Stealing from the poor? None

There is one thing I absolutely love about the internet…  When I am designing something, there is always a plentiful array of free stock images, themes, and the like out there for the taking.  It used to be, if you needed something, you grabbed a paper and pencil, a camera, or a stone and chisel (depending on how old you are).  Now, you go to Google, type in what you need, and typically you can find half a dozen+ resources to help you out.

Now, most of the time, these resources you find may be free.  However, free does not mean “Steal this thing I made, and claim it as your own!”  A lot of the work out there, even though people are letting you use it, they still spent time making it.

That is what the CC, or Creative Commons was created for.  In essence, the CC is here to say that someone can use your work, adapt it to your needs, but ensure that the creator still gets his hat tip.  There are some variations of it, but the down and dirty is that you can use it however you want, just give props to the person who put in the work.

But there are always the people out there who ignore all of that “common sense”, and figure if there isn’t a big watermark on it, that they can do whatever the hell they want to do with it, and can claim they did it all on their own…

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