Appropriate Creative Commons license

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers four basic types of licenses that specify the terms of use of works. Researchers can publish the work in electronic form and protect it with one of the Creative Commons licenses without the additional intervention of lawyers.

Types:

• CC0 Public Domain
• CC BY Attribution
• CC BY-SA Attribution-ShareAlike
• CC BY-ND Attribution-NoDerivs
• CC BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial
• CC BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• CC BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs