This week (week 2) we were assigned to do some research on Creative Commons. This is “a nonprofit organization that allows the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.”  (creativecommons.org) When visiting the site, you can copyright the work you have done so that those who wish to use and/or access the site, cannot steal your work or ideas as their own. The licenses provided at Creative Commons work alongside copyright laws and enable users to change the terms to suit specific needs.

The ultimate vision for the Creative Commons corporation is that all people have an access to all information so that people can grow together as a whole. Manipulizing legal documents for each person’s individual work and ideas allows this vision to be realized.

To learn about what the Creative Commons organization is, I went to creativecommons.org. The site was very user friendly and was chock-full of information on what their mission is, the different types of licenses and how to license your own work. From here on out, I will be licensing my work using the website’s licensing feature so as to protect my own ideas and to allow others to use and access them too. To license your own work you go through the steps on the website and at the end it produces a code that you paste into whatever page your are putting on the internet. Super easy!