Creative Commons

In case you haven't spotted the links on the right, I'll just start off by mentioning Creative Commons (CC) licensing. It's basically a really simple way to let people know how they can use your work, while still giving you copyright protection and attribution. The licences come in several shapes and sizes, but all of them have versions that humans, computers and lawyers can understand! This means you can search for content with CC licences and be safe in the knowledge you can legally share or reuse it.


Creative Commons is being used for sharing photos in places such as Flickr, and in education, for example MIT OpenCourseWare and Connexions Repository.



Sites like Geograph British Isles revolve around user generated content, with contributors licensing their work with CC.

See this picture on the Geograph site