Open licence – Page 2 – Copyright literacy

The following icons represent the four licence elements:

Attribution or “BY” indicates that the original creator needs to be acknowledged.
^{All of the CC licences include this condition.}

A graphic of a circle with a line through it followed by a C-shaped arrow pointing counter-clockwise inside a third circle

ShareAlike or “SA” indicates that adaptations based on this work must be licensed under the same licence.
^{Two of the CC licences include this condition.}

A graphic of a "$" inside a circle with a line through it.

NonCommercial or “NC” means that the work is only available to be used for non-commercial purposes.
^{Three of the CC licences include this restriction}^.

NoDerivatives or “ND” indicates that re-users cannot share work adaptations.
^{Two of the CC licences include this restriction.}

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Creative Commons (CC) licences are one of the public copyright licences that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted creation.

A CC licence is used when an author or copyright owner wants to give other people the right to share, use and build upon a work the author has created.

CC licences are built on copyright and are designed to give more options to creators
who want to share.

Why do we need CC licences?

The CC licences were created in response to an outdated global copyright legal system and to help address the tension between creators’ ability to share digital works globally and copyright regulation.

What is the CC licence scope?

CC licences are appropriate for creators to provide people with permissions governed by copyright from the onset.

They have the basic limitation of controlling what people do with the work the licences; hence, they apply only when the work is within the scope of copyright, which means that they do not apply when copyright doesn’t and when exceptions to copyright law do.

They warrant that there may be other not covered rights at play with the work that restrict how it is used (i.e., patents, trademarks, privacy and publicity rights) that must be managed separately.

Scenarios in which copyright does not apply and CC licences do not either:

Letting someone specifically read your article or watch your video is not regulated by copyright law.

When fair use, fair dealing or other limitation and exception to copyright applies.

When the work is in the public domain.

How do the Creative Commons licences work technically?

What are the elements of the Creative Commons?

What are the six Creative Commons licences?

How to you reference and acknowledge Creative Commons licensed works?

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