This presentation provides an overview of licensing and open educational resources (OER). It defines copyright and explains what is protected such as original works in a fixed medium. Creative Commons licenses are discussed which allow creators to select which copyright restrictions to waive so that others can legally reuse and remix the work. The most common CC license is Attribution (CC BY) which lets others distribute, use, and build upon the work. For educational resources to be considered fully open and reusable, they must allow for revision and remixing under an open license like CC BY. The presentation encourages using openly licensed OER to reduce costs for students and supports open education.

1. Licensing
Overview
Kelsey Smith
West Hills College Lemoore
Adjunct OER Librarian
This presentation by Kelsey Smith, West Hills College Lemoore, is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

2. Free ≠ OER
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3. Copyright
What does it
protect?
All original ideas in a fixed, tangible medium (e.g. a book,
artwork, an audio file, a document, an email, etc.). It
protects published and unpublished work.
What does it do?
Prevents anyone but the creator from distributing,
performing, displaying, copying, and/or making derivatives
of the work.
How is it granted?
It is automatically applied and no legal documentation is
needed for protection to begin. You can, however, register
the work with the US Copyright Office for additional legal
leverage (suing others for infringement).
What is the law?
It depends! In general, you can assume the law is
protection of a work for the entire life of the creator plus
and additional 70 years.

4. Public
Domain
“...the state of belonging or being
available to the public as a whole
and therefore not subject to
copyright.”
- Carrie Russel
Complete Copyright: A Guide for Librarians

5. “Uncopyrightables”
▪ US Federal Government documents
▪ Work with expired copyright
▪ Ideas
▪ Facts
▪ Recipes, lists, slogans, etc.

6. Open educational resources (OER) are free and
openly licensed educational materials that can be
used for teaching, learning, research, and other
purposes.
Open Education "...is the simple and powerful idea
that the world’s knowledge is a public good and
that technology in general and the Web in
particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for
everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.“
—The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/What_is_OER%3F

7. Open
Licenses
▪ Since copyright is automatic, open licenses allow creators to
issue an agreement that their work may be used in
particular ways without permission
▪ You will mostly be working with Creative Commons licenses
▪ “Some rights reserved” vs. “all rights reserved”
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8. Open licenses
do not get rid
of copyright

9. Creative
Commons
A non-profit organization devoted to increasing the
amount of creative works in the “Commons” by making
sharing, using, and reusing these works much easier.
The Creative Commons Licenses allow creators to pick
and choose what copyright restrictions they want to
keep and which restrictions they want to waive.

10. 1,471,401,740
Creative Commons licensed works in 2017
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/

11. Reuse
The right to use
the content in a
variety of
different ways
that best fit
your
needs
(e.g. in class
activity,
posted on a
website, in a
video)
Revise
The right to
adapt, adjust,
modify, or alter
the content
(e.g. translate
into another
language, add
or delete parts,
update,
edit an image)
Retain
The right to
make, own,
and
control copies
of
the content
(e.g.
download,
duplicate,
and store)
Remix
The right to
combine the
original or
revised content
with other
material to
create something
completely new
(e.g. combining
OER together)
Redistribute
The right to share
copies of the original
content, your
revisions, or your
remixes with others
(e.g. sharing links and
files, printing out and
sharing with students)

12. Attribution (BY)
Non-Commercial (NC)
Share Alike (SA)
No Derivatives (ND)

13. “No-derivative” is not OER
If you are not allowed to adapt
or remix the content to better
fit your needs, then it fails the
“remix” and “revise” R’s and is
not considered OER.

14. Pop Quiz
The Creative Commons Attribution
license is abbreviated in which of
the following ways?
CC BYCC AT CC BY-SA CC0

15. Unsure about the license?
Need it to be open, but it
isn’t? Talk to the creator(s)!

16. ZTC Degree
Grant
Requirements
All course
resources
are to be
uploaded
to the PLN
Learning
resources
MUST be
free to
students
All OER
created by
faculty
must be
licensed
CC BY
Use of OER
is not
required,
but
encouraged

17. Licensing
Activity
https://tinyurl.com/ztclicensing

18. Questions?
Kelsey Smith
kelseysmith@whccd.edu
@OER_Librarian

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