"Creativity always builds on the past"

With the title for this blog, coming from this video, everyone creates ideas. We create these ideas from our thoughts, which in some way or another were influenced based on prior events and situations we have come across in our lives. Because our ideas are influenced from other individuals and events, copyright issues come into play.

Copyrighting sometimes is TOO right. As humans, we are constantly movin' and groovin' ... coming up with ideas and situations that may turn into the next big thing. For some, they want their creativity fully protected. For others, they want to express their ideas to be freely shared in order to give others the opportunity to expand on their creativity with the ideas they come across from others.

It is very protective over all of our creativity and our ideas, which often times may later be turned into a visual piece of art, music or tangible item for the rest of us to enjoy. With Creative Commons, this site gives the creator of an idea to decide the amount of restrictions he or she would like to place on their creativity. Creative Commons is "a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for others to share and build upon work of others consisted with rules of copyright." When someone joins the site and answers a few questions based on the amount of restrictions he or she wants to place on their idea, it takes away the "no rights reserved" to making it "some rights reserved." It gives others the opportunity to use another's idea while still making the individual with the original thought hold credibility for producing the idea.

Copyleft, as explained on Wikipedia, as a "form of licensing and can be used for modifying copyrights for works such as computer software, documents, music and art." The author surrenders some of the rights held from producing the idea but not every right under copyright law. Creative Commons is an effective tool for protecting and expanding one's creativity all while giving the individual the right to state how much protection they want for their idea. Finally, the type of input you want to know you are guaranteed is heard and respected!