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Creative Commons Licenses — Choosing a CC License

An overview of the open licenses called Creative Commons, which are important in both open access publishing and in Open Education Resources (OER.)

Choosing a CC License

Go to the Creative Commons License Chooser for help choosing a license: http://creative commons.org/choose

Consider carefully which license to apply to a creative work.

Once a choice is made and the license is applied, it is difficult to retract.