Copyright (C) VS Creative Commons (CC) (20140930 update)

© The copyright system protects intellectual property. If you write something, make a picture or sounds, nobody can use your work without permission (“All rights reserved”). Only you, the copyright owner can make copies and use them to make money.

Copyright applies to:

1 Verbal works (= written articles, poems, plays, books)

2 Visual works (photos, drawings, etc.)

3 Sounds (Music, stories and other sounds)

If you want to use copyright material, you need to

1)          get permission

2)          pay royalties

3)          acknowledge the source

A newer system is called CC = Creative Commons. If your work is licensed under Creative Commons, you give up some rights and keep some (“Some rights reserved”). This allows other people to use your works  

1) without getting permission
2) without paying you royalties (if they don't use your property to make money)
3) BUT you usually have to acknowledge the source (say where this picture, music, story etc. came from and who made it

Most people reserve commercial rights. If you want to use their words, pictures, sounds etc. to make money, you must ask for permission and pay the maker some money).

BY – acknowledge the author = if you use it, you must mention the author's name

NC – non-commercial = you can’t sell it or use it to make money

SA – share alike = if you make any changes, you must share them

ND – no derivatives (you cannot change it)

How do we find CC pictures, music etc.? Use a CC search engine, such as

Compfight.com (to find pictures on Flickr.com)