Creative Commons

• One of the most important philosophical and social issues confronting humanity in the beginning of the 21st century is the sharing of information.
  • Statement from the Free Data License White Paper at Open-content.org dealing with free and open content such as the GFDL and the Creative Commons license.

• Creative Commons licensing is great because it just sort of “snaps in” — the hard thinking has already been done, and even some of the technical work.
  • From Stewart Butterfield, creator of flickr in http://creativecommons.org/image/flickr

"Get Creative" Flash movie http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative

• "It can be that easy when you skip the intermediaries."
• "Enter one of the internet's most famous citizens. A face familiar the world over. A public identity rivaled by only a handful of corporate giants and global superstars... the big copyright C."
• "We interrupt this brainstorm to call the lawyers."
• "We wrote these licenses so that lawyers and courts could read them. Then we translated them into a language that YOU can read."