week 7 lecture

In this lecture we learnt about the restrictions of copyright and how creative commons works. The normal rules of copyrighted material is that no one can use , share or distrubute the material without the original creators consent. But now with Creative Commons the rules are a lot more flexible. Creative Commons is a non profit free organisation that allows you to have a licence on your material that states it's still yours but that others may share or distribute it as well. We also learnt about open source software and free software. Open source is where you can go in and stuff around with the softwares codes and alter it to your own preference.