For creators
It is important to set a license and rules for your content on the internet.
As the creator economy is now both growing slowly and struggling to retain viewers, we are entering into a new era of content creation I think.
Many influencers and creators are reusing and repurposing other content to make new content. Can’t blame them as the content fatigue is real. Finding an audience for a new topic is like searching for a lost piece in the sea.
While I was writing on a different topic, I thought it was important to know about copyright, attribution, and licensing. So tried to learn more about it.
Copyright
You get it when you create something.
Attribution
Giving credit where credit's due.
Licensing
Choose a license that fits the content you created.
Copyright
All Rights Reserved: The creator maintains full control over their work and must grant explicit permission for any use or adaptation.
Public Domain: The work is free for anyone to use, distribute, or adapt without restriction.
Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
CC Attribution (BY): Allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the creator.
CC Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC): Allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work non-commercially, and credit must be given to the creator.
CC Attribution-NoDerivs (BY-ND): Allows others to distribute the work only in its original form, without modification, and credit must be given to the creator.
CC Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA): Allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the creator and license their new creations under identical terms.
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA): Allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as they credit the creator and license their new creations under identical terms.
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (BY-NC-ND): Allows others to distribute the work only in its original form, without modification, for non-commercial purposes, and credit must be given to the creator.
*** BY stands for "Attribution."
Identifying the creator by name or pseudonym.
Providing a link to the original work (if applicable).
Indicating if any changes were made to the original work.
Choosing the right license;
Commercial use: Do you want to allow others to use your work for commercial purposes?
Derivative works: Do you want to allow others to create new works based on your work?
Attribution: Do you want to require others to credit you as the creator?
As I sometimes use Movies and TV show scenes in my blogs and YouTube channel, I think it is important to know about all these. I always try to credit people or organizations if I’m using their content to tell my story. From today I’ll give more attention to these types of details.
Being a creator is very difficult these days. To stand out you have to produce something unique. To do that sometimes you may need content from other creators. It is always nice to give a backlink (in the form of credit) to the original author.
I believe it is also important to disclose the use of AI in your creative works.
*** I used Google Bard for the exact definitions of each license I mentioned above ***
