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What are Creative Commons Licenses

When publishing with Open Access, you are recommended to add a Creative Commons license to protect the right of your work.

Creative Commons Licenses allow the author to specify the conditions of re-use of their works by others. At the same time it ensures that the authors are credited for their works. They provide built-in copyright and last for the same duration as the copyright in the work.

 

View this video to learn what the creative commons licenses are:

The Copyright Classroom 版權教室 - HKU. (2021) The Copyright Classroom: Lesson 11 Creative Commons Licences - What? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zqZ-YpHRg

 

Creative Commons licenses

There are six Creative Commons license options. The Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question: What can a user do with this work?

Elements Copy and distribute
the material		 Attribute the creator Distribute, remix, adapt,
and build upon
the material		 Share the modified
material under
identical terms		 Commercial use

CC BY

ccCC by

 Allowed Required Allowed Not required Allowed

CC BY-SA

ccCC bycc sa

 Allowed Required Allowed Required Allowed

CC BY-NC

ccCC bycc nc

 Allowed Required Allowed Not required Prohibited

CC BY-NC-SA

ccCC bycc nccc sa

 Allowed Required Allowed Required Prohibited

CC BY-ND

ccCC bycc nd

 Allowed Required Prohibited (Modification prohibited) Allowed

CC BY-NC-ND

ccCC bycc nccc nd

 Allowed Required Prohibited (Modification prohibited) Prohibited

CC0

cccc0

 Allowed Not required Allowed Not required Allowed
Elements Copy and distribute
the material		 Attribute the creator Distribute, remix, adapt,
and build upon
the material		 Share the modified
material under
identical terms		 Commercial use

 

 

Note:

Different publishers may have different license to publish (LTP) agreements.

As an author, when you choose a license, you will read through the license terms and consider which license suits you best.

For example, do you prefer CC-BY-NC-ND license, if you need to grant only to the journal publisher (but not to other users) the right to sell or rent your article?

 

 

Learn more and license chooser: 

 

 

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