Week 8 - Response to Content

What is Creative Commons?

"Creative Commons (CC) is an internationally active non-profit organisation that provides

free licences for creators to use when making their work available to the public. These

licences help the creator to give permission for others to use the work in advance under

certain conditions." (CCi). When someone creates something, for an expamle a journal article or a photograph, their work is automatically protected by copyright. This means that other people cannot use their work in certain ways, like copying the work or putting the work online, without their permission.

Creators who put their creations on Creative Commons use the CC licences, which allows the creator of the work to select how they want others to use the work. When a creator releases their work under a CC licence, members of the public know what they can and can’t do with the work. This means that they only need to seek the creator’s permission when they want to use the work in a way not permitted by the licence. The great thing is that all CC licences allow works to be used for educational purposes. As a result, teachers and students can freely copy, share and sometimes modify and remix a CC work without having seeking the permission of the creator (CCi).

(Source: http://www.brisbanegrammar.com/blogs/library/?tag=creative-commons)

References:
- CCi, What is Creative Commons - For teachers and students, viewed 29 September 2011 at http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/webdav/site/scwsite/shared/What_is_Creative_Commons__website_.pdf