2 Licensing and Copyright
Copyright and Creative Commons
All content (writing, images, charts, videos, etc.) created for the Micro-credential Toolkit and ‘How-To’ Guide are to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. In accordance, by agreeing to do the work all authors and other contributors retain the copyright to their contributions, and grant a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license to all content created for this project.
Using a Creative Commons (CC) license does not negate copyright – it modifies the terms of copyright, allowing others to use a work with attribution, that is, while recognizing the intellectual property of the copyright holder(s). As Creative Commons states, “CC licenses are copyright licenses, and depend on the existence of copyright to work. CC licenses are legal tools that creators and other rights holders can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights.”
Attributions
This chapter contains material from The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far), chapter on Contributor MOU Template by Apurva Ashok and Zoe Wake Hyde used under a CC BY 4.0 international license. Download this book for free at https://press.rebus.community/.
This chapter as a whole was adapted from Open at Scale: Project Guidelines, chapter on Copyright by P. French used under a CC BY 4.0 international license. Download this book for free at https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/.
