{"id":61,"date":"2017-02-18T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/?post_type=chapter&p=61"},"modified":"2022-09-16T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:55:38","slug":"creative-commons-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/chapter\/creative-commons-alternatives\/","title":{"raw":"Creative Commons Alternatives","rendered":"Creative Commons Alternatives"},"content":{"raw":"

Alternative licenses<\/h2>\r\nWhile Creative Commons licensing<\/a> is a well-recognized, straight-forward, flexible type of licensing that is strongly associated with OER, there are other types of open licensing available.\r\n

GNU<\/h3>\r\n\"\"\r\nThe GNU General Public License<\/a> is a \"free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.\"\r\n

Copyleft<\/h3>\r\n\"\"\r\nCopyleft<\/a> is comparable to the ShareAlike<\/a> aspect of a Creative Commons license.\r\n

Public Domain<\/h3>\r\n\"\"\r\nWorks in the public domain are not copyrighted. Different countries have different copyright laws and lengths, however, which must be carefully checked.\r\n\r\nCreative Commons has public domain tools<\/a> that allow users to place their works in the public domain.\r\n
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Attributions<\/h3>\r\nThe GNU General Public License version 3 logo<\/a> is in the Public Domain.\r\nThe Copyleft symbol<\/a> by Zscout370<\/a> is in the Public Domain.\r\nThe Public Domain logo<\/a> has been copied from Creative Commons<\/a> and is used under a CC BY license<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

Alternative licenses<\/h2>\n

While Creative Commons licensing<\/a> is a well-recognized, straight-forward, flexible type of licensing that is strongly associated with OER, there are other types of open licensing available.<\/p>\n

GNU<\/h3>\n

\"\"
\nThe GNU General Public License<\/a> is a “free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.”<\/p>\n

Copyleft<\/h3>\n

\"\"
\nCopyleft<\/a> is comparable to the ShareAlike<\/a> aspect of a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n

Public Domain<\/h3>\n

\"\"
\nWorks in the public domain are not copyrighted. Different countries have different copyright laws and lengths, however, which must be carefully checked.<\/p>\n

Creative Commons has public domain tools<\/a> that allow users to place their works in the public domain.<\/p>\n

\n

Attributions<\/h3>\n

The GNU General Public License version 3 logo<\/a> is in the Public Domain.
\nThe Copyleft symbol<\/a> by Zscout370<\/a> is in the Public Domain.
\nThe Public Domain logo<\/a> has been copied from Creative Commons<\/a> and is used under a CC BY license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[47],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-61","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard"],"part":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61\/revisions\/367"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/39"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/facultyoertoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}