Purpose

This form is intended for use when students wish to mark their course work as an open educational resource by assigning it a Creative Commons license.

Guidelines

1. It must be emphasized to students participating in ​open pedagogy​ projects that: (A) they own the copyright in their course work and have full discretion about whether or not to share their work publicly, and (B) their course grade will be unaffected by their decision whether or not to share their work publicly or which license they select.
2. If students choose to mark their course work with a Creative Commons license, they should be advised of the implications of granting others the permission to freely ​reuse, revise, remix, retain, and redistribute​ their work.
3. We recommend referring students to the ​Creative Commons website​ for more information about the open licenses offered by Creative Commons. There are also many helpful videos available online, such as ​this video​ published by the University of Guelph, but this ought not to be relied upon exclusively.
4. We recommend discussing with students that while Creative Commons is the preferred choice for publishing open educational resources, the Creative Commons license does not restrict users from using their work for non-educational purposes.
5. We advise educators to read and become familiar with the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Intellectual Property Policies and the related points​ provided on the UW Libraries’ OER LibGuide.

Permissions Form

You can access a duplicatable version of this document as a Google Doc via the following link: Student Agreement to Publish Course Work Under a Creative Commons License UW-Madison (2022).

PDF: Student Agreement to Publish Course Work under a Creative Commons License (UW-Madison)

Attributions and Permissions

Student Agreement to Publish Course Work under a Creative Commons License (UW-Madison) is an adaptation of prior work:

• The original form, ‘​Student Agreement to Publish Course Work under a Creative Commons License​,’ was authored by the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Office of Open Education​ licensed under a ​Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• Student Agreement to Publish Course Work under a Creative Commons License: University of Colorado Boulder Libraries (2019) is licensed by the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries (2019) under a ​Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This version, Student Agreement to Publish Course Work under a Creative Commons License (UW-Madison), adapted by the UW-Madison Open Education Working Group, is also published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.