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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2744629, member: 14873&quot;]Creative Commons</p><p><br /></p><p><b>There is now an enormous amount of excellent reference material available on the Internet -- I think it is a shame that so much of it is not freely available due to copyright concerns.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I am an advocate for as much free use of online material as possible. I believe that Creative Commons licensing is an excellent means to that end. Of course there are numerous Copyright owners (including institutions, corporations and business owners) who wish to fully protect their material because it is a source of income for them -- Creative Commons licensing is usually not for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole idea behind Creative Commons is to allow free use and sharing of online material without the encumbrance of having to seek author permission -- which is often a long, time consuming, procedure -- and at the same time insuring that author intellectual property ownership is recognized and protected.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use this <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License</a> on my web pages. It permits visitors to freely copy and use content with attribution to me. Please read about the licenses - and see them in action - by following the links on <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://creativecommons.org/" rel="nofollow">this Creative Commons Page</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Just food for thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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