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Learning Outcomes:
Understand how creators have many considerations when selecting a Creative Commons license.
Learn about how Creative Commons licenses can offer "Most Free" and "Least Free" Usage.
Review of Creative Commons Licenses
What do you want to share?
How do you want others to use your work?
The six Creative Commons licenses provide a range of options for creators who want to share their work with the public while still retaining copyright.
Do you think people might make interesting new works out of your creation? Do you want to give people the ability to translate your writing into different languages, or otherwise customize it for their own needs? If so, then you should choose a license that allows your work to be adapted.
Is it important to you that your images are able to be incorporated into Wikipedia? If so, then you should choose CC BY, BY-SA, or CC0, because Wikipedia does not allow images licensed under any of the NonCommercial or NoDerivatives licenses except in limited circumstances.
Do you want to give away all of your rights in your work so that it can be used by anyone in the world for any purpose? Then you might want to think about using the public domain dedication tool, CC0.
Additional Considerations
You must own or control copyright in the work. You should control copyright in the work to which you apply the license.
Once you have decided you want to use a Creative Commons license and know which license you want to use, applying it is simple. You may use the Choose a License tool.
You will need to indicate which CC license you are applying to your work. Creative Commons strongly recommends that you including a link (or writing out the CC license URL, if you are working offline) to the relevant CC license deed (e.g., https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).
Attributions
Content in this module is from or paraphrased from the following sources:
4. Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works | Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM by Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
5. CC for Educators | Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM by Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic
Librarians and GLAM by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
License Requirements is licensed by Creative Commons under CC BY-SA
What Creative Commons License is right for me? by Creative Commons Australia is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Creative Commons License Chooser Demo, by Sarah Moorhouse is licensed CC BY 4.0
Additional Resources
Dobusch, L, & Kapeller, J. (2018). Open strategy-making with crowds and communities: Comparing Wikimedia and Creative Commons, Long Range Planning, 51(4), 561 – 579 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2017.08.005.
Masnick, M. (2012). Should Creative Commons drop its NonCommercial & NoDerivatives license options? Tech Dirt. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120828/00585920175/should-creative-commons-drop-its-noncommercial-noderivatives-license-options.shtml
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