Creative Common Licenses

Creative Common Licenses

"The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional 'all rights reserved' setting that copyright law creates." - It's a simple... - It's a quick... - It's an easy... way to grant copyright permissions to your own creative work. You can change your settings on Flickr or other photo sharing sites to public or private, so the photos you want to share and mark as your own work will be exposed to the public. Through Creative Common Licenses content can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and build upon. "All Creative Common Licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators- we call them licensors if they use our tools - retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work -at least non-commercially." The important thing to remember is that licensors always get the credit they deserve for their work! So share your pictures with the world! There are 3 "Layers of Licenses" for the Public Copyright Licenses 1. Machine Readable: Which is mainly in a format that is readable by different kinds of software or search engines. The Internet plays a huge role in the creation, copying, discovery, and distribution of different content. 2. Human Readable: A quick and handy reference for licensors and licensees which summarizes and expresses some of the most important terms and conditions is a more user-friendly way. 3. Legal Code: A traditional legal tool that uses more legal terms then the other formats. This can be hard for someone to interpret if they don't have a legal background. The diagram below is from the Flickr: Creative Commons website and it summarizes the different copyright settings that you can pick from when showing your work to the public.

For example, this photo was created by: Paige_Elizabeth Photography