In literature class I’ve been learning about Creative Commons and copyright and I thought you guys might want to know about it too. We watched two videos in class, in the first video I learned about copyright. Copyright is when you take somebody’s work that isn’t yours and say that you did it, and not give any credit to the other person. In case you don’t know, copyright is legal. Another thing I learned is about fair use. Fair use is the law of copyright in the United States.

Some other things I learned in the first video is, because of copyright people are not allowed to use your work without your permission. But, if you want to allow people to use your work, get a Creative Commons license. A Creative Commons license is a document that states the freedoms and limitations that you apply to your work. In case you want to know more about what Creative Commons, it is an organization which provides a collection of free content license that you can apply to your work. And to top it off Creative Commons offers six different license so you can share your work however you want. But, Creative Commons does require you to give attribution which means, you must give credit to the owner.

Happy Blogging! 🙂