Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Creative Commons Licensing

Useful Links

OpenStax OER Toolkit
The OER Starter Kit
Faculty OER Toolkit
Open WA - Learn OER
Accessibility Toolkit
Licensing Conditions
Creative Commons Licenses
CC License compatibility chart
Choose a License
How to give attribution
Best practice for attribution
Open Attribution Builder
Tool from Open Washington to help build and generate attributions.
Texas Learn OER

Evaluating OER

Achieve OER Rubrics
Eight rubrics developed by Achieve (achieve.org).
Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Educational Resources
Checklist created by BCOER Librarians.
OER Evaluation Criteria
Checklist for evaluating OER from Affordable Learning Georgia.

Copyright

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Free Software Licensing

Creative Commons Licenses

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and using of intellectual property through free legal tools that provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to use and share your work. -https://creativecommons.org/about

Creative Commons Licenses

The licensing options are based on a combination of four licensing conditions listed from the most accommodating to the most restrictive:

	Attribution (BY) Give credit to the original creator of the work
	ShareAlike (SA) Distribute the derivative work under the same license
	NonCommercial (NC) Cannot use the work commercially
	NoDerivatives (ND) Can copy and distribute in unadapted form.

Using a work contrary to the licensing conditions can only occur by first seeking the permission of the rights holder of the work.

These are the creative commons copyright license options:

Icons	Licensing
	Attribution CC BY "This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND "This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND "This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially." View License Deed \| View Legal Code

-Adapted from "About the Licenses" by CC Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Public Domain Mark - "No known copyright" - includes material for which copyright protection has expired
CC0 - "No rights reserved" - copyright protection and related rights waived to the "extent allowed by law"

Icons	Licensing
	Attribution CC BY "This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND "This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms." View License Deed \| View Legal Code
	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND "This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially." View License Deed \| View Legal Code