Photo Taken By: Constance Thomas
In today’s society there are many ways to gain access to a picture, quote, and or video. With technology at the forefront and the driving force behind gaining access, there are now new rules and ways to have permission to distribute the items. With the technology of social media on an all-time high the quick access if just a click away. For this a site called Creative Commons was created for a time such as this.
Creative commons not only has pieces of work from others that you can search and share, but this is a great site for those that are just starting out and would like to get a license for their own work to protect. It’s a very simple and self-explanatory. It’s also free.
We sat down and spoke with Kristopher Thomas, Founder and President of R.A. Communications an IT firm, based out Detroit, MI. He helps companies and individuals to fix errors but also, finding new tools and software to further the productivity of your work.
Kristopher Thomas, Founder of R.A. Communications, LLC. Photo Taken By: Constance Thomas
When asked about the copyrights and this new way of sharing ideas, he says, “I think ideas shouldn’t be something that you have to pay for”. He feels that with this type of search engine such as creative commons, it allows access to resources with out trading for money.
The copyright owner maintains the copyright and allows others to copy and distribute their original work as long as credit is given. The owner can choose to allow others to use the material freely or to select a license for specified uses and attribution to the copyright owner with HTML coding to embed on your site at: http://creativecommons.org/choose/.
Thomas feels this is the furthering of the human experience. He continues on to say that the person gets the notoriety of doing the work, so there is no loss there. When asked about the coalition between the IT aspects of this, he has this to say, you can sell support, you can learn how use it well for free or you purchase the professional support of it. But never having to actually buy the idea (i.e. software).
Artwork: Chase 16mons
Photo Taken By: Constance Thomas
