Creative Commons Licenses
The Creative Commons Licenses are a set of easy-to-understand copyright licenses for online original work. The creators reserve some rights under these licenses.
Which Creative Commons License should I use?
There are many Creative Commons Licenses to choose from. Their key features are outlined in the following table. Use the Creative Commons License Chooser to help you find the right license for your work.
| Name of License | Creative Commons (CC) License Mark | What permissions are you giving others? |
| Attribution | CC BY | People can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. Most accommodating of the six main licenses |
| Attribution – ShareAlike | CC BY-SA | People can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects. |
| Attribution – NoDerivs | CC BY-ND | People can distribute your work for commercial and non-commercial purposes, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. |
| Attribution – NonCommercial | CC BY-NC | People can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial but they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. |
| Attribution – NonCommercial- ShareAlike | CC BY-NC-SA | People can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. |
Source: https:/creativecommons.org/licenses/
How Do You Apply for a Creative Commons License?
Simply add the relevant CC license marking to your work. Use the License Chooser to generate the license logo and/or machine readable code. You may also want to include a copyright notice with the authors’ names and date of creation or publication.
More Information
For more information about Creative Commons Licenses visit the Creative Commons website.