Since I have not yet posted a Creative Commons License for this
blog, I'm going to do so now and explain what it means. First, I went to https://creativecommons.org/choose,
where I selected the type of license that I felt was most appropriate for this
blog. Here is what my chosen license button looks like:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The above 'button' is a
"shorthand way to convey the basic permissions associated with material
offered under CC licenses. Creators and owners who apply CC licenses to their
material can download and apply those buttons to communicate to users the
permissions granted in advance" (2016). These licenses were "designed
specifically to work with the web, which makes content that is offered under
[the owner's] terms easy to search for, discover, and use" (2016).
And that is precisely my goal
of this blog - to offer something useful for fellow teachers that may come
across the information on my blog.
To be more specific about the
meaning of my chosen license, the CC stands for Creative Commons, a
"global nonprofit organization that enables sharing and reuse of
creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools"
(2016). The little man in the middle circle means that anyone who wants to use
my blog or part of it needs to attribute my work in the manner that I specify.
And the arrow in the shape of a circle specifies the manner, which is that I
allow others to distribute derivative works only under the same license or one
compatible with the one that governs my work.
The reason I chose those
aspects of the license is because if I didn't include the circle arrow, then a
person could potentially use distributive works and then not allow
that to be distributed or shared further than that. In other words, I want my
material to be used by anyone and everyone, and not for someone to somewhat
block the movement of the information and monopolize it. Now if you understand
CC better than I do and believe me to be explaining things inaccurately, please
do comment below and tell me, because I am definitely not an
expert on this topic!
For those of you reading this
and thinking to yourself that this is just a bunch of nonsense or needless
work, keep reading. If I didn't use a Creative Commons license
on my blog, then there would be 1 of 2 reasons for that. One, either I didn't
know about Creative Common licensing, or two, I wanted to reserve all of
my rights for this material under copyright law. I can assure you that until
now, I did know about Creative Common licensing, but didn't really care enough
to take to time to put it on my blog. Now after studying it more closely, I see
how valuable it is. By adding it to my site, I am making it very clear to anyone
who comes across it that they are welcome to reuse it to a certain extent.
That's largely what the Internet is about anyways - sharing information and
media with each other.
Sources
Frequently
Asked Questions (2016, August 4). In Creative
Commons. Retrieved June 23, 2017, from
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-creative-commons-and-what-do-you-do
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