Choosing A License For Your Work
Remember, when sharing your work, selecting and displaying a license with it ensures the work can be adopted and adapted how you want! If you don’t select a license, all published material may be assumed to be all rights reserved even if you intended it to be openly licensed.
When creating work to share, carefully consider how you want your work to be used when choosing which open license to apply. As the original creator of your work, you have choices.
- Do you want to allow derivatives?
- Do you want to allow for commercial purposes?
- Do you want the same license to be applied on derivatives?
- If this work was made using openly licensed material, is there a copyright provision you must abide?
Creative Commons designed the licenses to provide more options to the creator than all-rights reserved copyright. The CC License chooser is a simple tool designed to help creators decide which license is best for their work. Remember, when remixing content to create something new, if any of your adapted content includes the SA (share alike) condition – you must apply the SA condition to your newly remixed finished work.
Visit the CC license chooser. With two questions the tool will prompt you to select conditions for sharing your work. A license icon, statement, and code — similar to the ones below — to embed is generated for you to easily copy and paste into your work.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Activity – Match the Creative Commons Licenses
Now, try testing your knowledge with this activity by matching the permission preferences to the correct license.