Creative Commons Licensing:
Nuts & Bolts
"Nuts and Bolts!" by Sergei Golyshev is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This presentation by Carrie Gits for the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international license. Some materials used have more restrictive licenses. Please note those licenses.
What Makes OER Possible?
What do Creative Commons Licenses do?
"What are Creative Commons Licenses?" by University of Guelph McLaughlin Library is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Key Conditions of CC Licenses
| Attribution BY All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request |
| ShareAlike SA You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms and licenses. |
| NonCommercial NC You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially. |
| NoDerivatives ND You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. |
Types of CC Licenses
| 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. |
| 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 allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| This license is the most restrictive of the 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. |
Are all Creative Commons Licenses equal in terms of openness?
"CC OER Infographic" by Cable Green is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Want to share your work? How do you determine which license to apply?
Use Creative Commons tools, like the License Chooser to help share your work
"Choose a license" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
When adapting or creating OER, can you mix creative commons licenses with each other?
OER Compatibility Chart - Can I mix this?
"License Compatibility Chart" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
How do you know whether to cite or attribute?
Citations vs. Attributions
Both are similar in concept...
Citations and attributions give credit to others.
Citations = giving credit when you use someone else’s ideas or words in your
own work.
Attributions = giving credit when you reuse or reproduce someone else’s work.
...but they have different purposes.
Citations
Academic purpose
They tell your reader where ideas that you quote, paraphrase, or summarize came from.
Attributions
[attribution needed]
"Favouring Open Source" by Christina Hardison , Opensource is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Legal Purpose
An attribution statement is a legal requirement of reusing someone’s openly licensed work. The statement lets the reader know you have permission to reuse this work and where the original can be found.
| Citations | Attributions |
Use with: | Quotes, summaries, paraphrases | Openly licensed content |
Purpose: | Academic | Legal |
If you don’t: | Plagiarism | Copyright license violation |
How to: | Follow MLA, APA, or other style guide | Include title, author, URL, and license (no official style guide) |
Where: | Style guide tells you where to put your citations | Put your attribution in the same place the work is used |
Applies to: | Copyright, openly licensed, or public domain content | Only openly licensed materials |
"Citations vs. Attributions" by Amy Hofer, Open Oregon is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Citation and Attribution Tools
Citations
Many online guides and tutorials provide assistance. Citation generators are often available online and via library databases.
(Similar to Purdue OWL, but all content is CCBY)
Attributions
Open Attribution Builder (Open Washington)
Google Docs Add-on - Creative Commons Attribute-ify