License Your Work

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With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify here. For those new to Creative Commons licensing, we've prepared a list of things to think about. If you want to offer your work with no conditions, choose the public domain.

Allow commercial uses of your work?

Allow modifications of your work?

Yes
Yes, as long as others share alike
No

Jurisdiction of your license

Additional Information

The additional fields are optional, but will be embedded in the HTML generated for your license. This allows users of your work to determine how to attribute it or where to go for more information about the work.

Tell us the format of your work:

Title of work

Attribute work to name

Attribute work to URL

Source work URL

More permissions URL

Embedded Metadata

The information is embedded in a software readable format. This allows search engines to index additional information about your work and allows people coming to the license deed from your page to see information on the deed about how to attribute your work.

More information on Creative Commons metadata is available if you want to find out more.

Source work URL

A work another is derived from.

Title of work

The title of the work you are licensing.

Attribute work to name

The name users of the work should give attribution to. For example, the name of the work's author.

Attribute work to URL

The URL users of the work should link to. For example, the work's page on the author's site.

More permissions URL

A URL where a user can obtain information about clearing rights that are not pre-cleared by your CC license.

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Jurisdiction

If you desire a license governed by the Copyright Law of a specific jurisdiction, please select the appropriate jurisdiction.

Commercial Use

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, including for commercial purposes.

NonCommercial

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only.

Allow Derivative Works

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as make derivative works based on it.

No Derivative Works

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute and transmit only unaltered copies of the work — not derivative works based on it.

Share Alike

The licensor permits others to distribute derivative works only under the same license or one compatible with the one that governs the licensor's work.

What You Can Do Here

Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. When you choose a license, we provide you with tools and tutorials that let you add license information to your own site, or to one of several free hosting services that have incorporated Creative Commons.

View an explanation of all our licenses.