I suppose that the idea of copyrighting my own work has always felt foreign and intangible to me. Legal documentation that I created something seems so far out of my league as an artists. Reading about the Creative Commons makes copyrighting seem so much more simple, and smart than I thought. My boyfriend is a songwriter going through some trouble with ex-band mates "stealing" his work. I am starting to think he should take a look at this CC thing!
I now realize that in today's world it doesn't really matter if you actually wrote the song, or drew the picture, or authored the book. Unless you have legal documentation proving that you created something someone can easily, and legally, claim ownership of it. That's kind of a depressing and scary thought. As for the sharing aspect of the CC, I think that is a totally new take on the idea of ownership and copyright. I believe that this is a good medium between having no copyright of one's work, and having a very solid copyright.
In the case of Sherrie Levine, if she had used CC to copyright her work I feel that it would have taken away from it’s meaning. I suppose that if she had done this then Michael Mandiberg probably wouldn’t have done his “After Sherrie Levine” work because his message would have been lost as well.
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