Well, this was really good for me. Now I am at least somewhat familiar with the Creative Commons licensing types, which puts me one step closer to putting some of my own work under creative commons.
I'm not a big fan of Flickr, but I was impressed with the system for sorting through CC images, and with the brief summaries provided on the side bar explaining the attribution, non-commercial, no derivative, and share alike.
As a photographer and sometimes artist, I can definitly appreciate what CC does. For example, take a look at this picture:
Water drop pictures have been done time and time again, but that doesn't make getting a clear, crisp, centered shot any less difficult. If I took this picture, I would not be pleased if someone else to the credit for it.
I've taken at least one contest-winning photograph myself - a one of a kind picture - and I am almost paranoid about someone reusing it, saying it was their own. Or selling it. A full fledged copyright for a handful of pictures that I am particularly proud of is unreasonable. Getting them under a attribution, non-commercial CC license seems far more manageable.
Using the internet and tools such as Flickr, any 'sometimes' artist or photographer can get their work out there... and CC can provide a copyright-like sense of security over the artist's ownership of the work and the credit due to their time and effort.
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