Copyright protects the rights of authors. But what if authors don’t want their rights protected? Some just want to give their work away, to let others build on their ideas. But that’s actually more difficult than you think. Just getting the rights to use work can be daunting. A new set of licenses created by the Creative Commons group “enables authors to communicate to users of their content how those consumers may use the content without requiring the user to contact the author each and every time.”