MaxGuides: OER Service: Creative Commons License

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. -- From Creative Commons website

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

Things to Consider Before Licensing Your Work
Outlines things to think about before applying Creative Commons license to your material, or use Creative Commons-licensed materials.
Marking Your Work with CC License
Learn how to mark your work with a Creative Commons license.
Use the Creative Commons License Chooser to add the CC license notice to your work or website.
Contains information on how to choose the appropriate license for your work.
Best Practices for Attribution
Provides some good (and not so good) examples of attribution.
Use Open Attribution Builder to help you build attributions and cite open material you find and use.
Easily cite open materials. This tool will automatically generate the attribution for you.