The aim of the Creative Commons, founded in 2001, is to enable users to use and build on pre-existing media and projects. This is important because it encourages growth and sharing of media and software. The idea of free to use media is very different from media that we have known in popular culture run by big business. In some ways it's like wikipedia in that it's user generated content available to everyone for free. This is important because it counter balances the closed internet, the internet where images are copy written and cannot be used by anyone except the one content creator.
Within the Creative Commons there are different levels of rights, allowing the content creator some control over the use of their media or project. These Creative Commons are just another way we are evolving on the net.
I really approve of the many different options that "creatives" can specify under a CC option. I think this is very helpful for the evolution of culture.
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