Over the past decade, the internet has been in great popularity. As many know, the internet carries a large variety information, as well as entertainment, such as films, books, music, etc. Of course there are people that prefer to purchase these items at stores, but many find it convenient to illegally share or correctly known as peer-to-peer.
To assist with this issue, creative commons (CC) was created. According to http://creativecommons.org/, Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works to increase the amount of creativity in "the commons." The commons refers to the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use repurposing, and remixing.
Creative Commons is somewhat different from traditional copyright law. Copyright protects the author works from unauthorized copying, and gives the rights to print, reprint, and copy the work, sell assign, distribute copies, and to perform the work. All of these rights are reserved with copyright. But with Creative Commons it is not required to have all of these rights. It is way more flexible. People with CC licenses are allowed to pick and choose their own rights in which they want to apply.
Now when it comes to Creative Commons in regards to independent content producers, I believe that it can be beneficial to the producers. This gives them a way to get their creations out and available to the world, but still have the needed protection. A great example of this is CC licensed musician Josh Woodward. His music is available for anyone to use, as long as they credit his works. This exposures is great for the authors, and can eventually lead to bigger and better things. Overall, creative commons seems like it will have a positive impact on the way content producers of the present and future will protect their works.
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Photo: cc.logo.circle (By Drew Baldwin licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic ).
4 comments:
Using Creative Commons really does allow people to share their work for free and I read in Kara's blog post that it's also a free form of advertising. It's just too bad that Creative Commons can't police the proper use of the media. People can still steal others work and violate copyright. The option to follow copyright online is optional.
Sierra: nice job. Next time I'd like to see a little more in depth coverage of the topic and a bit more of your own analysis of what it all means.
Nice job on your blog. I agree that cc helps independent artists such as Josh Woodward because it allows their work to be recognized in other people's work as well, while he still gets credit for it.
I'm diggin the pink miss lady.lol
um yeah i totally forgot that people like Josh Woodward could gain great exposure by sharing his work. in my blog i touched on how the third party could benefit and i'd viewed the whole thing as a selfless act by the contributors. But it's great to know everybody benefits. (sigh) sharing is so much fun.lol
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