Creative Commons Licenses

Harness the power to retain, reuse, revise, remix & redistribute.

CC-Licensed Works

Use OpenVerse, Google Images, and YouTube to find CC-licensed works.

Openverse
All Openverse content is under a Creative Commons license or is in the public domain.
Google Images
To find images for a presentation that are free of copyright, search for an image. Then select: Tools > Usage Rights. Select the appropriate reuse filter.
YouTube

OER

"How can I find OER?" by the Council of Chief State School Officers is licensed CC BY 4.0

Check our OER Guides by College:

Attribution

TASL: Best practice attribution to provide credit to work you are re-using:

T= Title

A=Author (provide link)

S=Source (provide link)

L=License (link to the CC license deed)

Each element is needed in order to ensure that you always give credit to original authors for their work. If you do not have all of the information, do the best you can with the information that is provided. Version 4.0 of licenses does not require you users to include the title of the original work. However, it is best practice to include the title anyway if it is provided.

Example of Best Practice Attribution:

the Earth "Earth" by Kevin M. Gill is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Open Attribution Builder
Attribution tool from Open Washington that generates attributions for Creative Commons licensed material.
Pressbooks Attributions: Best Practices
Chapter from the BC Campus Faculty OER Toolkit on attributing when working in Pressbooks.

Derivative Attribution

If your work is based on someone else's work-a modification or adaptation-communicate this clearly and attribute the original creator of the work. It is also important to provide a link to the original work and to the license of that original work.

Example of Attributing Derivative Works

UTSA Libraries' "Which Creative Commons License is Right for Me?", licensed CC BY 4.0, is a derivative of Creative Commons Australia's "Which Creative Commons Licence is right for me?" fact sheet, licensed CC BY 2.5. The content was adapted and updated from Creative Commons Australia for the UTSA community and to reflect current CC licenses. This flowchart does not constitute legal advice or counsel.

Remixing

When re-mixing, you must:

Clearly identify for users who created which parts of the work
Identify the terms under which any given work, or part of a work, can be used.
Provide information about works you used to create your new work or incorporated into your work

The Saylor MA121: Introduction to Statistics course, below, is a great example of providing a Course Terms of Use: defining what constitutes the "course" and providing information about the sources used to create the course, along with each source's respective license and original version.

Saylor Terms of Use
"All Saylor Academy courses are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For licensing purposes, a "course" is defined as the structure, syllabus, learning outcomes, unit descriptions, and the framing text that accompanies resources curated from third parties. That excludes the third party resources themselves, including the following resources used in this course, which contain the individual licenses listed below:"

Attributions & License

This work "Creative Commons Licenses" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and is a derivative of the September 2020 Creative Commons Certificate Course by Creative Commons, also licensed CC BY 4.0. DeeAnn Ivie adapted content from the Creative Commons Certificate Course adding it to the "Creative Commons Licenses" Libguide.