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Open Education – Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are types of open licenses that can be applied to Open Educational Resources. These licenses make it easier to share and reuse the work you create. This chapter  will explore the basic concept of Creative Commons licenses and how they relate to copyright.

In the following chapters you will:

  • Explain the basic concept of Creative Commons licenses and how they relate to copyright
  • Explain the difference between using a work under “fair dealing” rules and using one with a CC license
  • Give examples of what one can/cannot do with resources that have different CC licenses (BY, NC, SA, ND)
  • Point to ways to find CC licensed content of various types
  • Apply a CC license to their own work, and share that work in a format that is easily re-usable by others

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The Open Scholarship Primer Copyright © by Will Engle, Erin Fields, Donna Langille, Leila Malkin, Rie Namba, Stephanie Savage, Trish Varao-Sousa, Craig Thompson, Lucas Wright is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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