Complete User Manual: Creative Commons & FreeLex

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Here you have a complete manual to manage yourself with Creative Commons Licenses and FreeLex Friendly User Agreements. This book can either be used as a text book for teaching, or as a reference book. You will find questions at the end of some sections, however you will not find the answers. Those questions can be discussed with your classmates and with the teacher. If You are reading on your own, you may also make use of the question for reading comprehension. You may also try to find the answers either by re-reading the sections or making a search in internet.

Drawings, illustrations, graphics, matrixes… all these are for helping you understand sections & provide graphical representation for the topics in your mind. You’ll also find links to several different types of references, like books in pdf format, online videos, and films you can either borrow or buy in DVD…At the end of the book you will also find a short “key word glossary”. Use it every time you forget one of the key words.

I recommend you to check the links appearing in the book. You will find suggestions on books, films, documentaries, and extra information through links to the Wikipedia. If you are interested in knowing more about Creative Commons, please check their homepage. There are loads of information. If you are also interested in FreeLex, consider taking a look as well.

1. Creative Commons
• how it all began
• copyright v. “droits d’auteur”
• “FLOSS”: Free Libre & open source software, the copyleft
• Elred v. Ashcroft, 537 US 186 (2003), Lawrence Lessig
• What is Creative Commons?
• the licenses
• the design of the CC licenses
• the structure of the licenses
• not so famous cc licenses
• the correct license for me
• questions that you might have while choosing the cc license
• choosing your license through the CC homepage
• how to be specific & clear with your chosen CC license
• how to use other people’s content correctly
• linking content to your website
• podcasting, video, mixing music, mixing photographs
2. FreeLex
• how it all began
• what is FreeLex?
• the philosophy of FreeLex
• how FL works
• what is a TOS?
• the two projects of FL
• the structure of the UFA
• how to choose the correct icons for your platform’s UFA
• the structure of the RLCA
• examples of UFA
• FreeLex UFA
• Girls 2.0 UFA
3. appendix
• examples of CC licensed work
• FreeLex Participant Agreements
• glossary

You can download for free the PDF version of the book here:

Or you can support the author by buying a paper copy here or using asking it through the ISBN 978-84-9981-961-7. An iPad and iPhone application will be available soon as well

I would like to thank to Heather Russell, Rinkya CEO, and Jim Grisanzio for their generous help checking the english version of this complete user manual (CC & FL).

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Heather Russell (@heatherarussell), Rinkya CEO, has been both an example and an inspiration for entrepreneurship and strength. Thank you for offering your help and support in this project.

Jim Grisanzio (@jimgris) has always been a great source of unknown knowledge for me. his experience and patience explaining have been one of the keys for opening my mind to other horizons.

Presentations

Presentation about CC in English	Presentation about CC in Spanish
Presentation about FreeLex in English	Presentation about FreeLex in Spanish

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