Sunday, April 27, 2008
Creative Commons Applied!
Since we recently talked about Creative Commons in class and on the blog, I thought I would give it a try for myself. From what we learned in class, I knew that the creators wanted it to be easy to use, but I had no idea it would be SO easy, even for someone as technologically-challenged as myself. I copy-lefted a photo I took that is displayed on my Myspace page in a matter of minutes. From start to finish I was able to choose the license I wanted and apply in 7 minutes. Now my photo has this fun little gizmo under it and boy do I feel cool now! From now, on I am going to do this to all of the material I put out there for the world and I suggest you all do this same. While you're on the site, check out some of their projects, there are seemingly limitless bounds to what the site can do. Check it out and apply it to your work!
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congrats! Glad you tried it out.
I've always been told to be a little hesitant when applying CC licenses to my works. Sometimes, it's awesome, and it works out in awesome ways (i.e. Brad Sucks, a Canadian musician who sort of rode his way to minor Internet stardom on the initial CC wave, asked for backing vocals to the title track off of his upcoming album, and administered it through ccMixter. He's also signed to Magnuatune, a CC-reliant net-label).
On the other hand, it can screw you out of a lot of opportunities. For example, it's tempting for a musician to apply a fairly unrestrictive CC license to his or her work, but doing so effectively prevents him or her from bringing along that work when presented with a recording contract. Once the CC license is applied to a work, you can make restrictions looser, but you can't tighten them, which would most likely be required to enter into the contract (all rights vs. some rights reserved).
But for most, and especially photographs, this is kind of a fringe case.
I actually never tried applying for a CC license. I see how it works and how great it is to share your work to others, but I also see that some people abuse works with CC just because CC license is being used.
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