### 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 Basil 

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```
<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](https://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by-nc&amp;jurisdiction=&amp;version=4.0&amp;lang=en).  Furthermore, the [xkcd comics](https://xkcd.com/936/) are a great example: 
![[Pasted image 20230421093843.png]]

This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/).  
  
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.