Shashi Tharoor hopes CC licenses, an alternative to Copyright, will help open 'fossilised mindsets'
Wikimedia India, the Centre for Internet and Society and Delhi University’s Acharya Narendra Dev College together relaunched the Indian chapter of Creative Commons in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The global nonprofit organisation promotes open or ‘some rights reserved’ licenses, making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others. The Creative Commons (CC) licenses can be viewed as an alternative to ‘all rights reserved’ Copyright licenses. CC licenses can be used by individuals, private and government organisations to grant copyright permissions and get credit for their work while allowing others to copy, distribute and make specific use of it. CC licenses can be applied to wide bodies of work, from creative pieces like music and literature to publications such as academic journals and government data.
The Indian chapter, first launched in 2007, wants to popularise the use of CC licenses, especially in the domain of academics and government data
“I hope the CC movement will do more to open up the fossilised mindsets of our government systems,” said minister of state for human resource development Shashi Tharoor at the launch of Creative Commons India. “We need more open education resources to open the doors of learning across society.”
The concept of open education resources or OER envisions a barrier-free access to learning material. In August, Tharoor’s ministry and other government agencies had launched the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) with a default Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license for all its material — audio, video, print, images, interactive. The repository makes accessible learning material for all school subjects across all grades and in multiple languages.
Apart from the repository, Flickr, Wikipedia and Bangalore-based nonprofit Pratham Books are among the many users of CC licenses.
Creative Commons offers different licenses, such as mandatory attribution, whether the work must be shared (ShareAlike), built upon (no derivatives), for non-commercial use, or a combination of these.
For more, visit the Indian chapter at www.creativecommons.org.in
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