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The Creative Commons License (CC) is starting to gain traction amongst many different artists, developers, and various other creative types.  You will notice that I recently joined the league of CC license holders (see the very bottom of every page on my blog).  Licensing your content takes literally minutes and embedding the CC image is as simple as adding code snippet to your page template.  The main thing to understand about the CC license is it is a method of waiving some of your rights as a copyright holder to allow others to use your work.  The CC license provides a very simple rubric by which you can gauge what level of copy protection you would like to maintain.  In most all cases your original work is protected by the standard copyright laws – only you have the right to use and distribute your work as you please.  Others do not have the right to use and distribute your work without your permission.  Thus, by using a CC license you can specify exactly what others can do with your work, making it easy for people to legally recognize that they can use your work and then do so.  The CC license has become very popular and is beginning to be used by many different people – from recording artists to software developers.  So far the CC license has held up in court, although the cases are very few and far between.  To use the CC license for your content simply visit the CC license page.