Adding Creative Commons licenses to your documents allows others to use and incorporate your intellectual property while maintaining copyright protection for the work that you created. With over 140 million video, audio, text, image files and other objects protected by Creative Commons licenses, it is emerging as the standard licensing model for ensuring intellectual property rights.

What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. Current copyright laws are generally extremely restrictive. Creative Commons has figured out the hard legal stuff to enable you to simply and easily express your preferences with respect to what people can do with your work.

Visit creativecommons.org for:
- a list and explanations of all 6 licenses
- The Creative Commons FAQ

How do I apply a Creative Commons license to my work?
When you publish a file, in the user interface you will see instructions on how to apply the Creative Commons license. The default license type is set to “Attribution�, which you can find in My Account >> File License. If you wish to change your default license type for Creative Commons:

1. When you publish your file, a publish window will popup and contain a field where you can choose your Creative Common License Type. This will affect only the document you are publishing.

2. You can go to My Account >> File License from the left menu. You will find instructions about how to change the license type of the existing documents, or how to find out more about Creative Commons.

3. If you wish to change the License Type for future documents, you can go to the same path above, and you will find a field where you can set a default License type.