A right automatically granted to authors to prevent others from using their works without permission for a very long time and with limited exceptions. The expansion of copyright in length and scope with the increased costs of copyright enforcement in the digital age are some reasons Creative Commons exists.
A set of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted “work”.
The right to make certain uses of a work without permission of the copyright holder.
Also known as Automatic Textbook Billing. Digital content is delivered to students by the first day of class, through a learning management system. Students are automatically charged for textbooks as part of their tuition and are not free. At the end of the semester, students lose access to the content.
Open Educational Resources. OER are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute. Students have continual access to the material after the course ends.
Denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. It may or may not be provided a Creative Commons License.
Works that are not restricted by copyright either because they are very old, are not copyrightable (e.g., data), or contain a Creative Commons Public domain mark. Free to use.