Describe the Creative Commons licenses as well as how and when they might be useful to your institutions’ work. At a minimum, include a description of:
the three layers of the CC licenses,
the four license elements and the icons that represent them
the six Creative Commons licenses,
how the CC licenses affect exceptions and limitations to copyright, and
how the CC licenses affect works in the public domain.
I’ve just had a thoroughly enjoyable time browsing the National Library of Ireland and the New York Public Library’s Flickr sites of public domain photographs. Rudai 23’s Thing 3 introduced me to new photography sites that have Creative Commons licensing permissions including one called Pixabay. Typically, I go directly to the Creative Commons site and search there, but Thing 3 taught me how to go directly to Google Images and Flickr to search for CC images.
For this task, I decided to look for images in the Public Domain from my grandparents’ hometowns in Ireland and their newly adopted homes in New York City. After a bit of hunting and pecking at the National Library of Ireland’s Flickr site, I found images of both of my grandmothers’ hometowns. Glengarriff is a lovely village in County Cork where my maternal grandmother Mary Agnes grew up.
Garinish Island Tower, Glengarriff, Cty. Cork, Ireland. Public Domain, Nat’l Library of Ireland
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, is close to where my paternal grandmother Molly grew up.
Main St., Edgeworthstown, Cty. Longford, Ireland. Circa 1920s. Public Domain, Nat’l Library of Ireland
Both of them emigrated to New York City in the mid-1920’s to live with cousins who had already migrated several years earlier. Here are a few photos of New York in the 1930s–by which time both of them were married with kids of their own. Thanks to the NYPL Flickr site for these photos.
Willow & Poplar Streets, Brooklyn, looking east to Manhattan circa 1936. Public Domain, New York Public Library
Oak & New Chamber Sts., Manhattan, circa 1935. Public Domain, New York Public Library
