Marking your work with a license

Once you have chosen a CC license for your material, the next step is to visibly apply the license to the material.
The easiest way to compose a license statement is by using the CC license chooser.
Image: CC logo
Placement of the license
There are no fixed rules as to where you display your license statement.  
It's most important to choose a place where the user of your material can easily find it. E.g. in the copyright notice for your work, the footer of your website or the footer of a document.


What do you include in a CC license statement
There are no defined rules for how you do this. A simple line of text would be sufficient, e.g. © 2023. This work is openly licensed via CC BY 4.0.
However, to give (re)users adequate information including the following is advised:

Optional elements: