Why Creative commons?
Like many creators befor me, Creative Commons was a choice. For me personally, it was a number of factors. I reside in Canada, although the local Copyright laws have remained to be OK (outdated, but OK) I fear that copyright stakeholders have a very good chance at turning copyright laws into an unfavorable direction. As a content creator, I feel that this is a threat to my works. Copyright is “All rights reserved”. This sounds wonderful. It sounds like the creator has rights to their works and no one will “steal” the work. This is certainly true in a legal sense, but it doesn’t tell the whole story in the process. In fact, it does a very good job at covering up the downfalls of such a concept in the digital age we live in today. One downfall is that people could possibly use this as a weapon against fan creations and non-commercial reproduction. Thousands of lawsuits in the United States have been launched against allegid copyright infringers who share files over the internet. with the
