Please go to Creative Commons' Choose a License website and use the license chooser tool. It will automatically generate the CC license icon and the notice based on your preference. For the specific instructions, please see the five steps below:

Step 1:

Please go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/ or go to the Creative Commons homepage at http://creativecommons.org/ and click Share your work. You will see Get Started link in the blue box below.

Screenshot: CC license chooser

Step 2:

You will be taken to the CC license chooser application. Your choice on the top panel will update the other panels on the page.

Screenshot: CC license chooser

Step 3:

If you click the question mark icon below or above each choice, a pop-up window will appear with a clear description.

Screenshot: CC license chooser

Step 4:

Copy the CC license icon and the notice and paste them to your work. Or insert this HTML code into your webpage so that your work is clearly marked. The key is to make the notice evident so that the users will know your work is CC licensed. The hyperlinks to the license deed must be intact in the statement.

Screenshot: CC license chooser

Step 5:

This part is optional. If you wish, you can share more detailed information about your work and yourself such as the URL to the source work, the title of the work, or anything you might want to add to the attribution. It will add machine-readable metadata to the suggested HTML!

Screenshot: CC license chooser

For further details regarding the marking of different media with CC licenses, visit the website CC Wiki: Marking your work with a CC license.

What Next

In next module, after you complete your Module 4 assignments, we will discuss how to find a Creative Commons licensed resource.