Copyright and elearning

Understanding Copyright in elearning

Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers flexible copyright management tools for creative work.

Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

 

Creative Commons links 

• Flickr Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ 

• Open Source Music: http://www.opensourcemusic.com/ 

• Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ 

• Yahoo Creative Commons Search Tool: http://search.yahoo.com/cc 

• Designing and implementing eLearning with Creative Commons  (Australian Flexible Learning Framework): http://designing.flexiblelearning.net.au/gallery/activities/creative_commons.htm

Creative Commons information:

• Australia: http://creativecommons.org.au 
• Creative Commons (Global): http://creativecommons.org/

 Creative Commons Content

 

 

Creative Common Licences

Attribution - This applies to every Creative Commons work. Whenever a work is copied or redistributed under a Creative Commons license, credit must always be given to the creator.

Non commercial - Lets others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work and derivative works based upon it but for non-commercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works - Lets others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike - Allows others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.