What is this Creative Commons? (#caneatoneah?)
Creative Commons was introduced to me not too long ago. What was funny was that I seem to have been breaking the law using pictures illegally before! I might get sued! Thankfully I did not use it for my own profit use or I would be in serious trouble! With the amount of independent artists out there in need to earn their own ways.
Creative Commons has surfaced the digital era for quite a while already and some of us out there still do not understand. I, myself found a few icons related to Creative Commons and it confused me with the amount of combinations listed. The amount of freedom to use the CC licensed work varies with the combination of types of licenses. The picture below shows the different types of combination on how independent artists can license their work gaining freedom or not.
Credits: foter.com
Creative Commons are usually found in media sharing sites such as Flickr and Deviantart. It could be in archival websites as well. Sharing music, images, artwork and videos is shared freely these days and it really does help people who are working independently to display their work easily as others would share or use their work.