9 Copyright and Creative Commons
Copyright and Creative Commons chapter contents
Creative Commons licence
The book should be published using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
This icon will appear in every chapter.
This means that your readers are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, transform or build upon your content, provided that they:
- give appropriate attribution (BY Author)
- provide a link to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence
- indicate if changes were made
- do not use the materials for commercial puposes (NC-non-commercial)
- distribute any adaptations under the same licence (SA-share alike).
Identifying Creative Commons and Copyright material
Publicly available CC licence materials may have different restrictions placed on their reuse. Before you use any material, you must identify if it is copyright protected. Check the terms of use to see if you are able to reuse the copyright material in an open textbook.
If the licence of the content you want to use conflicts with the licence of your textbook, you may need to find alternatives or create new content.
Find more information about specific Creative Commons licences.
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Creative Commons licensed material use
When reusing content in the textbook, use only content that is licensed:
- No rights reserved – use this content without attribution.
- Public domain – use this content without attribution.
- CC BY – Use and adapt this material. Provide an attribution.
- CC BY-ND – Use this, but do not change it or create derivatives. Use the content as it is and provide attribution.
- CC BY-NC – Use and adapt this content and provide attribution.
- CC BY-NC-ND – Do not change this material or create derivatives. Use the content as it is and provide attribution. It is only available for use in non-commercial formats, so is allowable in your textbook.
- CC BY-NC-SA – Use and adapt this content and publish under the same licence with attribution.
Creative Commons restricted use
Do not use content that is CC BY-SA Attribution-ShareAlike. This content must be shared under the same conditions as it is published.
Copyright
You must obtain the author’s permission or read the explicit terms and conditions that allow the use of this content. Youtube videos can be embedded provided that the source is acknowledged. Consider linking out to copyright content that can’t be significantly rewritten or reproduced.
Adapted by The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) from Creative Commons Permissions Infographic by Aaron McCollough (adapted from a table by Anita Walz), licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.[1]
Keep track of copyright
Record the permissions, CC licence, source and owner of all materials that are used in the text.
Download this Copyright register template [.xls 11KB].
| Chapter name | Link to external resource | Item type | Use in your textbook | Retrieval date | Licence conditions | Content altered? | Permission from rights holder if required | Attribution in text | Notes
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Copyright and Creative Commons checklist
Check the following:
- All material has been attributed
- All creative commons material has an appropriate licence
- No copyright material has been used without permission
- All materials used have been recorded in the copyright permissions register
- Council of Australian University Librarians, Choose a Creative Commons licence, Council of Australian University Librarians, 2022. ↵
