Nonrestrictive creative work
Logo of the
Definition of Free Cultural Works
project
The logo on the screen in the subject's left hand is a Creative Commons license, while the paper in his right hand explains, in
Khmer
, that the image is open content
Free content
,
libre content
,
libre information
, or
free information
is any kind of mind work, such as a
work of art
, a book, a
software program
, or any other creative
content
that meets the definition of a
free cultural work
, meaning "works or expressions which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose",
[1]
including, in some cases, commercial purposes. Free content encompasses all works in the
public domain
and also those
copyrighted
works whose
licenses
honor and uphold the definition of free cultural work.
In most countries, the
Berne Convention
grants copyright holders
monopolistic control
over their creations by default. Therefore, copyrighted content must be explicitly declared free by the author(s), which is usually accomplished by referencing or including licensing statements from within the work. The right to reuse said work is granted by the author(s) in a license known as a
free license
, a free distribution license, or an open license, depending on the rights assigned. These freedoms given to users in the reuse of works (that is, the right to freely use, study, modify or distribute these works, possibly also for commercial purposes) are often associated with obligations (to cite the original author, to maintain the original license of the reused content) or restrictions (excluding commercial use, banning certain media) chosen by the author.
There is a whole menu of standardized licenses offering varied options that allow authors to choose the type of reuse of their work that they wish to authorize or forbid (for example the so-called
Creative Commons license
).
Definition
A
free cultural work
is, according to the
definition of Free Cultural Works
, one that has no significant legal restriction on people's freedom to:
- use the content and benefit from using it,
- study the content and apply what is learned,
- make and distribute copies of the content,
- change and improve the content and distribute these derivative works.
[1]
[2]
Although there are a great many different definitions in regular everyday use, free content is legally very similar to
open content
. An analogy is a use of the rival terms free software and open-source, which describe ideological differences rather than legal ones.
[3]
The term Open Source, by contrast, sought to encompass them all in one movement.
[4]
[5]
For instance, the
Open Knowledge Foundation
's
Open Definition
describes "open" as synonymous with the definition of
free
in the "Definition of Free Cultural Works" (as also in the
Open Source Definition
and
Free Software Definition
).
[6]
For such free/open content both movements recommend the same three
Creative Commons licenses
, the CC BY, CC BY-SA, and CC0.
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
Legal matters
Copyright
Copyright symbol
Copyright is a legal concept, which gives the author or creator of a work legal control over the
duplication
and public performance of their work. In many jurisdictions, this is limited by a time period after which the works then enter the
public domain
. Copyright laws are a balance between the rights of creators of intellectual and artistic works and the rights of others to build upon those works. During the time period of copyright the author's work may only be copied, modified, or publicly performed with the consent of the author, unless the use is a
fair use
. Traditional copyright control limits the use of the work of the author to those who either pay royalties to the author for usage of the author's content or limit their use to fair use. Secondly, it limits the use of content whose author cannot be found.
[11]
Finally, it creates a perceived barrier between authors by limiting derivative works, such as
mashups
and collaborative content.
[12]
Public domain
Public domain logo
The public domain is a range of creative works whose
copyright
has expired or was never established, as well as ideas and facts
[note 1]
which are ineligible for copyright. A public domain work is a work whose author has either relinquished to the public or no longer can claim control over, the distribution and usage of the work. As such, any person may manipulate, distribute, or otherwise use the work, without legal ramifications. A work in the public domain or released under a
permissive license
may be referred to as "copycenter".
[13]
Copyleft
Copyleft symbol
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work.
[14]
The aim of copyleft is to use the legal framework of copyright to enable non-author parties to be able to reuse and, in many licensing schemes, modify content that is created by an author. Unlike works in the public domain, the author still maintains copyright over the material, however, the author has granted a non-exclusive license to any person to distribute, and often modify, the work. Copyleft licenses require that any
derivative works
be distributed under the same terms and that the original copyright notices be maintained. A symbol commonly associated with copyleft is a reversal of the
copyright symbol
, facing the other way; the opening of the C points left rather than right. Unlike the copyright symbol, the copyleft symbol does not have a codified meaning.
[15]
Usage
Projects that provide free content exist in several areas of interest, such as software, academic literature, general literature, music, images, video, and
engineering
. Technology has reduced the cost of publication and reduced the entry barrier sufficiently to allow for the production of widely disseminated materials by individuals or small groups. Projects to provide free literature and multimedia content have become increasingly prominent owing to the ease of dissemination of materials that are associated with the development of computer technology. Such dissemination may have been too costly prior to these technological developments.
Media
Creative Commons logo
In media, which includes textual, audio, and visual content, free licensing schemes such as some of the licenses made by
Creative Commons
have allowed for the dissemination of works under a clear set of legal permissions. Not all Creative Commons licenses are entirely free; their permissions may range from very liberal general redistribution and modification of the work to a more restrictive redistribution-only licensing. Since February 2008, Creative Commons licenses which are entirely free carry a badge indicating that they are "approved for free cultural works".
[16]
Repositories
exist which exclusively feature free material and provide content such as photographs,
clip art
, music,
[17]
and literature.
[18]
While extensive reuse of free content from one website in another website is legal, it is usually not sensible because of the
duplicate content
problem.
Wikipedia
is amongst the most well-known databases of user-uploaded free content on the web. While the vast majority of content on Wikipedia is free content, some copyrighted material is hosted under
fair-use criteria
.
Software
OSI logo
Free and open-source software
, which is often referred to as
open source software
and
free software
, is a maturing technology with companies using them to provide services and technology to both end-users and technical consumers. The ease of dissemination increases modularity, which allows for smaller groups to contribute to projects as well as simplifying collaboration. Some claim that open source development models offer similar peer-recognition and collaborative benefit incentive as in more classical fields such as scientific research, with the social structures that result leading to decreased production costs.
[19]
Free Software Foundation
logo
Given sufficient interest in a software component, by using
peer-to-peer
distribution methods, distribution costs may be reduced, easing the burden of infrastructure maintenance on developers. As distribution is simultaneously provided by consumers, these software distribution models are scalable; that is, the method is feasible regardless of the number of consumers. In some cases, free software vendors may use peer-to-peer technology as a method of dissemination.
[20]
Project hosting and code distribution is not a problem for most free projects as
a number of providers
offer these services free of charge.
Engineering and technology
Logo of the
Open Source Hardware Association
Free content principles have been translated into fields such as engineering, where designs and engineering knowledge can be readily shared and duplicated, in order to reduce overheads associated with project development.
Open design
principles can be applied in engineering and technological applications, with projects in
mobile telephony
, small-scale manufacture,
[21]
the automotive industry,
[22]
[23]
and even agricultural areas. Technologies such as distributed manufacturing can allow
computer-aided manufacturing
and
computer-aided design
techniques to be able to develop small-scale production of components for the development of new, or repair of existing, devices. Rapid fabrication technologies underpin these developments, which allow end-users of technology to be able to construct devices from pre-existing blueprints, using software and manufacturing hardware to convert information into physical objects.
Academia
In academic work, the majority of works are not free, although the percentage of works that are open access is growing.
Open access
refers to online
research
outputs that are free of all restrictions to access and free of many restrictions on use (e.g. certain copyright and license restrictions).
[24]
Authors may see open access publishing as a way of expanding the audience that is able to access their work to allow for greater impact, or support it for ideological reasons.
[25]
[26]
Open access publishers such as
PLOS
and
BioMed Central
provide capacity for review and publishing of free works; such publications are currently more common in science than humanities. Various funding institutions and governing research bodies have
mandated
that academics must produce their works to be open-access, in order to qualify for funding, such as the US
National Institutes of Health
,
Research Councils UK
(effective 2016) and the
European Union
(effective 2020).
[27]
[28]
[29]
Open access symbol, originally designed by
PLOS
At an institutional level, some universities, such as the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, have adopted open access publishing by default by introducing their own mandates.
[30]
Some mandates may permit delayed publication and may charge researchers for open access publishing.
[31]
[32]
For teaching purposes, some universities, including
MIT
, provide freely available course content, such as lecture notes, video resources and tutorials. This content is distributed via Internet to the general public. Publication of such resources may be either by a formal institution-wide program,
[33]
or informally, by individual academics or departments.
Open content
publication has been seen as a method of reducing costs associated with information retrieval in research, as universities typically pay to subscribe for access to content that is published through traditional means.
[10]
[34]
Subscriptions for non-free content journals may be expensive for universities to purchase, though the articles are written and peer-reviewed by academics themselves at no cost to the publisher. This has led to disputes between publishers and some universities over subscription costs, such as the one that occurred between the
University of California and the Nature Publishing Group
.
[35]
[36]
Legislation
Any country has its own law and legal system, sustained by its legislation, a set of law-documents—documents containing statutory
obligation rules
, usually
law
and created by
legislatures
. In a
democratic country
, each law-document is published as open media content, is in principle free content; but in general, there are no explicit licenses attributed for each law-document, so the license must be interpreted, an
implied license
. Only a few countries have explicit licenses in their law-documents, as the UK's
Open Government Licence
(a
CC BY
compatible license). In the other countries, the
implied license
comes from its proper rules (general laws and rules about copyright in government works). The automatic protection provided by the
Berne Convention
does not apply to law-documents: Article 2.4 excludes the official texts from the automatic protection. It is also possible to "inherit" the license from context. The set of country's law-documents is made available through national repositories. Examples of law-document open repositories:
LexML Brazil
,
Legislation.gov.uk
, and
N-Lex
. In general, a law-document is offered in more than one (open) official version, but the main one is that published by a
government gazette
. So, law-documents can eventually inherit license expressed by the repository or by the gazette that contains it.
Open content
Open content
describes any
work
that others can copy or modify freely by
attributing
to the original creator, but
without needing to ask for permission
. This has been applied to a range of formats, including
textbooks
,
academic journals
,
films
, and
music
. The term was an expansion of the related concept of
open-source software
.
[37]
Such
content
is said to be under an
open license
.
Open content definition
The website of the Open Content Project once defined open content as 'freely available for modification, use and redistribution under a license similar to those used by the open-source / free software community'.
[37]
However, such a definition would exclude the Open Content License because that license forbids charging for content; a right required by free and open-source software licenses.
[
citation needed
]
The term since shifted in meaning. Open content is "licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities."
[38]
The 5Rs are put forward on the Open Content Project website as a framework for assessing the extent to which content is open:
- Retain ? the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
- Reuse ? the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
- Revise ? the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
- Remix ? the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
- Redistribute ? the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
[38]
This broader definition distinguishes open content from open-source software, since the latter must be available for commercial use by the public. However, it is similar to several definitions for open educational resources, which include resources under noncommercial and verbatim licenses.
[39]
[40]
History
Origins
The
concept
of applying free software licenses to content was introduced by Michael Stutz, who in 1997 wrote the paper "Applying Copyleft to Non-Software Information" for the
GNU Project
.
[41]
The term "open content" was coined by
David A. Wiley
in 1998 and evangelized via the
Open Content Project
, describing works licensed under the
Open Content License
(a non-free share-alike license, see 'Free content' below) and other works licensed under similar terms.
[37]
Open Content Project logo, 1998
It has since come to describe a broader class of content without conventional copyright restrictions. The
openness
of content can be assessed under the '5Rs Framework' based on the extent to which it can be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed by members of the public without violating copyright law.
[38]
Unlike free content and content under
open-source licenses
, there is no clear threshold that a work must reach to qualify as 'open content'.
Although open content has been described as a counterbalance to
copyright
, open content licenses rely on a copyright holder's power to license their work, as
copyleft
which also utilizes copyright for such a purpose.
[42]
In 2003, David Wiley announced that the Open Content Project had been succeeded by Creative Commons and their licenses; Wiley joined as "Director of Educational Licenses".
[43]
[44]
In 2005, the Open Icecat project was launched, in which product information for e-commerce applications was created and published under the Open Content License. It was embraced by the tech sector, which was already quite
open source
minded.
In 2006, a Creative Commons' successor project, the
Definition of Free Cultural Works
, was introduced for free content.
[45]
It was put forth by
Erik Moller
,
Richard Stallman
,
Lawrence Lessig
,
Benjamin Mako Hill
, Angela Beesley, and others.
[46]
The
Definition of Free Cultural Works
is used by the
Wikimedia Foundation
.
[47]
In 2009, the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses were marked as "Approved for Free Cultural Works".
[48]
Open Knowledge Foundation
Another successor project is the
Open Knowledge Foundation
, founded by
Rufus Pollock
in
Cambridge
, in 2004
[49]
as a global non-profit network to promote and share open content and data.
[50]
In 2007 the
OKF
gave an
Open Knowledge Definition
for "content such as music, films, books; data be it scientific, historical, geographic or otherwise; government and other administrative information".
[51]
In October 2014 with version 2.0
Open Works
and
Open Licenses
were defined and "open" is described as synonymous to the definitions of open/free in the Open Source Definition, the Free Software Definition, and the Definition of Free Cultural Works.
[52]
A distinct difference is the focus given to the public domain,
open access
, and readable
open formats
. OKF recommends six conformant licenses: three of OKN's (Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence, Open Data Commons Attribution License, Open Data Commons
Open Database License
) and the
CC BY
,
CC BY-SA
, and
CC0
Creative Commons licenses.
[53]
[54]
[55]
Open access
"
Open access
" refers to toll-free or
gratis
access to content, mainly published in
peer-reviewed
scholarly journals. Some open access works are also licensed for reuse and redistribution (libre open access), which would qualify them as open content.
The later
Open Definition
by the Open Knowledge Foundation defines
open knowledge
with open content and
open data
as sub-elements and draws heavily on the Open Source Definition; it preserves the limited sense of open content as free content,
[56]
unifying both.
Open content and education
Unesco's
Open Educational Resources logo
Open content has been used to develop alternative routes towards higher education. Traditional universities are expensive, and their tuition rates are increasing.
[57]
[58]
Open content is a free way of obtaining higher education that is "focused on collective knowledge and the sharing and reuse of learning and scholarly content."
[59]
There are multiple projects and organizations that promote learning through open content, including
OpenCourseWare
and
Khan Academy
. Some universities, like
MIT
,
Yale
, and
Tufts
are making their courses freely available on the internet.
[60]
Textbooks
Traditional textbooks, aside from being expensive, can be inconvenient and out of date, because of publishers' tendency to print new editions.
[61]
Open textbooks help to eliminate this problem, because they are online and thus easily updatable. There are multiple organizations promoting the creation of openly licensed textbooks such as the
University of Minnesota's
Open Textbook Library,
Connexions
,
OpenStax College
, the Saylor Academy, Open Textbook Challenge, and
Wikibooks
.
Licenses
According to the current definition of open content on the OpenContent website, any general, royalty-free copyright license would qualify as an open license because it 'provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those normally permitted under the law. These permissions are granted to users free of charge.'
[38]
However, the narrower definition used in the Open Definition effectively limits open content to libre content. Any free content license, defined by the Definition of Free Cultural Works, would qualify as an open content license. According to this narrower criteria, the following still-maintained licenses qualify:
See also
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