Wow. Much have happened with DA in a year apparently.
I've been in here, but I haven't submited any art, because I have been lazy all year basically, or lack of inspiration or something.
Anyway, as I've noticed before the way the site works is getting better and better and more intuitive.
I remember when I joined I thought it was a bother navigating the site.
But now as I submitted my latest piece, not only was the whole process very smooth and sexy but I saw something that made my face lit up in glee.
"Creative Commons" next to a button urging me to pick a license.
Yay! DA supports the Good Side!
I don't think I have mentioned it before, seeing as this is my first post here, really, but I'm an avid supporter of the Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons is the way it is supposed to be in any universe worth the name.
I have always thought that the standard copyright system is really weird, backwards, fascistic, and a liability.
It's like setting up automated fire-on-heat-sources type machine gun turrets to guard a public park from littering.
Creative Commons is sexy because it treats intellectual property as it's supposed to.
Sure you made something, but as soon as you release it, it automatically becomes part of the shared experience.
All information have a natural tendency to disseminate.
Every time a photon hits the surface of a painting, it is reflected with the color spectrum of that atom, copying it's information and sending it flying everywhere.
You can sell the painting as an object, but not the image.
All you can get for the image is the recognition of the decent viewers and admirers who want to share their experience with others.
If they like it, you shouldn't keep them from having it, because then you're an eeevil person.
But it's fair to expect them to not make money off of your work, so you should have that option if you feel that way. I do.
And as a piece of art enters the public domain (that is, as soon as another person sees it), it's a part, perhaps a small, but still a part of our collected culture treasure, from which everyone should be able to take pieces.

So, Creative Commons is good because it allows you to pick and choose how you want your art to be handled.
It makes sure you get credit for it.
If you don't want it, you can chose to not allow people to make money off of it.
You can chose whether to let people do derivative work of it or not.

Personally, I want credit for my stuff, I don't want people making money off of it, but I'm generous enough to let anyone take it, cut it to pieces and glue it together or do whatever, as long as they license their works under the CC as well.
A.K.A Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5
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In short: Thank you DA, nice work!