Category: Licences: Open licences

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How do I acknowledge Free Art licensed material?

14 December 2021 / Erica Levi

Free Art Licence grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative works without any changes. It needs to be acknowledged in the following way:

[author], “[title]”, [date of the work]. [where to find the originals]. Copyleft: This is a free work. You can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/

The author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context.

How do I acknowledge Open Government licensed material?

14 December 2021 / Erica Levi

Open Government licensed material is released by the British government and licences to the public under certain conditions.

You must acknowledge the source of the information, including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to the licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, you must use the following:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

If you are using information from several information providers and listing multiple attributions is not practical for your product or application, you may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statements.

The author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context.

What are open licences?

13 December 2021 / Erica Levi

A free or open licence is a licensing agreement that allows individuals to reuse another creator’s work. This use is granted by the copyright owner at the start.

Some of the most common licences are as follows:

Creative Commons licences, except any that include a NonDerivative element
Crown Copyright and Open Government Licence
Work of some United States government
Free Art Licence

Please note that works in the public domain are free to be used, but licences do not regulate them.

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What is the Free Art Licence?

13 December 2021 / Erica Levi

Free Art Licence grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative works without any changes.

It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) licence.

How do you reference Free Art licensed material?

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What is the Open Government Licence?

13 December 2021 / Erica Levi

The Open Government Licence for public sector information is a copyright licence for Crown Copyright works published by the UK government.

Other UK public sector bodies may apply it to their publications.

It was developed and is maintained by The National Archives. It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

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What is Open Access in scholarship?

13 December 2021 / Erica Levi

The Open Access an orange open lock symbol.

Open Access (OA) is a set of principles and practices through which research output is distributed online free of charge.

OA aim to increase the impact and exploitation of scholarly communications in opposition to the limiting nature of the traditional fee-paying system.

Components of OA include:

Authors keep their copyright
Access to output without embargo
Application of a CC licence that enables text and data mining

A publication realised with a Creative Commons licence that includes the NonDerivative element is not considered Open Access.

GREEN Open Access

Usually, an earlier version (manuscript) of a publication is made freely available in a repository (self-archiving) through, for example:

University research repositories
Subject repositories, such as arXv or PubMed
Repositories managed by research funders, such as an example Zenodo

GOLD Open Access

The published version of the publication is made freely available upon publication by the publisher with an open licence. Open Access journals may charge an Article Processing Charge (APC) to make it open.

The author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context.