In India, Creative Commons is still an unknown entity. Even amongst the tech savvy crowd, CC is something they have heard of but never gone deep enough to understand, let alone use it in any of their work.

In an informal survey that I did with a bunch of people, an interesting fact came out in the open. Most of the folks came to know that is such a thing as Creative Commons existed only after seeing it being used in Flickr.

Flickr is big in usage amongst bloggers here in India and it has played a key role in introducing CC to many of them.

Amit Agarwal, one of India's leading bloggers, has written a simple guide in 'Dummies' style taking Flickr as an example to explain CC.

A recommended read for someone who is very new to CC.

tags: Chennai India education flickr cc

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