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Copyright and Fair Use: Creative Commons and Copyright

Copyright and Fair Use

Creative Commons

Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world. Creative Commons helps unlock the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity.

Get Creative by Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY) license. For more information, please visit the Creative Commons page for this video.

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Best Practice

When using someone else's work that is licensed under the Creative Commons license, it is best practice to give attribution to the original author. A good rule of thumb is to use the acronym TASL, which stands for Title, Author, Source, License

  • Title? Specific works named.
  • Author? Different authors noted for the different works.
  • Source? Original materials are linked for each work.
  • License? The different licenses are spelled out and linked for each work.

Example: "Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco" by tvol is licensed under CC BY 2.0

 

Creative Commons Licensing


 Attribution (by): "All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first."

 ShareAlike (sa): "You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first."

 NonCommercial (nc): "You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen NoDerivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first."

 NoDerivatives (nd): "You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first."

Licensing Types. Creative Commons