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Open Educational Resources at SUNY Erie: Creative Commons

Learn how to find and use OER materials in teaching and learning.

Overview of Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. 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.

-- From Creative Commons website

Creative Commons: Remix from Creative Commons on Vimeo.

Choosing and Attributing Licenses

Provides some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.

Creative Commons License Attribution Video

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Creative Commons License
"Open Educational Resources at SUNY Erie" is a derivative of "Lansing Community College (LCC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER)" by Regina Gong used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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