Week 6: Thing #15 Creative Commons and Copyrights

http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

I obtained most of the information on Creative Commons in the website above.

I would summarise the difference between copyright and creative summons by saying that copyright equates "All Rights Reserved", whereas Creative Commons is "Some or No Rights Reserved".

Creative Commons licensing provides an avenue for the copyright owner to allow sharing of his copyrighted works to the public through standardized forms of permission, attached to the work itself so as to release the copyright owner from individually granting licenses to those who would request permissions, if he/she desires so.

There are six different licenses under Creative Commons depending on how one wants to share his work. The website above shows the six different licenses. The licensee can share, remix, adapt the work of the owner as long as the owner is credited. Some of the licenses only allows the work to be shared but do not allow commercial use or change to the original work.