Learning2.0 : Journey to about2findout.com

Today I want to talk about a cool site that helps you with all legal issues of owning your own texts and web content, and still be able to share it to the free, open internet community. It matters. If you do nothing, anyone can steal your ideas and claim ownership of it. In an open source, you want others to benefit and share, but you still want to be recognised as the author. And for inventions, you don't want someone else to patent your idea because you forgot to protect it.

It's called Creative Commons, and this is their own description :

With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit -- and only on the conditions you specify here.

Instead of copyright, it is referred to as copyleft and used increasingly on blogs and web2.0 sites. It's very simple: you go to this page, select the options you want such as allowing commercial use, applicable legislation, whether or not modifications are allowed and it generates a logo and associated HTML code for you to copy on your site. Anyone clicking on the logo will find a legal text covering your 'copyleft'. The sites also allows for copyleft music and for searching material under the Creative Commons license.

DECISION: any content on about2findout.com will be subject to a Creative Commons license.