Copyright & Licensing for Student Creators

What is Creative Commons by Victor Grigas, Wikimedia Foundation, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. Please link to this page when providing attribution.

Creative Commons Licenses: Overview for Students and Teachers by Kathleen Morris is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial Non-Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

The licenses below and their descriptions come from the About the Licenses page of Creative Commons. 

• CC0 Public Domain Dedication Attribution

• Attribution, CC BY

• Attribution-ShareAlike, CC BY-SA

• Attribution-NoDerivatives, CC BY-ND

• Attribution-NonCommercial, CC BY-NC

• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, CC BY-NC-SA

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, CC BY-NC-ND

Use the Creative Commons license chooser to help share your work. Enter information about your project, and it will generate the license for you. Then copy and paste the generated text, image, and code right into your project.

"Choose a license" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Open Licenses, Step by Step

This presentation walks you through the process of creating your own license and how to add the license to your work.