Creative Commons

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1. What is a Creative Commons license?
2. What are the different Creative Commons licenses?
3. How do I license my work under a Creative Commons?

1. What is a Creative Commons license?
   The Creative Commons license was developed as an alternative to the traditional "All Rights Reserved" copyright and allows content authors to share their resources while protecting their rights. This type of license is ideal for the sharing all kinds of educational resources such as images, audio, video, animations, and presentations. There are six types of licenses offered through the Creative Commons licensing model, each of which has different permissions and restrictions depending on your content.
   
   For more information on Creative Commons licensing, please visit creativecommons.ca.
2. What are the different Creative Commons licenses?
   Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
   Using this license, others can download and redistribute your work in a non-commercial way provided that they credit you as the author. This type of license is ideal for packaged content that you’d like to share but maintain ownership of. Using this license is often considered to be “free advertising” since others must link or reference back to you in order to use your material.
   
   Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
   This license allows others to download, change, and redistribute your work for non-commercial purposes provided that they credit you as the original author and redistribute their work under the same license. This license is ideal for content that can be easily remixed, such as audio or video, where portions of the clip might only be used. It allows others to reuse your work in a way suitable to their specific needs, while crediting you as the original author and further promoting the licensing model.
   
   Attribution Non-commercial
   Using this license, others can download, change, and redistribute your work in a non-commercial way. The must credit you as the author but they are not bound to redistribute under the same license terms. This license is ideal for sharing content that can be easily remixed, such as audio and video, where you still receive credit for you work but you are not binding them to the same redistribution license.
   
   Attribution No Derivates
   This license allows others to redistribute your work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes provided that they do not change it and they credit you as the author. This license is ideal for standalone content, such as an image or an animation, which does not lend itself to modification.
   
   Attribution Share-Alike
   Using this license, others can download, change, and redistribute your work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes provided they credit you as the original author and license their new content under the same license. This license is suitable for all types of content and is best used if you want to ensure that newly created content is licensed under the same model.
   
   Attribution
   This license allows others to download, change, and redistribute your work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes provided that they credit you as the original author. This license is suitable for all types of content and is the least restrictive of the licenses allowing for maximum redistribution.
   
   For more information on Creative Commons licensing, please visit creativecommons.ca.
3. How do I license my work under a Creative Commons?
   To apply a Creative Commons license you simply select which license you want to use and include a small snippet of HTML code with your resource. This code will generate a “Some Rights Reserved” button that will link back to the Creative Commons site and explain the license in greater detail. The Creative Commons web site has a helpful License Wizard that will help you choose the best license to meet your needs and automatically generate the HTML code for you. For offline works, simply add a statement to your work indicating which license you are using and the URL to the copy of the license.
   
   It is important to note that before applying a Creative Commons license to your work, you should ensure that you have permission to use all assets included within your resource.
   
   For more information on Creative Commons licensing, please visit creativecommons.ca.