Cyndi Lea Landis

“ Being copyright conscious in today’s online environment can be challenging when public domain works are often hard to find, licensing filters are not always accurate, works are not properly tagged with license in-formation, stock photos cost money and lack diversity, and tracking down the creator to ask permission to use a work seems like a detective’s task. To ease the dilemma of whether one can use something found on the Internet, Waxer created a simple flow chart called “Can I Use It?” ”

“ The purpose of copyright is to promote culture by offering the incentive of a limited monopoly and eventually dissolving the monopoly to make that intellectual property publicly and freely available. Waxer asserted that the relationship between technology and copyright law complicates the use and protection of works because technology allows users to make exact copies and technological developments are constantly creating new platforms and ways to access, create, and share works. ”

“ Creative Commons License Spectrum. The most important designation is the non-commercial sharealike licensing because it is hard to break habits that are created on college campuses, where new works often fall under fair use; once creative professionals get into the real world and are in a commercial setting, noncommercial use becomes critical to their career.
CC0 is the most flexible and the preferred Creative Commons licensing when someone wants to use a work; this is because the creator has intentionally dedicated it to the public domain. ”