Licensing

Attribution (CC-BY)
BY = Attribution required

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the creator for the original creation. This is the most flexible and accommodating of the available Creative Commons licenses. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA)
BY – Attribution required
SA – Must share-alike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the creator and license all new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC)
BY – Attribution required
NC – Non-commercial use only

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge the creator and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-NoDerivs (CC-BY-ND)
BY – Attribution required
ND – No derivatives allowed

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as the licensed work is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the creator.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
BY – Attribution required
NC – Non-commercial use only
SA – Must share-alike

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)
BY – Attribution required
NC – Non-commercial use only
ND – No derivatives allowed

This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit the creator, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

CC Zero – (CC0)
Public domain

If you want to put your work in the public domain, you can give it a CC0, no rights reserved, mark. This should be used only with your own work. This allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.

• copyright serves as an encouragement for creators – an incentive to produce and publish new work to benefit society
• copyright protects the creator’s rights to ensure that authors are attributed and they can maintain the integrity of their work

• In Canada and other treaty countries, copyright applies to all original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work including audiovisual works, translations, adaptations and arrangements, collections, databases and software.

• usually the creator of a work will own the copyright and this is automatically bestowed once the work is in a fixed and tangible format – the work does not have to be registered
• there are exceptions to the creator of the work holding copyright – for instance, an educational institute such as BCIT, or a company or other entity may hold the copyright to work they have paid to have created

• only the holder of the copyright can give use permissions such as assigning a CC license to their work
• the copyright holder can gain financial reward when others use their work
• the copyright holder has the right to recognition as the creator of the work and to protect the work’s integrity