Copyright and Creative Commons
Using Copyright and Creative Commons licensed material in your work
It is important to make sure that you have the appropriate rights to all the content you plan on including in your Pressbooks publication. In order to ensure this, the content you use should be:
- Owned by you
- Used with permission of the copyright owner (Stanford guide to copyright permission)
- Licensed with a relevant Creative Commons license .
Creative Commons licensed content can be used in your publication provided it is used in line with the relevant license conditions. You should be very careful to provide an attribution exactly according to the license terms. The basic requirements are:
- Name of the creator
- Title of the work
- The URL of the work
- Type of license it is available under and a link to the license
- If it has been modified.
Note: We do not recommend using any materials licensed CC BY 2.0 as it has been superseded and has strict attribution requirements that make it easy to make a mistake. Materials licensed CC BY 4.0 are preferred.
Be sure to Keep track of the content you use in your Pressbook
Questions?
Contact the Cindy Gruwell (cgruwell@uwf.edu) or Chris Levesque(clevesque@uwf.edu) for assistance with what content can be included in your publication or if you need help with permission requests.
