Creative Commons License in 10 Steps

This article is about negotiating a creative commons license with a book publisher; but there is some good information nonetheless.

"8. Provide sample verbiage

Make it easy for them. Give them the verbiage. Some legal departments are going to rewrite the contract. Others are going to create a rider. Cory Doctorow was kind enough to provide us with the verbiage his agent wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/20/model-contract-claus.html This is the really simple language we ended up using: 
“Publisher agrees to add the Creative Commons license designation to the Copyright page of the Work.”
This isn’t perfect, and we did have some further conversations when it came time to actually layout the title page. We probably could have been more specific about which license, but this is what their legal agreed to, and considering we were doing a CC-BY-NC-SA, which is the most restrictive, we were not super worried. "