Open Licenses Step by Step

How do you do this?

This presentation by Amy Hofer for Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international license. Some materials used have more restrictive licenses. Please note those licenses when you use my presentation.

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You hold the copyright to work you create

No need to add a symbol or register your work - copyright takes effect automatically.

"Copyright is a Pierced Heart" by bixentro is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Open licensing is not automatic

You have to add the open license info yourself

"creative commons -Franz Patzig-" by A. Diez Herrero is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

So how do you add an open license to your copyrighted work?

Use the Creative Commons license chooser

https://creativecommons.org/choose/ walks you through the process of choosing a license with the features you want. It also lets you enter metadata that will help others provide attribution to you when they reuse your work.

At the end of the process you have an image and text that you can copy/paste, as well as machine-readable code that you can add to a website.

"Choose a license" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0

A sample filled-out chooser:

Here’s the result

Your title slide

Add your info by copy/pasting!

Open Licenses Step by Step by Amy Hofer for Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Or make a footer in a document

More copy/pasting!

You don’t have to use the chooser every time. Once you have an open license statement, you can use it as a template on future documents.