Acknowledging+Creative+Commons+Materials

An essential aspect of using Creative Commons licenced work is to acknowledge the licence under which you are using the work, and in most cases, acknowledging the owner of the original work (known as attribution).toc

There are several resources available that explain this process.

Useful Website Overview
An excellent overview can be found on the Creative Commons website.

A PDF version of this information is available here:

Web browser plugins
The Open Attribute plug in can be downloaded on a variety of browsers.

that makes it simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work. These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to.
 * [[image:copyrightandcopyleft/2012-06-28_1409.png link="@http://openattribute.com/"]] || A simple tool everyone can use, Open Attribute is a suite of tools

Addons are available for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, as well as for Wordpress and Drupal. || that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your creative work.
 * ===Licensing Material Created in Microsoft Office=== ||  ||
 * [[image:2012-09-18_0916.png width="597" height="287"]] || This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document

A useful overview of how to download, install and use this tool is by clicking the button below that says Release Notes. ||

Printable posters and handouts
Click on the images below to access.
 * [[image:copyrightandcopyleft/2012-06-28_1422.png link="@file:How to Attribute a Creative Commons Licensed Work_ 6 steps.pdf"]] || [[image:2012-06-28_1353.png width="400" height="181" link="@file:attributingccmaterials.pdf"]] ||
 * = A useful handout ||= An attractive printable poster or handout ||