Digital humanities is an academic field applying computational methods to explore topics and questions in the humanities field. Digital humanities projects, as a result, consist of a variety of creative works different from those in traditional humanities disciplines. Born to provide free, simple ways to grant permissions to creative works, Creative Commons (CC) licenses have become top options for many digital humanities scholars to handle intellectual property rights in the US. However, there are limitations of using CC licenses that are sometimes unknown by scholars and academic librarians. By analyzing case studies and influential lawsuits about intellectual property rights in the digital age, this article advocates for a critical perspective of copyright education and provides academic librarians with specific recommendations about advising digital humanities scholars to use CC licenses with four limitations in mind: 1) the pitfall of a free license; 2) the risk of irrevocability; 3) the ambiguity of NonCommercial and NonDerivative licenses; 4) the dilemma of ShareAlike and the open movement.

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创用CC是管理数字人文知识产权的灵丹妙药吗？

数字人文学科是一个应用计算方法探索人文学科主题和问题的学术领域。结果，数字人文项目由与传统人文学科不同的各种创造性作品组成。创用CC（CC）许可证旨在提供免费，简单的方法来授予创作作品许可，它已成为许多数字人文学者在美国处理知识产权的首选。但是，使用CC许可证存在局限性，有时学者和学术图书馆员都不知道。通过分析有关数字时代知识产权的案例研究和有影响力的诉讼，本文主张从版权教育的角度出发，并为大学图书馆馆员提供一些建议，以建议数字人文学科学者使用CC许可时要牢记以下四个限制：1）免费许可的陷阱；2）不可撤销的风险；3）非商业性和非衍生性许可的歧义；4）ShareAlike和开放运动的困境。