Creative Commons
Photo by Charles Miller
I knew I wouldn’t be meeting this week’s deadline due to some family coming out for a visit, so I decided to throw something out there that some might find useful (why don’t you just do this anyway, you might ask? The answer: You couldn’t afford my proposed living expenses in Prague). Well . . . here it is, a short and pragmatic posting for those working the Internet seams in search of a virtual payload of coal.
Creative Commons is way to share, distribute, and sell your creative media works without involving Corporate America in your efforts. You can also find others who are willing to sell or share their works. At the very foundation of this endeavor is the license (and subject to appropriate copyright protections), which is easily tailored by the user to suit his or her needs. Bloggers will find this site helpful in that they can now quit ripping off photos from the Internet for their posts; they can now search Creative Commons for an appropriate image which would allow legal derivative use without a fee. Music lovers will find new and interesting music to download (some for free, some for a charge). Users will be quick to discover vast data bases hosted by other companies who subscribe to the Creative Commons enterprise.
The founders of Creative Commons deserve more than a pat on the back for their support in keeping the Elite One Percent OUT of the remaining 5% that is left for us. Please visit their site here.
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