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Some Thoughts on Creative Commons

Posted on July 15, 2008
Filed Under Daily Links |

Over on the Creative Choices Blog, I’ve posted some thoughts on the use of the creative commons licence. It’s very much a primer article, nothing in depth or controversial, but your thoughts would be much appreciated on it…

Looking around the web, you’ll see a lot of sites branded as CC. Now this isn’t some insidious marketing for the Creative Choices site, but rather Creative Commons, a form of licence that many people use on their work. At its most basic form, it allows people to share what they create, and let others work with it without them having to explicitly ask permission - because it has already been given.

You will probably be familiar with the phrase “All rights reserved” used in conjunction with created works. This means the creator has decided to use the full weight of copyright law on their work, and you may not copy, transfer, publish, disseminate, etc without asking for permission first. The creative commons licence could be thought of as “some rights reserved.”

The full post can be found here.