Content Contributors: Gail Clement

Lesson Maintainers: None

Lesson status: Future

• Review the spectrum of rights applied to research outputs from copyright to public domain
• Review the types of Creative Commons licenses to gain familiarity with their restrictions
• Given examples of CC-licensed resources, list three allowable uses and how to attribute the CC-licenses resource in the new work
• Given an example of a CC-Zero work, list two allowable uses and how to attribute the CC-licenses resource in the new work
• Use an Internet Search tool (e.g., Google) to find resources of interest that are distributed with a CC license

1. Topic 1
2. Topic 2
3. Topic 3
4. Topic 4

• Topic 5

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