Creative commons is a nonprofit organization set on ” building a globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and culture.”
This is done through the providing of Creative commons licences and public domain tools, allowing others to make use of works for creative and accedemic purpuses.
This is beautiful, in this information age practically anyone is able to coppy immages off the internet without consiquences and without the creator being able to take credit to the work unless they do alot of work.
Creative commons being a nonprofit organisation that supports creators distributing their content for free allows the creators to allow their work to be identifyed and knoticed by the general public is great.
The fact that it grants the people who want the ability to use immages, and not pirate them, through a reliable platfrom is good.
The only problems is that its a relatively “small fish” in the internet ocean, not many people who are below the age of 18, and even above the age of 18, know of the sight.
It would be wise to teach this to highschool students before year 10, considering how it the law to give proper crediting and referencing, just one hour explaining, “no you can not go onto google and use whatever you would like in your power point.”
Although considering how licencing and laws and everything is changing so fast I believe it unreasonable to expect such a change untill the world reaches a relatively stable ground for copyright laws.
Liam McCrorey 