Social Media:Open Licensing

Find an indepth description of open licensing at http://opendefinition.org/guide/

    As stated on the website, open licensing is

"is a document that specifies what can and cannot be done with a work (whether sound, text, image or multimedia). It grants permissions and states restrictions. Broadly speaking, an open license is one which grants permission to access, re-use and redistribute a work with few or no restrictions.

...a piece of writing on a website made available under an open license would be free for anyone to:

• print out and share,
• publish on another website or in print,
• make alterations or additions,
• incorporate, in part or in whole, into another piece of writing,
• use as the basis for a work in another medium – such as an audio recording or a film,
• and do many other things …

Openly licensed works are hence free to be shared, improved and built upon!"


So why wouldn't you open license your work? Are controlled creative content a hinderance to the progression of creativity?