The digital age has conditioned to spread our ideas, creative work and opinions all over the web. From personal blogs to Facebook, everyone give their take on cultural events (think Tiger Woods getting his ass beaten by Elin) or the politics of Afghanistan war. For bloggers, it’s essential that ideas are spread.

So, how do you protect or (un)protect your ideas? How do you give permission for your work to be used in the development of new projects and ideas while still retaining some control over how your ideas are shared?

Enter Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that gives you the tools to grant copyright permissions to your creative work. Under the creative commons copyright, ideas can be re-used, re-purposed and legally shared without having to ask the creator’s permission. Think of it this way: instead of “all rights reserved,” creative commons is the equivalent of “some rights reserved.” They’ll even provide the HTML code once you choose a license. Pretty nifty, eh?

So, that’s the information – do with it what you will!

~bloom