LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OERs) @ Hostos: Got COPYRIGHT questions?

Copyright - Creative Commons - Public Domain

Overview of Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

-- From Creative Commons website

What is Fair Use?

Fair Use Evaluation
Wondering if your use of copyrighted material qualifies as fair use? Enter your information into this tool and it will help you decide. If you don't understand fair use, complete the informational module.
Fair Use Checklist
Use this printable sheet to evaluate your use of materials to determine if it is fair use. The list comes from Columbia University.

Types of Licenses

The licenses below and their descriptions come from the About the Licenses page of Creative Commons.

Choosing and Attributing Licenses

"Which Creative Commons License is Right for Me?" by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation available under CC BY 2.5.

Download the flowchart

Things to Consider Before Licensing Your Work
Outlines things to think about before applying Creative Commons license to your material, or use Creative Commons-licensed materials.
Choose A License
Contains information on how to choose the appropriate license for your work.
Marking Your Work with CC License
Learn how to mark your work with a Creative Commons license.
Best Practices for Attribution
Provides some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.
Open Attribution Builder
Easily cite open materials. This tool will automatically generate the attribution for you.

Creative Commons License Attribution Video

Sharing this Information

This guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This guide was adapted, in part, from Lansing Community College's Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by Regina Gong, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.