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Creative Commons copyright licenses allow anyone from individual creators to large companies/institutions a simple way to grant copyright permissions to their IP. Every license helps the creator retain copyright while still allowing others to copy, distribute and use their work, non-commercially. This ensures that the rightful creator gets all the credit they deserve. There are different scales and levels of licensing available for creators at the bottom of the page.

Creative Commons many not be as gracious as we think. The contract between content creators and users are not always understood by both, and may generate issues in the future when using another person's work without giving proper credit.

This article talks about copyright violations of a company to an individual. The company used a photographer's pictures for their benefit of making it used commercially for their profits. Just because it was posted on Twitter, a public domain, doesn't mean one can steal someone's products without permission. This is related to our copyright lecture of what not to use for commercial use without giving credit to the original owner of the product.