I think that Creative Commons is an awesome thing. It gives students an easier way to do research. It is hard to do good research when you are worrying about citing properly and not leaving anything out. Back home when we would do research we would always be worried that we did not cite something, so we were going to be in trouble and face the Honor Council. I can remember my first really big research paper in Junior year. It was a paper on the effects of texting on my generation, and I was so worried about citations that I was scared to put in any of my own thoughts because I might have learned them from somewhere and I would not be able to give credit where it was due. Fortunately, my teacher was very understanding and helped me through it, but having something like Creative Commons makes that process a little less scary.