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]
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.
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.
There’s a cute promotional animation about CreativeCommons here:
http://junell.net/clients/cc/getcreative/