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|Question=What if I want to add some conditions and I clarify what I mean by a specific term? Is there anything wrong with adding conditions on top of a CC license?

 
|Question=What if I want to add some conditions and I clarify what I mean by a specific term? Is there anything wrong with adding conditions on top of a CC license?

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|Answer=CC licenses do not support additional conditions. Once you have added additional conditions, your work is no longer under one of the standard CC licenses, but is rather subject your own customized license. When this happens, your work is no longer mixable with other CC licensed works, thereby preventing remixing in future derivations and adaptations of your material – likely defeating your reasons for openly licensing the work in the first place! If you want to add more restrictive conditions to a work, you’re probably better of leaving it under ARR copyright, since fair use exceptions allow people to use it for certain purposes anyway.
 
 
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|Document=Applying Creative Commons licenses to your educational resources, Publishing Your Open Educational Resources on the Internet, Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Licensing
 
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|Target audience=OER creators, copyright holders
 
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|Tag=OER, CC licenses, terms of use
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|Answer=CC licenses do not support additional conditions. You are free to license your works in any way you wish, but once you have added additional conditions, your work is no longer under one of the standard CC licenses, but is rather subject your own customized license. When this happens, your work is no longer mixable with other CC licensed works, thereby preventing remixing in future derivations and adaptations of your material – likely defeating your reasons for openly licensing the work in the first place.
 
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Latest revision as of 17:39, 9 July 2009

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CC licenses do not support additional conditions. You are free to license your works in any way you wish, but once you have added additional conditions, your work is no longer under one of the standard CC licenses, but is rather subject your own customized license. When this happens, your work is no longer mixable with other CC licensed works, thereby preventing remixing in future derivations and adaptations of your material – likely defeating your reasons for openly licensing the work in the first place.

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