Which Creative Commons

licence is right for me?

Instructions Start here!

Published by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation in partnership with Creative Commons Australia. This fact sheet is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
profit organisation that works to Reserved” copyright to

Australia licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au. The heading font, Mariana by fuex, is available under a Creative Commons Public Domain Certification, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
content without asking my
make it easier to share, reuse, protect my content.
permission everytime?
repurpose and remix creative
material. It does this by providing
free licences that let creators give
permission in advance for certain
uses of their material.
Yes
I should use an Attribution-
CC encourages people to share
their work. But we think it is very No Noncommercial-No Derivative
Works licence.
important that you use the right
licence for you, and that you Am I ok with them changing and No Am I ok with other people http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
understand what that licence adapting the content? Will I allow making money out of their reuse
means. This flowchart is intended remixing? of the content?
to help with this—by answering a I should use an Attribution-
few simple questions, it lets you
choose which CC licence is right Yes No Derivative Works licence.
for you, or if you want to use a CC Yes http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0
licence at all.

and the copy font, Puritan 2.0 by benweiner, is available under the SIL Open Font License, http://scripts.sil.org/OFL.
Start at the green question box
and, following the arrows that No I should use an Attribution-
correspond with your answer,
make your way through the pink Do I want to limit how others can No Noncommercial licence.
Am I ok with other people
remixing and blue commercial release their remixes? ie. If they
making money out of their reuse http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
questions until you reach a purple remix, their new content must be
of the content?
licence box. That will be the right available to remix on the same terms.
licence for you. For the full details I should use an
of each of the licences, see the link Yes Attribution licence.
under the box.
Yes http://creativecommons.org/lisences/by/3.0
CC has an online tool that will take
you through the similar process
at http://creativecommons.org/ I should use an Attribution-
license.
No Noncommercial-Share
Alike licence.
For more information about Am I ok with other people http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
the CC licences, see http:// making money out of their reuse
creativecommons.org/licenses. of the content?
I should use an Attribution-
Yes Share Alike licence.
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