Week 4 - Creative Common

Creative commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. Creative Commons vision is realizing the full potential of the Internet to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity. CC gives you flexibility, and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement. CC has hundreds of millions of works such as songs, videos, scientific, and academic material, and it's all free to the public. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure. That someone was Creative Commons. CC's tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies, and large institutions a simple, and standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work. Now my question for you is, Is Creative Commons bad for Copyright? Why or why not?