Open Educational Resources (OER)

"It presents a step-by-step processes of finding and selecting open educational resources (OER) to use in a derivative work, choosing a Creative Commons license, and applying the license to the work."

"Following from Part 1, this second part of "Creating OER and Combining Licenses" explores the challenges of using and remixing open educational resources (OER) with different Creative Commons licenses in a derivative work. It examines the restrictions of each license element, and illustrates how solutions can be found when licenses are incompatible."

Choose from six time-tested open licenses.

At the license chooser, you answer a few questions, fill in the fields you need, and
then you will receive a formatted HTML code,

It provides some example of how to how to mark your work with the CC license.

This is a tool to help you build attributions.

List of Open Source Definition (OSD) compliant software license by category from the open Source initiative.

A detailed chart of copyright and public domain dates for texts, sound recordings, and architectural works from Cornell university.

Overview of changes to Copyright law related to e-commerce and technology.

This online tool will help you make a determination about the fair use of individual materials. Disclaimer: "Only a court of law can definitively rule on whether a use is fair or unfair. This tool does not assume or predict a court outcome." (American Library Association).

A Discussion of policy on the use of copyrighted works in education, research, the rights and responsibilities of instructors and educational institutions by University of Georgia.