Personal Blogs

For your blog content and other material you produce, consider which of the Creative Commons licences you would use, and justify your choice.

Before I consider which of the creative commons licenses I would use for my blog, for example, I would take the following factors into consideration;

• Understand how a Creative Commons (CC) license affects my copyright.
• Understand my commitment.
• Decide how I want to be attributed.
• Know why I might want to use a creative commons license, as opposed to reserving all rights.
• Examine the options.
• Choose the license that best suits my purposes.

After considering the above factors, I would choose a Creative Commons Attribution -ShareAlike 2.0 Licence for my blog.

Under the creative commons license, I can decide how I would like my blog to be adapted. The ShareAlike aspect of the license would require anyone using my work to share it under the same license so that others can benefit.

In terms of the commercial use of my blog, persons can use my blog commercially for training and it can be repackaged and sold. There is no restriction on commercial use.

In terms of attribution, anyone using my work has to attribute it to me as the original creator. The URL of my blog post can be attributed as the main source.

I chose the above-mentioned license since my main aim and objective is to be able to share and make a contribution to the web. I have benefited a lot from the web with other people’s work so why can’t I also make a contribution? I think open education is all about knowledge sharing and I will be most elated to be able to contribute in that regard.

The rationale behind the commercial use of my work is simply to get more exposure. By the re-use of my work I will be able to have more users view my work, so although I may not directly benefit monetarily it will certainly augur well for me through the use of my URL. Additionally, the raw nature of my blog post may not necessarily be in a developed state for commercial use. The development of my work by other users may require time, resources and skills that I may not be able to give at this point in time, therefore, if others are getting paid to put in the required work and resources to refine the product and get paid for their hard work I can only see it as a positive contribution.