CC: and not Carbon Copy

Writers, bloggers and other online content sharer's sometimes find that Copyright can be too restrictive in enabling them to share their works online. Creative Commons licenses provide the ability to modify the terms of the copyright on your intellectual property.

This video helps to explain Creative Commons licensing and some of the ways in which it allows someone to publish their work somewhere in between All rights reserved and No rights reserved. This method of copyright allows the creator of the work to decide how it can be used by others, if it can be used commercially, sampled, remixed, or built upon. By using a Creative Commons License creators are able to maintain some rights while allowing others greater access to the work than the regular Copyright would allow.

FairShare is a free online application that allows people to track the usage of their creative commons licensed intellectual property. FairShare makes it possible for people all around the world to reuse content while still attributing it back to the original creator. Currently FairShare works for any text based content that is available to the public via RSS feeds.
FairShare hopefully will continue to grow their busness to photos and videos in the future that would allow users to track the use of images and other media beyond just text content.

This is an amazing new tool that will allow anyone who is concerned about how their intellectual property is being used to track and influence how that content is being shared.