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We have been presented with a bimodal thinking when it comes to licensing and access to resources. These are copyrighted and public domain works at each extreme, but Larry Lessig<\/a> and colleagues founded Creative Commons licensing<\/a> to allow people to retain copyright, while making customized choices about how their work can be shared and used. It has been transformative in post-secondary, but unfortunately, there isn\u2019t enough awareness or advocacy in education, which means most of society isn’t aware. This is changing, however, as government is putting more requirements around licensing of publicly funded work. Larry Lessig received an honourary doctorate of Education here at UVic. You can see a recording of Dr. Lessig’s introduction and speech during the 2022 UVic Convocation<\/a>. We have an option for individuals or corporate donors to support this work towards open at UVic by donating to the UVic Open Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creative Commons website<\/a> – Please visit to learn more about licensing and how to license your own work.<\/p>\n

Search function<\/a> on the CC Website to help find CC-licensed material \u2013 choose images for your website to add as featured images for posts, for example, or for your header image, but make sure they are not copyrighted. Google\u2019s reverse image search<\/a> will make it easy for copyright holders to find where their works are used on the Internet.<\/p>\n

How to Attribute CC materials<\/a><\/p>\n

Fair Dealing (Canada) or Fair Use (USA) is not Creative Commons but exceptions for use of copyrighted material. See<\/p>\n