Creative Commons Licenses and OER

The use of Creative Commons Licenses allows OERs to be extremely flexible.  Depending on the type of licenses used instructors can adopt or adapt OER materials for their needs.

Creative Commons Licenses

The Creative Commons (CC) copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. CC Licenses give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law. Links open in a new window.

Licenses that “normal” people can read

• Three Layers
• Legal Code
• Commons Deed (human readable)
• Machine Readable (Web Friendly)

“About the Licenses,” Creative Commons License,  accessed November 20, 2015, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/  Link opens in an new window.