Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/Creative Commons Licenses/License your work

License your work

Before choosing a CC license check that you control copyright in the work to which you wish to apply the license.

Do you want to release your work in open access?
YES				NO
Do you want to dedicate your work to the public domain?				Do you want to allow commercial use?
YES – CC0		NO		YES		NO
		Should adaptations of your work be released under the same or compatible CC license?		Do you want to allow derivative works?		Do you want to allow derivative works?
		YES – CC BY-SA	NO – CC BY		NO – CC BY-ND	YES – CC BY-NC	NO – CC BY-NC-ND
						Should adaptations of your work be released under the same or compatible CC license?
						YES – CC BY-NC-SA

In case the use of third-party material does not allow for open licensing of each part of your work, DARIAH-EU recommends to use the least restrictive license applicable to your content. You can exclude third-party material from the license provision of your publication, but make sure to mark these exceptions clearly. This way the rights of the original copyright holder are respected while you are free to release your own publication under an open license.

Adding a CC license to your work is simple. You just need include, somewhere in your work, all the information that others will need to properly attribute your work. The information are:

T	Title	The title of your work
A	Author	Your name
S	Source	A link to or notice regarding where your work can be found
L	Licence	The specific Creative Commons license you’ve chosen for your work, including the version of the license. Also include a link (or other directions that guide users) to the legal code for the license.

If you are publishing your content on an online platform, use the built-in CC license tools to mark your work with a CC license.
If you need further information and examples from various types of media, visit 'Marking your work with a CC license'.

What if someone does something with your CC licensed work you disagree with?

As long as users comply with the terms and conditions of the CC license, you cannot control how your material is used. But, you can always choose not to be associated with your material or to uses of it that you don't like. In other words, you can waive the attribution requirement, thus require that the licensee remove the attribution information and choose not to be identified as the author-licensor or the original work.
Remember that anyone modifying your cc licensed work must indicate that the original material has been modified. In so doing, any changes made to your original material cannot be attributed back to the you.