1. Creative Commons do not include un-protectable works or works included in the public domain. When you’re considering one of the Creative Commons’ licenses for the distribution of your work, you must first check the flexibility offered by this licensing system. This flexibility must not be confused with the complete lack of any form of protection, so keep in mind one important thing – your work will still be protected by copyright law. It is very clearly stated in the Creative Commons’ Terms and Conditions that the work will still preserve all the copyright features: THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE"). THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED. And, if you are wondering what the reason behind this strong emphasis on copyrightability would be, you probably don’t know that most people make great confusion when asserting Creative Commons, mostly because they are only taking into consideration the short version of the license, which gives no explicit terms or details on this aspect. This is why we are used to perceive things like: “Creative Commons means no copyright”, or “Creative Commons means no rules”, both of them being far from the truth. Creative Commons is actually based on copyright law, so, there is no time for fears about this being a territory without any control; if you choose one of the Creative Commons licenses, you will still have the ability to control the way the work is used and, if infringing circumstances arise, you will still have legal grounds before any court, because it will be a matter of contract law since every Creative Commons license is in… Răspunde