About Creative Commons Licenses

This note summarizes the use and functioning of the Creative Commons licenses used on Praxis. 

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Copyright

Copyright aims to protect the intellectual property of a creation. In the Canadian context, Éducaloi indicates:​

"Canada’s Copyright Act has two main goals: to protect creative works and to encourage the creation of new works. The basic rule is that a work protected by copyright cannot be used without the permission of its owner."​

— Éducaloi (2025). Copyright: Protecting Creative Works

Creative Commons Licenses

The non-profit organization Creative Commons creates licenses, which are a standardized way to recognize copyright and define the limits within which a creation can be reused.​

"From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?'"​

— Creative Commons (2025). About CC Licenses

Creative Commons uses symbols indicating the possibilities for reusing a work:​

From these possibilities, Creative Commons has created six types of licenses.​

CC Licenses on Praxis

Among the existing Creative Commons licenses, Praxis offers two to users for public notes:​

• CC BY-SA
• CC BY-NC-SA

Sources

• Creative Commons (2025). About CC Licenses. Accessed on May 1, 2025 at https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/
• Co-savoir (2025). Un partage sans équivoque!. Accessed on May 1, 2025 at https://bv.cdeacf.ca/documents/PDF/230520.pdf