Friday, July 5, 2019

Thing 8: Creative commons licences





For this Thing we have been encouraged to research 'creative commons licences', denoted by (cc). These licences can take six main forms, but are all aimed at sharing work with less restriction than that given by the standard 'all rights reserved' (c).  If this symbol is shown with a creative work of any kind, it means that the work cannot be shared, modified or used for commercial gain without the express permission of the author.

The creative commons licence is rather different. It is designed to foster a culture of sharing creativity and nurturing collaboration. It does away with the prohibition of copying, using or even financially gaining from someone else work. But in order to offer some copyright safety, there are six major types of cc licence. Each specifies the ability or prohibition of being able to copy & publish, attribute, commercially gain from, modify & adapt, and change the licence of any creative works that you use. These are broken down really well in the following image from Wageningen University:

Creative commons licences.jpg


For this bog I've decided to use the CC BY-NC meaning that you can copy, modify and adapt work from this blog, then use whatever CC licence you choose, so long as I am attributed, and that the work is not used commercially.


Thanks for reading  - here's a great picture of a Green dragonfly. It's so amazing how vibrant the color is! Photo by Jude Infantini on Unsplash


green dragonfly

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