Tuesday - Creative Commons

At the beginning of the course, we talked about copyright and at that time I mentioned that we would eventually learn a better way to apply intellectual property rights management to our work. Today is the day. The problem with copyright is that it has no flexibility; either a creative work is 100% restricted or it is 100% open. Most creators would like our work to exist somewhere between those two poles of the spectrum, and Creative Commons provides us with a way to achieve that. If you go to the Creative Commons Website and click on "share your work," you will make your way toward an online tool that allows you to set the exact restrictions you want to be applied to your work.

From this point forward, you should stop using copyright and exclusively use Creative Commons. If you like the total restriction offered by copyright, simply set your Creative Commons license to restrict all use of your work. I will walk you through how to define the restrictions on a license and how to then put the resulting code into your HTML documents.

We'll spend the rest of the bell working on the CSS needed for the Week 09 Coding Challenge.