Week 8 Creative Commons and Licensing

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps you license your work. This is important because it allows you to choose a level of licensing you need. You use it to copyright your work. This makes it so other people can use your work and if you allow, they can build upon it. It makes it easy for you to know if you can use someone's work and how or if you can't. It gets rid of the gray areas in copyrighting. It sounds pretty easy to do. There are six ways to license you work. Basically, all of them allow other people to share your information. It's up to you to decide if you will allow others to share commercially, noncomercially, or allow others to share your document only if they link it back to you and give you credit or not, or to allow other people to tweak or build on your work and share it with the same or different licensing features. They ask you questions to help you figure out what is appropriate for you and it seems fairly simple to do.