thought some of the list members might be interested in what's
happening with this org.
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Creative Commons News:
The Creative Commons project was officially announced, and its new website
was launched, on Thursday, May 16. See http://www.creativecommons.org.
Creative Commons plans to provide a free set of tools to enable creators to
share aspects of their copyrighted works with the public or to dedicate
them entirely to the public domain. Stanford Law School Professor and
Creative Commons Chairman Lawrence Lessig described the new project this
way when he spoke at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference: "Our
tools will make it easier for people to make some or all of their rights
available to the public for free. If, for example, an artist wants to make
her music available for non-commercial use, or with just attribution, our
tools will help her express those intentions in a 'machine-readable' form.
Computers will then be able to identify and understand the terms of the
license, making it easier for people to search for and share creative
works."
Read more at http://www.creativecommons.org and tell us what you think!
Feedback is welcome at [email protected].
Thanks in advance for your input,
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Executive Director
Creative Commons
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I talked to a lawyer friend of my about Creative Commons who is an expert in
Open Source licenses, here is his response:
"My concerns are from a legal ethics viewpoint. First, I think it's the
giving of legal advice, which should not be done absent a client-attorney
relationship. Second, I see people having more questions that answers
provided by the site. They're going to have to answer a lot of email or
phone calls to get people who really have something worth while to buy-in.
Plus, if it doesn't provide assistance in determining who is the owner, I
can already see people releasing their stuff / licensing IP to which they
have no right to license. There's are just a few of the issues I see.
Basically, this demand is not one that the efficiencies of the Internet can
facilitate answers to. But, maybe I'm just a naysayer. Hopefully, I'm
wrong and this turns out to be extremely successful"
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]