Open Educational Resources (OER) and Affordable Course Content (ACC)
Learn about OER and ACC, including how to find, evaluate and create open resources, and how to acquire affordable course materials through the libraries.
Creative Commons provides free, standardized copyright licenses that allow you to give permission for others to share & use your creative work, under the conditions that you choose. The benefit to creating a Creative Commons license for your work is that when others discover your work they know exactly how they can use, share, or modify it.
"Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs." (Creative Commons, 2016). As the author, you still own the copyright.
This guide was created by ODU Librarians and includes information on Copyright, Fair Use, and Public Domain to answer questions related to copyright in teaching.