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Relevant to: faculty, staff, and students
Introduction
Creative Commons licenses are free copyright licenses that grant the public permission to use your creative material. There are six license types with various conditions of use. Review the different licenses on the Creative Commons website: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/. In LEARNscape, you can easily assign a license to your videos.
Applying a License in LEARNscape
- Click the user drop-down menu and choose My Media.
- Locate the video you would like to add a license to and click Edit.
- Under the Details tab, select the license from the Creative Commons drop-down menu.
- Select the Save button.
Add a License Images
If you apply a license to your LEARNscape media, it is also recommended to place an image of the license in the description. These images are recognized by the general public when looking for work.
- Select the user drop-down menu and choose My Media.
- Locate the video you would like to add a license image too and select Edit.
- Select the image icon in the description field.
- Copy and paste the image URL for the appropriate license type (see URLs below).
- Select the Insert Image button.
- Select the Save button.
The image and license type will now appear under the video anytime that it is viewed.
License Types
SUNY Empire University's LEARNscape video platform provides end-users the ability to add a Creative Commons license to their newly uploaded media. This article covers adding one of the Creative Commons licenses to your media once uploaded to LEARNscape.
A Creative Commons license provides limitations that the creator can set for their video regarding publishing and usage rights that are more flexible than the traditional All Rights Reserved or Public Domain copyright titles.
Please note, within the adding of new media, adding a Creative Commons license is not a requirement for uploading new media. Your media will still upload successfully without a Creative Commons license.
A Creative Commons license may be considered if the video is to be used as an Open Educational Resource and/or published for use outside the Empire State University learning environment.
Select "Select a value" in the Creative Commons field in the Edit area of your media and click on your chosen license option.
Individual license descriptions are as follows and are taken from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Attribution License
This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
Attribution - ShareALike License
This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
Attribution - NoDerivs License
This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.
Attribution - NonCommercial License
This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareALike License
This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution - Non Commercial - NoDerivs License
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 you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.