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The easiest way to get to the Creative Commons web site is to Google it.
If you want to put your work under a Creative Commons license, select the Choose a License
page in the search results.
The form asks a few quick questions to determine whether you want to allow commercial uses
of your work, or just non-commercial and whether you want to allow derivative works. Depending
on how you answer these questions, there may be a couple more questions.
Next you have to fill in some boxes about the format of your work, which can be text,
an image, video, or whatever; the title, the author to whom the work should be attributed,
and the URL that should be cited in the attribution. Source Work URL and More Permissions URL have
to do with citing works that you used in your work.
Now you get to choose how your Creative Commons logo will look.
Here's the code nugget that you will copy and paste into the HTML code of your web page.
It will display the Creative Commons logo that you chose, and also let search engines
know that the document is open content.
If you want to put a Creative Commons license on a work that is not a web page, use the
Offline Work method, highlighted above. There is a link to a text statement that you can
copy and paste into your work, as well as high quality graphics to use. There are also
instructions for marking audio and video works as Creative Commons.