Copyright Notice & Creative Commons Licence Picker
Answer three questions about how others may reuse your work and get the right Creative Commons licence, or keep all rights reserved, with the notice, the HTML for your site and how people should credit you.
About this tool
In the UK, copyright belongs to the creator automatically as soon as a work is recorded: you don’t have to register it or add the © symbol, though a notice reminds people who owns it and when it was first published. For most written, artistic and musical works it lasts for the author’s life plus 70 years. “All rights reserved” means people need your permission for anything beyond what the law allows, such as quotation for criticism or review.
Creative Commons licences let you give permission in advance. All six start from “credit me” (BY) and add conditions: NC means no commercial use, ND means no changes, and SA means anyone who adapts it must share the result under the same licence. CC0 gives up your rights as far as the law allows. Licences are permanent once you’ve released a copy under them, so choose carefully, and only license work you own outright. The HTML includes the licence link in the format search engines and Creative Commons recognise. Your answers are remembered on this device.