Copyright: Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is a non profit organization  headquartered in the United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as creative common licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they need for the benefit of other creators. An easy to understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but are based upon it. They replace individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner and the license holder, which are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management with a "some rights reserved" management employing standardized licenses for re-use cases where no commercial compensation is produced by the copyright owner.

It has content that you can freely and legally use, there is a giant pool of CC-licensed creativity available to you. There are hundreds of millions of works from songs and videos to scientific and academic material. The combination of tools and users is a vast and growing digital commons, so much content can be copied, distributed, edited and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law. Copyright infringements make it hard legally to copy, paste, edit, source etc. creative commons provides a free, public and standardized infrastructure. The tools on the website give the user a simple standardized way to keep their copyright whilst others may have certain uses of there work.

One way I could easily find creative commons videos or content was searching for the CC logo, on any sort of creative platform, such as Flikr, Flikr has a search bar and options that you can narrow down to strictly Creative commons videos and would have the rights to download, edit, copy etc. and include it in my own work or share it further into the internet world. CC can be used for multiple options on your content, either video, graphics; websites etc. there are various license options that can be used for various content. Overall CC helps you copyright your work and still have it use and seen by everyone and anyone across the web.

After choosing my license i then decided to add it to my recent upload of Set 120, this was part of my other project and can link in with how we wanted to get our videos out on the web. i started by choosing the license that I wanted to include, however Youtube is now a partner with creative commons and can give you the option to a public license, one that everyone can share and use your video. My first upload of the set120 Duke Dumont video was not responding to my creative common license and I could not work out why. After going onto my uploaded videos i could then see a option in the left hand side saying 'copyright notices' once i had uploaded and embedded my creative commons license, the notification of copyright then came up and had third party licensing, I didn't really know what this was at first but once clicking onto it and looking at my license it then told me the third party license was there because of the music that was included over the video. This meant because some of the content was not mine to use I could then not include my creative common license and have it as shared content. After realising this and having no CC or person logo on the end of my video, I then decided to upload an old piece from last year of my horse racing news story, this was because it was all my own content used. After uploading the video and using the creative commons drop down menu in the youtube set up, I was then ready to include it and have my work out in the world to use by anyone. After realising the troubles you can have with copyright and different factors that can lead to problems in the future. It seems a topic no one wants to think about but can be specific and helpful in the long run.