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Open License All Rights Reserved Copyright
Copyright ownership retained. Copyright ownership retained.
Author grants rights in advance. Author does NOT grant rights to the public.
“It is mine but I do allow you to take my material. No need to ask for my permission to use it because it is already granted -just be sure to make proper attribution to me.” It is mine. I do NOT allow you to take this material and repurpose it. You definitely need to ask for my permission to use it.”

Copyright vs. Open

All rights reserved copyright vs. Open
It is mine. I do NOT allow you to take this material and repurpose it. You need to ask for my permission to use it. It is mine but I DO allow you to take my material. Remember to attribute the work to me. It’s free and you do not need to ask for my permission to use it.

4 Key license elements

Icons License Guidelines
CC-BY logo BY Attribution: Others can copy, distribute, perform and remix your work if they credit your name as specified by you.
CC BY-ND logo ND No Derivatives Works: Others can only copy, distribute, or perform verbatim copies of your work.
CC BY-SA logo SA Share Alike: Others can distribute your work only under a license identical to the one you have chosen for your work.
CC BY-NC logo NC Non-commercial: Others can copy, distribute, display, perform or remix your work but for non-commercial purposes only.

Creative Commons Licenses

License icon Attribution License Elements
CC-BY logo Attribution: CC BY 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.
CC BY-ND logo Attribution-NoDerivs:
CC BY-ND
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
CC BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike:
CC BY-NC-SA
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.
CC BY-SA logo 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. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. 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.
CC BY-NC logo Attribution-NonCommercial:
CC BY-NC
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
CC BY-NC-ND logo Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs:
CC BY-NC-ND
This license is the most restrictive of the 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.

Example Attributions

Type of Media Examples of Ideal Attribution Why
Image Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under CC BY
  • Title: “Elephant@Amboseli” is noted.
  • Author: “Xiaojun Deng” is noted and linked to his profile page.
  • Source: “Elephant@Amboseli” is linked to original Flickr page.
  • License: “CC BY” is linked to license deed.
Course Content Module 4: Protein Structure
by Open Learning Initiative
is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
  • Title: “Module 4: Protein Structure” is noted.
  • Author: “Open Learning Initiative” -linked to the project page.
  • Source: “Module 4: Protein Structure“-linked to original course content page.
  • License: “CC BY-NC-SA” is linked to license deed.
*Derivative Works This work, “Elephant in yellow”, is a derivative of Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng used under CC BY. “elephant in yellow” is licensed under CC BY by Boyoung Chae.
  • Title, Original Author, Source, and License are all noted.
  • Made it clear that it is a derivative work.
  • New author of the derivative work is also noted.
Offline Document “Elephant@Amboseli” by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
  • Title, Original Author, Source, and License are all noted.
  • The licensed type and the URL are spelled out in full.
Type of Media Examples of Incorrect Attribution Why
Image Elephant Photo: Creative Commons Licensed.
  • Author is not noted. Creative Commons is not the author of this photo.
  • There is no link to original photo.
  • There is no mention of the license, much less a link to the license. “Creative Commons” is an organization.
*Derivative Works This work, “Green Banana”, is a derivative of “Banana!” by Graham Reznick used under CC BY-NC-ND “Green Banana” is licensed under CC BY by Boyoung Chae.
  • There is no link to original photo.
  • The original photo was released under CC BY-NC-ND, which means that the user is not permitted to distribute the modified material.
Original Image Derivative
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Last updated: 04 21 2017