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Open Educational Resources (OER): Creative Commons & Licenses

A Guide for Educators and Learners

What is Creative Commons?

This tutorial explains the six different Creative Commons (CC) licenses, and how to choose the right one to apply to your work.

The Creative Commons website has a web wizard tool that helps you select the right type of Creative Commons license to apply to your work, based upon your preferred terms of use for that work. The wizard will display and link to the license that is specific to your choices in the wizard form, and will generate the HTML content if you want to embed that license in a website, blog, LibGuide, etc.

Go Use the Creative Commons License Wizard Tool

CC Licensing

Whether you adopt, adapt or create OER, licensing is a key component in sharing your knowledge creation. If you have questions about the what, when, where or why of CC licensing,  please contact mcclibrary@middlesex.edu  

Attribution 4.0 from Creative Commons

  • Attribution (BY) – only need to credit the original creator
     
  • Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC) – for non-commercial purposes, and you need to credit the original creator
     
  • Attribution Share Alike (BY-SA) – credit the original creator, and make your new content available under the same cc licence
     
  • Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA) - credit the original creator, and make new content available under the same cc licence, and for non-commercial purposes.
     

  • Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND - allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.