Creative Commons

The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works. These licenses, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work instead of traditional copyright, which is more restrictive.

Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights. This includes the right of others to copy your work, make derivative works or adaptations of your work, to distribute your work and/or make money from your work. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.

You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
They do not give you the ability to restrict anything that is otherwise permitted by exceptions or limitations to copyright—including, importantly, fair use or fair dealing—nor do they give you the ability to control anything that is not protected by copyright law, such as facts and ideas.

As a Blogger, how can you best use Creative Commons licensing to promote your work?
Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work.

Should you use Creative Commons?
That's up to you.
However, if you are into developing free use templates or something unique, you may want to look into it.

License Your Work

CC will help you choose the kind of license that

that fits your use.

With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify here. For those new to Creative Commons licensing, we've prepared a list of things to think about. If you want to offer your work with no conditions, choose the public domain.

It is important to clearly show how your content is licensed physically.

A CC license is only effective if others have a way of knowing about it. It is important to clearly mark your content so that others are aware of what permissions they have.

For more information,see the http://creativecommons.org/ website

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a non profit organization that was formed to help protect internet publishing rights.
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Creative Commons licenses apply to works that are protected by copyright. Generally, works that are protected by copyright are: books, scripts, websites, lesson plans, blogs and any other forms of writings; photographs and other visual images; films, video games and other visual materials; musical compositions, sound recordings and other audio works.

Creative Commons licenses do not apply to things such as ideas, factual information or other things that are not protected by copyright.

You can apply a Creative Commons license online to a work by selecting the license that suits your preferences. You will get a code which will automatically generate the “Some Rights Reserved” button and a statement that your work is licensed under a Creative Commons license, or a “No Rights Reserved” button if you choose to dedicate your work to the public domain. This acts as a notice to people who see your work that your work is licensed under the applicable Creative Commons license.

A Creative Commons license is based on copyright. So they apply to all works that are protected by copyright law.

Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may use you works.
Creative Commons licenses attach to the work and authorize everyone who comes in contact with the work to use it consistent with the license.

Visit Creative Commons for much more information.