Creative Commons licences (also referred to as CC licences), like many other open content licences, can facilitate the copying, reuse, distribution, and in some cases, the modification of the original owner’s creative work without needing to get permission each time from the rights holder. Across the UK, CC licences are increasingly used to provide access to cultural heritage, teaching, learning and research outputs. Creative Commons licensed resources are also helpful for organisations who wish to use third party resources which place the least restrictive licensing terms on the user.
This overview of Creative Commons licences includes advice on how to embed Creative Commons licences into your digital content and what to consider before applying such a licence.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Licensing publications
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- Video Lecture Series: IPR and Sustainability for Universities (April 2012)
- Video Lecture Series: IPR and Sustainability for Libraries (April 2012)
- Video Lecture Series: IPR and Sustainability for Museums (April 2012)
- SCA IPR elearning module- Creative Commons (April 2011)
- Overview of the ‘Openness’ of Licences to Provide Access to Materials, Data, Databases and Media (January 2011)
- Briefing Paper on Embedding Creative Commons Licences into Digital Resources (June 2010)
- IPR Navigation Map (September 2009)
- Case Studies Mapping the Flows of Content, Value and Rights across the Public Sector- FULL REPORT (March 2009)
- 1.1: Creative Commons Licences – Briefing Paper (March 2009)
- 1.2: Web 2.0 and IP Factsheet (March 2009)
- 1.3: Web 2.0 and Legal Issues Factsheet (March 2009)
- 2.1: Getting Permissions (March 2009)
- 2.3: Terminology Toolkit (March 2009)
- 2.4: Top Tips for Issuing Licences to Third Parties wishing to Use Your Content (March 2009)
- 2.5: Top Tips for Requesting Licences from Third Parties whose Content You Wish to Use (March 2009)
- 2.10: Rights Management (March 2009)
- 2.11: FAQs (March 2009)
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