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Creative Commons (CC) was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with "some rights reserved". What distinguishes CC licenses from an all-rights reserved copyright is that they allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. This often allows for an expanded range of creative works that are available for others to build upon legally and to share.
Any electronic resources listed in the StMU directories which have the Creative Commons  logo provide access to content that has been licensed, free of charge to the public, under one of several Creative Commons copyright-licenses. For details under which CC licence a specific electronic resource has been licensed, please consult the access terms & conditions of use of each electronic resource in the StMU E-Resource Directory.
Just because access to an article or online resource has been released under a Creative Commons license does not mean that it is open to plagiarism:
- All creators (authors, artists, song writers, etc) retain the moral copyright to their creations. That is, they retain the right in perpetuity to be acknowledged for any use of or derivative works based on their work, even after that work has entered the Public Domain.
- It is your responsibility to properly cite any and all works that you use by acknowledging the author and source of the materials.
The Library has posted more information on Copyright and Fair Dealing on its policy section, which is accessible from the front page of the Library website.
The Library also has specific FAQs on different aspects of Intellectual Property rights in an academic context:
Acknowledgements & Other Information
For more information on the Library's copyright policy, library users should consult the Library's Copyright Policy page. For information of copyright policies with respect to faculty and administrative services, StMU Faculty and Administrative staff should consult the Library's Intellectual Property resources.
The Creative Commons logo above was originally designed by the Creative Commons a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. It is licensed under the Creative Commons' Attribution 3.0 License. You are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to the official license.
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