This page is openly licensed.
Choosing and Applying an Open License © 2024 by Evangeline Reid is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 
No. Licenses cannot be revoked. You may choose to remove a work from an open platform to reduce distribution.
Not at all! You are still the copyright holder for that work! Open licenses grant many permissions but do not remove your copyright. In fact, these licenses are legally enforceable because of your copyright.
Yes! As the copyright holder, you have permission to sell your own work. In practice, this may look like selling physical copies of an OER.
When you decide to openly license your work, you are contributing to a flourishing community of open knowledge that others can learn from and build off of.
First, explore the considerations for licensors linked below. Applying a CC license is an irrevocable legal commitment, so you'll want to make sure you are doing so thoughtfully.
Then consider the licenses of any work you remixed or used in this new work. Explore the pages on the left about using CC licensed works to ensure you choose an appropriate license. If your OER is entirely newly created by you, you can skip this consideration.
Then consider what permissions you would like to retain. Explore the licenses in a tab on the left to get a sense of the options.
Then select a license. It may help to use the license chooser page.
When choosing a license, remember that refusing derivatives will mean your work is technically not an OER. However, it will still be openly licensed and freely available for use. It would more accurately be described as Open Access.
It's easy to apply a CC license! Simply state the applicable open license in a visible place on your work, such as with a copyright notice. Include details like your own name, the name of the work, year of copyright, and a link to the license deed (like this page for CC BY 4.0) to make it easier for other users to appropriately attribute the work to you later. In formats that don't support hyperlinked words, it's worth including the entire url in text.
Many popular online media platforms like YouTube and Flickr allow you to also apply the license designation within the software. OER publishing platforms like LibreText do as well. This technology makes your work more easily searchable by others looking for openly licensed materials. Take advantage of it!