What are Creative Commons Licenses? (University of Guelph McLaughlin Library)
21 Sep 2018
Duration: 1 min 57s
This video, produced by University of Guelph McLaughlin Library in Canada, is an introduction to Creative Commons licenses and copyright issues. To make educational content openly accessible, creators use Creative Commons (CC) licenses, which grant specific permissions while retaining some rights. The most open license, CC BY, allows unrestricted reuse with attribution, while others, like CC BY-NC, limit commercial use. Understanding these licenses ensures that educators and students can legally use and adapt OER to enhance learning. For more details, see the table below on the licence types.
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Attribution CC BY Allow to copy, adapt, modify, share the work as long as the original creators are credited for any purposes. |
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Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA All rights as Attribution (BY) licence and new creations have to be licensed under the same terms as the original work. |
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Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND Allow to copy, share but keep the work unchanged and in whole for any purposes. |
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Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC Allow to copy, adapt, modify, share the work for non-commercial purposes only. |
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA All rights as Attribution (BY) - Share Alike (SA) licence but for non-commercial purposes only. |
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND All rights as Attribution (BY) - No Derivatives (ND) licence but for non-commercial purposes only. |
For more information about CC licenses, refer to Creative Commons