Radical Actors: The Role of Public Education in American Social Movements

You find yourself done with your project and you would like to share it, so that folks can view and use it. Now what? I would recommend including a creative commons license.

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Why does it matter? 

Creative Commons as an organization wants to encourage reuse of folks' works by offering them for use under generous, standardized terms; those who want to make creative uses of works; and those who want to benefit from this symbiosis.

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