By Cailean Cooney/ CC BY NC 4.0
What is Copyright?
What is copyright?
A copyright grants to its owner the right to control an intellectual or artistic creation, including the right to profit from the sale or performance of the work, and the right to prevent others from specific uses of the work without permission. Copyright protection extends not only to copies of the written word and compositions and recordings of sound, but also to visual images such as photographs, animated images, motion pictures, videotapes and taped live performances.
Please see the library's guide to Copyright and Fair Use (linked below):
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that established free, standardized, easy-to-use copyright licenses that give the public permission to share and use a creative work on conditions of the authors' choice. CC licenses let creators easily change copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.” Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable authors to modify copyright terms to best suit their needs.
Using Creative Commons materials in OER
The OER databases listed on the Find & Evaluate OER page mostly display materials with CC licenses that allow many more uses beyond "all rights reserved". The type of CC license chosen by the author determines how permissive they are about the 5 R's of OER: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. We define OER as materials that DO allow remixing, so CC-ND (no derivative) licenses are not considered OER at SUNY Oneonta.
[Image by Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons. CC-BY]
The Creative Commons Search is a search engine for discovering Creative Commons licensed content.
Creative Commons Citation Example
Mist Lifting off Cedars by dj @ oxherder arts / CC BY-NC-SA