Creativity and collaboration · 3:00 · English

Wanna Work Together?

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Speaker: When you share your creativity,
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Speaker: you're enabling people anywhere
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Speaker: to use it, learn from it,
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Speaker: and be inspired by it.
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Speaker: Take the teacher who shapes young minds
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Speaker: with work and wisdom from around the globe.
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Speaker: And the artist who builds beauty out of
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Speaker: bits and pieces she finds online.
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Speaker: And the writer,
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Speaker: whose stories use ideas and images
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Speaker: crafted by people he's never even met.
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Speaker: These people know that when you share your creative wealth,
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Speaker: you can accomplish great things.
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Speaker: They, and millions of other people all around the planet,
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Speaker: are working together to build a richer, better,
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Speaker: more vibrant culture using Creative Commons.
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Speaker: To understand Creative Commons,
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Speaker: you need to know a little bit about how copyright works.
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Speaker: Did you know that when you create something,
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Speaker: anything, from a photograph,
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Speaker: to a song, to a drawing, to a film,
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Speaker: copyright to that creativity, it's true.
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Speaker: Copyright protects your creativity
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Speaker: against uses you don't consent to.
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Speaker: But sometimes full copyright is too restrictive.
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Speaker: What about when you want all those millions and millions
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Speaker: of people out there to use your work
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Speaker: without the hassle of coming to you for permission?
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Speaker: What if you want your work to be freely shared,
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Speaker: reused, and built upon by the rest of the world?
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Speaker: Luckily there's an answer, Creative Commons.
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Speaker: We provide free copyright licenses you can use
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Speaker: to tell people exactly which parts of your copyright
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Speaker: you're happy to give to the public.
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Speaker: It's easy, it only takes a minute, and it's totally free.
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Speaker: Just come to our website and answer a few quick questions,
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Speaker: like will you allow commercial uses of your work,
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Speaker: and will you allow your work to be modified?
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Speaker: Based on your answers, we'll give you a license
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Speaker: that clearly communicates what people
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Speaker: can and can't do with your creativity.
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Speaker: You don't give up your copyright, you refine it,
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Speaker: so it works better for you.
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Speaker: Welcome to a new world where collaboration rules.
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Speaker: It didn't even exist just a few years ago.
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Speaker: But now there are millions and millions
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Speaker: of songs, pictures, videos, and written works
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Speaker: available to share, reuse, and remix.
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Speaker: All for free.
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Speaker: Wanna work together?
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Speaker: Then join the commons, Creative Commons.
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