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Keeping good things in common!... Creative Commons (some info / logos to use) ... 

-Some of my thoughts and
-Future slogans:

Creative Commons says upfront what people can do in a more clear manner. (see logos and banners)

Blocking the bad in a legal ways and standards or just clearly said ways can be a good thing,
Like using something against those that attack us, restricting them also. It's not perfect perhaps but does well as a more pre-emptive defence or attacking move for more moral chess (rather than waiting until your creations to get use / stolen / robbed / patented and then complain about it).

It's "nice" to be clear and even make exceptions while not leaving the door always open.

Remember 'legal' is not moral by existence or as a default. it's a more authoritarian thing like rules which can just be top-down orders.

Public people / Peasants / Civilians who didn't create legal law. or know near-0 about it, mistaking use 'moral' with legal. People cn even replace it like it's the same thing like rules+morals=law... butoften not!! Many things "legal" just seem "moral" or seem "legal" it's the same game as before with more hoops and more nested rules inside other rules (like the mummy dolls you open up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryosh

Law / Legality DOES NOT NEED be moral or very clearly moral in it's creation. Legality is mostly an own self-made construct of many things for outcomes good for the 'house' / lords / owners etc. It's not conditionally moral, just plays close enough to act like it....
And by default expects you to pay to break back any rules they add. And by adding many rules fast they are getting more what they want unless we can undo them or put them to stricter questioning in creation.

To pay for what is questionably wrong or pay to prove they are 'wrong' is also a casino in which win or lose the lawyers and house get a cut AND know what to block in the future with smaller cases that arise. It's not a static system.

Difficult to block all these things... so Creative Commons licenses (for example CC-BY-NC-SA) allows people to see the bastard tactics ahead of time and BLOCK them using it's license maker...

creativecommons.org/choose/

A few questions on the above page and you know which license code to use.
CC-BY-NC-SA
Creative Commons
Attribution/Credit needs to be given
Non-Commerical usage
Share-alike model (new work created with your content itself also needs to include these restrictions)

As far as I'm aware people also can't upload it somewhere to monetise it on platforms by default.

Overall CC state things more clearly (signposting) and is a good easy-access equivalent to Copyright.

Creative Commons.
Keeping the good in common.

(Doesn't mean you can't do money but YOU pick and choose how and who to do it with - for example making special exceptions is better than leaving it too open and allowing them to take it and then try and fight for reasoning!)

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