Introduction to CC licenses for teaching and learning. Creative Commons Open Educational Resources Open Content

1. Introducing
Licences
Javiera Atenas
Academic Development Directorate @jatenas
SOAS, University of London

2. ©Copyright – Basic rules
• Just because something is on the internet
doesn’t mean you can use it!
• If someone else has created something you
should be cautious about using it
• Individuals can copy limited amounts for
study/research purposes under CDPA
(Copyright Act)

3. ©Copyright licenses
• Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) –
books, journals
• Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) –
newspaper cuttings, media monitoring
• Educational Recording Agency (ERA) –
broadcast television programmes

4. ©Copyright licences - where licenses
don’t apply
• Permission of author/publisher
• You own the copyright (be careful of
publishing agreement though)
• The material is out of copyright
• An educational exception applies

5. Creative Commons Licences

6. Briefly about licences
Attribution CC BY Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
• This licence lets others
distribute, remix, tweak, an • This licence lets others
d build upon your remix, tweak, and build
work, even upon your work even for
commercially, as long as commercial purposes, as
they credit you for the long as they credit you and
original creation. licence their new creations
under the identical terms.

7. Briefly about licences
Attribution-NoDerivs Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-ND CC BY-NC
• This licence lets others
• This licence allows for
remix, tweak, and build
redistribution, commercial
and non-commercial, as upon your work non-
commercially, and although
long as it is passed along
their new works must also
unchanged and in whole,
acknowledge you and be
with credit to you.
non-commercial

8. Briefly about licences
Attribution- Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-SA CC BY-NC-ND
• This licence is the most
restrictive of our six main
• This licence lets others licenses, only allowing
remix, tweak, and build others to download your
upon your work non- works and share them with
commercially, as long as others as long as they
credit you, but they can’t
they credit you and license change them in any way or
their new creations under use them commercially.
the identical terms.

9. Other Licences
Public Domain Mark — “No Known Copyright”
Public Domain Mark enables works that are no longer restricted
by copyright to be marked as such in a standard and simple
way, making them easily discoverable and available to others.
Many cultural heritage institutions including
museums, libraries and other curators are knowledgeable about
the copyright status of paintings, books and
manuscripts, photographs and other works in their
collections, many of which are old and no longer under
copyright.

10. Other Licences
Rights Reserved - Restricted Access
• Item protected by copyright and/or related rights. This item
is only accessible through registration or some other form of
controlled access and subject to the licensing conditions set
by the organization giving access to it. Unless expressly stated
otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to make
any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and
related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a
copy for your own personal purposes.

11. Other Licences
Rights Reserved – Free Access
• This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This
item is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the
licensing conditions set by the organization giving access to it.
Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions,
you are free to make any of the acts permitted by your
national copyright and related rights act, including browsing,
printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.

12. Other Licences
Rights Reserved – Paid Access
• This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This
item is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the
licensing conditions set by the organization giving access to it.
Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing
conditions, you are free to make any of the acts permitted by
your national copyright and related rights act, including
browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal
purposes.

13. Where to find CC content