Course materials used in the framework of MOOCs are governed by the stipulations of the edX platform. As the course author, you retain proprietary rights to the course material, but EdX has usage rights. This means that EdX may use your material in another context and also extend it. We recommend publishing materials created for the course under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-ShaeAlike /CC_BY-NC-SA) 4.0 international License. Authors keep the ownerships for all course material, but edX has the right to use the material in another context.

Usage rights must be obtained for any images and graphics you use. It is best to use free images and reference them accordingly.

More information and support:

• The Competence Center in Digital Law supports Swiss Higher Education Institutions (teachers, researchers and staff of libraries, IT services, law services and administration) in dealing with legal questions in relation with the digitalization process and the use of new media and technologies and raise awareness of legal risks.
• The videos you produce will be archived as raw material for later re-use. This will also facilitate a partial re-use, e.g. of short video sequences. You yourself must archive the remaining learning materials (texts, quizzes, PDFs) used in the online learning environment, in some form which you can administer at a later date.
• See also Creative Commons Licenses by ETH library.