Yay for Creative Commons! (Week 8)

Creative Commons is a great idea. Though I feel that there is a place for both full copyright, as well as Creative Commons in society today. It depends on what the producer wants to achieve through their work. For some musicians, artists, authors or filmmakers, their main source of income is through the production and distribution of music, artwork, books or films. Therefore for these people full copyright is preferable.

For producers who would like their work to be readily available for anyone to use, then Creative Commons would be the way to go. A work that is covered by a Creative Commons license allows other people to freely use that piece of work, as long as they comply with the rules of the CC license that covers it. This allows for a ‘some rights reserved’ approach, rather than ‘all rights reserved’ (Creative Commons: About).

Creative Commons can be useful for students as well. It can be difficult for students to gain approval to use full copyrighted materials. For this reason students can find it useful to have access to material that is covered by a CC license. Students need to ensure that they understand which CC license covers the material that they are using, so that they know exactly how they can use the original material.

Creative Commons: About, viewed 14^th September 2011, < https://creativecommons.org/about>.