Creative Commons is a really great site. It allows artists and writers to copyright their work and to clearly lay out rules for other people to use that work. As someone who publishes content on a near-daily basis, I really love the opportunity to use creative commons to find work that I can publish.

For the most part, I don’t publish writing although you can certainly find writing to publish through the Creative Commons site. I like to do my own writing and don’t typically feel the need to have other writers fill in for me in that respect.

However, there are a lot of other things that I don’t do myself that it is great to use Creative Commons for in order to add to my site. The main thing that I use it for is to find Flickr photos that I can use on my blogs. These photos are easy to search for through the site and the rules for how they can be used on a blog are super clear. Video and music can also be added to a site in the same way.

It’s important to respect the Creative Commons rules and the boudaries set forth by the creators of the content when using the site. If you can do that, you can get a lot of great content to enhance what you’re already putting out there.

Is anyone else using Creative Commons? What has your experience been with it so far?

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