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Open Licensing with Creative Commons

Introduction to Creative Commons, the Creative Commons licenses, applying CC licenses to your work, reusing others' CC-licensed content, and how CC licenses enable open access to scholarship and open educational resources.

Using Creative Commons Licensed works slide show

In the previous tabs of this guide, we examined the background of Creative Commons, the basics of copyright law, and the CC licenses. The slideshow below will help you understand how to reuse Creative Commons-licensed works, using examples that apply to an educational setting. It will cover best practices for attribution and license compatibility if your use is an adaptation. 

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Creative Commons Logo by Creative Commons

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"CC Certificate Unit 3: Anatomy of a CC License," pages 13-14, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

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CC TV Dinner” by Nate Angell licensed under CC BY. Derivative of “tv dinner 1” by adrigu used under CC BY 2.0, and various Creative Commons license buttons by Creative Commons used under CC BY

CC Certificate Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works,” page 23, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

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Ostfeld RS, Canham CD, Oggenfuss K, Winchcombe RJ, Keesing F. 2006. Climate, deer, rodents, and acorns as determinants of variation in Lyme-disease risk. PLoS Biol 4(6): e145. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040145. Used under CC-BY

Hamer SA, Hickling GJ, Keith R, Sidge JL, Walker ED, Tsao JI. 2012. Associations of passerine birds, rabbits, and ticks with Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia andersonii in Michigan, U.S.A. Parasit Vectors 5: 231. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-231. Used under CC BY 2.0

States SL, Huang CI, Davis S, Tufts DM, Diuk-Wasser MA. 2017. Co-feeding transmission facilitates strain coexistence in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent. Epidemics 19: 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2016.12.002. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, used under fair use.

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White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)” by J. N. Stuart is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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CC Certificate Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works,” page 7, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

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CC Certificate Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works,” pages 21, 23, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

"CC Certificate Unit 3: Anatomy of a CC License," page 14, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

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CC Smoothie” by Nate Angell licensed under CC BY. Derivative of “Strawberry Smoothie On Glass Jar” by Element5 in the public domain, and various Creative Commons license buttons by Creative Commons used under CC BY

CC Certificate Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works,” pages 22-23, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

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Tick Season: What You Should Know About Ticks” by University of Michigan Health System, used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Tickborne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Manual for Healthcare Providers, Fifth edition, 2018” by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, public domain.

Beaujean DJMA, Crutzen R, Gassner F, Ameling C, Wong A, van Steenbergen JE, Ruwaard D. 2016. Comparing the effect of a leaflet and a movie in preventing tick bites and Lyme disease in The Netherlands. BMC Public Health 16: 495. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2. Used under CC BY 4.0.

Beaujean DJMA, Gassner F, Wong A, Steenbergen JE, Crutzen R, Ruwaard, D. 2016. Education on tick bite and Lyme borreliosis prevention, aimed at schoolchildren in the Netherlands: comparing the effects of an online educational video game versus a leaflet or no intervention. BMC Public Health 16: 1163. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3811-5. Used under CC BY 4.0.

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Ixodes scapularis, adult female. C & O Canal Park. Montgomery county, MD. (3/11/13)” by Fritz Flohr Reynolds, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

“Deer Tick Close-up” by Andrée Rathemacher is a derivative of “Ixodes scapularis, adult female. C & O Canal Park. Montgomery county, MD. (3/11/13)” by Fritz Flohr Reynolds, used under CC BY-SA 2.0

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CC Certificate Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works,” page 25, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

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“CC Adapters License Chart” in “CC Certificate Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works,” page 26, by Creative Commons, used under CC BY 4.0

Slide 17:

CC License Compatibility Chart” by Creative Commons, licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Credits

This guide was created by URI librarian Andrée Rathemacher in fall 2018 as part of her course assignments for the Creative Commons Certificate.

Created & Updated by

Andrée Rathemacher, 10/2018-

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.