Open Educational Resources (OER): Copyright, Fair Use, and CC Licenses

This guide is a toolkit for answering questions about copyright and intellectual property.

Guidance on terms for materials' status taking into account copyright law changes.

This guide has been created to answer frequently asked questions by the faculty and students about copyright law and what is allowed in using copyrighted materials without asking for permission from copyright holders. This guide should not be considered as a definitive answer to these questions.

This document by American University's Washington College is intended to support authors, teachers, professors, librarians, and all open educators in evaluating when and how they can incorporate third party copyright materials into Open Educational Resources to meet their pedagogical goals.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Browse videos on Vimeo by Creative Commons License

Creative Commons videos on open licensing topics.