles: “1) that information policy needs to deal with terms of use in addition to the terms of access, and 2) that publicly funded information resources should be made openly available for public use, not just public access.”