Open Licensing Resources for Foundations

What is an open licensing policy?
Why should foundations adopt an open licensing policy?
为什么基金会应该使用知识共享许可?卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析
 Which foundations have adopted an open licensing policy?
基金会如何向其员工和受赠人解释开放许可?
What are best practices for CC license marking and attribution?
Where can foundations find more information on open licensing policies?

What is an open licensing policy?

Open licensing policy is made possible through the foundation’s use of open licenses, whereby the acceptance of foundation funds requires grantees to share broadly the digital content developed with those funds under an open license, such as theCreative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. In addition to grant-funded content, foundations can adopt open licensing for the resources they produce themselves, such as website content, photographs, and publications. The adoption of Creative Commons licensing clarifies to the public how they may access, use, and adapt foundation-funded resources.

Why should foundations adopt an open licensing policy?

Most philanthropic foundations are tax-exempt, nonprofit institutions which exist exclusively to benefit the public. These foundation are involved in grant-making or direct activities designed to achieve charitable, scientific, educational, or similar purposes. Most try to use their resources in a way that will have the greatest impact on the problems they hope to solve.

要产生更大的影响，一个途径是要求受资助者让任何获得资助的作品免费供其他人完全重用，这样这些作品不仅可以用于教育和研究，而且可以随时改进和构建，在一个潜在的无限轨道上创造新的作品。举个例子，基金会通常资助与世界上最贫穷的人的福利有关的研究——这些人通常生活在他们自己的研究人员无法支付订阅发表研究成果的期刊的国家。通过互联网发布有关医学进展的文章可以加快知识向迫切需要它的地方的转移——通常是数年。授权给人们下载、打印和分发这些文章的权利，以及翻译或以其他方式使它们适应当地需求，使简单访问的价值倍增。

There are multiple benefits to foundations in adopting an open licensing policy. For example, it increases the impact and reach of its grants because more people will be able to access foundation content and know how they can reuse it. It promotes innovative and entrepreneurial uses of openly licensed materials beyond the project / grant primary audience. It encourages translations of foundation-funded content. It contributes to the diverse, global public commons of reusable content. And it indicates a willingness collaborate with other organizations and individuals working on similar focus areas.

We believe that in almost all cases, the copyrightable works produced with grant funding, as well as works concerning the problems the foundation seeks to address that are created by expert staff or commissioned by the foundation from external experts, will have more impact on those problems if they are published under an open license.

为什么基金会应该使用知识共享许可?卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析

知识共享许可的采用向公众阐明了他卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析们如何访问、使用和调整基金会资助的资源。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析知识共享许可是开放内容许可的全球标准。There are over1 billionCC licensed works available on the web. CC licenses have been adopted globally by governments and public sector bodies, scientific publishers, and cultural heritage institutions such as national museums and libraries. CC licenses are the legal standard for collaboration on the web.

Creative Commons licenses are free, public copyright licenses that grant permission to the public to reproduce, distribute, perform, display or adapt the licensed materials for any purpose, and typically contain a minimal set of conditions, such as the requirement that a user provide attribution to the author. Creative Commons licenses are built on top of and encourage respect for copyright and copyright holders. Open licensing policies allow creators to retain copyright, but at the same time permit foundations to condition funding such that the public will be provided with free, legal access to the content, research and data outputs of foundation grants.

Here is a video that explains how the Creative Commons licenses work.

Which foundations have adopted an open licensing policy?

We’ve been collecting information about the open licensingintellectual property policiesin place within several philanthropic foundations. The following categories are included for each foundation, to the extent the information is available:

Scope of policy
Policy for grant-funded content
Policy for grant-funded software
Policy for grant-funded data
Policy for foundation-owned IP
Policy for consultant-developed IP
License(s) used
Mandatory or not
Material on foundation website
Web description of the Foundation’s open policy

How can foundation explain open licensing to their staff and grantees?

采用开放许可政策的基金会发现，为其项目官员创建解释开放许可、如何与受赠人就政策变更进行沟通、回答常见问题以及提供其他资源的文档是有帮助的。下面是两个实际的指南，然后是一个通用版本，可以很容易地重新混合以供其他基础使用。

Hewlett Foundation Open Licensing Toolkit version(licensedCC BY)
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation Implementation Guide for Grantees(licensedCC BY)
Generic Open Licensing Toolkit(licensedCC BY)

What are best practices for CC license marking and attribution?

We’ve createdseveral excellent examples如何标记您使用的是知识共享许可协议，以及如何为您使用的作品提供适当的归属卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析。本幻灯片最初是为另一位观众创建的，提供了关于将许可信息附加到作品的选项的更多信息。