Creative Commons: a real alternative to GPL (Michael J. Radwin's blog)

Intellectual Property | December 16, 2002 10:54 PM | Comments (3)

Creative Types: A Lot in Common. The Internet is teeming with creative people who aren't famous or rich. A new set of licenses from Creative Commons will allow copyright holders to share their work according to conditions they specify -- and boost their profiles. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]

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You know, I really don't get this one. I produce free content and really don't have a problem with folks going in, taking and using it. Actually, let me restate that. I don't need an unenforcable license provided by an unrecognized party to help folks take my content.

Posted by JR at December 17, 2002 09:14 AM

This was a really cool item-- it lead me on a ridiculous, multi-hour tangent during which I stumbled across all sorts of interesting stuff. For instance, do you know anything about Advogato, and trust metrics in general? It seems like something you'd be into.

Posted by Gabriel Cheifetz at December 17, 2002 04:20 PM

There's a cute promotional animation about CreativeCommons here:

http://junell.net/clients/cc/getcreative/

Posted by Michael J. Radwin at December 18, 2002 06:43 PM