Why use Creative Commons Licenseing?
Writers need readers. New writers need anyone to read them. If I horded my work and did not find a way to get it into peoples hands to read I would never improve.
A friend of mine could not believe that I was making available for free things that I spent months writing. I pointed out that they are still mine, and I am just letting anyone read them without cost. However if someone wanted to make money off of my publications the copyright is mine and I reserve those rights. He did not understand. He was still focused on the idea that people did not have to pay to download my work.
By now you have probably figured out that his objections have nothing to do with creative commons work at all. You can put fully any material on the we to be read and downloaded. I choose a license for my work that encourages people to share it without feeling the need to ask permission to do so.
I need readers, and CC licensing is a way to make it easier for people to read.
