Public Domain Materials
The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-free Writings, Music, Art & MoreCall Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017"Find out: how to find public domain materials, how to handle challenges to public domain claims, how to research copyright office records, and how to get permission to use work not in the public domain. The book provides sources for web content in the public domain."
Open Attribution Builder App
- Open Attribution BuilderThe Attribution Builder is a tool allows users to generate a line of text to paste onto their resource to indicate what CClicense they have applied.
How to Evaluate OER
- Evaluate OER - A guide for faculty from University of Illinois LibraryHere are a few steps you might take in the evaluation process.
Public Domain & Copyright
- Welcome to the Public Domain - from Stanford University LibrariesCreative materials under "public domain" are usually not protected by intellectual property laws. Those include works that are no longer under copyright protection or certain materials that failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the public domain may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner.
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - by Cornell Copyright Information Center"The most comprehensive resource available, an incredibly detailed chart of copyright term and public domain considerations and dates."
Creative Commons Licenses
- Creative Commons"Creative Commons is a non-profit organization founded in 2001 and it is a different way to share works, . Using Creative Commons Licenses, artists and creators can proactively make their work available for public use, under specific conditions. But since it fundamentally relies on copyright - you must own a copyright in a work in order to make it available under a Creative Commons license."
Why were Creative Commons licenses created?
To help anyone easily license their works to the specifications they want.
To make it super easy to see, based on a Creative Commons license, exactly how an item can be used.
Creative Commons provides a set of basic licenses that dictate how others can and cannot use your work. The most liberal of these licenses (CC-BY) tells others that they can use your work however they like as long as they give you credit. In contrast, the most conservative license (CC-BY-NC-ND) indicates that your work cannot be adapted and cannot be used for commercial purposes.
Creative Commons licensing help chart from Foter.(CC BY-SA 3.
Additional information about different types of CC licenses from the About the Licenses page of Creative Commons.