Using Creative Commons Zero (CC0) for scholarly work – STUART LAWSON

"Creative Commons licences are the standard way to make explicit the permissions granted for open access work. Of the various permutations these licenses have – such as allowing commercial re-use or not, allowing derivative works or not – the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) is the one most commonly held up as the ‘gold standard’ licence to use for research texts (books, journal articles etc.)...."