Course Licensing#
You can specify licensing options for your course content as well as for each video in your course. By specifying the license, you communicate to learners whether and how they can reuse your course content.
You specify licensing options in Studio. For more information, see Set Course Content Licensing in Studio.
License Options#
For your course content and for each video in your course, you can select one of the following license options.
All Rights Reserved
Creative Commons
All Rights Reserved#
All Rights Reserved indicates to learners that you own the copyright but reserve all rights for sharing copies of course content or videos. Learners cannot reuse or republish course content or videos that have All Rights Reserved licenses.
Creative Commons License#
The Creative Commons license indicates to learners that you own the copyright but are granting certain permissions for reuse, depending on the license options that you select.
When you create a new course, the default terms are set to All Rights Reserved. You can change the terms for your course in the Schedule & Details page in Studio.
License Option |
Description |
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Attribution |
This option allows others to copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work but only if they give credit to you in the way that you request. This option is enabled for all Creative Commons licenses on course content. You cannot clear this option. |
Noncommercial |
This option allows others to distribute, display, and perform your work – and derivative works based upon it – but for non-commercial purposes only. |
No Derivatives |
This option allows others to distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. You cannot use this option with the Share Alike option. |
Share Alike |
This option allows others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. You cannot use this option with the No Derivatives option. |
For more information, see the Creative Commons website.
Learners’ View of Licenses#
When they view content in the Course tab, learners see the license that you set for the course at the bottom of the page.

If the video has a different license than the course as a whole, learners see the license at the bottom right of the video player.

For the course and for videos, if you choose All Rights Reserved, learners see All Rights Reserved; if you choose Creative Commons and select any allowed combination of options, learners see Some Rights Reserved and can select the link to see details.
See also
Maintenance chart
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Working Group Reviewer |
Release |
Test situation |