## Where to start

When you have created a completely new work, an adaptation or a collection you may apply a Creative Commons license to it. Doing this will make it easier for your work to be utilized in education and by society at large. You can read more on the benefits of sharing open resources in education in the wikiwijs ‘Open Educational Resources at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences’.

Who may license a work
A license may only be applied by the copyright holder of a work.
Also take the following into consideration:

- Collaborations
  If you’ve collaborated on a work the copyright is shared. Therefore, all creators must give consent when applying a CC license.
- Work made in employment
  Note that the copyright holder is not always the creator of the work. For works created in employment the employer may hold the copyright. This is usually the case in universities of applied sciences. A publication policy usually prescribes if and how employees may license materials.
  At Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences there is currently no official policy on licensing educational resources, though the granting of CC licences by staff is condoned.
- Work made by generative AI
  Unchanged output of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, is free from copyright. Creative Commons recommends applying a CC0 license to such works. If you’ve modified AI-generated output by adding your own creative elements, copyright applies to your contributions. In this case, any Creative Commons license you choose will apply to the creative work you contributed, even if the AI-generated portion of the work may not be subject to copyright.

Did you include materials made by others?
Which license you may choose is influenced by the way you've used other CC licensed materials in your work.
First determine which of the options below applies to the material you will be licensing.

1. Licensing completely self-made material
   This is a work in which no other CC licensed works have been (re)used

2. Licensing a collection
   This is a compilation of CC licensed works, in which each of the used materials is still distinctly separate

3. Licensing an adaptation
   This is a new work based on one or more existing works. The used existing works have been altered or blended in sufficiently for the new work to be entitled to its own copyright

What to consider when licensing each of these types of works, will be explained in the next segments.