Do we really have our own? Do we need it?  

Yes there is one.

And yes, we need it.

From the CC website:

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”

Though I am not a lawyer, I see  the benefits of having a license that defines what one can or cannot do with a “work.” You can just head on to the Creative Commons or Philippine Commons site (an affiliate of CC and are the lead to make CC compatible with Philippine Laws) for more details .

We applaud the efforts of CC-PH led by Atty. Soriano and Atty. Guerrero with the recent launch last January 14.
PS: PH Bloggers and those who are interested in CC (PH or otherwise): The Deputy Lead, Atty Berne Guerrero also blogs and is a friend. We can set things up with him and his group.

This effort has a lot of implications, especially in this much digitized world. A lot of movements in different industries are already using these licenses with their work. Blogs are the most common I’ve seen so far. Music and other “artistic” outputs can put out their creativity and have the whole world benefit from it. On its social effect, it makes innovation easier with the “Share, Remix, Reuse, - Legally” concept. The CCs just tell you up front what can be done.

This has led to a more “open” world. I dare say that about 90 - 95% of the world is willing to share his work with very little constraints and just a little recognition. Which brings me to EDUCATION.

Bayanihanbooks.org of Greg Moreno had something going with the this post, which I agree with in principle. (we hope to get together with other like-minded people and see what we can come up with.) I hope to do the same for eLearning using the open content or open education concepts. A lot of software have been released under these licenses or have equivalent licenses (am still confused with the lingo) and other sectors have their own contributions too.
The main idea of the CC license I think not only giving credit where it is due, but also sharing and innovation and improvement and moving forward.

So, on this date, Magandangbalita.com and MabutingBalita.net articles are released under Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Philippines.