Keats, Derek2016-02-282016-02-282006-12-15Keats, D. (2006). Implications of the NonCommercial (NC) restriction for educational content licensed under a Creative Commons (cc) licence. The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC), 7, 74-80. https://doi.org/10.23962/10539/19799ISSN 1607-2235 (print version)ISSN 2077-5040  (online version)http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19799https://doi.org/10.23962/10539/19799Individuals and institutions are increasingly making content available under Creative Commons (cc) licences. Creative Commons licences are heterogeneous, even though common discourse often assumes homogeneity. A cc licence that is analogous to the free software licence of the GNU General Public Licence is the cc Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) licence. An informal survey of content on the Internet indicates that less than 24% of educational content uses this licence. Seventy-three per cent of content surveyed uses a cc NonCommercial (NC) restriction on use. Casual conversations with authors who use cc licences indicate that most do not understand the implications of choosing a particular licence. A set of principle-based guidelines for choosing cc licences for educational content is suggested.enArticle