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Creative Commons Licensing overlays Copyright, defining legal rights the copyright owner chooses to give away.

CABLE GREEN: Detailed Instruction: Open educational Resources (OER) and Open Licensing

Dr. Cable Green: Open Licenses

Introduction to Creative Commons with Cable Green | Open Day May 31, 2018

Creative Commons OER Licenses

About The Licenses
Best practices for attribution (How to Cite it)
A good rule of thumb is to use the acronym TASL, which stands for Title, Author, Source, License.
Choose a License
Frequently Asked Questions about Creative Commons Licenses
The licenses explicitly permit licensees to satisfy the attribution requirement with a link to a separate page for attribution information.
List of License Descriptions to link to:

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Creative Commons Licenses

Image Source: [Slide 22] Creative Commons for Mountain Digital West Libraries

Creative Commons Licenses

Guide to the Creative Commons

Creative Commons has been around since 2002. The licenses that they provide are the foundation of OER. These licenses are an extension of copyright; they do not replace copyright. Therefore, if you share something under a CC license you still own the copyright but you've told others upfront how you'd like them to use your work. Every CC license requires that the user give attribution to the creator if they use the material.

Creative Commons licenses provide are the foundation of OER.
They are an extension of copyright; they do not replace copyright.
If you share something under a CC license you still own the copyright.
Adding a CC License to Copyright releases (opens) some of the copyright restrictions.
Every CC license requires that the user give attribution to the creator if they use the material.

Creative Commons (CC) Licenses

Copying a CC licensed work and sharing it: Must always provide attribution.

NonCommercial (NC) restriction: Do not use work for commercial purposes.

No-Derivitive (ND) restriction: Do not change work before sharing. No (adaptations or derivatives) allowed. You may shift format from html to pdf or other format for usability. If the underlying work is licensed under a NoDerivatives license, you can make and use changes privately but you cannot share your adaptation with others

Share Alike (SA): Must share copies or adaptations/derivatives using the same licence as original. This makes it harder to re-use works, because of incompatible licence restrictions. If the underlying work is licensed under a ShareAlike license, then ShareAlike applies to your adaptation and you must license it under the same or a compatible license.

Copyrighted works: You cannot share copies of a work without permission of copyright holder, except in cases that meet "Fair Use" provision.
Creative Commons Licenses (CCL) with No-Derivitive (ND) restriction maintained - allows you to share copies of the original work without needing permission of original copyright owner - as long as you share the entire work without changing anything.
"Fair Use" and Public Domain: Creative Commons Licenses (CCL) do not apply in circumstances where copyright does not apply.

Although You May apply a CC license to your work if it incorporates material used under fair use or another exception or limitation to copyright your work
"...it is important to prominently mark any third party material you incorporate into your work so reusers do not think the CC license applies to that material. The CC license only applies to the rights you have in the work."
Copyright protected...Does "Fair Use" apply? (Ex: Parody, criticism; See: FOUR FACTOR TEST)
More Detail about Creative Commons Licensing (creativecommons.org)