footer of your website, or any other place that makes sense in light of the particular format and medium of your work. The important thing is to make it clear what the CC license covers and locate the notice in a place which makes that clear to the public. See “Marking Your Work with a CC License” (licensed CC BY 4.0 and available at https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license) on the Creative Commons website for more information.
Indicating which CC license you choose can be as simple as the notice from the footer of BC Open Textbooks (https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks), shown in figure 4.3.
If you are on a platform like Medium or Flickr, you should use the built-in CC license tools on the platform to mark your work with the CC license you choose.
If you have a personal blog or a website, we recommend using the CC license chooser to generate code that identifies your chosen license. That code can be copied and inserted into your work online.
You should take some time to play around with the CC license chooser, at https://creativecommons.org/choose/, now (figure 4.4). After you select the boxes that indicate your preferences, the chooser generates the appropriate license based on your selections. Remember, the license chooser is not a registration page, it simply provides you with standardized HTML code, icons and license statements.
In figure 4.4, do you see the text and icon just above the code? That text/links can also be copied and pasted onto your work to mark the work with a CC license.
If you want to mark the work in a different way or need to use a different format like closing titles in a video, you can visit https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/ and access downloadable versions of all of the CC icons.
How to Apply a CC0 License
Like the licenses, CC0 has its own chooser. If you want to dedicate your work to the public domain, you can go to https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/waiver. Complete the required fields, agree to the terms, and then get the metadata to mark your work with a CC0 license.
