thermore, if you created the material in the scope of your employment, you may not be the holder of the rights and may need to get permission from your employer before applying a CC license to it. Before licensing, be mindful about whether you have copyright to the work to which you’re applying a CC license.
WHICH CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE SHOULD I USE?
The six CC licenses provide a range of options for creators who want to share their work with the public while still retaining copyright. The best way to decide which license is appropriate for you is to think about why you want to share your work, and how you hope others will use that work.
For example, here are a few questions to consider:
- 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 either 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.
If you need some help deciding which license might be best for you, this flowchart from CC Australia might be useful (please note that the information it contains is not legal advice): see figure 4.2 or go to http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/fact-sheets/licensing-flowchart/.
HOW DO I APPLY A CC LICENSE TO MY WORK?
Once you’ve decided you want to use a CC license and know which license you want to use, applying it is simple. Technically, all you have to do is indicate which CC license you are applying to your work. However, we strongly recommend 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). You can do this in the copyright notice for your work, on the
