Open Education Week: Copyright and Licensing for Open Educational Resources

Does your project include work created by others? Do you have questions about Creative Commons licenses and how to incorporate licensed works into your project?

This session will introduce you to copyright basics for your Open Educational Resources (OER) project and take you through licensing considerations to ensure that your work is reusable by others. Importantly, it will also help you establish a simple workflow to identify and respect Creative Commons licenses.

This session will cover:

• Copyright basics, including how copyright is assigned to a work
• Rationale behind, and purpose of, open licenses
• Identifying the six Creative Commons licenses and know how to assign them to OER
• Applying Creative Commons licenses and ensure compatibility among the CC licensed works

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