Creative Commons allows for a collaborative approach to research in a way, because under creative commons, there are no restrictions of copyright, which allows people to freely share research. As it seems there is always some kind of disagreement over intellectual property and who owns what, Creative Commons offers an alternative. It’s people sharing their ideas so that others may be inspired, or can build their own work off of someone else’s. To me, collab research is one of the keys to success. Everyone influences everyone else. Don’t get me wrong, Creative Commons isn’t without some flaws. If you get something licensed by Creative Commons, you should still cite it. Instead of there being a copyright, there is a creativecommonsright, in that some rights still belong to someone.  For example: you want to screen a disney movie for your class. Technically, you cannot because of copyrights and that warning about not showing to crowds. With Creative Commons, it is ok to screen their stuff, because that’s allowed based on their version of rights. I myself have used Creative Commons for music and pictures, especially things related to James Farmer for our project last semester.

Although this definition seems all over the place, I made it so on purpose. There is always some undefined area about how far you can push something. Creative Commons just makes this easier with their systems of citing things and having resources more readily available than going through the channels of having something authorized under a copyright.