Tag: creative commons

6: Creative Commons: How useful is it?

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that, “helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world” (Creative Commons). My first impression of the website was that it was very colorful and vibrant. Definitely warm and inviting to people looking to share their work and those looking to…

6: Creative Commons Underwater

For my Creative Commons search, I chose the keyword “underwater”. I honestly have no idea why I chose this keyword, it was just the first thing that popped into my mind. Throughout my search, I saw a range of different media represented, including photos, videos, academic papers, articles, wiki pages, blogs, and music. The academic…

6: Creative Commons – Beauty

Creative Commons logo, two black c's in a black outlined circle

The Creative Commons website is a “…project [that] will develop and release an open online search and re-use tool that will allow high-quality content from the commons to surface in a more seamless and accessible way.” (CC Search Prototype). For this search through Creative Commons, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to search at first….

6: Creative Commons and Remix

I wasn’t sure what I would uncover when I typed used Creative Commons to search for results related to “poetry,” especially on platforms like feature primarily images or videos rather than written texts, and I was intrigued and in some cases surprised by the results. The first place I looked was Flickr, where I found the expected…

6: Creative Commons Pros and Cons

Creative Commons is an organization dedicated to allowing people to freely share their creative works with the public in order to be shared and built upon. In response to copyright, which says that “all rights [are] reserved” in a creative work, Creative Commons’ goal is to allow increased sharing through having only “some rights reserved”…

Creative Commons & GoT

I never heard about Creative Commons, and I wanted to learn more about it before I dove into the search bar. On the about page, it says, “Creative Commons’ “CC Search” project will develop and release an open online search and re-use tool that will allow high-quality content from the commons to surface in a…

6) Creative Commons Media Search

Creative Commons “helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world” (Creative Commons). When I first opened the site using the link on the Course calendar, I was brought to a search screen. However, I didn’t necessarily know what to search for. Should I search for something…