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Creative Commons Licenses & Open Educational Resources
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that provides free copyright licenses that are simple to understand and easy to use, allowing creators to share their work with others.
Copyright laws are regulations that apply to the duplication and distribution of original works. Creative Commons licenses, which work in conjunction with a nation's copyright laws, are applied when creators want to extend certain rights to others. The guide below will help describe each as well as public domain licenses.
CC License Chooser
Use the CC License Chooser below to decide which option works best for your content.
Learn more About the Licenses that are available.
Choosing a Creative Commons License Workshop
The following materials were created by Kate Farley and Kristopher Purzycki as a collaborative project to satisfy a requirement for completion of the Creative Commons Certification. Instructional materials include the handout above, a slide deck, an interactive story built using Twine, and an activity for which participants choose and apply a license for their own work.
"Choosing a Creative Commons License Workshop Materials" by Kate Farley and Kristopher Purzycki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Link to the GuideThis is a handout you may use to provide an overview of Creative Commons Licenses.
- Link to the SlideDeckThis is a Google Slides template you can use as is or modify to suit the professional development goals of the workshop.
- Link to the Twine StoryA pick-your-path short story where participants choose to play as a student or instructor character who then encounters scenarios about what Creative Commons license is most appropriate.
- Link to the AssignmentThis is an assignment that asks users to apply what they learned through the guide and the empathy-building story above--tasks include adding a Creative Commons license to their own work.