Sunday, September 07, 2008

Beautiful Butterfly - quick lesson on Creative Commons

This Red and Orange Butterfly on a yellow flower - France - July 2006 by Gaetan Lee provides a beautiful illustration of Creative Commons in action! This photo is licensed under the CC-BY (Attribution) license. So it's no problem for me to add this pretty picture to brighten up IJPE. With CC-BY, even commercial use is allowed! This is only ONE of the 192,822 flickr results with the word flower restricted to Creative Commons licensed work (as of Sept. 7, 2008), available for commercial use, and modifiable too!