Reuse of Content by Means of CC Licences

Works by creators - such as texts, music, images or videos - are generally protected by copyright. However, it is possible to go beyond the right to quote and decide to make your own works available to others without them having to ask for permission. For this purpose, the works are labelled accordingly; creators thus allow others to copy, edit and republish their works, for example. Creative Commons is an organisation which offers standardised licence texts for this purpose. The licences specify exactly which types of reuse are permitted.

If you would like to publish open access documents via a publication server at Bielefeld University Library, you will need to use a CC licence. We have therefore listed the licences available to you here:

CC0: If possible, the copyright is waived so that the work is considered "public domain". If a waiver is not possible (as is the case in Germany), a broad release is made, in which all forms of reuse and redistribution are permitted, even without attribution.
CC-BY: All forms of reuse and redistribution are permitted as long as the author is named.
CC-BY-SA: Reuse and redistribution are permitted as long as the author is named and the work is redistributed under the same licence (CC-BY-SA).
CC-BY-NC: Only non-commercial re-use and redistribution are permitted, whereby the author must be named.
CC-BY-NC-SA: Non-commercial re-use and redistribution are permitted as long as the author is named and the work is redistributed under the same licence (CC-BY-NC-SA).
CC-BY-ND: The work may be redistributed under attribution, but not edited.
CC-BY-ND-NC: The work may only be redistributed non-commercially under attribution, without editing options.

Further information on CC licences can be found on the Creative Commons website.