Three “Layers” Of Creative Commons Licenses (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A question posed as part of the discussion of copyright options in the Open University’s Open Education (MOOC) is what Creative Commons license students would choose for their blog?
This blog is not written for commercial purposes and as far as I’m concerned, readers are free to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon any of my posts, even commercially, as long as they credit me, Martin Raybould, as the creator.
I am clearly not alone in this view. In the article Sites of Resistance: Weblogs and Creative Commons Licenses, Clancy Ratliff of the University of Minnesota writes: “The vast majority of bloggers do not get paid for keeping their weblogs at all; they do it in order to freely give and publish their ideas and receive other ideas in return. The bloggers I interviewed, when asked why they got Creative Commons licenses, all expressed desires to share ideas and relinquish some control over their content”. Continue reading
