Licensing Your Content - OER Background: Creative Commons (CC) - Licensing and OER - Library Home at Fox Valley Technical College

Note:

If you use OER without editing, then you can just leave the attribution as you find it. If you are editing, mixing, or combining into a new work - please check with us <library@fvtc.edu> before applying a Creative Common license to a new/ revised chapter, book, or collection. There are some fine points about it that can be confusing.

If you create New Content that is copy-right-able...

Considerations before you license
Make sure you understand what copy rights you will be giving away.
How the licenses work
CC Licenses un-restrict parts of your copy-rights
Creative Commons Licenses and Examples
Look for content similar to yours.
Choose A License Tool
Try different scenarios to see which copyrights will be un-restricted.
Want public domain instead?
Closest to Public Domain available. Most open, least restrictive, easiest to use and re-use.
Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is
"The biggest legal problem facing the open educational movement is license incompatibility." Making new content PD solves this problem.
Adaptations / Remixes: Are they Compatible Licenses?