Confused by Creative Commons? At a loss about licences? Bewildered by attribution? If you’re new to Creative Commons licences or simply need a quick refresher, these slides will provide a brief introduction to Creative Commons, covering all the main licence types, and show you how to quickly and easily apply CC licences to content in Learn, Media Hopper Create and blogs.
These slides are part of a digital skills course run by the University of Edinburgh's Open Educational Resources Service https://open.ed.ac.uk/
CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell and Stephanie Farley, University of Edinburgh, 2020.
Creative Commons Quick Start: A short introduction to using CC licences
1. Creative Commons Quick Start
A short introduction to using Creative
Commons licences
Creative Commons – A vessel of ideas, CC BY SA,
OpenSource.com on flickr
3. You can type a comment or a question in
“Text Chat” at any time.
Click this icon to raise your hand.
If you have a microphone, click on
“Audio” icon then speak your question.
Asking questions in Collaborate
4. • They provide a clear statement of ownership.
• They enable creative works to be shared and
reused, while protecting the rights of the
creator.
• They ensure that the University can continue
to use resources it has invested in.
• They ensure that staff can continue to use
resources they have created.
• They minimise the risk of copyright
infringement.
Why are Creative Commons Licences important?
CC Stickers, CC BY, Kristina Alexanderson on flickr https://flic.kr/p/bWaYEW
5. • http://open.ed.ac.uk/about/
• Approved by Learning and Teaching
Committee in January 2016.
• Informative and permissive.
• Encourages staff and students to use,
create and publish open licensed
resources to enhance the quality of the
student experience.
• Helps colleagues make informed
decisions about creating and using OER.
Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, CC BY-NC-SA
2.0, Centre for Research Collections, https://flic.kr/p/fcwNdT
University of Edinburgh OER Policy
7. Legislation that protects the rights
of authors of creative works, for a
set period of time.
UK copyright lasts for 25 – 70
years depending on the type of
work.
Copyright
Copyright, by ProSymbols, CC BY
9. Provide permission to freely use
copyright works under certain
terms and conditions.
Sharing a work under open
licence does not mean you are
“giving away” your IPR.
Open Licences
Akzidenz Grotesk Bold, CC BY SA,
https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
10. Public domain resources are no
longer under protection, e.g.
copyright has expired, or have
been actively dedicated to the
public for free use, e.g. CC0.
Public Domain
Public Domain – CC0
12. Creative Commons (CC) provide a range of open
licenses that enable the free distribution of
otherwise copyrighted work.
13. CC BY-SA 2.0, Foter.com, https://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creative-commons-photos/
14. Creative Commons Attribution, CC BY
Allows you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build on the material
in any medium or format, as long as attribution is given to the
creator. The license allows commercial use.
CC BY includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
Image by J. Smith, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY, link
15. Creative Commons Attribution Non
Commercial, CC BY-NC
Allows you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build on the material
in any medium or format, for non-commercial purposes only,
and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
CC BY-NC includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
NC – Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted
Image by J. Smith, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-NC, link
16. When using the NC licence you
should consider the use of the
work not the nature of the
organisation.
E.g. A commercial organisation
may use NC content for non-
commercial purposes.
Non-commercial
Public domain image on
Wikimedia Commons
17. Creative Commons Attribution Share
Alike, CC BY-SA
Allows you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build on the material
as long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt,
or build upon the material, you must license the modified
material under identical terms. The licence allows commercial
use, any derivative works must also allow commercial use.
CC BY-SA includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
Image by J. Smith, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-SA, link
18. Creative Commons Attribution Non
Commercial Share Alike, CC BY-NC-SA
Allows you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in
any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so
long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or
build upon the material, you must license the modified material
under identical terms.
CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
NC – Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted
SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
Image by J. Smith, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-NC-SA, link
19. Licenses that grant the right to
freely distribute and
modify creative works, as long
as derivative works are shared
under the same licence.
Copyleft
Public domain image on
Wikimedia Commons
20. Creative Commons Attribution No
Derivatives, CC BY-ND
Allows you to copy and distribute the material in unadapted
form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
The license allows for commercial use.
CC BY-ND includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted
Image by J. Smith, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-ND, link
21. Creative Commons Attribution Non
Commercial No Derivatives, CC BY-NC-ND
This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in
unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only
so long as attribution is given to the creator.
CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
NC – Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted
ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted
Image by J. Smith, University of Edinburgh, 2020, CC BY-ND-ND, link
22. CC BY-SA 2.0, Foter.com, https://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creative-commons-photos/
23. All Creative Commons Licences are
• Accompanied by a human-readable
summary and a licence deed.
• Applicable worldwide.
• Backwards compatible.
• Last for the duration of the copyright
of the work.
• Non-exclusive.
• Irrevocable.
24. Creative Commons Zero, CC0
A public dedication tool, which allows creators to give up their
copyright and put their works into the worldwide public domain.
CC0 allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon
the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.
25. Attributing resources
CC heart cupcakes by David Kindler,
CC BY 2.0, on flickr
https://flic.kr/p/dzSp17
Title: CC heart cupcakes
Creator: David Kindler
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Source: url
26. Attributing resources
It is good practice to attribute all
third-party content regardless of
whether it as been shared under
open licence or not.
42. There are three ways you can add
licence information to a blog post.
1. Add a licence statement to the
whole blog using a Text
Widget.
43. There are three ways you can add
licence information to a blog post.
1. Add a licence statement to the
whole blog using a Text
Widget.
2. Add a licence statement to
individual posts using
OpenAttribute.
44.
45.
46. There are three ways you can add
licence information to a blog post.
1. Add a licence statement to the
whole blog using a Text
Widget.
2. Add a licence statement to
individual posts using
OpenAttribute.
47. There are three ways you can add
licence information to a blog post.
1. Add a licence statement to the
whole blog using a Text
Widget.
2. Add a licence statement to
individual posts using
OpenAttribute.
3. Add a licence statement to
images and media.
48.
49.
50. Add Media > Upload or Select > Enter licence in Attribution Tag
51. There are three ways you can add
licence information to a blog post.
1. Add a licence statement to the
whole blog using a Text
Widget.
2. Add a licence statement to
individual posts using
OpenAttribute.
3. Add a licence statement to
images and media.
53. Find out more….
OER Service
• Open.Ed https://open.ed.ac.uk/
• How To Guides https://open.ed.ac.uk/how-to-guides/
• Copyright Licensing and Open Materials for Remote and Hybrid Teaching
https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/ (online digital skills workshop )
• Will It Bite Me? Media Licensing and Online Teaching Environments
http://edin.ac/2LjAia1 (videos)
• Licensing in Media Hopper Create https://edin.ac/3kV2L4a
Creative Commons
• About the licences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
• Licence picker tool https://creativecommons.org/choose/
• How to give attribution https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/attribution/
Copyright protects the rights of authors of creative works. You don't need to register copyright or put the copyright symbol on your work. Once you have created an original piece of work, be it a photograph, sound recording, painting, or paper, your rights as the author of that work are protected.
The University has an OER Policy, approved by our Learning and Teaching Committee, which encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience. The University’s vision for OER is very much the brain child of Melissa Highton, Assisstant Principal Online Learning and Director of Learning and Teaching Web Services. EUSA, the student union were also instrumental in encouraging the University to adopt an OER policy, and we continue to see student engagement and co-creation as being fundamental aspects of open education.
We also have a central OER Service based in Information Services, that supports staff and students to engage with open knowledge and provides a showcase of open educational resources created by colleagues around the University.
Copyright protects the rights of authors of creative works. You don't need to register copyright or put the copyright symbol on your work. Once you have created an original piece of work, be it a photograph, sound recording, painting, or paper, your rights as the author of that work are protected.
A licence is the permission or authorisation to re-use a copyrighted work. By applying a licence you aren't giving up your copyright, the work is still yours, what you are saying is how someone else can, and can not, re-use your work.
A licence is the permission or authorisation to re-use a copyrighted work. By applying a licence you aren't giving up your copyright, the work is still yours, what you are saying is how someone else can, and can not, re-use your work.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
Copyright protects the rights of authors of creative works. You don't need to register copyright or put the copyright symbol on your work. Once you have created an original piece of work, be it a photograph, sound recording, painting, or paper, your rights as the author of that work are protected.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
Copyright protects the rights of authors of creative works. You don't need to register copyright or put the copyright symbol on your work. Once you have created an original piece of work, be it a photograph, sound recording, painting, or paper, your rights as the author of that work are protected.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Ensuring that when embedding images we take the time to link directly to the image source provides the all important attribution, but it also allows students to view the images directly, possibly at higher resolution, and to explore the collections.
Ensuring that when embedding images we take the time to link directly to the image source provides the all important attribution, but it also allows students to view the images directly, possibly at higher resolution, and to explore the collections.
You’ll notice that even though this image is available in the public domain, I’ve still made a note that this is the case.
Box of Broadcast media can be embedded directly within course content on Learn or Moodle, or linked out to on the Box of Broadcasts webpage. We recommend getting into the practice of noting where the content is being provided from, for example in this situation to state that the media is from Box of Broadcasts and can also be viewed from the service directly. Students will need to be logged in with EASE to view the content.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.