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  • Creating OER and Combining Licenses

    This video is intended to help you choose compatible resources and choose a valid license for your work. Suppose you are developing an open educational resource (OER), and you want to use some other OER within yours. If you create a derivative work by adapting or combining works offered under Creative Common licenses, you must not only follow the terms of each of the licenses involved, but... more

  • CC Licenses and Trademarks: A Guide for Organizational OER Creators and Distributors

    This primer is a guide to understanding the relationship between your rights as a copyright owner using Creative Commons licenses (particularly CC BY) and your trademark rights within the context of open educational resources (?OER?). Many people in the OER community are under the mistaken impression that copyright is the only tool at their disposal to protect and control their work and that... more

  • Otherwise Open Managing Incompatible Content within Open Educational Resources

    This paper seeks to provide an overview of the problem posed by the incorporation of IC into otherwise open educational resources. This paper also describes a number of approaches to resolving this issue, including the reliance on jurisdictional copyright exceptions and limitations, and explores the trade-offs involved in adopting any one of these approaches. It is important to note that we... more

  • What is Creative Commons?

    This resource from the Creative Commons website provides a brief introduction to the concept. more

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