Creative Commons

Creative Commons – What is it? Most of what is sourced on the Internet cannot be ‘legally’ reused. It is protected by Copy Right Law Copyright is automatic and does not have to be applied for If you use information without consent you are infringing copyright law. If you are allowed to use internet information this is shown by Creative Commons Licence: Radnor House 6th Form Research and Study Skills

Creative Commons – What is it? Four Elements = 6 Licences 1.Attribution: Share, Use or Re-mix but credit! 2.No Derivatives: Share, Reuse but do not change & credit 3.Non Commercial: Share, Re-mix, but cannot make profit 4.Share Alike: If you use, remix and share it has to be licenced under the same terms. Refer to 1 pager & Powerpoint on Schoology for more details Radnor House 6th Form Research and Study Skills

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

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Attribution CC BY BY = Attribute Creator This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND BY = Attribute Creator ND = No Derivatives This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA BY = Attribute NC= Non-Commercial SA = Share Alike This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC BY = Attribute NC= Non-Commercial This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially. Their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY- NC-ND BY = Attribute NC= Non-Commercial ND = No Derivatives This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.