On Fri, December 2, 2011 10:56, Gregory wrote: > In searching for a presence on the internet, I found this 501(c) > organization. It's called Creative Commons allowing members to offer their > work under various licenses. You can access the website here; > http://creativecommons.org/ > > Has anyone heard or know anything about this site? Wow; somebody just hearing about Creative Commons for the first time just now? I'm kinda surprised. Yes, they're very well known. Wikipedia for example uses their licensing terms as the standard. They're one of the licensing choices in the Flickr drop-downs, too. They're front and center in the IP discussion. (Note that what they're doing is trying to provide licenses that accomplish various things people want done, within the current legal IP framework.) I've released a number of my photos under CC terms (I mostly use CC-BY-SA), and it's those photos that I think are most likely to still exist 50 years after I'm dead. I've even sold usage rights in a book to an image I'd put up under CC license; the author found it on Wikipedia. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
