Take a look at our licensing terms that provide guidance on how to share, adapt, and attribute our Digital Medic materials.
At Digital Medic, we believe that health education is a human right. That’s why all of our resources are free to access and share in diverse contexts across the world.
Creative Commons licensing ensures our content is broadly accessible while maintaining correct attribution. Our licensing approach is outlined in this overview that explains how to use and share Digital Medic content.
The license types are broadly explained below, but please review the licensing terms and types with examples of attribution here.
License types
All Digital Medic content falls under one of the following licenses:
Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows you to share the content as-is, without adaptations and with credit. See full terms here.
- Example: The Supporting Vaccination toolkit, a collection of videos, audio files, and graphics, is available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows you to share or adapt the content with credit. See full terms here.
- Example: The COVID-19 toolkit contains videos, graphics, and short animations about the virus and infection prevention strategies. Materials in this toolkit are available under the CC CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
In line with our belief in accessible health education, neither license allows for commercial use. While all materials can be freely accessed and shared, in some cases they can also be modified, built upon, excerpted, or translated to suit local needs.
Review our licensing terms and examples of attribution on our website.
If you are unsure of which license applies or would like to adapt a piece of content that is not licensed under CC CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0, please contact our team: digitalmedic@stanford.edu.