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Have You Applied a Creative Commons License to Your Work?

by Morgan Sully on March 31, 2009

in Social Media



Creative Commons Licences for Madagascar
Image by foko_madagascar via Flickr

Have you considered applying a Creative Commons license to your work? Are you familiar with what one is? From the Creative Commons website:

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. you can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”

CC licenses are used the world over by knowledge seekers/creators alike. On this site, I make sure all my content is shareable, remixable, and attributable according to the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 3.0 License. My particular license is just one of six, that take in to account things like, attribution, sharability, commercial use and derivative works.

Have you considered applying a CC license to your work? It’s pretty easy. Check out the Creative Commons licensing tool here.

you are the best curator for your work, a librarian for resources you’ve created, a dj for the music you make.

Any cool examples you’ve seen of CC licenses in action?

  • Yes, I've applied the Share and Share Alike license to my blog, Patterns of Engagement and most of the publicly released templates and models on my Web site. I'm taking a little risk on permitting commercial modification and reuse (with attribution and agreement to license any new work under the same license), but I feel it's important to encourage widespread creativity and right livelihood.

    So I'm a big supporter of the Creative Commons approach.
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