Creative commons licensing, distribution and attribution
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Understanding how to reuse material Understanding your use Other considerations when using and ...
Understanding how to reuse material
The availability of works under an open license has increased dramatically since the Creative Com...
Understanding your use
Before deciding where to look for works that you can use, you need to define what is your intende...
Other considerations when using and reusing CC licensed material
The CC licenses don’t cover other rights different from copyright. Any image, sound, moving image...
What happens if I use a material offered under a CC license and the author decides to remove or change the CC license?
CC licenses are irrevocable. This means that if someone decides to change their mind about the li...
Understanding how to attribute
Using the TASL approach
Attribution is not only a legal requirement, it’s also good practice. For both copyrighted and op...
Attributing works in the public domain
Works might be in the public domain typically for any of the following reasons:1 because copyr...
A note about license versions
If you are more or less familiar with the CC licenses, you have probably seen already that someti...
Searching openly licensed resources
The following guide uses the following keywords to refer to websites, repositories and content pl...
General tips for your search
Search for the CC license or tool There are many, many, many repositories out there that have op...
Repositories of openly licensed content
Multimedia: Wikimedia Commons Multimedia: Cultural Heritage Institutions Multimedia: Internet A...
Multimedia: Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is the multimedia repository of the Wikimedia Foundation. It’s also the central...
Multimedia: Cultural Heritage Institutions
Another source of great quality content are cultural heritage institutions. There are many benefi...
Multimedia: Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a project that offers multiple services. To begin with, as it has been mentio...
Multimedia: Flickr
Flickr is a very popular website to upload all types of images and videos. Flickr was also an ear...
Multimedia continued, Vector Graphics and Images
Multimedia: Other government or public institutions More databases governments are starting to ...
Sounds
Sounds: Bandcamp Bandcamp is an online music store and also a platform for independent music and...
Cheatsheets
Ethical & other considerations YES/NO If you answer... Do you plan t...