W11. Creative Commons - Gyongmin Moon, 문경민

When simply put, Creative Commons is an NPO that serves the role of assigning licenses to works that can be freely used without any extra permission. Many Wikis' articles are also deployed via variation of Creative Commons Licences including Wikipedia and even the Namuwiki of South Korea. Because it enables others to relatively-freely use the published work for their own purpose, it is sometimes deemed as if it is against copyright. But, this is rather a false opinion because Creative Commons License also depends on the work's copyright. The purpose of the Creative Commons License is to make the greater good by sharing ideas and format of works created by a diverse pool of people. So, it will be much easier to understand it by getting close to the term called copyleft.

As I mentioned in my previous posting, I'm writing a Wikipedian article about open content. The open content is strongly related to Creative Commons License so I also edited some of CCL related articles in Korean Wikipedia. But even so, it is still hard to understand all the ideas of CCL. In the CC's Q&A section, there is information about "some rights reserved". This demonstrates the basic idea of CCL, while original copyright-licenses grants creators with all rights reserved. This answer from CC made me get much clearer idea of what CCL is.

Copyright is a very complicated subject, since what it's trying to do is giving an invisible authority to work. People created a lot of stuff from the pre-historic age. Even the cave painting of primitive humans is a creation. But back then, there wasn't a term of copyright nor a license. So, it will be an interesting time to find out when was the first time that copyright was suggested, why it was needed in that particular period, and how it was developed till today.




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