“Our work is to build a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude.” –Ryan Merkley, CEO
Before taking a communications course many of us were unaware of what Creative Commons even was. I know know and understand the importance of being informed about it, and we want to share this knowledge with you , so that you too are informed.
“What is Creative Commons?”
The main goal of Creative Commons is to create copyright rules that are free and reasonable to those who wish to use and share creations. These license allow those to not run into the strict laws of copyright that often occur when trying to use or reuse works created by authors, artists, or really anyone who put a copyright on their work.
“What are Creative Commons Licenses?”
Creative Commons licenses allow for the creator of the work to decide how they would like their work to be shared and used. The creator has an option from six different licenses depending on how open or non open they want to be with their works. ” The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.” (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/).
Creative Commons allows you to learn and discover new resources without a cost and without having to give credit to those who created it. It is an educational resource that opens users up to being able to do things such as remix music and videos, and even share these new creations freely. It is important for us as citizens to have the constant right to use information and creations how we want and when we want and thanks to Creative Commons we have this ability.
Useful Sources we used:
Sophie Hamptons Blog 