Creative Commons: Some rights reserved

Creative Commons

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Creative Commons: Some rights reserved by Carrie Finn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Every Creative Commons licence has 3 layers

The Top Layer

The Bottom Layer

The Middle Layer

The Law

Common Deeds

Machine Readable

This enables the licence to be discoverable by websites and is embedded in the code of a page on a site.

These are the terms and conditions as determined by the legal system and are written in legalese.

These are the licence requirements written for regular people or users of the licence.

Elements +

There are 4 elements and icons that make up Creative Commons licences.

Icons

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Attribution

This element indicates that the work cannot be used for commercial purposes by other users.

This element indicates that any works that use the original must be licensed under the same licence as the original.

This element indicates that other users cannot change the work; it can only be used in its original state.

This element indicates that if the work is to be used by others, the author must be attributed. All Creative Commons licences contain this element.

There are 6 types of Creative Commons licences

CC BY

Icons: CC + Attribution

Allows others to use the original work for any purpose (even for commercial profit or with changes) provided the original is attributed.

CC BY-SA

Icons: CC + Attribution + ShareAlike

Allows others to use the original work for any purpose (even for commercial profit or with changes) provided the original is attributed and license the new work in the same way as the original.

CC BY-NC

Icons: CC + Attribution + NonCommercial

Allows others to use the original work for non-commercial purposes provided the original is attributed.

CC BY-NC-SA

Icons: CC + Attribution + NonCommercial + ShareAlike

Allows others to use the original work for non-commericial purposes provided the original is attributed and the new work is shared under the same licence.

CC BY-ND

Icons: CC + Attribution + NoDerivatives

Allows others to use the original work with no changes for any purpose (even for commercial profit) provided the original is attributed.

CC BY-NC-ND

Icons: CC + Attribution + NonCommercial + NoDerivatives

Allows others to use the original work without any changes for non-commerical purposes provided the original is attributed.

What if someone doesn't want to claim copyright?

Individuals who don't want their work to fall under copyright can license their work as , which waives their rights to the work.

CC0

It's also important to note that a Creative Commons licence cannot be placed on a work in the public domain.

Limitations +

exceptions

Fair UseFair Dealing

Creative Commons licences are not designed to hinder or replace these common exceptions to copyright.

All images sourced from Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

All information / content sourced from the following:Frequently Asked Questions at https://creativecommons.org/faq/ Module 3 of CC 2018 Certificate for Educators at https://learn.canvas.net/courses/2545

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