Get a Creative Commons license

Get a Creative Commons license

Licensing your work is as simple as visiting the Creative Commons website, clicking the "get a licence button", selecting the conditions of the licence, and stipulating your jurisdiction

If you want to apply the licence to a web page, simply copy and paste the HTML code into the relevant file(s). Click here to view some examples of referencing openly licensed content.

If you want to apply the licence to documents that reside on your computer (e.g. MSWord documents and presentations) you need to gather the plain text and button manually. This can be tricky so we have created the following screencast to help you through the process.

	Licensing offline works (Large file-may take a few minutes to download)
	Licensing offline works (Youtube Alternative: If you can not view the video above)

If you are familiar with the licensing process, you can also simply cut and paste your license from the table below.  It is best practice to include both the license badge and the license text somewhere in your document.  

Licence Badge	Licence Text
	This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.
	This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.
	This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.
	This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.
	This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.
	This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/za/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.