Open Content Licensing: A Three-Step Guide for Academics This guide will enable academics to make informed and purposeful decisions about licensing their work openly. Read more
Copyright and Open Educational Resources Introduction to copyright and licensing; What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)? Key OER Projects from around the world and key licensing resources. Read more
Creating OER and Combining Licenses This video is intended to help you choose compatible resources and choose a valid license for your work. Read more
OER Copyright and Licensing Toolkit This toolkit is aimed at higher education stakeholders who are working with Open Educational Resources (OER). It explains the notion of copyright and describes the different licensing options available to the author/creator of a work. Read more
OER Sensitization Workshop: Open University of Sudan, November, 2011. Introducing Creative Commons Licencing Presentation by Neil Butcher at the Open University of Sudan on Creative Commons licencing. Read more
New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework (NZGOAL) Version 2 of the framework was approved in December 2014. Read more
CC Licenses and Trademarks: A Guide for Organizational OER Creators and Distributors This primer is a guide to understanding the relationship between your rights as a copyright owner using Creative Commons licenses (particularly CC BY) and your trademark rights within the context of open educational resources (“OER”). Many people in the OE Read more
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare This document is a code of best practices designed to help those preparing OpenCourseWare (OCW) to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. The OCW movement, which is part of the larger Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, was Read more
Defining Noncommercial: A Study of How the Online Population Understands "Noncommercial Use" In 2008-09, Creative Commons commissioned a study from a professional market research firm to explore understandings of the terms “commercial use” and “noncommercial use” among Internet users when used in the context of content found online. Read more
Reuse of material in the context of education and research Sharing educational and research materials is high on the agenda of Dutch higher education and research institutions. It must be possible to use and reuse materials produced or ollected at the institutions for educational and research purposes, or as the Read more