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<blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 25889" data-attributes="member: 1061">Creative Commons is a sham, largely perpetrated by mega corporations and promoted by social media (Flickr being the largest).&nbsp; It's not necessarily a rights grab per se, but a transfer of power from where it belongs (you) to someone else in the interest of &quot;sharing&quot;.&nbsp; CC is crowdsourcing at its peak and does little besides take money and rights out of your hands and give it to someone else.The bottom line here is, your stuff can be used by others for personal use.&nbsp; It's all considered fair use.&nbsp; Someone downloading your photo and using it on their blog or as a screensaver on their computer for example.&nbsp; The real issue here is commercial use: someone using your work for their own benefit (aka profit).&nbsp; CC licenses are irrevocable, meaning once you apply a CC license to one of your photos, it's there for life.Creative Commons = bad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Browncoat, post: 25889, member: 1061"] Creative Commons is a sham, largely perpetrated by mega corporations and promoted by social media (Flickr being the largest). It's not necessarily a rights grab per se, but a transfer of power from where it belongs (you) to someone else in the interest of "sharing". CC is crowdsourcing at its peak and does little besides take money and rights out of your hands and give it to someone else. The bottom line here is, your stuff can be used by others for personal use. It's all considered fair use. Someone downloading your photo and using it on their blog or as a screensaver on their computer for example. The real issue here is commercial use: someone using your work for their own benefit (aka profit). CC licenses are irrevocable, meaning once you apply a CC license to one of your photos, it's there for life. Creative Commons = bad. [/QUOTE]

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