This document offers guidance on Creative Commons Licensing for contributors to the C-SAP (Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) legacy project.

2. Non-Commercial - The work may not be used for commercial purposes Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon the licensed work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.<br />Importantly, with a CC licence, you keep your copyright but allow others to copy and distribute your work, provided they attribute your work and adhere to the conditions you specify in the licence.<br />There are many benefits attached to applying a Creative Commons license to your work. The license signals to others clearly whether the work can be shared, distributed and/or re-used without having to go through the lengthy process of contacting the author or resolving copyright issues. As a result, the work can be exploited more effectively, more quickly and more widely, whilst also increasing its impact (adapted from “An Introduction to Creative Commons” by UKOLN, The United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking).<br />For more information, please see the About the Licences guide from Creative Commons. Feel free to contact Anna Gruszczynska a.gruszczynska@bham.ac.uk at C-SAP if you have any further questions.<br />