Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Creative Commons - to share or not?

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared"


Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

I loved this beautiful crisp image of prints in the snow and the story around how the photographer got the photo. I hope I'm as lucky some day. Have a peek at this http://www.flickr.com/photos/13909675@N08/2162477433/sizes/o/ This comes with a Creative Commons license which has some rights reserved - attribution, non-commercial and share alike (BY-NC-SA), 2.0 generic. So this lovely image may be shared, remixed, tweaked, and built upon for non-commercial purposes, as long as credit is given to m.d.d. and the new creation must be licensed under his identical terms.

The Creative Commons licence for the "Get With It" programme is BY-NC 3.0 New Zealand. This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work noncommercially and although new works must acknowledge NSL and be noncommercial, they don't have to license their works on the same terms.

Copyright is full of many issues, and with such a multitude of new and different means of accessing and using all this stuff, it's really good to know that you are able to at least try to retain some kind of intellectual property rights over works you may create by licensing something in this way.

1 comment:

NSL Training Support Team said...

Awesome photo and story! Great that it can be shared for everyone else to enjoy.