Use Creative Commons!!!!!

Hi it’s Olivia.

Today I am going to be writing about Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a website where people can get special licence for their work so they can share it with the world. But right now I’m not going to talk about how YOU can use the Creative Commons search. The search is really easy to use. For example, let’s say your looking for a picture of a cow. You click on the flicker tab  to search for a photo type Cow into the search thing. Then, you can take any picture of a cow that you want off of that page and use it almost whatever you want as long as you put the source of the photo, video, music, etc. Pretty cool huh?

But now you may ask, why use Creative commons when I can do the exact same thing on Google or Yahoo? Well I’ll give you the answer. Creative Commons is LEGAL! Believe it or not taking images, videos, etc. off of Yahoo or Google for your own work is not allowed according to the law. 9not even if you put the source.) And although you usually never get caught, if you do you could get in big trouble. For example, let’s say you put cute pictureb of your pet up onto the internet. When you put that picture up it is immediatly copyrighted under your name and  no one is allowed to use it without your special premission. But what if you want people to use your work and enjoy it, learn from it, be inspired by it, and allow you work to help people? This is where Creative Commons steps in. If you take a piece of work from Creative Commons the person who posted it is saying “Here, I want you to be able to use my work.”

I hope that from now on you use Creative Commons!!! And in case you didn’t notice, there is a link to the Creative Commons search at the top of the page and also a link to flicker photos in the first paragraph.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!                      Image Source

Olivia