Author Carpentry : Open licensing with Creative Commons
Content Contributors: Gail Clement
Lesson Maintainers: None
Lesson status: Future
What you will learn:
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Review the spectrum of rights applied to research outputs from copyright to public domain
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Review the types of Creative Commons licenses to gain familiarity with their restrictions
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Given examples of CC-licensed resources, list three allowable uses and how to attribute the CC-licenses resource in the new work
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Given an example of a CC-Zero work, list two allowable uses and how to attribute the CC-licenses resource in the new work
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Use an Internet Search tool (e.g., Google) to find resources of interest that are distributed with a CC license
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Requirements
Author Carpentry’s teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of the software described below. To most effectively use these materials, please make sure to install everything before working through this lesson.
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