Why to Not NOT use CC Licenses

We had a really good discussion in class this week about how CC Licenses seem like great ideas, so why wouldn’t someone want to use them. The primary reason would be that people want to make money off of their created works. However, barring that reason it is hard to understand why someone wouldn’t use a CC License.

I did some digging and found this article from a 2016 Small Business Trends website. It listed 5 expensive reasons not to use CC Licenses, but some of the reasons seemed to be based on some misconceptions or alterations of truth. We discussed these in class, and I decided to make a simple poster that summarized our conclusions about the misconceptions.

Here is the poster.

The above image, “Why to Not NOT Use CC Licenses” by Cecil R. Short is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Some of the icons in the image are from the Noun Project. Gavel, Created by Scott Dunlap, from the Noun Project, using a CC BY license. Hourglass, Created by Creative Stall, from the Noun Project, using a CC BY license. Complex, Created by Marie Van den Broeck, from the Noun Project, using a CC BY license.