Authors Marisa Windisch Rion Huffman
License CC-BY-4.0
Fair Use CC Licenses Role of CC in OER CC Licenses cover
(Open Educational Resources) Gauge of Restrictiveness
Least Restrictive
All Some
What is Fair Use? Attribution Open Educational Resources (OER)
Section 107 of the United States CC BY Open Educational Resources are Attribution CC BY
Copyright Law allows for certain This license lets others distribute, remix, teaching, learning and research resources
purposes for which the reproduction of a tweak, and build upon your work, even that reside in the public domain or have Attribution - ShareAlike
Rights
work may be considered fair. These commercially, as long as they credit you been released under a copyright license CC BY-SA
purposes include criticism, comment, for the original creation. that permits their free use and
news reporting, teaching, scholarship Attribution -ShareAlike re-purposing by others.3 Attribution
and research. In order for a use to be CC BY-SA NonCommerical
Reserved
determined to be fair, four factors are This license lets others remix, tweak, and Creative Commons licenses allow CC BY-NC
considered by the court. build upon your work even for commer- educators to use/remix existing content to
1. Purpose and character of the use. cial purposes, as long as they credit you fit their specific purpose. CC also allows Attribution
2. Nature of the copyrighted work. and license their new creations under the educators to create content that is NonCommerical
3. Amount and substantially of the identical terms. This license is often com- available for re-purposing by others. ShareAlike
portion used in relation to the work as a pared to “copyleft” free and open source CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons (CC)
whole. software licenses. All new works based on Example: A professor finds a new way to in Education
4. The effect of the use upon the poten- yours will carry the same license, so any help students remember Maslows Hierar- Attribution - NoDerivs
tial market for the copyrighted work.2 derivatives will also allow commercial use. chy of Needs that proves to increase CC BY-ND
This is the license used by Wikipedia. student retention of the subject. The
So what does that mean? Attribution-NonCommerical professor posts this new method on their Attribution
CC BY-NC Canvas page. As a rule, this would auto- NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Fair Use is an exception that is meant to
This license lets others remix, tweak, and matically be copyrighted by the Professor. CC BY-NC-ND
loosen copyright restrictions for educa-
tors (among others). However, it should build upon your work non-commercially, If another professor wanted to use this Most Restrictive
not be confused with “free use”. An and although their new works must also method for their class, they would have CC BY - Rion Huffman and Marisa Windisch 2015
educator must be aware of the “four acknowledge you and be non-commer- to get written permission from the original Additional editing and contributions from
Dr. Cable Green and Dr. Brenda Frieden
factors” in order to avoid infringement. cial, they don’t have to license their professor. This brochure is a product of Pittsburg State University
derivative works on the same terms. With a CC license, anyone would be able Unless otherwise noted, the content and design of this brochure is
licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Any use of this
Is there an easier way to use and license to use the method, as long as they content should be credited back to the original authors.
1 - www.creativecommons.org
content? followed the requirements of the CC 2 - www.uscopyright.gov
Yes there is, Creative Commons. license. 3 - http://www.pittstate.edu/office/tltcenter/initiatives/open-ed-resources.dot
CC Logos from creativecommons.org were scaled down from original size.
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