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AhmedA Guide to Creative Commons
February 20th 2008 14:09
This article will address two issues. What is Creative Commons, and how can it help in Blogging?
Any time you create anything, it is licensed under an All Rights Reserved Licence. Now this is good for creators. It means that other scungy miscreants can’t just copy your design and pretend like they made it themselves (yes, I’m looking at you Todd Goldman).
However, Bloggers are in the market of sharing. We need pictures. We need information. We need videos. So we either need to make everything ourselves (good luck), contact somebody about gaining permission to use their work or find content that is not licensed under All Rights Reserved Licence.
This is where something called Creative Commons can come in handy. Creative Commons is an alternative to all rights reserved copyright, instead opting for some rights reserved.
Through Creative Commons licensing you can permit people to use your content for a number of purposes. The following specific restrictions may be added to work you create –
Attribution. This is the least restrictive way to licence your work. An Attribution licence means anyone can use change and distribute your work with no limit, provided they attribute the work to you in the manor specified.
Share-Alike. This condition means that people may use your work as long as they are willing to license derivative works with an identical license to yours.
No-Derivatives. This means that a user may use your work for any purpose, but may not make derivative works. For example, an image may be used on a website, but not photoshopped. Might be a good idea if your licensing images of your kids for example.
Non-Commercial. This means an image may be used for any purpose, but not Commercially to make money.
In case my explanation wasn't great, here's a video on the topic.
Where can you find Creative Commons works to use? There’s a great many places. The one I find most useful is Flickr. Following the Search feature links up to HERE you have the option of searching for works that have been licensed under Creative Commons.
Another great starting place is the Creative Commons main page HERE. Here you can use the site as a launch pad for finding all kinds of creative commons licensed content.
One final place I’ll give you for finding Creative Commons content is right here on Tales from the other side; another site of mine. Every article on this website can be used for whatever you want, provided it’s non-commercial and attributed.
Hope that helps.
Any time you create anything, it is licensed under an All Rights Reserved Licence. Now this is good for creators. It means that other scungy miscreants can’t just copy your design and pretend like they made it themselves (yes, I’m looking at you Todd Goldman).
However, Bloggers are in the market of sharing. We need pictures. We need information. We need videos. So we either need to make everything ourselves (good luck), contact somebody about gaining permission to use their work or find content that is not licensed under All Rights Reserved Licence.
This is where something called Creative Commons can come in handy. Creative Commons is an alternative to all rights reserved copyright, instead opting for some rights reserved.
Through Creative Commons licensing you can permit people to use your content for a number of purposes. The following specific restrictions may be added to work you create –
Attribution. This is the least restrictive way to licence your work. An Attribution licence means anyone can use change and distribute your work with no limit, provided they attribute the work to you in the manor specified.
Share-Alike. This condition means that people may use your work as long as they are willing to license derivative works with an identical license to yours.
No-Derivatives. This means that a user may use your work for any purpose, but may not make derivative works. For example, an image may be used on a website, but not photoshopped. Might be a good idea if your licensing images of your kids for example.
Non-Commercial. This means an image may be used for any purpose, but not Commercially to make money.
In case my explanation wasn't great, here's a video on the topic.
Where can you find Creative Commons works to use? There’s a great many places. The one I find most useful is Flickr. Following the Search feature links up to HERE you have the option of searching for works that have been licensed under Creative Commons.
Another great starting place is the Creative Commons main page HERE. Here you can use the site as a launch pad for finding all kinds of creative commons licensed content.
One final place I’ll give you for finding Creative Commons content is right here on Tales from the other side; another site of mine. Every article on this website can be used for whatever you want, provided it’s non-commercial and attributed.
Hope that helps.
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