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Open Educational Resources at Cape Cod Community College: Creative Commons

Open Educational Resources

What is Creative Commons?

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 allow material to be shared and reused under terms that are flexible and legally sound.  If you're looking for content that you can freely and legally use, there are hundreds of millions of works, of all formats and genres, that are available to the public for free and legal use under the terms of a Creative Commons license.

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Visit search.creativecommons.org to quickly search for CC licensed materials in a variety of online resources, including Google, Flickr, and YouTube.

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Creative Commons Licenses

CC BY

Attribution   You may distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as you credit the original creator.

CC BY-ND

Attribution-NoDerivs   You may redistribute, commercially or non-commercially, as long as the work is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the original creator.  You cannot change the work in any way.

CC BY-SA

Attribution-ShareAlike    You may remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit the original creator and license your new creation under an identical license.
 
CC BY-NC
 
Attribution-NonCommercial    You may remix, tweak, and build upon the work, as long as you credit the original creator and use the creation for non-commercial purposes.
 
CC BY-NC-ND
 
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs    You may share the work with others, but you cannot change it in any way or use it commercially.  You must credit the original creator.
 
CC-BY-NC-SA
 
Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike    You may remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as you credit the original creator and license your new creation under an identical license.