Back by popular demand, sorry for the lull and thanks for the prompt …

The aim of ‘Thing 5’ is to find out about Creative Commons and how the re-use of original content can be controlled by its owner. 

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organisation which offers copyright licences for creative works such as photos, music, text, etc. It allows the author(s) of the work to share their work under a licence chosen on the Creative Commons website. Websites such as Flickr, Google and the White House use Creative Commons.

Task

You will be exploring Creative Commons and the task will to a Creative Commons to copyright to the text in your blog.

1)     Go to the Creative Commons website http://creativecommons.org

2)     Click on ‘About’ and explore the ‘Learn More’, ‘Licenses’ and ‘Who Uses CC?’ sections.

To add your Creative Commons license

3)     Click on ‘License’ on the green title bar at the top of the page

4)     Click on ‘a list of things to think about’ and read the information given.

5)     Go back to the License section and complete the details on the page deciding whether you wish to allow your work to be used for commercial purposes and whether you agree to your work being modified.

6)     In ‘Source Work URL’ you will need to paste the link to your blog and select ‘Select A Licence’

7)     Select the Licence you wish to apply

8)     In the ‘Have your own website’ section, copy the text in the box and paste on to your blog.