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Creative Commons licenses govern what people who read your work may then do with it.
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Add a
Creative Commons license to your item by using the "Select a license type..." dropdown below. Your CC license will be selected based on your responses once you select "Next".
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After answering the questions, to view which license was assigned, use the "Previous" button or select "Creative Commons" from the green progress bar. For more information on Creative Commons licenses, and to preview the license that will result from your answers to the license selection questions, see our
help on Copyright and Intellectual Property.
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Add a
Creative Commons license to your item by using the "Select a license type..." dropdown below. Your CC license will be selected based on your responses once you select "Next". If you wish to abstain from assigning a Creative Commons license, please skip this section and do not select an option from the drop-down below.
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For more information on Creative Commons licenses, and to preview the license that will result from your answers to the license selection questions, see our
help on Copyright and Intellectual Property.
If you choose to apply a Creative Commons license to your work, we also recommend that you
include the license you select within the work itself.
To add a CC0 / Public Domain dedication to your work, select CC0 from the list below.
For additional information, please see
Copyright and intellectual property concerns for eCommons users.