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technically sharing a cool image or video that you

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found online constitutes copyright infringement yes even that super funny

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spongebob meme but oftentimes there's no way to know if the

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rights holder is the guy who runs the sriracha sauce company who is super

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chill about other people using the name or if it's some super litigious artist

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who's going to send a tactical team of lawyers to your house at three in the

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morning and because it takes about two seconds to repost something on social

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media or a blog there have been a number of efforts to

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make it clearer what you can and can't

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do with the content you find online with one of the most notable being the

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creative commons license you've probably seen these on websites like wikipedia

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and flickr whenever you click on an image but what exactly do they mean

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a creative commons license aims to find a happy middle ground between media that

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the creator declares is in the public domain meaning that they've made it free

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for anyone to use for any purpose and

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works that are protected by the full force of copyright which by the way you

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should probably assume for anything that you find on the internet that isn't

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otherwise labeled here's how it works the creative commons

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organization provides a number of pre-written licenses that a creator can

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choose from instead of having to draft one themselves or hire a lawyer to do it

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for them an expensive process these licenses allow any member of the

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general public to do certain things with their image song or computer program

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without having to explicitly ask permission

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as long as certain rules are followed all creative commons licenses require at

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the very least that the user attribute their work to the rights holder so

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you'll see example of this right here on techwiki as you may have noticed when we

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put attributions down in the corner whenever we use a cc image

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simple attribution licenses such as these are popular among business users

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such as a cafe owner who wants to play music in their coffee shop without

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having to pay royalties however other cc licenses place

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additional restrictions on how the work can be shared a share a like license for

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example requires that any transformed creation like a remixed song

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also be distributed under the same cc license

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creators also have the option of banning any commercial use or modification which

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could be useful if you're say a photographer who doesn't mind

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people posting high-res versions of your picks on their personal

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cool desktop wallpapers blog because it's 2002 but doesn't want some shady

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character selling canvas prints on the sidewalk for 300 bucks a pop profiting

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off of your work but Linus come on what's the point of all this can't i

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just assert fair use if i'm using something without making money off of it

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actually no not only can you still get in trouble for reusing a copyrighted

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work without permission even if you're not turning a profit

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which you can learn more about up here but fair use is a squishy squashy

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subjectivey legal standard that has led to some lengthy court battles in the

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past creative commons licenses spell out

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exactly what is and is not allowed by the creator and the organization also

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provides easily readable summaries and icons that creators can use to label

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their work if you don't want to read through all of that messy legalese

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but bear in mind that the cc system isn't perfect for example you could

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still get in trouble for distributing an image of something copyrighted by

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someone else if they didn't correctly license it to begin

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with or if the work is otherwise legally problematic in the first place like for

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example if it violates someone else's personality or privacy rights and

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although creative commons provides licenses as a convenience to creators it

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isn't a law firm so you can't go crying to them if you misuse a cc-licensed

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