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Make Something And Give It a Creative Commons License<\/h1>\r\nOpen education is about sharing, collaborating, and increasing access.\u00a0 Copyright can be one barrier. Almost everything we make is protected by copyright or licensing or patents of some kind. Intellectual property is protected. That is why you can\u2019t just look online and copy someone else\u2019s work or use someone else\u2019s photo or graphic or image. Collectively, we have developed procedures to indicate when we are using someone else\u2019s words or ideas. We create an attribution. We create footnotes or a bibliography. But what do we do when we want to use someone else\u2019s educational resource? Perhaps we know about a section or chapter in someone else\u2019s course that would work well for a course we<\/em> are teaching. Can we legally or even ethically use that content? We can, if that content has a license that allows for reuse, adoption or even adaptation.\r\n\r\nUltimately, it is this act of licensing and sharing that elevates a regular old educational resource to the grand status of OER! The most common way to signal a resource is openly licensed is through Creative Commons. With CC you, the creator, can set the conditions of usage.\r\n\r\nLearn about the types of Creative Commons licenses here<\/a> and use the Creative Commons Chooser tool<\/a> to create your license.\r\n\r\nBelow is a chart that shows the differences and degrees of \"openess\" related to different licences.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

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Make Something And Give It a Creative Commons License<\/h1>\n

Open education is about sharing, collaborating, and increasing access.\u00a0 Copyright can be one barrier. Almost everything we make is protected by copyright or licensing or patents of some kind. Intellectual property is protected. That is why you can\u2019t just look online and copy someone else\u2019s work or use someone else\u2019s photo or graphic or image. Collectively, we have developed procedures to indicate when we are using someone else\u2019s words or ideas. We create an attribution. We create footnotes or a bibliography. But what do we do when we want to use someone else\u2019s educational resource? Perhaps we know about a section or chapter in someone else\u2019s course that would work well for a course we<\/em> are teaching. Can we legally or even ethically use that content? We can, if that content has a license that allows for reuse, adoption or even adaptation.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it is this act of licensing and sharing that elevates a regular old educational resource to the grand status of OER! The most common way to signal a resource is openly licensed is through Creative Commons. With CC you, the creator, can set the conditions of usage.<\/p>\n

Learn about the types of Creative Commons licenses here<\/a> and use the Creative Commons Chooser tool<\/a> to create your license.<\/p>\n

Below is a chart that shows the differences and degrees of “openess” related to different licences.<\/p>\n

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