Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to the default "all rights reserved" nature of copyright, rather they work alongside the copyright laws, so you can modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. They allow creators to keep their copyright and easily give permission for others to copy, share or even build upon their work. CC licenses make the "open" in open educational resources possible.
Creator: Choose a Creative Commons license
Select one of six Creative Commons licenses.
Understand your choice of CC licenses
Use this Interactive CC license chooser to decide and generate embeddable licenses.
The image below shows the 5 icons that represent different components in CC licenses.
Just like you cite and provide references in your scholarship, when you teach with course materials developed by someone else, you should always attribute by displaying the name of the author and the type of CC license that accompanies their work.
What to include when attributing:
Example of how to attribute a photo:
"Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco" by tvol is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
See more examples from Creative Commons
Tools to help you attribute
Install OpenAttribute, a browser plugin
Learn how you can adopt and/or adapt by CC license type
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