Creative Commons
The presentation will provide an overview of the Creative Commons project in order to find potential opportunities for knowledge sharing in agriculture. The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.
The Creative Commons was officially launched in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig. In 2003 the project Creative Commons International has started to adapt the various licenses to different international jurisdictions. As of July 2007, there are 38 jurisdiction-specific licenses, with 9 other jurisdictions in drafting process, and more countries joining the project.
The presentation will also cover Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons (CC) launched in 2005. Science Commons strives to remove unnecessary legal and technical barriers to the sharing of scientific materials in order to facilitate collaboration and innovation. Built on the promise of Open Access to scholarly literature and data, the organization identifies and eases key barriers to the movement of information, tools and data through the scientific research cycle - specifically in life science research.
Science Commons is building a toolkit of policy, contracts and technology - all in an open format - that increases the chance of meaningful discovery through a shared, open approach to scientific research.
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