As mentioned in Module 2, CC licenses are irrevocable, and they do not expire until the work is no longer subject to copyright protection. There are a few things to consider related to this idea as well:
This section is a derivative of "Sharing Your Work with Creative Commons Licenses Part II: Collections and Adaptations" by Jill Hallam-Miller (2020), licensed CC BY 4.0 and adapted from the September 2019 Creative Commons Certificate Course by Creative Commons, licensed CC BY 4.0. The adapted content is from the Creative Commons Certificate Course Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works.
Listed below are resources to help you with Creative Commons licensing and related issues.
Contact Jill Hallam-Miller at jbhm001@bucknell.edu or your Scholarly Communications support team for help with licensing, open access, copyright, and other publishing concerns.
See the Creative Commons FAQ for answers to a range of important licensing questions.
For helpful information on a variety of CC-related topics, see the Creative Commons Certification Course material, and particularly Unit 5: CC for Educators (licensed CC BY 4.0).
See the CC wiki page "Marking your work with a CC license" (2019, licensed CC BY 4.0) for examples of marking various types of work with a CC license.
See the CC wiki page "Best practices for attribution" (2018, licensed CC BY 4.0) to see examples of attribution for various sources.
See our guide to finding and using alternative course materials--from library-subscribed ebooks and databases to open access and open data sources and OER and public domain materials--for help finding a range of affordable options to use in your courses.
Wikipedia has an extensive "List of major Creative Commons licensed works" (2020, licensed CC BY SA 3.0) by media type.
Creative Commons offers a tool, CC Search, for searching for CC-licensed images (licensed CC BY 4.0).
Creative Commons offers an extensive list of OER search options by media type (licensed CC BY 4.0).