A brief overview of copyright and CC licenses for faculty at Quinebaug Valley Community College

1. Prepared for QVCC Faculty
March 28, 2018
Jennifer Cournoyer, Director of Library Services

2. “Copyright 101” by Jennifer Cournoyer on Canva. CC BY NC SA 4.0

3. COPYRIGHT IS GREAT, BUT I
WANT TO SHARE!
CREATIVE
COMMONS
LICENSES ARE
BASED IN
COPYRIGHT AND
OFFER A “SOME
RIGHTS RESERVED”
APPROACH
“Share Sharing Bubble Rainbow Col” by Isi Dixon on Pixaby. CC0
“Share” by Maroc on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY SA 3.0

4. Creative Commons Licenses
have three layers.
The layer you will see most
often is the human readable
layer, which looks like this:
“Creative Commons Licenses A Brief Description” by Elizabeth Roettele on Canva CC BY SA 4.0

5. Look for these:
“Decoding creative commons licenses” by Cailean Cooney CC BY 4.0

6.  OER is good for students
 OER is good for faculty
 OER provide faculty with the choice to maintain their pedagogical status quo
(while saving students money and possibly improving outcomes), as well as the
choice to pair truly customized instructional materials with innovative
pedagogical experiences for students, and a range of choices in between.
Because they increase faculty’s ability to be true teaching professionals while
expanding their pedagogical degrees of freedom, OER provide benefits for
faculty.
“OER Is Better for Everyone Involved” by David Wiley on
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3743 CC BY 4.0
 OPEN means ACCESS, and at QVCC, that is always what we strive for.

7. I STILL HAVE QUESTIONS.
WHERE DO I GO FOR MORE HELP?
US Copyright Info
CC Licenses
OER on the QVCC Campus
Finding or Creating OER
Ask your QVCC OER Librarian!
“Questions” by NickYoungson on Alpha Stock
Images CC BY SA 3.0

8. “OER Licensing Basics” by Jennifer Cournoyer is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License.