Response to Public Domain reading & Creative Commons video

Public Domain

In order to use, edit, recreate, or represent a work created by someone other than yourself, you need to ensure that you have the proper permissions. That statement seems straightforward enough, but proves to be much more complex. The reading from The Public Domain Review, https://publicdomainreview.org/guide-to-finding-interesting-public-domain-works-online/ provides some great resources to help professionals determine what permissions are needed, if any. Two specific resources that I found of interest are the Public Domain Calculators, https://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/, and the Stanford Site on U.S. Copyright, https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/. Both of these resources provided easy to understand information for the reader.

Creative Commons

This video shared the perspective that professionals should have a place to collaborate with other creators in a way that supports community. The message acknowledges the necessity of copyright laws, but also uses a commonsense approach to allowing the creator to determine how their work can be used by others. In many ways this concept creates shared experiences. As a viewer and creator of art, I have had the experience where I see a work and have an individual perspective to the subject where I often think, "I wonder...." with many endings such as "I wonder how that would work if ..." or "I wonder what would happen if... ". In a sense it is to continue the conversation rooted in the foundation of the work, a back and forth exchange that could create a 100 different ways responses based solely on the viewer.