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Copyright Facts

Creative Commons
Creative Commons

All TAACCCT grants have a contracted requirement that the materials be made available for open sharing using a Creative Commons Unported License or CC BY 3.0. The idea is that when public money is used to make materials, those materials should be made available to the pubic.

Creative Commons is an organization leading the way to making online materials available to share with "some rights reserved." Watch the video on this page to learn more.

What is covered by the CC BY 3.0 license?

All content you create with grant funds: learning modules, exercises, tests, glossaries, images, videos, and presentations. The college owns the copyright of the materials, but is required by the grant to make it available as CC BY 3.0 Please see also this clarification released by the DOL about copyrighted materials.