What? Creative Commons is a system, built within current copyright law, that allows you to share your creations with others and use music, movies, images, and text online that’s been marked with a Creative Commons license. If you’re looking for more in-depth information, the About section contains more about the history, concepts and people behind the organization. To see the Creative Commons in action, try out the Find, Create, and Share sections, or one of the sections devoted to Audio , Video , Images , Text , and Education .
How? Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. It defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.
Why? Stories for Change is using Creative Commons licenses to allow facilitators and storytellers to control how others will view, use and reuse their images, sound and video for other projects. It also give facilitators a way to specify if others can just view or build upon/update any resources uploaded. In addition, ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Their mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers. For more information visit this website: http://learn.creativecommons.org/ .
