Preface
This James Cook University eBook version of Creative Commons Certificate for Educators and for Librarians, part of the Creative Commons Certificate course materials, was adapted by JCU Library staff 2023-2024. It is based on the materials from iterations of the course offerings as mentioned below.
This version is intended for use by staff at James Cook University.
The original Pressbooks port of the Creative Commons Certificate course materials was created by Jonathan Poritz in December 2019 and updated in May 2020. It is based on the materials from iterations of the course offerings in Canvas from that period, including the version used in June 2020.
The CC Certificate course, which involves a (mandatory) group discussion board, several assignments, and a final project, all graded by a trained facilitator, results in a Certificate of Mastery of Open Licensing issued by the Creative Commons organisation. For those who cannot take the official course, it is hoped that this version of the course content may be useful for self or group study. In the spirit of using it in that way, the discussion topics and assignment statements from the original course are here re-stated as prompts for individual or group work.
Attribution Information
The original Creative Commons Certificate course materials can be found here and were released by Creative Commons under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Except for the above-mentioned rephrasing of discussions and assignments, the removal of some text, the addition of some links, and a number of small changes (in wording, punctuation, or layout), this port should be merely a format shift of the original, and therefore constitutes a copy in the sense of copyright law.[1] Note that some images and videos in the original, which are reproduced and/or linked here, are not the works of the Creative Commons nor necessarily under a CC BY 4.0 licence; in such cases, the original materials have the appropriate attributions, also reproduced here. All other materials, including images, should be presumed to be part of the original, with one exception: audio files attached to this version are new recordings. To the extent that those audio performances of this (CC-licensed) material have a performance copyright, the audio performer (Jonathan Poritz) hereby releases them under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- For more on how something which looks a little different and has a few changed words should be thought of as "just a copy," in the sense of the law... see the material in this course! ↵
