LibGuides: Copyright and Fair Use: Creative Commons Licenses

Adding a Creative Commons License to a Work

To add a Creative Commons license to a work, there are two important factors to consider:

You must own or control the copyright to the work.
The licenses cannot be revoked. Once you apply a CC license to a work, anyone who receives that work may rely on that license as long as the work is protected by copyright.

Creative Commons License Chooser
Creative Commons provides this handy tool to help content creators choose a license model based on who they want to let use their work, whether they want to allow modifications, and so on.

Creative Commons Permissions

The grid below is a useful tool for visualizing what permissions are associated with each type of Creative Commons license as well as resources in the public domain.²

¹Creative Commons (n.d.) About CC licenses. https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
²JoKalliauer; foter. (2015). Creative Commons licenses. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Licenses.png