Learning Management: Creative Commons Licenses

Can you reproduce, copy, or create a new version of another's intellectual property? No, unless the owner has decided to allow for certain uses of his/her work through a Creative Commons license. “ Creative Commons licenses are an extension of copyright law”, and are “recognized as giving the holder of rights an ability to prospectively grant certain permission rather than limit use of their work by expecting all comers to request these permissions, again and again.” (Miller, Styles, & Heath, 2008) CC licenses give authors the ability to exercise copyright in the manner they so choose, and still retain their identity and ownership in the work through credits. For more information about CC licenses, visit the Creative Commons website here: http://www.creativecommons.org/

References:
Dylan, J (2008) - "A Shared Culture" - Retrieved from: http://youtu.be/1DKm96Ftfko

Miller, P., Styles, R., Heath, T. (2008). Open Data Commons, a License for Open Data. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop about Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008).