What is Creative Commons?
Creative commons is an international nonprofit organization, working to create and encourage people to share their creative work, which includes text, story, image, video, sound, etc; Free of charge!
How does Creative Commons work?
Basically, Creative Common will provide creators Creative Commons licenses (CC) for their work. Creators can decide the level of copyrights for their work from 'All rights reserved' to 'No rights reserved'.
Some rights reserved
The concept of some rights reserved allows creators to share their valuable work to other people while having their works partially protected under copyrights law.
Get a CC license and start sharing!
Go to: http://creativecommons.org/choose/
You just need to answer few questions that will specify your level of rights reserved. Then copy HTML code to your site, so your visitors can see CC icon and click it to learn more about what licenses apply to your work. It's easy!
Experiment of CC licenses
The below icon and text is what you get from applying CC licenses, and embedded the code into your site.
Title of work by (write 'Attribute work to name' here) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at (write 'Source work URL' here).
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at (write 'More permission URL' here).
Short Thought on Creative Commons
Creative Commons is truely one of the parts that make our world better. I never heard about Creative Commons before; also I didn't get what it is when the prof. mentioned it in the lecture. First, I visited the site because it is mentioned to be a place to get free pictures, just that! Then I found out later that it is something much more than that! I'm so impressed, really want to explore other creative work, collect some ideas to create my own, then share them to the world!
Link
There are several interesting video about Creative Commons
1. http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons
3. You can find a lot more in Youtube
Very, very glad to hear that Creative Commons has sparked your interest. It is a truly amazing framework for creative collaboration.
ReplyDeleteThank you for introducing this organization, prof. James.
ReplyDeleteI learn lots of good new things in your class, thank you very very much!