open licensing explained

Open licenses are a set of conditions that are applied to original work for the purpose of granting permission of use, as long as the conditions are adhered to. A work can be any original content or creation—for example, a document, a song, a video, an image, or a piece of software—that would normally be protected under copyright.

The copyright owner (typically the original author) is the one who can choose whether to openly license their work and can choose which type of license applies. If you are the author, an open license allows you to retain ownership of the work while allowing others to use, share, and possibly remix it without formally requesting your permission.

Just because something is freely available on the internet does NOT mean it is openly licensed. It is your obligation to verify the license applied to the content you wish to use.

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