Creative Commons
Research Questions and answers
- What is Creative Commons?
The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.
The Creative Commons website enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.
- What is the aim of Creative Commons?
All of these are done to counter the effects of the dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture pervading modern society; a culture pressed hard upon society by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema.
Driving Forces
Technological
- Booming of Internet Industry
- Change in the channel of information: from traditional media to Internet
Societal
- Pattern of entertainment
- The atmosphere of "Sharing everything"
References:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons