Saturday, February 13, 2010

CReATive CoMMons

Creative Commons is licensing that makes it possible to share creations online for free. There are six free licenses that legalize the sharing of text, audio, video, art, photos, and music online.


List of Licenses

The question may arise whether Creative Commons takes away the Copyright of an individual or organization but it doesn’t. A person still is licensed under his or her Copyright; however, Creative Commons allows exceptions. Others are allowed to get your permission to use your work. Creative Commons opens the window to sharing your work worldwide via the web.

Josh Woodward is an individual who is using a license under Creative Commons to share his work with whoever is interested in using it. The only catch is that they must attribute their work back to Josh. This is a way to get Josh Woodward’s name and creative works out for others to tweak, remix, use, download or enhance.


The idea of Creative Commons is amazing in my opinion. I think sharing is caring, so I am all for anything that legally allows individuals to share online, for free. I think it’s beneficial to all parties because the one using someone else’s art has more availability and choice of artwork to use while the creator of the work gets their name spread. The one who created the work usually doesn’t mind, anyway, if others use their work, but use of creative commons licensing allows internet sharing to become legal for everyone involved.

Check out this Link!

http://creativecommons.org/videos/wanna-work-together


Sources Used:

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

Article in Hypergene Media Blog

http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P223

Article in The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-wojcicki/creative-commons-in-2009_b_366548.html

Article from The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/books/19kaku.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&sq=creative%20commons%20copyright&st=nyt&scp=4


Images:

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/videos/

Scott Fisk

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