B06 English for Primary Teachers: Creative Commons

Wednesday 6 April 2016

Creative Commons

Most Internet content, including images and music, is protected by copyright. You need permission to use it. You also need to credit the author. You have to cite the book, web page, video, image or song you are using in your research. If you don't do it, you are committing plagiarism. This big C that you can see on the left shows you that a piece of work has a copyright.

Can we use Internet content (images, videos, books, songs...) without permission?

Of course, you can use Internet content without permission from the author. In that case the book, image, video, song or any other piece of work you want to use has to be under a Creative Commons license

But what is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a type of copyright license that allows other people to reuse, distribute or even sell an original work. When you see a Creative Commons icon on an image or article, that means that you can use that material without asking for permission to the author. Anyway, the icons will give information about what type of use you can make of that material. Here you have a brief explanation of each Creative common element.