The twillo-Thurs­day is our online con­sul­ta­tion hour about Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (#OERde). Every Thurs­day from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. you can clar­ify your ques­tions in a per­sonal con­ver­sa­tion with our lawyer and the sup­port team — directly and with­out reg­is­tra­tion. With the twillo-Thurs­day Spot­light, the exist­ing offer is sup­ple­mented by a short legal input. Every 1st Thurs­day of the month, there is a 15-minute short pre­sen­ta­tion on cur­rent legal issues that have been selected in advance by the com­mu­nity.

Topic this time: “The small print — under­stand­ing CC licenses”.

Our lawyer explains why it is impor­tant not only to read the sum­mary (“Deed”) of the Cre­ative Com­mons licenses, but also to know the full license text, the so-called Legal Code. Because: CC licenses are legally bind­ing con­tracts — any­one who vio­lates the license terms risks legal con­se­quences. In the Spot­light, you will learn how to read the license text and bet­ter under­stand the mean­ing of indi­vid­ual clauses.