Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Thing #10: Creative Commons



I think that the whole idea of Creative Commons is great and vital for our digital society in which it is becoming easier and easier to rip off other people’s work. I think it is so crucial because it gives the public domain so much more to work with and allows others to become more comfortable using other peoples work and thus inevitably entices others to let their work be licensed under Creative Commons.

While at Coe, one of my projects that I think would be worthy of opening up to the Creative Commons license would be really anything that I have written NOT for a reasech project. These would include a 50 page manuscript for my creative writing class as well as my technical writing works that I did last semester. I think that these types of projects would be best for the CC license because they are works that would be best utilized by others because they are ideas that can be used and expressed over and over again without really harming the integrity of my efforts.
As I mentioned above, I wouldn’t want my research papers used for a CC license because these types of papers were written by citing other people’s works and I put a lot of time into collecting that information. Plus, I would probably need to get the owner’s of the sources I cited permission to license it through CC which would be arduous and time consuming.

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