Laura Myers here. I’m an artist from Europe and I’m here to discuss certain laws that could protect any art or musical piece or composition you have. But before we get to the more specific topics, let’s have a look at the first copyright any person can own when posting his or her work in the Internet, the Creative Commons copyright.
Many bloggers today choose to have a Creative Commons License to encourage the sharing of their work to allow the entire world to have access to their content. CCs could provide apt protection. In the Internet any published work could only be used by agreement between the blogger and the webmaster who wishes to use the content. The law had never yet identified the responsibilities of a Webmaster and a blogger.
Creative commons is an actual license that would trump any implied license because it has a clear set of rules when someone uses your content. CCs allow you to have an express license attached to your content.
Creative commons are original lawyer-drafted licenses and could be used in various countries where they can survive the copyright industry. Creative common media licenses is also machine readable and could be identified by software for proper usage. The bottomline of CC licenses is that you give up some rights of your work to share it to the world or allow people to develop your work.
The only trouble most people have with Creative Commons, even me from the start, was that I never really understood it. I hope this article helped reduce the misconception of Creative Commons laws.
