Task #8 -- Creative Commons -- CHECK!

Creative Commons is a very interesting concept. Yes, I see how it can be helpful or interesting to some people. "Creative" types, I suppose. But honestly, if the created item is or could be worth anything...or is truthfully widely respectable in any way...particularly with scholarly information...it would have to be covered by copyright and thus not be represented there. So. I'm not entirely sure who it helps. I watched some of the video clips that try to claim our access to the past is restricted and off limits due to copyright law and I'm just not sure what big parts of history "they" think we're missing out on. They seem to think too much of themselves or their "mission." I just think that there are plenty of ways to use, share, send, store information and respectfully credit the creators, originators etc. within copyright. I guess my skeptical viewpoint is due mostly to my few searches. All the stuff that turned up was kind of junky and meaningless and hardly even related to the keywords. (I used the keyword "dada" to search for images on flickr--it's an anti-art movement, mostly German--and the pictures were mostly a bunch of fools dressed up as the Joker and his crew.) I understand how if you are the creator, and you're trying to get your stuff viewed or noticed, this might be a good avenue. But if you are an artist or creator--why would you want other people to manipulate your stuff? This is about 12% cool/interesting about about 88% so-so/not worthy of much attention. In my opinion. And yes, if you use any portion of this post, you must contact me for approval and credit it accordingly! :-P (Yay emoticons!)