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Licenses in the CDR

Licenses show what actions you will allow others to take with your work. Licenses differ from rights statements, which indicate the copyright status of the work. The CDR also allows users to choose rights statements for their work.
The CDR offers the following Creative Commons license options:

  • Attribution 3.0 United States
  • Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
  • Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
  • Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
  • Public Domain Mark 1.0
  • CC0 1.0 Universal
  • All rights reserved

 
These licenses correspond to:
Attribution 3.0 United States (CC-BY 3.0): Others may share and adapt your work, but they must give you credit, provide a link to the license and disclose if they made changes.
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-SA 3.0): Others may share and adapt your work, but they must give you credit, provide a link to the license, and disclose if they made changes.  Any changes must be distributed under the same license as the original.
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC 3.0): Others may share and adapt your work, but they must give you credit, provide a link to the license, and disclose if they made changes. Your work can only be reused for non-commercial purposes.
Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-ND 3.0): Others may share your work, but they must give you credit, provide a link to the license and disclose if they made changes. They cannot distribute any modifications that they made to your work.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0): Others may share your work, but they must give you credit, provide a link to the license and disclose if they made changes. They cannot distribute any modifications that they made to your work or use it for commercial purposes..
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0): Others may share and adapt your work, but they must give you credit, provide a link to the license, and disclose if they made changes.  Any changes must be distributed under the same license as the original and may not be used for commercial purposes.
Public Domain Mark 1.0: You assign no copyright for others to use your work, though other rights besides copyright may remain.
CC0 1.0 Universal: You have waived copyright restrictions on the work.
All rights reserved: Others must contact the rights holder to be allowed to use the work.
Creative Commons provides a “Choose a License Calculator,” which may help you select a license.
For more information and questions, contact the Scholarly Communications Office.