Creative Commons has become a popular website for many to use to not only find new content of various types (photos, music, etc.) that they can “remix” in ways to suit their needs. Furthermore, this can also be a medium for people to store their information with different copyright options that allow different levels of “remixing” to take place legally. However, when one takes one of the pieces of content from this website to do with it what they will in a legal way, are they really making something new or is it just an incentive to conform to a society that seems to be less and less grounded on originality. Creative Commons seems to back up their website saying that “people to share and build upon the work of others“
With four different versions of copyright licenses to choose from one may think that they have more control over the content that they have submitted, but in reality it is the loop-holes and allowances of some of these licenses that allows people to use other people's creativity as their own. It seems like most things that exist in today's culture are different versions of things that have come before them, some without any bother to change but just to reproduce. Is a revival original? Is a remix original? Most people would answer “no” to the previously listed questions. The fear of many seems to be that this generation and, even worse, the next generation is headed towards a creativity free existence that is merely built upon the backs of things before. Others wonder if there really is any new knowledge that is out there for us to obtain or if we have really hit the climax of knowledge and now only have to fall down the slope to stupidity.
To begin dissecting the issue one would need to pin-point a modern era that first began to lack in creativity and then figure out if the internet and its various forces had anything to do with it. One of the forces to consider is, of course, Creative Commons; therefore a detailed look at the history and function that Creative Commons has would be in order as well as a brief look at the licenses that they offer and their legality in as easy of terms as one can make them. To continue one could subject that this itself is not a creative thought and is actually based upon a collection of ideas that anyone has access too, but I hope to shine a creative light on the issue so as to better understand the society in which we live and the idea of Creative Commons upon which I have based this argument.

http://creativecommons.org/about/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_concept_of_creativity