What is Creative Commons: A brief history
What is Creative Commons? A brief history Why do people create things? Why do people write poems, stories, and books, sing their own songs, paintings or photographs? For fame? Fortune? Of course, there are always a few who make it big, or even those who derive a stable living from their art. But do people perhaps take on creative ventures for less materialistic reasons? Is there a reason we make things other than just the hope for direct monetary compensation? Are our creative ventures meant to be shared, more than perhaps they are intended to be monetized? The rise of the Creative Commons movement suggests that this may in fact be the case – that for billions of people, creating something and sharing it directly with the hopes that others will find it interesting or useful enough to reuse or share is enough of a reward. You may have seen the Creative Commons logo or license on a variety of media you might have encountered online – a Flickr image, a Wikipedia artic...