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Creative Commons: Freeing Copyrights Everywhere
In today’s world, everything is copyrighted; the TV shows you watch, the shampoo you use, and even the patterns on the clothes you’re wearing. One non-profit organization has created a way for everyone to share the fun. It’s called Creative Commons. The basic premise of Creative Commons ("CC" for short) is that you can give others the right to use your artistic work easily and quickly. If you are clicking at normal speed, it takes about one-and-a-half minutes to get a HTML code sporting the customized license you have chosen for your work. The concept and process of CC really is a brilliant thing for artists. Deviant Art currently employs an easy DHTML plug-in on their submit art page that give you the power to use the CC license, as opposed to applying a full copyright.
I’m not going to even attempt the whole legality of CC, because I’m not a lawyer. However, the CC lawyers have written up this page to help us who don’t understand it. As I said earlier, CC is very quick to use, and quite nice with its clean HTML codes that it outputs. Heres a test CC code i generated.
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width: 0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/2.5/88x31.png"/></a><br/>This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 License</a>.<!--/Creative Commons License--><!-- <rdf:RDF xml="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xml:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xml:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">
<Work rdf:about="">
<license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/" />
<dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" />
</Work>
<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/"><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/><permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/><requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/></License></rdf:RDF>
Clicking on the image takes you to a page that explains in detail just what the CC License allows. The options on the license generator page allow a great amount of freedom on how you let others use your work. The CC guys also have a number of other licenses like GNU and Music Sharing; those are found to the right-hand side of the code generator and also have their own HTML codes.
For anyone who wants to give to the rest of the world, Creative Commons is for you. Its fast, easy, and simple, so go on check out Creative Commons at http://creativecommons.org.
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