Welcome to the Creative Commons Licenses Research Guide

This guide is designed to provide information about using Creative Commons Licenses. 

After reviewing this guide you will be able to:

• explain what a Creative Commons License is
• identify the different types of Creative Commons Licenses
• create a Creative Commons License citation

The Creative Commons (CC) Licenses Research Guide is intended to be a through overview of how CC Licenses work.  It is not meant to be legal advice or encompass all applicable information about using CC Licenses and CC Licensed work.

This guide is licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted. (Link opens in a new window)

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