Research Guides: Publishing Your Work: Author Rights Retention: Creative Commons Licensing

What is the Creative Commons?

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Creative Commons Licenses

CC BY

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
The most generous license, allows for any use as long as you are credited.,
CC BY SA

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Allows use as long as the new work credits you, and is available under the same license (Share-Alike)
CC BY ND

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Allows for redistribution with credit to you, but no changes to your work. (No Derivatives)
CC BY NC

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Your work can be re-mixed or build on and shared only Non-Commercially.
CC BY NC SA

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Your work can be re-mixed or build on, credited to you, and shared under these same terms (Share Alike)
CC BY NC ND

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The most restrictive license, allows for only non-commercial reuse, and no derivatives.