Copy & Paste

When applying a Creative Commons license to a work, include one of the following license icons and accompanying text.  Be sure to include the link as it points to three things: the common language of the license, the legal terms of the license, and the machine readable language of the license.  For Word and Google documents, a simple copy and paste should be enough.

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Icons

Right click > "Copy & Paste" or  "Save As . . ."

It can be difficult to find the entire collection of Creative Commons license icons.  The following is provided for convenience should you prefer to adopt the slim version of the license icon or assemble your own out of the components which the author of this guide finds more visually appealing.  See the license at the bottom of this page.

License Icons

PD	BY	BY-SA	BY-ND	BY-NC	BY-NC-SA	BY-NC-ND

Component Icons

Creative Commons	Public Domain	Attribution	ShareAlike	NoDerivs	NonCommercial