Copyright Resources

Creative Commons is an international not-for-profit organization that seeks to facilitate knowledge sharing and creative innovation in an equitable way through the provision of free, standardized legal tools. 

A Creative Commons license is a tool that allows copyright holders to indicate how others may reuse their content and informs the public about how a work can be used. Creative Commons licenses are not a statement of copyright ownership, but a statement of how the copyright owner would like their materials to be used. 

There are 6 basic types of Creative Commons licenses:

1. Attribution  (The most accommodating. User may distribute, remix, tweak, build upon—even for commercial purposes)
2. Attribution—Share Alike  (Very similar to #1, but any derivatives must allow the  same uses as the original work)
3. Attribution—NoDerivs  (User must pass along the original work in whole and unchanged)
4. Attribution—NonCommercial  (Very similar to # 1, but for non-commercial purposes only)
5. Attribution—NonCommercial—Share Alike  (Combination of # 2 and # 4)
6. Attribution—NonCommercial—NoDerivs  (The most restrictive.  Combination of # 3 and # 4.)

Creative Commons License Chooser (c) Ashton University. Used under CC-BY license. 

All current CC licenses require that you attribute the original author(s) AND the specific CC license that applies. An attribution should include: 

• the title of the work
• the author of the work
• the link to the source (the work's URL)
• the license it is made available under

For example: 

 
"Sunshine" by Mimi is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0

See more frm Creative Commons Best Practices for Attribution wiki page.