1.
Creative Commons Licences
Learning to (Re)Use Open Educational Resources
@josiefraser
2 March 2016

2.
Understanding copyright
• Copyright is a type of intellectual property which
grants the owner of the copyright exclusive rights to
control how their work is used, reproduced and
credited.
• Works acquire copyright automatically, without the
need to register the work. Copyright is granted to new
works when they are recorded in a material form, such
as being written down or saved on a computer.
• Copyright lasts for the lifetime of the creator, plus
usually an additional few decades following their
death, depending on the type of work.

3.
Public Domain
• A work is in the public
domain if the
intellectual property
rights have expired, or if
they have been waived
by the rights holder.

4.
Open licensing & Creative Commons
• There are a range of licences which can be used by
educators to provide additional permissions to use and
reuse work
• Creative Commons (CC) are well established,
standardised, internationally recognised - & there are
lots of resources available to support educators
• CC licences work alongside existing copyright laws
-their free licences can be used by copyright holders to
allow others to share, reuse and remix their works,
legally & without having to ask permission first.

5.
What is an open licence?
• Open content, including open educational
resources (OER), can be described as legally
free.
• This legal freedom is expressed through a
licence — called an open licence — through
which the copyright holder grants permission
to use, access and re-distribute work with few
restrictions.

6.
Creative Commons
• Creative Commons
licensing allows you to
find content that you
can use legally to
support teaching and
learning. When sharing
content, Creative
Commons clarifies the
terms on which you are
happy for your work to
be shared.

7.
Attribution (BY)
• All Creative Commons
licences require that
you credit the copyright
holder when reusing
their work in any way.

8.
Share-Alike (SA)
• You let others copy,
distribute, display,
perform and modify
your work, as long as
they distribute the work
and any modified work
on the same terms.

9.
NoDerivatives (ND)
• You let others copy,
distribute, display and
perform only original
copies of your work. If
they want to modify
your work, they must
get your permission
first.

10.
NonCommercial (NC)
• You let others copy,
distribute, display,
perform and (unless
you have chosen
NoDerivatives) modify
and use your work for
any purpose other than
commercially.

11.
Permissions can be combined to give
six different types of CC licences

12.
Free Cultural Works
• CC marks the most
permissive of its licenses
as “Approved for Free
Cultural Works.” When
you apply these licenses
to material you create, it
meets
the Freedom Defined definition
of a “Free Cultural
Work.” Free cultural
works are the ones that
can be most readily used,
shared, and remixed by
others.
Approved!
Not approved!
https://creativecommons.org/freeworks/

13.
Questions
• Does it matter which licence we use?
• Which licence would you recommend
others use, or use to share your own
work? Why?

14.
Thank you!
Creative Commons Licences:
Learning to (Re)Use Open Educational Resources
(2016) by Josie Fraser is licensed under CC BY 4.0

15.
Credits
This work is based on OER Guidance for Schools (2014), by
Björn Haßler, Helen Neo and Josie Fraser. Published by
Leicester City Council, available under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0.
For further OER resources and guidance, see:
http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education
For more information about Creative Commons Licences,
see:
John H. Weitzmann (2015) OER up! Open Licensing
Webinar licenced under CC-BY-SA 4.0