What is Creative Commons?

When a work is made, it is immediately protected by copyright according to law. This prevents other people from using any of your work. But, some people want other people to use their work. This is what creative commons is about. Creative commons is a free license you can put on your work to tell people to use it but with some restrictions like say they have to acknowledge you whenever they use your work. There are some other creative commons licenses that will add restriction on how you work can be used. These licenses include an option so that they can't make money off of your work. There is also a license that prevents people from altering your work and/or they have to share their new work with the same license as yours if they ever use your work. This is an alternative to the immediate copyright that is placed on your work. This allows people who want to be realized.

You can think of creative commons as an option to let people know that you want them to use their work so that they can get recognized. Creative Commons is not a rival to Copyright but rather, an alternative. Your work automatically gets protected by copyright and you can choose to leave it that way, or you can add a Creative Commons license so that you give people permission to use it but according to your preferences wether its not using it for money or not retouching it. All in all, Creative Commons is a way to get your work to be recognized when someone uses it.

And now, here are some pictures that have creative commons licenses which portray the word ********(note: the asterisks are not the exact number of letter in my word)


pic by:phunkstarr



pic by: gorprogresswent


Pic By : bootload



pic by: 1 bird 2


Pic By : charles.hope
yeahhh, and this is included

Pic By: Paul Gardland
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