The Creative Commons launches
Posted Dec 19, 2002 4:24 UTC (Thu) by
iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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The Creative Commons launches
I think a big reason for the existance of open source software is that it gets created for some
personal reason, and then released because there is no significant cost to releasing it. The
same is likely to apply to other sorts of copyrightable works. In fact, I happen to be writing
a copyrightable work at the moment (well, if I kept at it for a while), and I intend to put it
out for free distribution. I'm doing this primarily for the purpose of focusing my own thoughts
on the subject, but, once I've written it, it doesn't cost me anything to post it. This would
be a good thing for anyone who might write in to question people's willingness to contribute to
the creative commons. Just consider the volume of text contributed to slashdot and livejournal
by people who have probably never considered the fact that they could try to sell that text and
the number of recent memes whose creators never looked for compensation. Currently, such works
are in a gray area with respect to copyright (the "All Your Base" movie is presumably
copyrighted, but who knows what the creator's wishes are with respect to licensing?), but that
would probably be different if you could just stick on the name of the license at no extra
effort and have people generally respect it.
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