WHAT IS CREATIVE COMMONS?

Creative Commons (CC) is an internationally active non-profit organisation that provides free licences for creators to use when making their work available to the public. These licenses enable lawful collaboration to copy, share, remix, adapt, and build upon content in any medium or format.

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

Source: https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

There are six standard Creative Commons license types. Let us go upwards through each license, according to their specific permissions.

Attribution (BY)

This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

CC BY includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

Attribution-Noncommercial (BY-NC)

This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

It includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

Attribution-Share Alike (BY-SA)

This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

CC BY-SA includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

Attribution-No Derivative Works (BY-ND)

This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

CC BY-ND includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

The next image illustrates the six licenses, according to the standard symbols assigned to each one.

CC0 - “No Rights Reserved”

Source: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

CC0 enables creators to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law.

In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and database protection, and the exclusive rights automatically granted to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.

Creative Commons licenses examples:

Source: https://www.oercommons.org/

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/introduction-to-project-based-learning

https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/55002-tcc-library-handout-mla-8-multimedia

https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/5071-iskme-gopro-learning-challenge-submission-example

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/distance-learning-tips-and-tricks-from-full-time-online-learning-students

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/special-education-in-secondary-schools

https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/16132

• Europeana
• Figshare
• Open Goldberg Variations
• Metropolitan Museum of Art

To sumarize:

To better assign a Creative Commons license to a specific contente, there is an user-friendly online resource, CC License Chooser, available at:

https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/

Here is a print from this platform: