{"id":5145,"date":"2016-11-15T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2016-11-23T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T11:07:02","slug":"understanding-creative-commons-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2016\/11\/15\/understanding-creative-commons-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Creative Commons Licences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cCreative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco\u201d<\/a> by tvol<\/a> is licensed under CC BY 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n

As members of a University, we all enjoy a fair amount of freedom to reuse and distribute copyrighted material to our colleagues and students, under the framework of our Copyright Licensing Agency<\/a> (CLA), Newspaper Licensing Agency<\/a> (NLA) and Educational Recording Agency<\/a> (ERA) licensing agreements. <\/span><\/p>\n

Specific <\/span>exceptions to copyright<\/span><\/a> even allow us to copy works not covered by CLA, NLA and ERA, within certain limits.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, whilst under these exceptions we might, for example, be able to use a copyright image to directly illustrate an educational point, we don\u2019t have carte blanche to use it in a more general illustrative way within our teaching materials: a <\/span>Bleddyn Butcher photograph of Nick Cave<\/span><\/a> might justifiably be used to examine the iconography within images of popular musicians, but using it as the background to a presentation slide titled \u201clooking to the future\u201d would probably be seen as a breach <\/span>1<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Creative Commons Licenses<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Creative Commons licenses are a useful option for situations like this, preserving copyright for the creators of all kinds of media, but allowing anyone to make use of them according to some simple predetermined conditions. With over 1.1 billion works now using a creative commons licence <\/span>2<\/span>, there is a significant global resource bank of images, video, audio and written texts to draw upon. We explored <\/span>using Creative Commons images in presentations<\/span><\/a> in an earlier post, but this time we want to look more closely at the conditions that apply to the different types of Creative Commons licence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Six licences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"cc-1\"Attribution
\nCC BY\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n		\"cc-2\"Attribution-NonCommercial
\nCC BY-NC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"cc-3\"Attribution-ShareAlike
\nCC BY-SA<\/span><\/td>\n		\"cc-4\"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
\nCC BY-NC-SA<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"cc-5\"Attribution-NoDerivs
\nCC BY-ND<\/span><\/td>\n		\"cc-6\"Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
\nCC BY-NC-ND<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There are six different Creative Commons licences in total, shown in the grid above. These are bound by different combinations of four conditions (Attribution, NonCommercial, ShareAlike and NoDerivs), which can at first seem confusing. However, if we organise them according to three dimensions of use, it becomes clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n