Creative Commons offers two licenses with the No Derivatives requirement: Attribution-No Derivatives (BY-ND), and Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND).
No Derivatives licenses permit people to copy and distribute a work as long as they do not change it or create derivative works. These licenses ensure that no matter how many times a work is copied and shared, the [...]
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I am thrilled to report that the University of Michigan Library has adopted Creative Commons licenses for Library-produced content.
From the press release:
The University of Michigan Library is adopting Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include [...]
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Posted in Open Access on Oct 3rd, 2008
One of the big questions that kept coming up about the NIH Public Access Policy was, “But how will they enforce it?”
The answer appears to be, “With gentle email reminders.”
A faculty member at the University of Michigan recently received this message (name and article titles removed to protect the grantee’s privacy):
Subject: Public Access Compliance
Dear Principal [...]
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