Applying an open license, such as a Creative Commons (CC) license, to your teaching and learning or research materials can help facilitate the distribution and reuse of those materials. CC has created free, standard, easy to use and understand copyright licenses that anybody can apply to their work to allow others to share, remix, or use the work without having to contact the copyright owner to ask for permission. CC licenses are not an alternative or exception to copyright, they are one way for copyright owners to distribute their work within the copyright framework and they do not overrule fair dealing. 

To apply a CC license to work in which you are the sole copyright owner, you can use the License Chooser, which helps you choose a CC license based on your preferences and then generates the appropriate text to apply to print works, as well as the HTML code to apply to online works.