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Why are licenses important?
This is so that anything and everything that is put out onto the internet can be protected.
A specific law firm that works in this is called Young Basile that is out to help people's IP and things like that.
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>.
To read more about what a non-commerical license means - click here. Furthermore, the xkcd comics are a great example:
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
This means that you are free to copy and reuse any of my drawings (noncommercially) as long as you tell people where they're from.
COPYLEFT
An interesting history and description of all the copyleft licenses, GNU, BSD, and others are found here.