2008-03-03: Creative Commons

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The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.

The project provides several free licenses that copyright owners can use when releasing their works on the Web. It also provides RDF/XML metadata that describes the license and the work, making it easier to automatically process and locate licensed works. Creative Commons also provides a "Founders' Copyright"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> contract, intended to re-create the effects of the original U.S. Copyright created by the founders of the U.S. Constitution.

Lessig on Creative Commons: http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/activity_rep/20031204_miyao_gf/videos/lessighb.asx

Apparent battle between propriatary and sharing. Lessing: Its not proprietary OR sharing. Its both - proprietary AND sharing. Creative Commons seeks to strike a balance to achieve each.

Open source software is not anti-intellectual property. To the contrary. Without intellectual property, free software and open source software could not impose the conditions of openness that imposes on those who use the software. Open source software is not in the public domain. It carries wih it restrictions that say: Here are the ways that you may use the software and those restrictions only exists if there is a vibrant and rich set of intellectual property rights underlying software.