Visited the Creative Commons website, watched a couple of videos and learnt that I could allow other people to use my work posted on the internet - drawings, written stuff, music, photographs,etc. Instead of having all rights reserved, I could allow for some rights reserved, so that other people can use what I have created to some extent. It would have been tiresome for people to get my permission to do, so to get round this, Creative Commons allows for permission to be granted. This is what collaboration is about in the digital age - other people can build on your work readily and make it even better. Best of all, you can get the licences FOC. This site also allows you to search for other people's work which is licenced with Creative Commons, so you can use them.
These are the various types of licences available:
License Conditions
Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work.
Attribution
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.
Share Alike
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
Noncommercial
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
To read more, go to http://creativecommons.org/about
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