RE: Hive Infographic Contest Winner Announcement

CC0 licensed work = Work that is available in the public domain
Own work = Work that you create yourself, thus the copyright icon under my design.

You can read more about copyright at my old alt account @xposed, where I did a full page about the basics of copyright, if you'd like to learn more about copyright that is...

Since I am the creator of the work, I hold all the copyright, which is defaulted to me by the copyright law and should (always) be stated. This way, I have the ability to-, and the guarantee to provide CBRS with the right license to use the concept/design (guaranteeing them to fully utilize the design without getting into legal (copyright) trouble). Since it is unclear when you participate if you win, all (freelance) creators of all sorts of content should have built-in a safety mechanism, they always should remain to be the owner of what they make, unless they are on a payroll. For example, 2nd place winner @shahzad-ansari's design got partially used by someone else in terms of color, style, and even some elements. The user who used his design got disqualified due to copyright violation #2 (since Shazad's work is copyrighted by default (if he did not use any copyrighted material)). Both cases refer to the 2nd rule.

I can use my own work, but others can't.

Cheers,
Ruben